Alex Walters
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A twelve second glance at the classifieds turned up this:
http://www.bomberonline.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=26507
If he can't afford $150 (price of 2 or 3 lift tickets) for a decent used mostly-modern board, he is going to have a hard time being able to afford to use even a free board.
I get the impression the OP already knows how to snowboard, and that now he wants to learn how to ride alpine gear. He'd be better off on a newer cheap sym. It will feel more like what he's used to on his freeride board, assuming he has learned how to carve that first (which he should!).
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!
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like clockwork. :rolleyes:
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.
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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.
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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.
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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?!
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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.
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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.
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Heh...nothing that fancy, it's just 4130 steel aircraft tubing, .035 wall thickness. I'm not sure about the engineering aspect, but according to my friend who designed the frame, good double-butted tubing is great for single frames because they see mostly bending loads, but tandems see mostly twisting loads so straight gauge is better. These same frames were sold in thelate 80's to early 90's under the name "Ibis". They are well respected for handling, but not known for being light :o
Most people I talk to don't seem to think tandem weight is a big deal. I think this thing will weigh in at 40-45 pounds. About like a Schwinn Varsity with a rack full of textbooks
What is a 29'er? I've heard the term but can't figure out what it is.
Wow, I've got an old late 80's Ibis!
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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.
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You posted the exact same thing in another thread. Do you have a scanner? Because I want to see this infamous page.
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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?"
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Its a shame that some one died, But people die in collision on or in lots of "vehicles". Also this statement seems a bit odd?
"Doda allegedly rode his snowboard in a manner that was a “gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would exercise,” according to the charge."
I wonder who a reasonable person is? Also if you are riding bowls you would assume the ability of "a reasonable person "would be above average. I have known Jermey Jones for a long time and think he is a reasonable person...He just happens to be a backcountry ninja but he is reasonable?
I can't help but think of the large influx of below average riders adventuring into bowls and backcountry steeps and causing nothing but problems and creating hazards stopping in sluff and slide paths under huckable rocks, In tree shots, etc....
Just this year alone I watched hundreds of sliders walk into BC hikes right past signs that read"you are leaving the resort, unpatrolled and prone to avalanche conditions. All skiiers should have a becon, probe, shovel, a partner and the ability to use all". Still I as the experanced safe guy has to be extra careful not to be in the wrong place when the Kook above me traverses a 60 degree chute that slides into the runout because he wanted to go home and tell his office friends about the sick BC he hiked to on vacation. I have even over heard kooks in bars bragging about walking through signs that warn of death with out any of that "stupid gear" the sign talks about and how They have only been sliding for a year of two but had no problem "Making it down the stuff the pros ride"
Its those kooks that kill people if the sixteen year old kid was behaving in such a manner then it truley is his fault. But if he was pointing some open bowl after making sure its clear and then some one traversed into the middle whos to blame?
I am of course aware of the responability of all sliders and the code we all must follow, But perhaps its time to rewrite the Code to protect all sliding not just when marked trails are involed?
But if you are riding a bowl and you should not stop where you block a trail or out of site perhaps the same should apply to a open bowl that is nothing but a big trail?
Also, come on how reasonable are you at sixteen?
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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
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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.
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...nobody sugguested a new forum except for Fin...and he kinda like...you know...owns bomber.
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.
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I'm not actually planning on riding it, as I'll only fall off it and scratch it, and that would never do.
NOT RIDE IT! It's a snowboard, it's made to be ridden. Actually it's fine if you don't want to ride it you can just sent it to me so I can "hang it on my wall" :D.
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I voted yes for the same reasons as Mike T, but I also have a few ideas of my own. I think that the "off topic" forum is good for anything goes kindof discussion, but it seems that there are many bomber purists who shun the OT forum, as evidenced by the low view counts and what not. Many times I'll come on and see like...20 people viewing the Carving Community, but only 2-3 looking at the Off Topic. A longboarding forum would help people who want to talk about longboarding, but don't want to risk being jumped in the CC, and don't want their thread to relegated to the OT forum. The Off Topic forum should be kept as an anything goes forum, and the Carving Community should be kept for winter-type snowy activities. I think perhaps a "Summer Community" forum might be best, a forum for people to talk about whatever they do during the summer, be it biking, hiking, kayaking, longboarding, golf, skydiving, or indoor curling.
And Skatha, I see from YOUR signature that you like mythbusters!
I think that if you encourage longboard talk to be put in the OT forum than you'll add some more traffic there instead of adding another too specific forum that in my oppinion will have just as little if not less traffic than the OT one does now. I think the off topic forum could easily be used as this "sumer community" forum, if people start posting in the OT forum instead of suggesting new forums then it might actually get some traffic
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did it ever occur to anyone that we can just move the longboard talk over to the "off topic" forum? Just move some threads over there and encourage people to post things that aren't snowboarding in that forum. It gets annoying when new forums are made for every little subcategory and common discussion.
