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Steve Dold

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    Sacramento CA
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    Kirkwood
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    I cut down trees and build radio towers in pristine forestland.

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  1. Hi Joel, I'm sorry it took so long to respond. I didn't see this until now. Did you ever get a ride?
  2. I had no idea there were so many of us. I'm 54.
  3. If you only knew...I can't believe this thread is still going! It's nice to be back.
  4. When it's not snowing, that's what I wear. I don't care about fashion. This was interesting: "...4 to 7 of every 1,000 visits resulting in some type of injury" This is a lot less than I thought it would have been. And I always assumed wrist injuries were mainly the result of forward falls, not backward ones. I would like to know what percentage of those suffering wrist injuries were wearing wristguards. The rider looks very familiar, anyone know who it is?
  5. Hi Suzi, I'm not doing any flying right now due to an impossible work schedule. My wife is unhappy right now because she loves flying and I haven't taken her up in about 4 months. Let's talk about it in the spring if he's still interested, it should have eased up by then. I haven't even been snowboarding once yet this season, and there have been some great conditions :( I'm hoping to get up at the end of the month sometime. I hate this. So I can't report on the orthotics, although I did pick them up finally. They are padded plastic, maybe 1/2 inch thick at the thickest part.
  6. I still can't believe it, but my insurance paid for my podiatrist to make custom orthotics for my AF-600s! He made molds of my feet and mailed them, along with my hardboots, to a company that makes the things. I never imagined my insurance would pay for these. I guess they figure it'll be cheaper than an operation. So I'll try these and the shots before looking at the operation.
  7. Hey Jon, I have an appointment to see the doc in two weeks, but in the meantime I've been doing this and it seems to help a lot! Thanks for the idea.
  8. A friend of mine in Davis has a house that has a huge steel tank of water that makes up one wall in the living room. It's about two feet thick, 15 feet high and maybe 20 feet wide. It is heated in the winter by sunlight coming through skylights, and in the summer the angle of the sun keeps direct sunlight from hitting it. So the thing heats the house (a little) in the winter and cools it (a little) in the summer. He swears it works, and I guess it does since the place doesn't ever seem too hot or cold except when it gets below 45-50 or above 100. It seems like a great idea, but I always wonder what will happen when it finally leaks (it's about 30 years old). It's covered in drywall and paint, so it would be a real hassle to get to it, and it would probably have to be welded, like a ship hull.
  9. That's OK. Usually when that happens, we get a big drunken lecture typed at 2 am about how we are worthless keyboard-carvers or some such. Yours was a refreshing departure from that. Happy B-day!
  10. I bought a 2007 Forester base model with Automatic brand new. At 6,000 miles the radiator lost all of its coolant and had to go into the shop. Diagnosis: bad cap. Then, at 30,000 miles, leaking head gasket(s). Machined and replaced under warranty. My friend with a 2003 has had a lot of leaking of coolant, they never seem to be able to fix it. It's an OK car, but I like my wife's Honda CRV a lot better. Oh, throttle response (it's an auto) is weird, you stomp on it, it takes about a second to respond. Power is pretty bad at altitude, I was driving up a really steep dirt road at 11,000 feet once and it barely made it, full-throttle in low gear at about 5 mph. It's not a great off-road car, no low gearing, low ground clearance. Good snow handling on the flats, though, as long as it's not too deep.
  11. Would it depend on a ground transmitter nearby?
  12. I have a couple of GPS receivers and they aren't accurate enough to track our turns, they would calculate the average speed down the mountain, which is pretty slow for a typical carver. Unless you were making pretty wide turns, then I think they would work. But they still need a signal. You could probably wrap foil around it to keep it from receiving the satellites...heh
  13. Hey, I can do that. Call me Rerun.This should be helpful. I'll work on this as soon as I get back to work on monday: http://www.wikihow.com/Moonwalk
  14. We've been trying to do this in the office all day. You have to slide the flat foot backward while pushing yourself back with your other toe. It's just the opposite of what seems natural and is really hard to do, it's hard to fight the instinct to stand on the flat foot and slide the toe. You also need stiff soles. We should try to learn it for the SES.
  15. Wow, Bryan. That's a lot of injuries! Are you doing OK now and will you be riding this next season? I was hoping to get up there for next year's OES and see Doug and Carol again and meet some of you guys. Thanks for the replies, guys. Maybe I don't have to live with this after all, that would sure be a good deal. I think I'll go talk to the doc about it. Meanwhile I'll try the golf ball thing. I get the pain while cycling too so I might see some results doing that.
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