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On 3/7/2020 at 9:01 PM, 1xsculler said:
Preferably that don't fog. Smith, Oakley, or?
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.
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4 hours ago, wulf said:
Stiff F2 Intec Heels & rear bindings do provide a huge load on those T-Nuts. They are a bit "undersized" for that load case. Please check & replace them regularly as all the EU carvers do. There are Stainless-Steel ones available too. At least here in EU.
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
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On 12/5/2019 at 3:19 PM, Lifeform said:
Agree with others, great boots, tried them in store, if I return to HB it will be 1st on my list, price is even greater 150 eur normal and 260 eur carbon
Thought this sounded absurdely cheap. Afaict the street prices More like €350/€500.
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12 hours ago, bobdea said:
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I’m not sure how I feel about the blatant knock off aspect but on the other hand if they are good, northwave clearly has no interest in the IP or they’d of gone after mountain slope.
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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.
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I think any open-jaw wrench should work.
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4 hours ago, daveo said:
The foam pads (which add weight) and the different toe piece (which weighs less than the normal Ti's toe piece).
I've actually got those foam pads here. I'll weigh them if I can find a scale.
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.
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31 minutes ago, Kneel said:
I think you made the right choice going from the RS to the Titanflex.
I've used my son's RS plenty of times without issue and if Sean says no worries I would value his opinion. HOWEVER, I just prefer the metal baseplate over the plastic RS. Just added piece of mind I guess. I wish the CNC toe bails were readily available for the F2 then I would be set, otherwise I'm swapping out the plastic ones every 3 years. Whether it's warranted or not, just piece of mind...
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.
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On 12/13/2018 at 6:38 PM, daveo said:
The bits are removable and replaceable...
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.
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On 12/10/2018 at 9:10 AM, pokkis said:
I prefer these, easy to keep in pocket on slopes
These look great, but hex what is not what I would be needing. If there was a Pozidriv ( for F2)/Torx (UPZ) combination available.
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6 hours ago, Kmf said:
Can anyone help with the descriptions for the Palau liner models.? Their website only has descriptions in French. The choices seem to be Alpine Classic, Dual Fit or Power Fit for snowboard boots.
I can’t tell if there’s a difference in thickness or stiffness in the liners. Also, what is meant by “dual fit”?
I need some need liners and trying to get a list of options for my AT8’s
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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.
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14 hours ago, digger jr said:
Has anyone gotten some non custom footbeds? I’ve seen more of them advertised lately and they seem to have different arch height ect. Not trying to diss custom beds as I have them myself and won’t go back. Working with some newbs and when I tell them they should get close to $200.00 foot beds they give me a funny look ?.
Have switched to BootDoc Stability 7 with Palau Liners recently. 50% success.They work quite well on my right foot. ;-)
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Tooltonic roto finish
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1 hour ago, Domino said:
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Btw any idea how old it may be? 200x?
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.)
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6 hours ago, Neil Gendzwill said:
Coiler's prices start at $CDN880, about €620. For that price once you pick the basic design you choose length, width, nose shape, tail shape, plus side-cut and taper (from a few choices), with flex built to your weight and riding style. Custom topsheet is another $30 if you provide the graphic. If you want a completely custom shape he can do it too but I'm not sure why you'd need to.
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.
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2 hours ago, WinterGold said:
How many of you can mount their backfoot bindings on their boards at 45 degrees and have no bootout?
... 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.)
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I think it's the coolest thing to do on snow but, obviously, not everyone feels that way. Why do you think that is?
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.).
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Ditto.
Had a F2 Eliminator WC 164 and its characteristics are just what slopestar said.
Don't give up on it yet. Eliminator is a quiet carving friendly board which you can ride with soft or hard boots. Checkout this post to ride with others. I'm coming up tonight.
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:
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[TD3] Tried adjusting for boot length, but my boots appear to be too long? wtf? I went back and I don't see sizing options for ordering, so it's not like I got a small when I should have ordered a large. What am I doing wrong?
Both heel and toe screws are in the furthest holes, and I slid them as far out as possible. Still can't get the toe lever over my boot toe. Distance from heel to toe on boot is 32cm, but seems I can't get the binding to go beyond 30cm (maybe 32 when toe bail is lying down flat, but that's not helpful).
Raichle AF700TS. I know they're old, but entirely functional and don't feel like dropping another 500 to replace something that's completely fine.
Anybody else encounter this problem? Why didn't I know this when ordering the bindings?
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
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I think that the biggest risk of "runaway board" is when you're putting it on having got out of your lift. That risk is increased by fiddling about with leashes.
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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.
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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.
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Do you own a RC8?
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.
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Does anyone know the exact part numbers for the T nuts/bolts to attach intec compatable heels to upz boots? [...]
OR....Does anyone know why the hell they don't make them with T-nuts in the goddamned first place????!!!!
They do come with T-nuts nowadays. (image shows this year's RC8.)
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Thanks for the input. So this has layers of carbonfiber? Is it titanal?
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.
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go to a ski / snowboard shop and buy the helmet that fits your head. I like Giro and POC, but there are a lot of decent helmets out there.
And bring your googles.
End of season blues
in Carving Central
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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.