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Just in case anybody's wondering I found pics of the 06/07 deeluxe Indy and Suzuka, they don't look any different except they have the new 06/07 style thermoflex liner and that's only a small asthetic change, no new buckles or anything fancy, not even new colors, just the same red and dark blue from the past two seasons.
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I have some e2's that I use as IEM's with my band, I use them as headphones occationally but I find they're a pain for casual listening, when I listen through headphones on bustrips and plane trips and stuff like that I use my AKG's but they're not good for listining to music while you're walking or driving, most of the time I just use the ultra crappy ipod headphones, they're **** but they get the job done. As for sound the e2's are pretty good but I again prefer my AKG's, they're much punchier and have a little bit of emphasis on bass frequencies that I like.
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Bode has maintained an unprecedented streak of consecutive races on the WC level...he just this season sat out some races after the olympics for the first time in years. To win on the WC level (let alone the overall) requires much more skill than merely flinging oneself down the hill and getting lucky. His style (albeit unorthodox) is somethhing that he developed as a means of finding speed. he did not get to this level without having very sound fundamentals. furtehrmore, he has changed the way skiers attack race courses. His race performance at the olympics was no different than he had been performing all year on the WC. I cannot grasp why we americans expect him out there and win four medals, when he was clearly not having a good season across the boards. Last year...yes, I would have expected a medal. 5th in DH, 6th in GS. on track to win combined. remember that these guys have to be on the edge to be competitive. they don't complete 3/5 of their prctice runs too.
As for class...I don't disagree. Bode did not present himself well at the olympics. However. He gavethe press what they wanted: a story.
I hope that with some of the pressures gone, he will be able to just go out there and ski this year...
I'm not saying he doesn't have sound fundamentals and isn't a good skier, I mean no matter how much I dislike him he's still a world class professional skier, I'm just saying that in my oppinion he lacks the grace and skill that most other guys have. when I say 'he flings himself down the hill and hopes he gets lucky' I mean that retavily, as in compaired to many other athletes at his level he flings himself down the hill, he's not like a little 5 year old waving his arms and flying down a bunny hill. And I didn't expect him to win gold in every race and he did decently in the two events he managed to finish, but he didn't even finish 3 of his 5 races! He had all this hype sorrounding him, the least he could have done was get down the hill. And as for "they don't complete 3/5 pracitce runs" I'm no olympic ski coach but isn't that why it's practice? if you don't finish in practice you can go back up the hill and come down again but isn't the idea not to do that during the race?
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I'm a lefty but
Skate/Snowboard: Regular
Squash: Righty
Lacrosse: Stronger right hand
Soccer: 50-50
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glad someone else agrees for the most part. Although i do respect his skill, he just failed to meet the hype and also comes out looking like a jackass. I respect athletes more for their character and then their abilities. I could careless if he does win the world cup or gets a medal, he trash talked an American symbol. Lance brought American mainstream to cycling and he did it with class. Bode will never touch that.
exactly, I agree he has talent but like I said, he just seems to waste it. I mean as much as I don't like him and say he wastes his talent he's still a world class skier, I'm not saying I could do better but I'm saying other world class skiers have just as much if not more talent than he does and they have class too, and that's what makes them great athletes.
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Bode has never had class and I've never been a fan. There are so many other ski racers with class and skill, he just flings himself down the mountain and and does his whole "rebel" thing when he happens to gets lucky and win. His performance at the olympics was appauling. He has a lot of talent but he just seems to waste it, it's really dissappointing.
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Hard to go wrong either way. I have not ridden the OS2 but I used to own the OS1 and they were fantastic. I slightly prefer the Bombers to the Cateks, becase the suspension is slightly preferred to the added tweakability. However when I was starting out I really like being able to experiment with canting and lifting on the Cateks.
Having said all this, you'll have to bid against me to win the TD2's... I can always use another set of bindings and I need 0 degree disks :)
If you need a 0* disc and want to part with a 3* I can get you one. No need to buy a whole nother set of bindings, and outbid someone trying to get a good set of bindings just for the 0* disc :D.
For the origional poster, they're both supposed to be awesome but the bombers are slightly less stiff and that can be good if you're a lightweight and I like the dampening more than the ajustability. Also saying that the cateks aren't adjustable makes it seem like the bombers aren't very versitile, that's far far from the truth they both offer an incredible amount of adjustment, the cateks jsut have a bit more adjustments. I love my bombers but they're both supposed to be awesome bindings.
Mammoth or June over the holidays?
in Southern California
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I was thinking of going to June for a few days before christmas.