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Bindings available as I am shipping a package to Canada and another to Colorado can flick the bindings in so shipping will be stateside. Let me know ASAP as I gonna send tomorro or Thursday

I will buy the TD3s. Will PM

Different Claudia riegler (I think) the snowboarder is older than the Kiwi skier.

6 degree plate unused

@cfj04 let me figure out if I can come up with a solution for the shipping part.

For the UPZ boots, I find switching to the softer red tongues on,early season first day or so, powder days or days when I am riding lower speed gives that feels softer, a bit like walk mode, (it is noticeably softer) however I do not feel the boot is really designed to ride in walk mode all the time and in the case of the UPZ there is a spring system both forward and backward. It's about easily softening the entire set up while still getting good heel hold. But once my riding clicks a bit (as I only ride a bit each year) then the entire system benefits from stiffening it up, particularly on firm groomed and higher speeds, and so I change to the standard tongues. The softer set up really is beneficial though in the powder and really bumpy chopped up terrain, also when I am not getting timing quite right, it has a wider range of movement before anything happens. Which isn't needed in when I am riding better.

Very good condition upz boots SOLD size 312mm sole length suitable for 27.5-28.5 mondopoint feet, used approx 40-50 days. Includes shoxter power straps, extra tongues, liners - including deluxe thermoliners (not shown) (will add additional pic) used mounded 3x SOLD - additional tongue set (includes std + softer red tongues ideal for powder or EC riding SOLD - additional spare buckle to replace 3rd buckle if needed SOLD - 2014/5 season (last year when tongue doesn't hinge out; I never had issue getting in/out of boot, some ppl do - still in very good sole condition as I don't walk on road, a few minor scrapes in plastic shell particularly the left boot around the heel from riding lifts which is shown Since doing Triathlon I lost enough weight and stronger feet to drop down a size, for smaller ankles with a wider forefoot upz is a great fitting boot better imho than the deluxe which suits wider ankle mid size forefoot. Also available - proflex f2 style bindings 120usd price drop 90usd plus shipping from colorado - 6 degree td3 baseplate ??? sOLD - boots price 230usd + shipping PM msg or whatnot

Where are you shipping from?

@Slow Eddie I would be interested in the standard TD3 toe and heel pieces let's talk!

TJR if you an find the long plates for your TD3s, I would love to buy your two standard plates you have now http://bomberonline.3dcartstores.com/TD3-Base-Plate_p_48.html I have had an issue with corrosion on one of mine, and so I need to replace, but of course with Bomber being as it is, that's not possible currently.

My ride is the blue one, you guys are soooooo spoiled in the USA for good cars, over here this is a total rip off (3X the price of the USA price).... but having said that I am a bit of a sucker for nice cruisers after a modified R53 MINI which was a little wasp of a car, but as with many MINI/BMW cars in the heat and heavy rains here prone to lots of little problems particularly in the electrics. My dream car is the grey Alfieri, when it is finally released (maybe 2019 maybe it's vaporware).

I live in Thailand so we don't have much snow here... Lowest temperature in last 15 years in Bangkok would be still only 12 degrees / 60? Fahrenheitish. I think lowriders law and order interrogation has identified the reason... Now I just need bomber to start making bindings again or get a set 2nd hand then I will be fine I think. Also anyhow I carry my board and my bike inside the car.

Thanks for the advice... I am fairly sure there isn't much sea salt in bangkok as the ocean is 50km away, I run a dehumidifier and edges aren't rusted it's one single spot so maybe the cat peed on the bag or threw up and it sat damp for a while under my bed... Will wait and hopefully once the bomber operations get back underway I can replace this one piece.

Of course it would happen now with bomber in flux. I keep my board and bindings stored dry over summer, don't ride salted courses.... And yet starting riding this season there is noticeable corrosion - like a fizzed alloy cleat on a boat... Occurring in 7/8 months. It still has a fair bit of metal and the anodised coating is crumbling off with the metal flaking although no idea how deep. Anyone else have this and more importantly where would I even turn to buy this flat plate for a td3? Never expected this would fail so don't have a spare!

