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  3. Do I need soft boots?

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    On 3/13/2022 at 10:06 AM, BlueB said:

    Also, I don't think the step-ons are a very good idea. Use some proper strap bindings, if you must. 

    Just finishing my first season on step-on. Yesterday I hit the red tail jump on birds of prey at beaver creek and got 50-60 feet of air. (I am about 240lbs). If they didn’t blow up on that jump, they aren’t going to fail on anything that 98% of riders are going to do on a normal day.  Step-ons are the real deal, and the most responsive interface I’ve had since I left hardboots…  

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  5. Just checking in to say hi - and ran into an old friend

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    1 hour ago, JohnE said:

    Wow - I recall that Michelle was running a restaurant or coffee shop in Pagosa? Hope she is doing well. 

    She’s running a great Cajun restaurant there. Hoping to get her up on the hill in a few weeks. 

    1 hour ago, Corey said:

    Tex and Michelle! Hi strangers! 

    Hi Corey 

    56 minutes ago, GeoffV said:

    no way, Matt, thanks for posting. So good to see a pic of Michelle and you.

    Moved back to the mountains - finally getting some riding in. Please send snow to SW Colorado!

    3 minutes ago, Eboot said:

    And there I thought that this was your pic: image.png.1cb153c114338e8c79f1431241f32f71.png   🙂

    I’m not nearly that good looking 😄

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  9. Felony charges for former Bomber owners

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    3 hours ago, daveo said:

    Yes those machines sure do sound expensive, but...

    The above almost sounds like the $250,000 might never be able to pay itself back. Almost like it was overpriced. But then again I'm sure someone with such business prowess like Angie would have run the figures.

    Shame bomber products never got traction within the world cup scene or a whole lot more may have been sold and business would have been easier for Jim & Angie. Shame because I'm sure they didn't intend to harm anyone from the outset.

    Based on what I saw, the company was worth every bit of that when Fin sold it.  (I have been a financial analyst facilitating the buying and selling companies for over 20 years now) Mismanagement caused the value to drop. The market for these goods was relatively stable over the 3 years prior to the sale  

     

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  14. Downhill Snowboard Racing

    in Carving Central

    Posted · Edited by tex1230

    The last true DH I was aware of was Iron Mountain, 1989 or 1990. Scariest race I ever did.  

    IIRC there was a Super-G in Tahoe in the early 2000s.

    you want to see real insanity? Check out speed week at Vars. Those guys get up into the 95+mph range on soft boots and 120+ on hard boots

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  18. Is bomber out of business?

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    Hanging up my “cranky old guy” hat for a minute. 

    Good to see all of the people who really care. 

    As a word of advice from someone who has a good deal of experience with corporate bankruptcies:

    1) don’t order anything from this site. It doesn’t help Jim/Angie at this point, it doesn’t help Fin, and it is likely that you won’t get anything back and it will take you months to recover money (if you get anything)

    2) all respect to Fin, who built a binding and a place for us all to hang out, but he has ZERO decision authority over the direction of the business at this point. Until the BK is settled, this is a ship on autopilot. Great for us if Fin takes over, but he has a couple. Of difficult decisions: does he want to get back into. This after exiting a couple of years ago? And does the financial model make sense post-BK?

    Markets change, and knowing what I know about niche sporting goods and the overhead and liabilities of the binding business (anyone remember the lawsuit from a few years ago?) I wouldn’t be surprised to see everyone walk away  

     

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  20. Is bomber out of business?

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    On 10/27/2017 at 9:00 PM, buster said:

    so, it's alright to call another member a straight up asshole and a sorry excuse for a human being when defending moderators?

    You pipe up now after 13 years and 170 posts? Yeah... I’m the one with the problem. You have nothing invested in this community.

     

  22. Carving on regular snowboards

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    That's interesting... I find Steepwater 171 to be the quietest freeride boards at speed. It rides like a fat alpine board. More stable then my 20cm longer Tanker... Incline, I only rode an old 167 and found it a bit stiff and nervous.

    Maybe it's because I'm fat [emoji41]

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  23. Carving on regular snowboards

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    Incline is a damper board. Steep water gets a lot of chatter at high speed. Both are 1000x better than old supermodels (assuming you're talking about the 174/181 versions, not the newer short ones)

    I have owned and ridden all of the above. My current ride is a steepwater, mostly because it was the economical choice. If I had a spare $1k I would be riding a custom incline.

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  24. Clicking in on the lift

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    Stomp pads are lame [emoji12]

    The danger of clicking in on the lift is that the back foot hardboot can get caught between the chair and the ramp on offload. I learned the hard way how much that sucks.

    I agree with most of what Bryan said.

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