Mr.E

Th's more work. I usually have 1 or 2 in the car.

How's the weather up there? Just rolling around what board to bring up.

Im selling my 185 JJA GS board with plate. No interest in splitting them up. I love the board, but am interested in trying some other types of decks. Its in very good used shape. A couple of normal light scratches (can't get good photos), but no edge or top sheet damage. Its in riding shape, but I'd be happy to put on a coat of travel wax. $650 shipped in the US (other places at my costs). If you are in CO and want to pick it up we can meet.

Glad you are ok. Not sure when you bought those bindings, but they haven't been made in many years. That screw may have had an exceptional service life.

Looks good! Waiting for the snow to firm back up to take my JJA SL out (old one).

Most folks find better results with wrap style Intuitions over the tongue type. Don't know who your boot fitter is, but Larry's (also in Bouler) has done good work for me.

Try it for another couple of days- that's a fairly big change all at once. If you don't seem to get used to it, back off to what you felt more comfortable with, maybe one variable at a time.

I see you are in CO. Try t get in touch with Rich at All Board Sports in Boulder. They have a selection of boards, but even more importantly, you can go and actually try on UPZ and some Deeluxe boots. You are light enough you can probably get away with the Carve, but I'm usually a fan of beefier bindings. The Race will last you forever, parts are available, and there really isn't a downside to them. I think Sean sells both, and All Board Sports carries the Race. I've missed the last couple of Sundays, but there is a regular group of riders that meet on Sundays. CO has a pretty wide distribution of harbooters if you want to ride with folks. Check the ride board and post up.

Are you getting all the way cammed closed? I ask because if it's all the way out, the curve of the ladder may be riding on the tounge and further from the center of the cam over.

I can't remember, but I *think* it was a Japanese company making essentially hard boot tounges that slipped between the liner and soft boot shell to stiffen forward flex. I imagine that could be replicated without too much trouble. Looks like Dynafit and Atomic tongues can be had for not much money, and look pretty easy to modify.

If I wake up in time I'm shooting for tomorrow and Sunday. Good day at Copper today.

Good lord, we just keep trying to make this stuff difficult, don't we? Scew the hoof clamper on the snow stick and twiddle the knobs until the foot case it centered. If it feels off, twiddle the knobs a little more.

I thought it was fine (totally ridable), but didn't provide the same level of damping change and isloation I feel on some other boards, and it did (slightly) seem to stiffen the center section. I have several boards (SG, JJA, Virus) that are in the 185 GS ballpark, and I enjoy a plate on those more. I think the Contra in good snow is damp enough, and benefits from being able to use your fee to flex the board more that I find necissary on the GS stuff. On any of them you can just tilt and engage the side cut if you want, too, but on the GS stuff I enjoy the feeling of tip/tail weight shifts that the Coiler seems more indifferent too, and the plate leverage just didn't make a big change for me (albeit on softish conditions). I should note that I mentioned I enjoyed plates on boards in the class (my Contra is a 180 with GS+ type sidecut) and wanted that option. Bruce seemed fine with that, and on his preference we kept it 4x4 rather than add UPM inserts. I find on the boards that preform best with plates, I don't feel a huge difference between UPM or 4x4, so keep the UPM plates on the boards with those inserts. I have another shorter board/ longer side cut on order that I'll also try with a plate, but based on my experience with this one I assume I'll run it bare. Note that I'm riding in CO, and firm conditions here are like powder days in the NE.

Tried an Apex on my Contra. It was fine, but better suited for race style progressives in my opinion.

My wife has decided to let her SBH boots go. Free to a good home. These include molded Raichle Intuition liners. If you can pick em up in FC, Loveland or Copper, fantastic, but I'm happy to ship on your dime. Good freeride/ split board or first carving boots. I can take a pic, but they look like every other Nordica SBH.

I'm probably heading up mid week, maybe a day at LL and a Copper day, if anyone is around.

I'm afraid of the Denver metro areas powder fever.

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Take a mental step back, and try to work on your fundementals when you go to the hill. If I'm trying a new board I'll ease into it. If you still have your old board, try riding it with the new bindings and boots until you feel comfortable. Once you feel like you have the new boots under control, remount your new deck and work in on it.

Ha! I really liked the snow. I could have done with better light conditions, though. I just hope for the best when it's that flat and pretend my legs will take care of it. Fun riding with you folks!

I was up today for the W crew (a happy supprise, thanks for playing!). Great carving before the storm. My plan is to be back Sunday.

I'm no help there, but you should come to Loveland Sunday(s) if you can.

Ha- that's me on every board. I've only ever been on a few boards that I thought were too stiff for me (and a couple I thought were too stiff for what I wanted out of the board). If I feel like I have to slam the downweight to get it to not skid that's usually a good sign. Some boards are more fun that way, but if you need to artifically increase your weight... I'd imagine "most" stock 162-164cm SL decks and 183-185cm GS boards are built with the idea of a 180lbs ish rider on them. When I weighed less, they were harder to bend. Not sure if you noted, but are you moving at a good clip? That energ can be important if you are working to get the board to bend.

Weather and company were great. Soft snow wore me out.

If you're happy I'm happy. Test the tweaks Sunday.