Steve Dold
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No, the hole spacing is different. It's too bad too because the TD2 receiver is a superior design because of the slot that lets you see if the heels are in. Also, my TD1 receivers were seriously worn after just one season, while my TD2 receivers haven't shown any wear at all in about 30 days. It must be a different material.BTW, has anyone fitted the TD2 receiver on the original TDs? Would it work ok?I wish they were made of steel instead like the F2 and Xbone bindings. If I was making mods, that's the receiver I'd try to use.
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It's hard to tell from the pictures, but it looks like you are running the same binding angle in both bindings. You might want to turn your back foot about 5 degrees to the right (less-forward) than the front foot, at least to start out with. At this point a little overhang won't matter and it might make a big difference in control.
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Since you are considering shaving, are you are talking about skin irritation? I have that problem with certain kinds of socks, wool ones or especially anything with big ridges in the area where the boot cuffs are. It's much less of a problem with socks that don't have those ridges and are softer, my favorites right now are some blends sold by Burton.
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I would prefer death by cliff jump.
Me too! Or something equally as spectacular, like being shot out of a cannon or anything involving a big explosion.
But that goes back to what *I* want vs. what's best for my kids. Although it would be cool to say your dad was shot out of a cannon. 
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Maciek, to me the "American Standard Model" includes a mom and a dad for every kid. By my standards, and my model, that guy was wrong to do what he did when he has a wife and kid depending on him to come home.
Imagine being a kid growing up without her dad, knowing that dad didn't die defending the country, or in a car wreck, or of cancer, but because he jumped off a damn cliff to feed his ego.
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Shhh! I'm trying to get her to post a pic. Let's see if she does. :D
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Any recomendations for what a person 5'4" and 125 should be riding?
If so, that's what I want to buy. . orrrrrrr a custom Coiler.
Welcome! You've come to the right place.
Don't worry about RDY_2_carve, he's joking around but the rest of us are serious about this stuff and more than happy to give good, solid advice.
Alpine setups are more finely-tuned to the rider's physique. It's hard to know what to recommend based on height and weight alone. Body type is critically important. Do you have a bathing suit or bikini handy? If you put that on and post a picture of yourself, we could probably give a more educated gear recommendation based on your body type.
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Bruce: Sorry to hear this, I hope it's not as bad as it sounds. Let us know.
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Gahhh! This gives me the willies just reading it. NMU, sorry to hear about your accident and hope your leg is fixed up soon.
I have had two "incidents" in hardboots where I thought my leg was ready to snap. Both were in powder and were cases where the board nosed into the snow and stopped, and I kept going. I felt like you did Dave, like I had come really close.
It has me thinking of softies for powder.Now I ride in walk mode. I actually like the feel in walk mode better anyway.
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And the mediums do fit the AF-600 size 28 boots. Hooray!
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Ray, got the bindings today, thanks for shipping them out so fast.
They look great.
Steve
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I had to go back and see what you were talking about. I noticed once that if I ran parallel angles (60/60) instead of slightly duck (60/55) that it was a lot easier to bend the knees all the way down and face the nose, but it wasn't fun otherwise. I can only imagine what riding the Maverick pidgeon-toed would be like.
I used to have one of those, it was a fun board. I sold it a while back when we were raising some cash for Jimbo Duarte in Hawaii after his crash here at Kirkwood. Anyone know whatever happened to him?
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It's an interesting problem from an engineering view. I'm not a mechanical engineer, but it seems like we want a system that either doesn't break, or breaks in predictable ways like a ski binding. That seems hard to build because you'd almost have to design a system that either releases both boots simultaneously, or not at all. It would be fun to try to come up with designs, though. It would be a great way for those of use who work with CAD to screw off at the office and appear to be working
Just make sure the title block doesn't say "Snowboard Binding" in case you
forget to take the drawing out of the plotter tray :o
I thought once that answer might be a plate of some sort that both boots mount to, that mounts on top of the board, like a smaller conshox maybe. The weak link would be between the board and that plate so that both feet would stay connected together if the board came off. The more I thought about it the less practical it seemed.
I think at one time Nate was wearing two leashes. That might lead to something.
The more I think about it the more I think maybe there isn't any good way to do it and we just have to make everything as strong as possible.
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Make sure that the boots in fact do have T-nuts, some of them don't, I think it was SB-124's for one.
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I need a pair, Ray, I'll send an email right now.
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It also might be that the cable housing needs to be pushed back down through the hole in the bottom of the boot.
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There's something odd about both sites. There are no actual pictures of the product, as if they are testing the waters to see if there is any real interest. When I go to the online store, I get a server error page.
It seems like a cool idea, but man...it would sure add lift. It would be like riding plates on top of Palmer lifts.
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The negative stuff would be a lot more fun to read
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Ken, that sounds like a very cool board to have. Is the nose more freeride style or alpine?
The first thing I noticed first about the EC videos is that there isn't a lot of wasted motion at all, the riders don't make a lot of up/down or rotational movements like in the videos of CMC (for example), who rides with lots of wild movements.
Hating other styles: I don't see much of that. Maybe it's an internet thing. The only grief I ever get from softbooters, for example, is when they tell me that they think my equipment would be too specific to carving and not much good for anything else. I think it's great that the Swoard guys are addressing this.
It didn't seem like the Swoard review was knocking the EC style, I think the reviewer just told us how he felt about the board's suitability for his own style. I thought he was kinda rude about it, but it was a pretty well done review with a lot of real meat to it.
Edit: Maybe I shouldn't call EC a "Style" since it's a specific kind of turn and not really a riding style.
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There's absolutely nothing wrong with saying things on the internet that you wouldn't say in person.
Since words typed on the internet are permanent and public, I would think the opposite.
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James Ong: You are 100% correct. Nailed it right on the head. Sometimes people say things on the internet that they (usually) know better than to say in person and wonder why negative reactions result. Usually these are people who are actually very nice in person, but something happens when there is the internet buffer there. If people thought for just a minute or two about what they are saying and how they are saying it before firing off a message, the overall mood here would improve dramatically.
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That looks so minor compared to the existing damage on any of my boards. I'm sure it can be repaired with a little dressing and epoxy, and if it was me I'd do that and keep the money you get with the claim. That's a nice topsheet color, BTW.
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Dang, yep, it's only for XP.
I have another computer running SuSE Linux 9.3, maybe GNU has something.
So far I haven't done anything with DV, only my Canon digital camera. I do have a thing made by Dazzle that I used to use to take NTSC video and convert to digital, I think it might have been MPEG. Maybe something came with that.
It's a lot of fun taking these videos, I should finally get a real video camera and pitch my old 8mm camera. I like the vids some of you guys have made, like Dave's Mt. Bachelor one.
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$trider: Thanks for the tip on Pinnacle's software, I don't mind paying for software that I like. I will check that out.
As far as Windows Movie Maker, I'm running Windows 2000, I'll see if it's something I could try. Hopefully it's not just an XP app.
But that goes back to what *I* want vs. what's best for my kids. Although it would be cool to say your dad was shot out of a cannon. 
It has me thinking of softies for powder.
TD2 design
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Thanks Bob. My TD2 receivers don't have any noticable wear, and I've used one pair between 20-30 times. Not even the outer gray surface is worn. I thought maybe you guys had used a harder alloy or something.
My TD1's have enough wear after one season that I had to swap them front/rear.
I almost never used to grease the TD1 receivers, but I always grease the TD2's slightly before I ride each day. Maybe that makes all the difference.