many triathletes and cyclists put the whole 'marginal gains' in the same camp as Lance Armstrong and his 'innovations' (Lance Armstrong's War is very good at explaining the thought process of a slightly narrower bottom bracket which Lance tried, then the eventual discarding of the idea as testing showed early benefits but a long term issue from memory in some stages) - tech helps, processes and planning helps, but then again so do PEDs, and many think Team Sky are doing the full list, even if legally through TUEs. if we want to see extraordinary performances, and we don't care about clean, then modern medicine is incredible for that. As an aside, asthma sufferers are lucky, they can take meds to compete on a level playing field. People born with low testosterone or lousy Haematocrit, bad phsyiolology etc, they often can't do anything about it. Its a fascinating world to see from the sidelines. In some way, we Kiwis are a funny bunch, the idea of coming up with a legal workaround in sailing and mechanical sports is hugely admired (yachting is full of these sorts of things from the fibreglass KZ 12ms to the J class DOG challenge, to the skiff in San Diego, to the Hula, to the foiling, to the cyclors & control systems)....yet there is an inherent sense of foul play when legal doping via TUEs occurs such as with Wiggins and now possibly Froome. I always wondered how much doping occurs in NZ rugby, knowing it is absolutely rife in league/rugby in almost every other country.

Yes, I remember you are an anesthesiologist :-) so that's why I pointed out the links, since a med professional probably wants to see the actual journals rather than a layperson's summary.... I am repeating/sharing what some high performance athletes believe, rather than what is shown in specific studies....although having said that from the source you have listed here is an article specifically mentioning the exact performance gain with a sig P value on an admittedly extremely small sample size, exactly as cyclists anecdotally believe: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25077918 The other (main) reason for clenbuterol and also Salbutamol/albuterol is weight loss while controlling muscle loss, numerous studies on the site outline for triathlon, cycling, mountain biking that VO2 max, ability to hold high power for long periods and watts/kg are key predictors of cycling success. Most dopers e.g. Hamilton specifically state if they could lose body weight or could increase power/haematocrit via EPO or similar, they would go for weight loss every time, which is why top cyclist GC and climbers are usually so unhealthily skinny. So even without performance increase, if it allows weight loss then it's working...Froome specifically claims his breakout performance came from dropping his bodyweight -often cited at 20lb....he's a beast already with an unreal VO2 max, he's already got a massive watt/kg of 6++....no matter he is doping or not there is no question he's an incredible athlete in my mind. Back to the drugs though....Cyclists who dope believe inhaled isn't the way to administer the drug (to cheat)....they inject or take orally...then have the 'cover story' of the inhaler with a TUE. It's not the first time Team Sky have used a TUE in a 'grey area' as David Walsh describes it. And caught out by accident both times (fancy bears and now an adverse test) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18091010 Based on this study....IF Froome was using the inhaler only, then sure, he probably didn't perform with more power as a result, maybe he is an exception who does get a benefit in performance, maybe the benefit is weight loss, maybe nothing at all, maybe he does worse but has no choice as an asthmatic. In any case, in a dirty sport, following in the footsteps of others banned for the same thing, unless he can replicate the result somehow (and I am guessing team Sky prepared for this if he really is doping) then he's the next Contador, destined to finish his career both as an incredible cyclist...and a doper. With the internet these days, the amount of info on doping online and its effects is no longer in the shadows like before, and even though med journals often cite no specific advantages from this or that, the athletes often believe otherwise....and off they go. As Trump would say..... #sad.

Many cyclists and other athletes take pharma at odds with the official fact sheets, in cycling at least, many cyclists do believe that the asthma medication helps shed weight while maintaining muscle, the general method is athletes will inject or take orally, and have a 'cover' of being asthmatic and using an inhaler with a TUE... if he is doping, then this is quite likely the way Froome has got caught, he will now attempt to prove that he could achieve a 2X reading with the inhaler alone.....if he can't then he's going to join the other cyclists busted for similar doping in the past - there are a few caught in the same way as well as Alberto Contador who was taking Clenbuterol, within the same class of drugs, (apparently he ate something with Clen, something that virtually every athlete doubted, once they stopped laughing). To be severely dehydrated on stage 18, then bounce back the next two days in hill stages....it's possible, he had by far the best domestiques, but........ You can jump to the med journals here in the bibliography at the bottom, but this is what most cyclists (and a few triathletes) believe about the meds anyhow - inhaler doesn't do much, oral/injection helps shed weight and keep muscle: http://suppversity.blogspot.com/2014/09/albuterol-salbutamol-doping-works.html Cycling is well known as a pharma assisted sport in the past, and the biographies of both Wiggins and Froome with missing information then the whole fancy bears stuff suggests the team 'flies close to the wind' in terms of TUEs. Still doesn't take away from the fact that Wiggins, Froome, Armstrong, Contador, et al....are all incredible riders. For snowboarding, I don't doubt doping would help, almost every sport from baseball to tennis to even chess pharma can help.... if nothing else if you wake up fresher everyday able to train harder, then you get in more quality hours of ride time. The power you need to race in snowboarding (especially you see Vic Wild airbourne then able to lock into his line on his next turn which is leg power) would definitely help....there is a finesse and line aspect in snowboarding makes it more like boxing or sailing (both sports I do), where brain and experience can still trump pure power/athleticism...400m running, cycling and triathlon (my other sport) that brain part is maybe less important and athleticism is key, not surprisingly these sports plus sports without proper controls (like some boxing matches) are where doping is rife.

