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Direct from the Utah Avalanche Center website: "Almost all avalanches occur on slopes between 35 and 45 degrees. Slopes less than 30 degrees seldom produce avalanches and slopes steeper than about 50 degrees sluff so often that they tend not to build up into slabs. So it's the intermediate slope steepness that produces most of the avalanches. But the bad news is that exactly the kind of slopes we like to ski, snowboard or snowmobile usually produce most of the avalanches. A black diamond slope at a ski resort is usually around 35 degrees--prime steepness for producing avalanches." Lots of good stuff here on thier FAQ page: Utah Avalanche Center FAQ

I'm calling Photoshop BS..... http://www.alta.com/pages/faq3.php#1 Search for Snowboarding on alta.com and you get a LOT of hits. (All of them telling you that Snowboarding is NOT allowed.)

You will be able to get the correct length (20mm) from McMaster, but they will be 4mm hex, not 5mm hex. 4mm is the standard size hex size for M6 flat-head hex screws Fin had all of the 5mm hex screws that come with the TD2 custom made. At least that's what he said in THIS thread. Sooooo.... Fin, it's been a couple of years since you said NOT to hold out for 5mm hex heads for the suspension kits. Have you changed your mind yet? You know we all want them. You could even gouge us big time, and we'd still buy them. ;)

Fin, let's hear the speech on your Patented "Gas Pedal" setup.... (I'm a proponent of it BTW...)

Since it's the first significant snowfall of the season, conditions still SUCK. I rode today for a few hours. 2 runs open with THOUSANDS of GAPERS. 2 people out of the group I was riding with got nailed by the same idiot on different runs. (No major damage done, luckily...) Give it a few more storms and it might be worth it......

OK, when you put it that way, it sounds more interesting to me. I won't be getting a momo-cycle anytime soon, but a speed board could be fairly attainable... Pads, helmet, knee-sliding all taken care of. I skated ramps for a while in the ealry 90's, so knee-sliding is second nature to me too. Can't wait to hang out with all the little kick-flippers in their girly-pants, me fully padded with helmet and slide gloves on my "big" board....... It's almost there, these were taken a month and a half ago. They're done with the 'crete now, all they gotta do is finish the fence. (Just in time for some snow....):

Maybe a Tanker 192 would work better at Nashoba? :rolleyes: FYI, when you say something about using Indys for DH, and I come back and say "Maguns for me thanks...." I'm yankin' yer chain.... I don't know if you noticed, but my skate quiver is pretty much built around emulating carving on snow in one form or another. The only exception is a couple pool / park setups that I just happened to get for cheap and on trades. They're building a new park near me also (whish I could volunteer to help....) and I'd like to spend some time there when it's done, so we'll see what happens. My quiver doesn't contain a DH board, and probably never will. It looks fun, but I don't think I'll ever have the time or the $ to get into it, unless one of my kids decides that hill bombing on a skateboard is cool, then the old fart will be right there with them (but highly unlikely that I'll ever have a set of uber-dh truks...)

Your opinions are fine. I'm probably just jealous that you seem to have an opinion on EVERYTHING mentioned in the "Summer Carving" forum. :o But when you say "I heard this..." or "I read that..." those are someone else's opinions.

I bow to your vast skateboarding knowledge. You know way more than I or anyone else on BOL will ever know about skateboards. You've been skating longer than all of us, have more skateboards than all of us, and are more passionate about skateboarding than all of us. Let me know how the new GOG TS prototypes work after you've tried them out. (Or READ about them.....) Now where is my credit card. I gotta go order me those gold plated Maguns, along with the that custom Carbon-Fiber-Foam-Core-Titanal demonseed. Oh, and the reflex formula 130mm Flywheels too.

Sorry xx. I was in kind of a bad mood last night when I posted that, and I shouldn't have included you. Your opinions in this thread have been very informative.

