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  1. Worst Song ever...

    in The Lodge

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    Jon: That's funny. Erik: Agreed! I actually ended up with a KISS LP in a stack of radio station promos once and it was just awful-sounding, like a garage band that somehow had access to a first-class studio for a day.

    Nothing compares to the crap we had to endure in the mid 70's. Imagine having no CD or even a cassette player, and every time you turned on the radio you heard garbage like Hot Child in the City, or Billy Don't be a Hero, or worst of all, something like Rick Dees and his stupid Disco Duck song:

    Went to a party the other night

    All the ladies were treating me right

    Moving my feet to the disco beat

    How in the world could I keep my seat

    All of a sudden I began to change

    I was on the dance floor acting strange

    Flapping my arms I began to cluck

    Look at me..

    I'm the disco duck

    Ah, get down, mama

    I've got to have me a woman, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

    Disco, disco duck

    Got to have me a woman :barf:

    It was a horrible time to be a teenager. It's no wonder we started liking bands like the Stooges in the late 70's.

  5. New Camera!

    in The Lodge

    Posted

    Good choice of cameras Jack. For a minute I thought you had purchased a D30 which is a 3 MP from a few years ago (still a great camera). I bought a 10D about two years ago and love it, the ergonomics and ease of operation are great, but what really impresses me is the lack of noise that shows up as speckles in blue sky. I can jack up the ISO setting to 400 and it's still acceptable for almost everything I do. I'm sure the 30D is at least as good.

    The IS lenses are awesome, they even come in handy for things you might not expect, like indoors where a flash is not allowed (like a museum).

  8. Swoard

    in Want to Buy

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    I think the Coiler is great, it's my favorite board. The Swoard is a close second.

    I really like having a little more heel/toe control than I did with the narrower boards.

    I mostly just carve at average speeds making average turns. I think the board is perfect for "EC" turns, I try it once in a while and can sometimes link a couple on both the Swoard and the Coiler, but it's pretty rare and the snow has to be just right. I'm not a good EC carver. The Coiler seems to hold the edge better when trying that, but the Swoard is still good at it. I bet that someone who really knows how to ride the thing on the edge would rip on it big time.

    I am on the list for another Coiler and will probably get the exact same board, if that tells you anything :biggthump This time I'll probably try to get a custom topsheet, although I think the maple leaf looks pretty cool. I get a lot of compliments on it. It really makes the square tail stand out in the lift line, people behind me are always commenting on the board. One kid called my board "Sick" last weekend. I'm pretty sure that means he liked it.

  10. Swoard

    in Want to Buy

    Posted

    I have the 175M Swoard and the 176 x 23.2 Coiler. I have about 12 hours on the Coiler over three days. About 1 hour was in 6" trracked powder and everything else was on mostly firm snow with ice chunks from the groomer tracks, and slush. I hated it in the powder because I'm not very skilled in powder and had a hard time steering it.

    I have about 20 days on the Swoard.

    Jim Farr rode my Swoard and his 170 EX on the same day and thought the 170 EX held its edge better.

    I don't know how the same shape holds an edge better on one board than another, these are just impressions we get from riding them. But I do definitely notice the nose of the Coiler bending less than the Swoard, not that I'm complaining about it. I could very well be loading the nose of the Swoard too much, my riding style is sometimes very half-assed and sloppy.

  11. Swoard

    in Want to Buy

    Posted

    Thanks Dave. It's really fun to ride. I still like the Swoard a lot. These days I mostly ignore whatever anyone else says about a board, no matter how good they are or think they are, unless I know them and their style and board preference. Now I just ride it myself and see if I like it or not. The best rider I ever saw once told me that Doneks weren't very good based on a couple of models he had ridden, then later he told me that he had changed his mind and thought they were pretty good after riding a couple more models.

  14. Swoard

    in Want to Buy

    Posted

    It's a 176, waist is 23.2 cm. I have 10.5" feet, wear Raichle AF650 boots and running 55/50 angles with F2 race Ti bindings (standard, not stepin) takes me right to the edge on the rear foot.

    The edge hold is better than anything I have ever ridden. I think the stiffness is 7.6, not sure how that relates to anything. My weight is 180.

    In a hard carve, the nose of the Swoard bends more than the Coiler, which seems to hold more of a consistant shape through its length. So I guess the nose is stiffer.

    The Coiler seems slightly heavier and more stable. The Swoard feels a little lighter and more maneuverable.

  17. Swoard

    in Want to Buy

    Posted

    The Swoard isn't as stable at speed as many other boards. I guess you give up some of that stability to get something else, like lightness, shape, torsional stiffness, or who knows what. I don't ride very fast so I'm happy with it. I'm starting to be a real fan of the wide carving board idea. I base my opinion entirely on how much fun I have.

    Coiler also makes a "similar to Swoard" shape as well.

    Dig:

    coiler_2.jpg

  19. Swoard

    in Want to Buy

    Posted

    Good luck finding one. Some don't like them but after going through about 20 boards of many shapes and lengths over the past few years, I have the most fun on the swoard.

  22. rusted inserts

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    I've never seen rust on inserts. I don't take my bindings off every time, not even close. The only time I've ever seen anything like this was when I left a board in a waterproof board bag, wet, all summer. The inserts looked corroded and there were bumps, not dimples, on the base where the inserts were.

  24. OT: waaaaaaay OT....

    in The Lodge

    Posted

    In a normal healthy relationship, about the only time men really NEED to get away is the exact moment after sex is "finished", for some reason, men's brains have an internal routine programmed by years of evolution telling us to leave the area. It's like a fire alarm going off in your head. "Whoop! Whoop! Get out of the building! Whoop!" As we enter relationships we try to fight this, and we do it pretty well. But it's tough. It's like trying to train a dog to jump into your lap after you fire a starting pistol at him.

  25. OT: waaaaaaay OT....

    in The Lodge

    Posted

    I don't think needing "alone" time is necessarily bad. When I was first married, we went to marriage counseling and the counseler drew two circles that overlapped each other and said that the two people in the marriage were like the circles - you overlap mostly, but not completely. In other words it's not usually a sign of trouble if either one wants to get away once in a while. It's just normal. Guys want to go work in the garage sometimes, or go do something with their buddies, and the wife will want to get away with her friends or do something alone too. 100% "togetherness" is not healthy and is just weird.

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