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Reading every post of these, thinking of you every day, I'm sure, I'm not the only one out there. Maybe many of us just read and keep you in mind, so I wanted to let you know about it. My thoughts and best whishes are with both of you!
Tom
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Hi,
maybe you didn't read my personal messages on EC, did you? ;)
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Hi to all,
as I don't have a lot of time at the moment, only one short point about it:
Now further, boards of the same ULFI could still flex differently in real world - when used, or dynamically. By repeating the test with different standardised weights (10kg,- 20kg, 30kg; or 10kg, 15kg, 20kg, 25kg, 30kg ?), one could determine the Dynamic Flex Index "DFI". Simple graph would show weight "W" on horizontal axis, and measured flex "MF" on vertical axis. Resulting Dynamic Flex Curve "DFC" could be a parabola, hyperbole, straight ascending line, or an erratic curve (requires at least 4 weight test to show).What you want to show is linearity or progressivness of flex. Your suggested test has nothing to do with dynamics. Taking away the load suddenly and measuring the board's movements would be a dynamic way of testing. This would lead to another important characteristic of snowboards which is dampening / hysteresis.
I would like to have a system consisting of two charts. One would be the arc a board shows along it's axis when loaded with a given force. Maybe a differential diagram would show very precise the stiffer and softer areas of the board. Second chart ould have to show torsional stiffness, of course also as an arc along the board axis.
My 2 cts
Tom
still believing that estimating a board's characteristics based on numbers / diagrams must be possible. I would be in the wrong profession if I would not ;)
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Originally posted by skatha
Sex is never frustrating...
Wait another ten years... ;) well, viagra might help from that, but so does Ibuprofen or a beer when snowboarding is frustrating.
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6min up and down. possible. nearly. all I said ;)
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You can Snowboard a whole day without a break.
You can do it with your best friend, having some beers afterwards.
You can have nearly 100 runs a day.
Snowboarding has no headache and can be done 4 weeks a month ;)
You can do it on perfect groomers or deep pow under the beautyful winter sun.
I had days in the pow or on some glacier slopes, when I was laying in the snow shouting and nearly crying from joy.
You can snowboard at the ECS, ECES, SES,... with some of the best snowboarders around. I would not like to do that in sex.
Did anybody say that sex was better???
We're not talking about love, right? I'd never think about my GF, but hardly anything beats the perfect run / wave / ...
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Hey D-Sub.
Sorry to hear about your stolen boards. Hope, you get your babies back! I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.
BTW: a friend of mine once got back his MTB by staring WTB Threads at some online makretplaces and the local classifieds magazines. He not exactly described his bike, only mentioned the brand and two similar and some models. The guys who had stolen his bike were stupid enough to contact him... he visited them with two cops and found the hole house full with stolen bikes.
My best whishes!
Tom
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On issue about spray on carved turns I think is this: If I go through a totally relaxed cerved turn on firm snow, there won't be much spray. There also won't be much decelleration and much control. I just stay centered, change the edge, apply some angulation, some inclination and let the board follow it's path.
Other image: On a steep slope I force my board to bend with a proper aount of vertical dynamics, some forward lean and some pressure in front of front binding. The edge between the nose and the front binding will create huge forces and the whole edge will bend in an "uneven" arc. Add some high edge angles and you will end up with a lot of spray, especially on soft snow.
You know, only 2 ct ;)
Tom
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I've been racing on bycicles for almost 17 years now. Last year I decided to race much less, I think, there will be some MTB Marathon races this summer. No more road racing, you do it with full power or you have to leave it :(.
I do a 10 Km run sometimes, just to prove myself. Maybe a 42 Km this year later in summer, let's see, how my knees will perform over the year...
Oh, I will tell you about car racing later this year...
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I still remember this day of the 2002 Olympics. I was sitting in front of the TV with a good friend, snowboarder like me, and was so exited, that my sport made it to the big Olympia TV. I was so ashamed afterwards to be a hardbooter!!!
The Halfpipe contest really ripped, there were cool guys doing extremely high and skilled jumps, which was obvious for everybody.
But the hardbooter contest looked like some folks locked in their hard boots fighting gates, which obviously did not fit to either the material the riders were on or the sport they performed. If I watch a ski race today, I can see them carving clean turns in a beautyful way, much better than a decade ago. And if I look at their courses I have the same thoughts like Tim: Make them bigger ;)
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Anyone here with a little sense for Physics or Engineering will clearly see, that this guy found maybe the most effective way to push himself down the race course. When the extenders are released, they will give him a push from behind, accellerating him straight towards the next gate. As soon as he reaches the next gate, they are extended again and will push him again one gate further and so on. Not only this great physical effect is playing a role, there also is a huge psychological help provided by accelleration straps. Like a racing horse you feel always pushed towards the next gate.