Gecko and XX, Ya'll are both right. I've got no right to say anything about any of those skateboard-type things. I'm just a dumb-@ss BOL fruit-boot snowboard guy. After all, I ride a Dervish with Bears... What a joke! All of my skateboard-thingys will be for sale on Fee-bay soon. I'm gonna get me a popsicle-stick (with Indys) and practice my kick-flips. Sorry for intruding on your forum here.

I didn't say that reverse kingpin trucks were better, I said they were inherently more stable. If Indy's are more stable than reverse kingping trucks, and so great for DH and speed, why aren't more pros running them? Hmmmm. My Bears turn just fine below 30. How many times have you ridden Bears?

When I say technology changed / improved I'm talking about any reverse kingping truck, not just uber-trucks. Bears, Randals, Gullwing chargers, Force, Holey, (insert your favorite reverse kingping truck here)....... They're all inherently more stable at speed than indy-style trucks.

There was a time when everybody used asymetrical snowboards for racing and carving because that's all there was. Then technology changed / improved.

Maguns for me thanks....

Carvestik, with some cutouts to avoid wheelbite. The trucks are also carvestik. Similar to seismics, or probably more similar to mountainboard trucks.

I have one in my basement. Oh, you're looking to buy one? I believe Billy Bordy still has one that he'd sell you, but I'm not positive. Hit him up through his profile....

It's for riding...... Just kidding. I had an extra pair of Randals sitting around, and came across an SMA Mark Jonses pool board for cheap, so I threw it together. I don't really like the old-school Zorlac on the far end (Another cheap deck I couldn't pass up) so eventually it will probably become a clock, and the Indy's will end up on the SMA. Or maybe I'll try the Randal front, Indy rear that some of the pool / park guys are running. I've ridden slalom sticks, carve boards and loaded boards too much lately and preffer a board that actually turns over the straight unwedged indys. Maybe when the park a few blocks from my house opens up, I'll learn to like plain old Indys again.....

Quiver? Did somebody say Quiver?

Yeah, the forum on hardbooter.com is gone. It wasn't getting a lot of traffic (except for the porn spammers ) Most all of the old articles are accessible now, along with a few new ones, and we're slowly getting photos on the gallery also...

The more I ride mine, the more I like it... I guess I enjoy a little variety. I ride everything from old-school pool / park sticks, to slalom / GS sticks to Carveboards, to Loaded boards..... The dervish is now officially my 7-year-old's favorite skateboard too. He's decided it's even cooler than the 6-wheel GS Board...

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It's all you'll be riding 'cause of lack of snow? Aren't you glad I "talked" you guys into getting one for the demo fleet? Oh, and since you rode both flexes, which one did you preffer? (Billy got to ride MY new Dervish before I did.... But it's all good :p )

[Rant On] Don't any of you young-'uns remember back in the old days when terrain parks didn't exist? And the ski patrol would trash any "jumps" that were built? Even the little two-foot-to-pancake-flat-landing-kickers that the damn moon-boot wearing knuckle-dragers would build? As has already been mentioned in this thread, I'm also amazed that trauma parks continue to exist.... There's a constant buzz in the industry about liablity and terrain parks nowa-days. It doesn't surprise me at all that jumps are being removed. Kinda funny though. Guess it's not a terrain park anymore with no terrain. Maybe a "Rail Park"? Gaps. Huge, Gnarly Gaps. (Not that I hit any of them any more. (Where's the whimpy Old Guy Smiley?)) Oh, and another thing. A HUGE percentage of your lift-ticket price actually goes to liablity insurance for the resort. I don't remember the exact figure, but I heard it one time and it was amazing..... [/Rant Off]

[THREADJACK] (kinda, but not really. I thought I was originally posting in the "Racers are people too" thread.) DLR looks like such a flamer now... (Not that there's anything wrong with that) Whish I could see them again too. My wife laughs and says "Are they still alive?" any time I mention anyone like VH, Rush or anyone from that era.... Ah, the good ol' days when you had to scrimp and save for a $20 - $30 ticket... And Bordy, your "VH" symbol on your vest is all screwed up. ;) Ya shoulda had me draw it. We could have coppied it from my "VH" jack-o-lantern from last haloween.... [/THREADJACK]