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Your welcome. It has been difficult to resist the urge to buy one for myself! :D

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It is all personal preference. At 2/1 I notice the board feel more engaged into the turn. To me, the board feels more commited which boosts my confidence. For a board like the Khyber where you will potentially be riding all types of terrain (trees, bumps, pow), I would leave the edges at 1/1.

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M/L is fine. I have larges and have the toe adjusted close to the smallest size (let me know if that does not make sense).

Your weight? Height? I am 5'9" and 205lbs and thought the board was on the soft side for me. I could rail tight turns all day long but felt very limited. I think a Con shox would have would have greatly helped (considering my weight) but they are not easy to find. I wound up buying different boards to serve the purpose and sold the Silberpfeil. As always, demo before you buy if possible. P.S. - I was riding a 172

If RJ does not take the board, I will drive up and get it. Keep me posted. Dustin

Just watch the Red Green Show. :D "Duct tape, the handyman's secret weapon." "If the women don't find you handsome, they should aleast find you handy."

Living in Castle Rock, working in Co Springs. I am ready to ride and definately need to ride with you guys this year! I learned a lot from watching Pete work that Burner. Thanks to Bola, my quiver is a little different than is was last year. :D Still waiting for one board from that little no-name company in Ontario that handmakes boards to the riders specs.

Golden has a nice, small town feel. Golden is bound on the east by two plateaus and on the west by the mountains; basically the town is in a little valley. Golden is more expensive than Arvada and Wheat Ridge because of the college. The college has minimal housing for the students; therefore, there is high demand on the housing market. Parts of Arvada and Wheat Ridge are sketchy, but there are also some very nice areas. I do not think the commute to Northglenn would be too bad (~ 20 minutes once you get to the interstate). From any of these places take EB I-70 to EB I-76 to NB I-25. You would be getting on I-76 before I-70 starts to load up and there is no NB traffic on I-25 north of downtown Denver. As far as passed go, most everyone likes the K-A-B pass except for me. I preffer the Copper Mtn/Winter Park pass. The price is comperable and the two resorts have very different terrain from each other. Last year I met up with Bola, Pete Cogan and Big Mario at Loveland. I learned to ride at Loveland but had not been back in many years. I had an absolute blast and decided to pick-up a Loveland season pass as well. All the resorts near Denver are pretty damned good, you cannot go wrong with a season pass to any of them (except Sol Vista). :D Hopefully the "Ride Board" will be up and running this season (I know that Fin has other more pressing "issues" to deal with). It will make it easy for everyone to connect and ride together.

Jack, You are correct. The section 13 of the filing says "...the right Intec heel portion failed, releasing plaintiff's foot from his snowboard..." In the claim they refer to the entire assembly (Bomber TD, intec heel...) as the "binding". They do not directly claim that any components manufactured by Bomber Industries failed. With most lawsuits, the attorney's will list all possible defendants in the beginning, it can be difficult if not impossible to add them at a later date. This is the reason that Bomber, Boards & More, and F2 are listed as well as "John Doe one through fifty". This way the plaintiff's can add other parties at a late date. Hopefully Mr. & Mrs. Broadbent will realize that Bomber should not be a part of the lawsuit and tell the attorneys drop the case against Bomber.

I think Randy is deliberately toying with us, sitting back giggling like a school girl, as the rest of us impatiently wait and post our frustrations. Just do it Randy!!!!!!!!:D

On 40K, in Boulder you could afford a studio apartment with a little spendng $$ to spare. Yes that is an exageration, but not off by much! Housing is pretty expensive in the Denver metro area. Go to someplace like realtor.com to get a feel for what you can buy for your dollar. It might be worth looking at the Longmont/Firestone/Erie areas. In '01 we sold our 800sqft house for $140K, located in Denver proper, in a shady neighborhood. A two or three family house would probably run $400 to $500K in this market. Do some research on areas you might want to live, check housing prices and try to get out here for a visit. Check to see if your comapny will give you a raise/cost of living adjustment to come out here!

This is great news! CONGRATULATIONS HOLLY!!!!!!!

Best wishes for Holly's surgery today. Hope everything goes better than expected!!!!:) The human body can do amazing things. A few years ago I shattered my forearm (ulna) from the midpoint into the elbow joint. The doctor's told me that at most, I might have 30% range of motion in the elbow after everything was healed and rehabilitated. They expected the recovery process to take a year. I was lucky and had a great surgeon and physical therapist. The surgeon went with a non-traditional method for this type of break and re-assembled my arm with a 9-inch long plate and thirteen screws (typically they would have used multiple halos and pins to hold everything in place). The break occurred the end of December, in June I was kayaking (in the freezing Colorado run-off) again, all physical therapy was complete, the only problem was pain caused by the plate slightly protruding away from the bone at the elbow. Any time I slightly bumped my elbow, I would be doubled over in pain. That August they removed the plate and some of the screws; everything has been great in the five years since. And their predictions of only having 30% range of motion were not quite accurate, I have about 95% range of motion. Sorry to be so long to get to the point, but as I said in the first sentence, the human body can do amazing things. It will take some time to heal, but very soon, this accident and the healing will just be a memory! Best wishes Holly! Scott, I do not know what you are going through, spending all your time at the hospital, the worrying, the waiting, the anticipation, but my girlfriend does. You are a great person for doing so and being there by Holly's side! Dustin

I purchased the board new in January. Ridden three days.

My Steepwater Plow 171cm is significantly stiffer than my 182cm Tanker. The nose of the Tanker likes to "flap" is the breeze, not sure is there is an issue with the board or if that is how they are constructed. Don't get me wrong, when the conditions are soft, the Tanker performs great, but in more firm conditions, I ride the Steepwater! :D

They closed last weekend. :(

CONGRATULATIONS!!!:) You are a very lucky man!

any pics? Is that $250 US or CDN?

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I caught a glimpse of you and the gf two Saturday's ago at Monarch. You were near the bottom of Lower Tango and I was on the Garfield lift. I tried to find you the rest of the day but never saw you again. Monarch is an interesting place to carve. I found that either the runs were too flat (i.e. Lower Tango) or too narrow (Little Mog (?) under breezeway) for the board I was riding (14m or 15m SCR). I did like that there were absolutely no people there on a weekend day. The views were killer. Most of the lift attendants had no clue about an alpine set-up. They stood there staring at the board/boots. While riding, I find if I focus on my breathing I get that Zen feeling and have a good sense about everything that I am doing. If I think about one individual aspect (i.e. transitions), other aspects lack (i.e. body positioning). I knew I recognized your name from Mountinabuzz. Think of carving like dropping a technical rapid. If you focus on that one hole or lateral wave, it will eat you alive. Take in your surroundings and go! Dustin

Figures! I already have a broken red Fire hanging on my wall.

What color? If it is black, I am interested.