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nuff said
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+1 on the bone stim off of ebay. After 2 and half months of my clavicle not mending finally got one that worked(took three trys)and was good to go after five weeks.
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It would be interesting to see the breakdown of labour/material costs etc for a custom board. The builder might be working for 4 bucks an hour if he's charging 100$ for his product:eek:
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Bankart repair left shoulder 12 years ago,sternoclaviclar dislocation around the same time(pushed that one in myself as the docs wouldn't touch me with a ten foot pole). mid shaft displaced clavicle fracture in augest Total gym work for sure as the shoulder and sterno joint were good after this last crash.
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I'm with buell on this one.Test the backcountry waters and if your into it seriously consider the dynafit toepiece.I think Sparks R&D sells them individually and they've come down in price this year as well.
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I own a snow pulse air bag. top quality and the cylinder is charged by air. To me if your caught in a slide these thing keep you on the surface in the 90 percent range so well worth it if your out there alot. Bad thing is i seemed to becone the test dummy on all the suspect slopes last year so make sure all your friends have them too;)
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I use them for backcountry as i run the toepiece in the center for the uphill. Its hard to find a good at boot that gives you the right flex without doing mods to them. For meit took quitea bit of work to get them right but use them for everything now they are expensive and own only one set of boots.
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Losing 1500 is cheaper than losing your acl.Even if i was riding it after the fix couldn't trust it enough to push it so is it worth it.
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hey knock those funky spider arms off and stick a plate on it....... and make it a deep vee swally to boot
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She will be a hard act to follow as she was a model athlete in my books. Wish her well in her future plans.
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Nothing a portable drill cant fix.;) Very interesting they made it so thin between the bindings.
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I've noticed that you placed the front axle in front of the binding placement. Wondering how you came up with that location as I have a similar setup and noticed the same suspension feeling you describe. Did you design that in mind and do you think having the axle more under the center of the binding will limit the cushioning effect.
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Kent is talking about your average wattage you would put out in one hour. Times that by 125% and do 6 reps at 4 min each. Intervals are a bitch but they make you faster.
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Riding in a group will get your overall fitness up.I view cycling as a team /social sport,you can do it alone but when you want to push it having someone else along with similar goals makes it so much easier. Use to live in Toronto and can remember the group rides that had 50+ out training in feb . Ask some of the local shops what cycling clubs in your area are and join one.
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Its true the Japanese have an alpine market as well as an industry that could be taped. Chinese manufacturing in general deal in large orders and this product could be the posterchild for the niche industry that North America is geared for. People have to understand though that manufacturing here is more expensive across the board and nobody works for free.
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The price tag may be steep but R and D as well as skilled people in the manufacturing sector doesn't come cheap. Don't hold your breath for it to be made cheap offshore by some displaced chinese farmer chained to a workstation. As for Sean, Fin and whoever else getting into the game, more power to them. Hopefully Apex can be competitive with the price they set.
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25° years on board.....66& the carving of the beast
vapor replied to matiu68's topic in Carving Central
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Doesnt he know its bad form to reach for the snow....er.. ground.
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Glad you like the boots. Pretty much everybody mods these boots out of the box.To get more lateral flex i used an old upper 324 cuff and made bts like system for it only it has no lower spring but the white knob that has two settings, one that allows movement for touring and one that limits backward flex. The tongues are stock there but i switch it up at times.
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No problems with snow so far, but we all know of the times when it doesnt matter what your riding ,it just ends up one giant iceball. I'll pimp the dynafit stuff anytime. Accending with it is truly eye opening. The hard part i think is the majority come straight from soft boots and cant get use to AT boots.
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Thanks Bjvircks I'll now call it the brute force mad scientist 150 dollar ebay experiment. Another pic to clear things up.The rear sliding connection works but i have another idea that is going to work better in keeping snow out of the mechanism.I'm still going to use the aluminum section but machine delrin bushing for the axle as well as machining two long slots instead of four small one and holding it down with a machined delrin section.
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My soft boot voile setup comes in around 17 pounds climbing weight all on the legs. my 161 arbor with dynafit comes in around 9 and half pounds on the legs and 4 in the pack. As it stands right now 166 arbor high 9 and 4 and half in the pack.have to give the skiers a bit more of an advantage so they can catch me. Looking at running titanium axles to strengthen an lighten it up abit. It's pretty much a jigsaw puzzle to put together but no harder than what i do 8 hours a day
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Next season i'll post a thread of the experiences and durability of the design as well as a few action shots. Can't wait for it to snow!!
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I kept the front fixed and the rear slides that is similar to how visit is constructed. Here is a pic of the front attachment, the rear is similar but is sloted.the toepiece isint attached to the plate in any way but it does help to locate the board sections which was an added bonus.
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SVR Something i came up with to stiffen up the interface when i was using overlaping pucks to locate and stiffen the board halves. Hey Jon Hope this pic doesn't make it worse. working around the dynafit toepieces was a pain in the a$$ but worked out in the end. Its still a work in progress and have done prettier work butt ill snap off a few pics and send them to you as well as what i would do different second time around and alterations.
