Thumper

I'll be there on Tuesday

Sweet! Thanks for the tip.

Can anyone recommend a good place to get a basegrind done in SoCal? The technician's skill is so important. My results have varied wldly depending on whether Hans or Bubba is manning the Wintersteiger on a particular day.

I am no longer confused. In fact, I think I now need a larger helmet.

I'm confused

centrifugal adjective 1. tending to move away from a center; "centrifugal force" [ant: centripetal]

Board is sold.

Sale Pending

The Blue and Silver year. Base and edges are in good shape. Topsheet has several scratches and wear marks. $125 obo plus shipping from 92587. Specs: OXYGEN PROTON LENGTH: 185cm EFFECTIVE EDGE: 168cm NOSE WIDTH: 23.7cm WAIST WIDTH: 19.5cm TAIL WIDTH: 23.7cm SIDECUT: 16m BINDING POSITION: 2cm setback CAMBER: 1.1cm (measured 18 Jan)

Somebody paid $5000!!

I hope this board has sold because the temptation is hard to resist. I picked up a race stock Kessler 185 as a freecarve board at the end of last season and all I can say is "WOW." The quietness of the ride lets you carve aggressively in terrain and snow conditions that would have me putting on the brakes on my other boards. Plus, your legs last longer because they're not absorbing every bump and rut. A shorter board like this one would be a phenomenal ride on tighter trails.

Hi George, it was nice to meet you today. That Silberfiel looks like a fun board. Sorry we didn't get a chance to ride, we were pretty much done at that point. Hope to see you again, Blake

I can vouch for the sharks. My ridden-twice 4807 now has a lovely 3-inch core shot. I should have stayed with the herd.

D-Sub are you acting curmudgeonly again?

I did exactly the same thing.

Those dimensions look good. I'd add about 4 to 5mm of taper to help achieve your variable condition, powder and forgiveness design goals.

I clamp vices to the condo's balcony railing. I just have to be careful when pressing hard with the Wax Whizard so I don't accidently launch the board two stories down into our neighbor's yard.

A set of 4X4 disks should have been included with the bindings. If not, you still should have no trouble finding them though they won't have the rubbber padding on them the Cartel disks do.

That sounds like a great product. The only reason I don't listen to tunes on the slope is sound my be the last chance you get to avoid a collision with a straightliner. Those earphones sound like the best of both worlds. My Christmas list just got longer -Thanks!

If you are making your own spacers, make sure to round off the bottom edges of the spacer -otherwise you still have a sharp, 90 degree edge that can dimple the board.

And how do we treat them here? We should be giving people at the pinnacle of performance in this sport respect -both for their skill and their contribution the sport. I can't imagine a surfing forum where Andy Irons would be flamed when trying to sell a couple of his competition boards because his internet etiquette was not as polished as somebody who spends all day, everyday online. Racers, fighter pilots, Special Forces guys and other competitors in endeavors of consequence tend to be a little more aggressive, less patient and less concerned when people get upset about "little things." For snowboarding, racers are the guys who proved in competion that Titanal makes boards more controllable, and thus faster, in imperfect conditions and that taper gives you more line options. Marketing hyp doesn't win races, real technological improvement does and we all benefit from the results of these guys' effort. It is funny watching minor wry barbs BLOWN INTO GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR CONFLAGRATION :flamethro but I think it hurts the sport overall because it separates us from the people we could learn the most about carving from.

X 2 on the 168W. Great board.

There was an article in Transworld Snowboarding in 2006 that had a review of the Half Gun. The pros praised it for off piste/powder, as a I recall.

I have the same Snow Summit/Bear Mtn pass -good deal!

It is more like sitting in a refrigerated shipping container surrounded by 11 computer screens with a stick, throttle, 2 keyboards, 2 trackballs, 3 radios and 2 phones. The long delay between control input and flight control activation because of the satellite link takes some getting used to. The airplane itself is about the same dimensions as an F-16 sideways with Schweitzer-glider style wings, a laser target designator and Hellfire missiles. Everyday you have to be on your A-game because it is for real, but "slipping the surly bounds and touching the face of God" it definitely is not.