Alex Walters

I was thinking of going to June for a few days before christmas.

Point taken. I got a little feisty when I saw you completely disparaged my first post. But I still feel my opinion is valid and there can sometimes be a little too much gear elitism. But I'm gonna shut up about it before I make myself look any more sheepish. :D To the OP: Your asym is sick, ride it! But when you really wanna lay it out on the slopes find a sick board like that Oxygen Jack pointed out. $150 is a rockin' deal!

Yeah it get it, every thread has someone spewing the "ride what you got" crap. But there's a reason, if you're new to the sport and you check this site, the greatest carving resource online, it's easy to get the idea that you'll never be a good hardbooter if you're riding dated gear. I know asyms are dated and he obviously would be better served on the slopes with a shiny modern board. But the point I'm making is that the OP started this thread to get advice on how to set up the board he's got, not how to buy a better one, and the answer is obviously to just get some safer bindings and feel it out on that. It's fine to let him know that he'll need to upgrade eventually because that's the truth, but it's a bad idea to tell him flat out he needs a bunch of new gear. I want more guys my age on the hill to ride alpine with, and if people find this site and think they gotta drop >1k on gear they're just gonna keep on softbooting. I've seen it happen to everyone I steer in BOL's direction and it's frustrating.

How can you guys talk about how you used to ride asyms back in the day and then tell this guy that he can't progress as a rider if he rides it? You guys rode them and you all turned out ok :). He's already got the board, might as well get some bindings and catch the carving bug before he drops any more cash.

Awesome, so there is hope yet! I'm just upset I didn't order one a few weeks or days ago when I had the chance.

I'm pissed off now, both at myself for not placing an order sonner and just in general because now I won't get a BTS. I just saw that BTS kits are already sold out when I was literally going to place an order today or tomorrow at the latest. I knew they were going to sell out but I thought I had more time, I didn't think they'd sell out in pre-sale, jesus. It says something about "until further notice" does this mean there's hope yet? or will I have to wait till the end of the season, or worse next year?!

For under 3K I'd go Cervelo Team Soloist (the aluminum one) It's 2200 with full ultegra (or 1200 for a frame and you can build it up how you like). It's supposed to be a flat out amazing deal and it's sexy as hell. It's aluminum but it's also definatly a pro bike, Julich won the '05 Paris-Nice on it.

Goldsmiths up at big bear lake has a very limited supply of hardboot stuff left over from when they actually carried it. I got some 03/04 Suzukas there last season. Of course there might not be anything left. And I'm pretty sure they only have boots and bindings if anything, they just might have like an oxygen board in the back but don't quote me on that becuase I'm very, very unsure of that. But then again I doubt you want to drive to big bear and I have no data to suggest weather they sell snow stuff over the summer becuase I only go up there during winter.

Wow, I've got an old late 80's Ibis!

I'm no experienced board builder but I would think aluminum would be pretty difficult to work with in relation to your standard plastic fillers. It sounds like you have a pogo (the cutout on the keychain) and they tend to go all out on features that if you're building a homebrew you don't really need. I'd get the hang of building boards using the "traditional" layup before you start experimenting with fancy stuff. That's my oppinion but you could also let some people who have more experience chime in.

You posted the exact same thing in another thread. Do you have a scanner? Because I want to see this infamous page.

At 16 I can hear it. And I had to leave the room even at medium volumes. My mom just stood in front of the speakers saying "I can't hear anything?"

From your post you seem to think Larmie bowl is some sort BC bowl. It's actually just a wide open but quite steep (and usually bumpy) marked blue piste, of course your rule about the woman slowly traversing into the middle right infront of a responsible rider still applies. :D

I was up in Jackson with a friend a little while after this happened. I might of heard something about this. I was also up at the end of 2005 and remember hearing of a similar incident at Snow King.

I know that, you know what I mean. Instead of... voting yes on the poll I guess. He certainly can do whatever he wants with the forum but he asked our oppinions and I'm just sharing mine which is obviously, don't overexpand so to speak and clutter the boards with new forums that in my oppinion and from my experience on other forums people will never visit.