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Here is a second vote for the Phantoms! They are way lighter and the way that they lock the board together is awesome making a split feel much more solid and like a regular board. Big bonus is the weight especially compared to sidewinders and I think there is enough lateral flex that you won't miss your sidewinders. The only downside I see if if you want/need an angle >30.

Carlito - YES YES YES We have all had that one time. I encourage everyone to think not just about the down up down of old-school powder 8 skiers but add a bit of the side to side that comes from the push-pull techniques. You will be amazed at the turns moving from squiggles to arcs but more importantly it allows you to force a turn when needed and not scrub speed then spend the next 10 min digging out. Of course this is speed dependent and more is better! This one line sums it all up for me! Pardon me if I steal it in the future because you nailed it.

It all depends on what you mean by powder. 6-10 inches inbounds I like to lean back and maximize the surfy feeling turning with the front foot like a waterski. Any deeper or if its for a longer run the first thing is to keep as much speed as you can control. I find that leaning back robs me of power and mobility and want to be neutral or even lean forward if really charging. It helps to have a powder board or at least be back a bit on the bindings. For bottomless powder its all about the bounce. Not sure exactly what the timing is but It feels to me a bit like down-unweighting with a slight delay. If you come down just before exploding up then in that instant there is enough compression of snow beneath you that you can feel resistance and get some pop. This pop is enough that you may have unlinked tracks in powder that is waist deep and that is the feeling and the days I live for. My carving is not the euro push pull style but the powder technique seems to be similar. There is certainly a pumping motion that propels you sometimes above the surface of the powder but also works to pump you a bit when coming to the flat and has got me further than just straight-lining it in these transitions. I think this technique favors stiffer and longer boards and have had great fun on carving boards that would submarine if not actively pumping like this while being unhappy trying a dedicated powder setup that is just to soft. Someone who rides push-pull please comment. My focus has been the up and down but I suspect that there is a component of rotation to this. It is just so hard to commit to rotation because if I focus on that and need to make a quick adjustment I am only primed to turn one direction.

This is what I have been waiting for! Finally a spring system with walk mode. PLEASE port this to the other popular hardboots - UPZ, Deeluxe & Northwave .

interested in step in complete

Anyone ever ride one of these Fawcett boards? looks like some sweet riding I cant find anything about the company and his facebook is not current but it looks as if he is still at it on a similar setup as recently as 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GoWaa_wgoQ

Headed to Utah you say - on a tight timeline This is worth a look (or in my case drool) http://www.saltypeaks.com/swallowtail-snowboards Each year they do a swallowtail collaboration. Really tempted by some of these

Looks like this is gone wow that was quick

Looking through my stash I found this board intended for my son but he is skiing with no interest to snowboard. If someone needs a small board to ride or start a child on please PM me and ill send it to you for whatever the shipping cost is. If its going on a wall or to a collection $100

Hello all A few years ago I got a couple of yellow bomber suspension pads which I added under my TD3 setups and noticed an immediate and significant improvement in my ride prompting me to change from blue to yellow E-rings. Now I really like yellow E-rings with these yellow pads underneath. Weighing about 200lb plus/minus about 20lb year to year I thought that such a soft setup would just compress under my weight and provide no effective cushion after my weight preloaded the system, however, once mounted the system doesn't compress much and gives a better ride while allowing me to carve just as hard. I even have one board set up with the TD2 center disk, TD3 E-ring and a suspension pad just to test if there will be better board motion/isolation (This gave me a bit of heartburn at first and I check the screw tension often and there is no more loosening than on other binding setups) My understanding is that suspension pads were a step between the TD2 and TD3 bindings and E-rings and have been discontinued once the thickness increased with the TD3? Does anyone know of an easy substitute for these pads? What durometer were they and can I make some more by cutting an off the shelf product? I have not yet ridden any plate systems. Cost, weight, ease and the idea of them clogging up with snow when not on corduroy have kept me from trying these systems. Is it time to go to a gecko or can I get the similar ride minus weight and cost with thicker pads?

Someone develop a binding with a Gecko like baseplate and I'm in!!! - Seriously I will purchase day one.

are the cateks stepin or standard? and which generation os2?

Eric Sounds interesting. I would love to see & try something like you describe. How about a sketch. Maybee someone with skills can turn that to a physical reality

I'm in for a narrow waisted tanker. Tell me where and when to send my money

Interested. I'll take them if still available

next in line Kneel - Im sure you will love these!

Was at Wolf Creek yesterday with 33" fresh and a few more expected in the next few days. This season has been slow and dry but may have picked up recently with the splitting of the polar vortex (https://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2018/02/16/polar-vortex-split-stratosphere-warming-suddenly-what-does-mean-our-weather/344645002/) Fingers crossed you should have some good snow.

Are the bomber heels available or were they part of the sale? Ill take them if they are for sale

I'll take them. Email when I get off the hill

Waist please? Really interested pending the waist size

Next in line for the plate if lonbordins offer falls through

If you have some pre-preg and carbon skills It sure would be interesting to have a carbon base plate for the bomber bindings. I have not cracked one of these yet :) but have always wondered if the binding could be lightened and if it would have some more dampening if made from carbon. With the cutout from the middle you could make a 3/4 hole center plate to really lighten things up. What would really rock is to put TD3sw uppers on a carbon binding constructed at the correct angles on top of a Yellow elastomer and float pad. TD3.jpg.7b37f26f0b537023a6678f1b45be97f9.jpg.url

Interested if Eboot doesnt take this

Interested in the catek to bindings

I'm your first customer! Can we get exploding dye packs to visually alert searchers? :)