I presume Vic Wild will compete under the neutral flag, he's an amazing racer....not sure how much drug abuse happens in our sport.....I am sure it would help but not sure the correlation is as strong as with sports like cycling, weightlifting or athletics.... For me the bigger story at the moment is the whole Froome situation, where the English media and most of the cycling press are presenting it as merely an asthmatic taking some medication and accidentally going over the limit....while a few are looking at it as a clear case of the benefits of a known pharmacuetical whose treatment of asthma (if Froome really is asthmatic which isn't known yet) is not performance enhancing...but the drug itself helps strip off weight and preserve muscle, meaning it opens up abuse by yet another cyclist to get an edge in a sport where weight loss while maintaining strength is the holy grail of performance. This guy has been caught red handed, but because he's winning and part of the whole team sky clean clean clean story, it's hard to know if he will get an easy ride, or a rough one.

nice board!

UPZ has a weird sizing, my foot is almost the size of yours, for Deeluxe, you would definitely be in a 27-27.5 shell (from memory it is 299mm long) and you would be a bit cramped lengthwise but can make it work, the width might be too much if you have a narrow foot. So if you can get into a 26/26.5 shell and still have lift, then the UPZ will help a lot, however I am surprised you are managing to fit into that 26/26.5 shell lengthwise without a bit of squashing lengthwise in your toes. UPZ I think your best shell which is a 26/26.5/27 shell, this is the one that from memory is also 299mm long, but the ankle hold is much narrower. For some reason UPZ in USA calls the size 27/27.5 but in fact on the box it says (at least from memory) 26.5- 27 or something like that. The high arch you can work around, even the stock liners that come with hte boot now aren't bad, you can dremmel off the hard tongue to get some more room. The next size up 312mm long is too long, you might make it work first few days but then it will start to develop heel lift unless you crank down the buckles a bit.

In Japan because so many of the skiers carve well and don't tend to bomb runs, they place a value of riding technically quite well, they do quite a bit of technical showcase riding and racing both gates and boardercross, so there are a lot of boarders on everything from boardercross boards to powder boards who can carve fairly ok - then there are a group (like the ppl in the videos above) who can carve a lot better than ok, it is not uncommon to look up the mountain and see numerous ppl carving quite strongly often not on this type of board, in the softer snow, you can see them on a surfer type board where the set back is enormous, those guys also can really carve it up as long as it is soft. The boards made for carving including those brands are still not common, almost rare like hardboot set ups, but many ppl carve a bit on more basic/std equipment. It is quite common though for skiers (both tourists and Japanese) to comment to me or others when we are riding hardboots how carving on a hardboot set up looks fairly epic, whereas the soft boot set up looks like more work to acheive an inferior version of the same thing. I guess on par with anything, it's easier to go fast on a tribike vs. a mountain bike, but it's a lot less versatile. Personally I think the more ppl who are riding a snowboard to carve, the better; while you can ride a park and pipe as a kid, it's hard to keep doing it as you get older when the consequence of an injury affects work rather than just stopping u go to school/college a bit. U see so much weird gear over there (tele, touring, snow bikes, snow skates, fat skis, std skis, boards of numerous types) and the runs are often set up where the same lift accesses knee deep as well as groomers and a park that there isn't really a trying to look cool aspect with regards to gear type -that is acheived in Japan through - must have most recent year of equipment - accessories especially for women is absolutely critical - should ride in a group often even wearing the same uniforms - must follow same routine together - ride,eat,break, everything together - solid technique - onsen, beer and ramen :-)

I will buy them, let me know details (will PM you).

could you not try mounting the bindings with the holes of the binding disk running horizontally instead of vertically, so the binding could be set to be biased towards the toe side by 1 hole set, then mount the bindings that way?

my oxess (not a GS board) also has very little camber, from memory I think that oxess tends to be built like this, I suggest you ask Marcel the builder.

Oh...I feel your pain, went through a partial tear a few years back. If you can, it is really useful to get onto doing some physio and cross training to build up the strength in the rest of your leg muscles which an help protect what you have left of the ACL which as you know is a permanent injury (it won't grow back). I personally found lots of hamstring strength and working out a lot on a stationary trainer focused on circular spinning on the bike (not mashing) really helped, along with weights, building up a lot of leg strength - your test from what I remember is 80% of strength of your uninjured leg, somewhere in that range is pretty important.