Yard Sale

What can anyone tell me about this board? Year? Sidecut? Its waist is 18 cm and its sidecut is supposed to be small, like 9 m, but I'm skeptical after riding it. I picked it up cheap last night and I liked it today. I just want to know more about it.

There's an O.Sin 4807 currently at $410. And it's only a 168, not 178. http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=7212469686

I've got wide feet too (I also am in Salomon Synapse Wide softboots). I had my Head 26.5 hardboots widened twice and had to get Intuition liners. The shells were widened so much that they wouldn't fit in my Bomber bails and I had to file the shells. I am skeptical about the Deeluxes being wide. I couldn't even fit into a 27.

I use the middle (reference) inserts with both Flow and Bomber bindings.

Also, here's a link to a much bigger, professional studio picture: http://www.norskdesign.no/gfx/Large/radair.jpg

I went to the bootfitter yesterday and he ground a little on the footboard (not footbed). I rode today with zero foot pain.

1. My footbeds are custom and comfortable. 2. My rear binding angle usually is a few degrees less than the front. I just checked the Prior 4x4 I rode yesterday and the TD1s are at 37 and 29. (I rode my narrower board at much steeper angles with the same pain.) 3. The TD1 cant disk raises straight back so the amount of heel lift depends on the binding angle. Not a lot of angle (29), so not a lot of lift. It's very possible my foot isn't relaxed. In fact, on some hills my toes crunch up against the liners (26.2 foot, 26.5 Head shell, Alpine 8 Intuition liners) and I'm tensing or curling them to stop it. That could probably be cured by cranking down the main buckle to pull my heel back, but the #2 and #3 buckles caused pain when I tightened them.

I'm now in Intuition liners and the shells have been widened again but I've still got the same pain. My foot hurt like hell for hours after coming off the mountain. In fact, it still hurts a little nine hours later. It's a cramp-like kind of pain on the bottom outside of my foot, not a pressure point.

I'm also a total noob wannabe carver, six days in hardboots. Toesides easy, heelsides hard. Here's what is working for me: -sit down/squat -look and rotate -just tip the board over on its edge My last time out, on a soft setup, just agressively looking ahead and rotating put me into my best heelside carve ever.

What a coincidence, I just got Salomon Synapse Wides. I use them in large Flow Pro C-FR bindings, which are pretty nice. This combo on the LSD begs to be carved, even in the super-sloppy boots I was using before the Synapse. A couple things about the Flow: they are not as 'step-in' as they seem. Sometimes they are easy to get in/out of and sometimes they aren't. I've had a lot of trouble with them lifting the heel when closing the binding. On a recent wet powder (Sierra Cement) day, various pieces packed up with snow/ice and wouldn't let me adjust the tongue or close the lever. I'm not so sure you'd want to use Synapse Wides, Flows, or any soft setup on a Prior 4WD or Coiler AM, which are too narrow for softies at low angles. They are hardboot boards.

Another vote for the Rad-Air Reto Lamm LSD. I agree that it is awesome.

No, he's just using really extreme binding angles.

You Canadians are going to have to cough up a little more for shipping. Give me your postal codes and I'll check the rates.

The condition is indistinguishable from new. They don't fit my feet. Two runs on opening day, a few more a few days later, and I can't take the pain. $115 shipped UPS in the 48 states, with a free pair of Superfeet footbeds. PayPal (not credit card) preferred.

OK, I canted my right boot cuff outward. Hopefully that's the right direction for the problem I described.

It's a constant pressure on the outside edge of my foot from about the middle to the toe. It does kind of feel like it's rolling, but it's not. It's like standing on one foot, on the side of the foot.

I use Head Stratos Pros in TD1 step-ins and my feet hurt like hell. With widened shells and new Sidas Conform'able footbeds, thing are better but my rear foot (right, regular) still hurts on the outside. I've got a 0 degree disk in front and a 3 in the rear. If I get a 6 will it lessen the pain from the outside of my foot getting forced against the boot shell?

There were five of us in hardboots at Mt. Rose today, and I think I saw a sixth. Not bad for a weekday, eh? If you are staying close to Rose, it seems a no-brainer, but I guess a good deal would make you drive farther. skirose.com shows their deals.

OK, how about recommending a specific "nice wide set of footbeds?" The bootfitter showed me some cu$tom cork ones, but at that price I'll just try a pair of Salomon Synapse Wide. Anybody wanna buy a pair of Malamutes? Only used for 6000 vertical feet. Gleb, my hardboots are getting widened overnight. Must be a different machine.

My hardboots are at the shop getting widened. The bootfitter said he couldn't widen my softboots.

My new Head Stratos Pros hurt like hell today, too. Removing the Superfeet helped (but of course caused other problems). I got home and checked the Superfeet to other soles/footbeds of mine and the arches were way too close to the heels. I just had the shop pick the "right" Superfeet for me when I bought the Heads and when I had the Malamutes heat molded. I shoulda paid more attention.

Ski patroller to me while strapping into my O.Sin 4807 today at Mt. Rose: "Did you make that yourself?"

I rode my new Salomon Malamute boots for opening day and they killed me. Is there anything I can do to widen/stretch them? I got Superfeet beds. I had the liners heat-molded. They feel pretty good in my 66 degree house but I guess they shrink at the mountain temperature. I couldn't make it from the parking lot to the lift without loosening them. Then I had to take them off after the first run. Then I went home after the second run. Unbelievable pain like my feet were in vices. My feet are 26.2 cm long and these are mondo 27, just so I could fit the width. I tried on every imaginable soft boot and hardly any of them fit my feet. I'm committing to fitted hard boots for everything else but my powder board.

Elvis Day at Rose is on his birthday. They pipe his music through the speaker system. A bunch of employees dress up as The King, but not a lot of others. Which is a good thing.

I bought my Stratos Pros at RMS, had them thermo-fitted then, came back for an adjustment, and later a second adjustment, and never tipped. Bootfitting was part of the sale. I saw the actual bootfitter only once, when dropping off my boots for the second adjustment. I'm not about to tip in advance. I guess if I come back for additional adjustments, I'll consider tipping because I'm being a pain in the ass.