Speed skiers can use this technique for braking also, they just have to use their poles to extend the decelleration straps in front of their breast. releasing them will seriously slow them down. This might be the most secure way to slow down from really high speeds, as everyone here with any knowlege about Phsics will admit.
BTW: In fact this great invention is, where the term Push-Pull derives from. The accelleration strap is pulled to push the racer to new limits.
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Hi Bordy.
Sorry for that, as I don't have nearly as much posts here in this forum and not any WC experience.
What I strange kind of hierarchical thinking is this what you show up here? I had this thought on some others of your posts before, but how much a better person are you than James Ong?????
I think, we all are just hardbooters with a lot of passion for our sport. You know, this is a free country ;)
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Nobody can do, it's physically impossible. Don't ever believe anybody telling you anything else ;)
count: two
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I think, many advanced carvers can do a more or less fully laid toeside (correct, dear D-Sub?) turn. So I would estimate (forgive me this word) the percentage to about 33% to 50%. About the half of them might even master it properly carved. It's hard to define "advanced carvers", but according to Bordy I would call someone, who really knows how a carved turn feels like and who can master it in different ways and conditions advanced. Is this an answer to your question?
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I hope, the quote is o.k. for you!
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Originally posted by Kirk
I think "skywalker's" avatar is Anakin. No father (as far as we know!). Sure as hell wasn't Obi Wan - Maybe I need to review Episodes 1 & 2 again!!
Sorry, couldn't help it :D
For sure he is ;). But also for sure, there is no "luke" in my nick *LOL*. I'm seriously thinking about Palpatine as Anakin's father, the other option would be the "no father" theory...
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how many of you can ride like this[/Quote] [...]how many of us didn't even succeed in answering this question[...]
ooops, something disappeared here ;). So very sorry for the maybe not totally correct quote!
Thanks, exactly my thoughts!
I just counted them as a "me not", otherwise it would have been hard to stay cool about that... ;)
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Fat is blobber hanging of guts or shaking around biceps. [/b]
...of men or women? ;) Hey, just kidding. It's o.k. to be sensitive, but please don't be oversensitive.
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actually it's physivally impossible! So don't believe them *LOL*
http://koti.mbnet.fi/cmachine/mig/index.php?currDir=./EC2005&pageType=imageℑ=100_0052.JPG ((Sorry Pokkis, I decided to edit the address now in my post. But thanks for the hint ;)))
o.k, let's count: one ;)
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...don't you think the term "male chauvinists" places blame, that there are only male chauvinists??? I have no problem, calling a (male) guy fat, if this is a fact. If he was 220pound on 5ft, I guess, it would be a fact. So if I am male, is it evil calling him fat? And if I'm female???
Originally posted by ruggerShe is a saleswoman, Mr. I live on BOL. You need to get out and ride more.
Phil, sorry about my ranting. I really mean that.
I am sensitive to male chauvinists calling women fat. So boys watch your language around here, now that we officially and judiciously censor posts. Keep up the good work Fin.
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I'm <=150 / 68Kg, but anyways broke the bails of an old F2 Race (ProFlex Vario). As Patrice told me, that he kills the front bails of his rear binding about once a year, I just ordered a spare pair of front bails for the Titaniums I'm using nowadays.
I would vote for a bail vs. step in poll, too. Also for a model/brand poll of standard( bail bindings, which means, we would need two more polls about bindings. Anybody with me?
Tom
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Hi Doc.
My little sister owns a Knifer, which also lost ist's edge. We did quite a lot of work to fix it. First like Nils described just from "outside". As that did not last, we removed a piece of the base, fixed the edge and reassembled the piece of the base. What I saw when the base was removed made me decide not to spend any single minute of work for that piece of crap. The whole edge showed corrosion (not only the splitted area), thin layer of fiberglas wich was not laminated properly and so on. My advice to you is: Get any other alpine board on ebay and forget the WD :(
Tom
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Sorry Jack, it was not my intention to make this something personal!!
Tom
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Sorry,
what does BSME stand for?
Pretty sure this would be equivalent to parking car A with its rear bumper against a wall, and driving car B into the front of car A at 100mph.... no?hmmm... You were talking about a wall with zero energy absorbtion. I'd rather say it's like one car with the speed of 100mph hitting another (identical) car without speed and WITHOUT a wall behind. Remember: Sum of the speeds of both cars is 100. You have total absorbtion energy of both (2 times car #1). So in sum 2 times the absorbtion energy of car 1 and in sum two times the speed of car 1... will end up with the impact of car 1 hitting a wall without any energy absorbtion with 50mph. Sure ;)
OT: So where did YOUR screen name come from?
in Carving Central
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Also quite boring: I was asked to give my name... and so I did.
Skywalker