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Season has now been ended in Austria due to to Covid19. Guess I will get some use out off my snow shoes.

The goggles rarely fog, the glasses do, especially if you ever lift the goggles, letting the glasses cool down. Given that SCOTT Unlimited II OTG LS works for me.

The nuts you hyperlinked are binding parts (part of the F2 baseplate-slider interface). This thread is about the T-nuts inside the boot, keeping the intec heel in place. Afaik the latter do not break regularily, I do not think they are available as F2 replacement part, but the F2-heel comes with both screws and (heel-) t-nuts

Thought this sounded absurdely cheap. Afaict the street prices More like €350/€500.

I would be quite surprised if mountain slope had not talked with Northwave and closed some kind of deal (be it "Fine, just hand over $$" or "Okay, here is a free sub-license") before they started the big investments.

I think any open-jaw wrench should work.

Afaik Titanium and Titanflex use different center disks (Titanal for the Titanium, stainless steel for Titanflex), so I would expect the Titanflex to be quite a bit heavier.

What usually breaks on F2's is not made of plastic. it's the insert nuts that hold the screws which connect toe/heel piece with base-plate. (Especially for Intec, with heel lift). Or the bails, of course, as with every snowboard binding.

Afaict there is a version with fixed bits ("Fix It Sticks Originals - with permanently installed steel bits") and one with exchangeable bits ("Fix It Sticks Replaceable Edition"). But the replaceable edition seems to be somehow the worst of two worlds, less compact than other tools but still with lots of pieces that are easy to lose.

These look great, but hex what is not what I would be needing. If there was a Pozidriv ( for F2)/Torx (UPZ) combination available.

Description of the types would be here: https://palau-ski-boot-liners.com/fitting-guide/?lang=en if one read French. Alpine Classic has tongue design. Looking at the images the Dual fit seems to be a cross between a classic (non-thermo) boot and a fully-moldable liner, featuring a rigid other layer and moldable interior. The Power Fit basically consist entirely of moldable foam apart from the pad at the shin. "mid size pad" is softer than "large size pad". I have been using Power fit/mid size pad (That is "Alpin Thermo Liner Soft" on carversparadise) in RC8 for about a season, and the combination works well for me. Imho tongue designs do not work well for snow boarding since lateral pressure moves the tongue to the side.

Have switched to BootDoc Stability 7 with Palau Liners recently. 50% success.They work quite well on my right foot. ;-)

Tooltonic roto finish

2007 or 2008. Iirc the speed was the predecessor of the "SG Carve". BTW technical data (lenght, radius, etc.) should be printed on the board, you'll need good light to read it, though, reflective grey on nonreflective grey. (The 173 variant has 13m radius.)

The CDN$880 is before taxes as far as I understand it, while the EUR 850 quoted for PB *includes* 19 percent VAT (=EUR 136). And I guess the higher shipping costs from Canada to Europe might sum to up more than the remaining difference.

... raises hand. Pure Boarding Black Diamond 162 (b 39° /f 51°). (It is not the only wider board around, see e.g. BX boards (Völkl Coal Race) or the SG Cult.)

The decrease of snowboaders' "market-share might also be related to improvements in ski technology. Modern material (carving skis) seems to be a lot easier to ride fespecially for beginners, and people seem to be able to go off-slope in unfavorable conditions (heavy wet snow, etc.).

Just to add some numbers. According to F2 the specs of Eliminator WC/Proto differ from Eliminator and Eliminator WC, the former have a bigger radius:

Are your bindings perhaps set up for small boots currently? In that case reverting https://bomberonline.3dcartstores.com/assets/images/PDFs/TD3FittingtoSmallBoots.pdf would help. hth, cu Andreas

I totally agree with your first statement. However the second one does not ring true. To strap on the leash, one lays down the board upside down (bindings in snow) while holding the leash. Unless you are on very steep hill (not very common straight after leaving the lift) the board is now in stable position. You can now fasten the leash whithout needing to stand on one foot or some other slightly athletically challenging maneuver. OTOH stepping into the binding involves inherently less stable positioning. The snowboard's business side is on the snow, ready to run and the rider is balancing on one foot.

25 days (starting December 21st, ending March 31st), 228588 meters of altitude, 516 runs. Winter started late this year but we had loads of snow here (west of Austria), the season was a little bit short (I usually average at about 30 days), as the weather in April sucked and ski lifts have closed the weekend after easter. Howvever in hindsight I am quite happy: It was a real winter (175cm of snow at home, over 4m in the mountains) and I had no injuries.

Yes, I bought them in autumn. I have only ridden them once yet, and therefore cannot give any long-term, qualified review. An addendum for current UPZ+Intec: While built-in the T-Nuts seem to work perfectly well, the Torx-screws which hold the regular heels do not fit Intecs, the heads are too wide. That is no problem though, since Intec heels come with fitting screws. As 0815-fahrer already noted new Intec heels also ship with T-nuts.

They do come with T-nuts nowadays. (image shows this year's RC8.)

I do not know about carbon, but there was definitely no Titanal in any "regular" Full Race. Only Full Race T(itanal) and Full Race Pro Team are metal boards.