bobdea Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 K-mart, mangled fingers, mangled exhaust, softboots and willywhit yeah, it was a long day! so willyqhit takes the comuter rail out close to me, on the way to pick him up I manage to mangle my thumb we commence on the drive to killington(K-mart!) at some point I lose the key to my car, thats rough! we ride the bumps of early season killington, the tanker 177 handles them nicely but it's certainly no donek on ice still a rippin' board though. Today was crazy, it was for some reason about two to one with asain folks, they must of had some sort of trip up there, felt like I was in korea. Talked to a mighty pretty thai girl for a awhile, other than the snowboarding that was the highlight of my day. as we are leaving my exhaust busts off from the catalytic converter, we limp to the nearest gas station. the guy there finds some coat hangers, as I am wiring it up I cut my pinky, ****! so we procede to drive back to MA with the world's loudest ford aspire, Bill nearly misses the last commuter rail back to boston. a long day indeed Pics to follow. YES! I was riding softies! __________________ so the total damage for the day was a exhaust, two fingers, my spare car key and $20 in gas, I love compact cars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubba Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 Sounds like it is time for a beer or 10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdea Posted November 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 I gotta say, I'm impressed with the tanker 177, one of the finest wide freeriders I've been on, nothing like the 200, not at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiveBomber Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 must have caught some of LittleWillies Karma :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdea Posted November 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 (insert smackdown here) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeW Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 Sounds like Murphy's Law, bobdea. I had one yesterday too. I was out in snowmaking, and the water discharged a massive air pressure (its not supposed to), and the snowgun shot out like a serious whiplash and nearly killed my co-worker. And then when I got to race training, I had nasty shin bangs. -sigh- I hate those days. But yesterday when I was headin' home to Vail from Copper, saw a thin slit of the moon. I sincerely believe new moon's coming, and I usually have murphy's law happenin' during new moon. Jeez. Bobdea, Ill drink beer for ya and myself when Im done with race training today and when I get home to Grand Junction for a night to do my laundry and fix up my husqvarna dirt bike (needs new ring on my piston). Corona's my type of beer. Hope things will go better for you, bobdea (and me!). EDIT: Not to mention I passed out yesterday with my contact lenses on. #@!&. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdea Posted November 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 bad, I went snowboarding it was nothing that I would consider bad at all just inconviniance after inconviniance what would of sucked would have been losing my only car key or something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willywhit Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 Ya really gotta love to snowboard to rally up like bob and I did yesterday.Bob's new little Ford jitney isn't the fastest rig out there but she did get us up there and back. Bob forgot the part about getting to Killington and parking in the first parking lot,wow, it isn't crowded at all. We can see the gondi running way off in the distance, sweet. We boot up and head for the chair.....as we approach the...chair..it's the bunny hill. DOH ! Bob's a cool guy...we just start laughing cuz it's not connected to the rest of the mountain. Boots off, back in the car, rally up a mile to the gondi. Riding was decent, not too crowded, definate Asian invasion and they're all stoked. It rained all day in Boston, Vermont looked like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willywhit Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 and Bob was rockin' the brandy new softy setup complete with Catek binders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdea Posted November 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 they came loose since when I tightened then it was like 90 degrees out that setup rocks though, the baby tanker is reccomended for anyone wanting a a wide freeride deck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullwings Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 sounds like a crazy day. but hell, you got to go boarding, which is awesome. still waiting here, although things are starting to look good weather wise. locals might start blowing snow. btw, are those cateks FR1s or FR2s?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djlepper Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 Bullwings, Yeah. Bear area is supposed get the first snow monday, plus temps are droping at night so there is hope!:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willywhit Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 we missed the big bum rush http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1617839043918404047 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_roboteye Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 pardon me, but is all the snow in the pics from snowmaking? I assume it is because it doesn't look like there is much in the trees, right? I've never been boarding / skiing out east. Judging by the width of the runs, I can see why 185 GS boards are a bit of overkill. later, Dave R. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ-PS Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 Dude sorry about the mangled fingers and car issues, if it wasn't for the fact that you got to snowboard that would've been a bad day. I laughed when you called the 177 a Baby Tanker, any place but Bomber and that would have received some serious chatter. You're right it's not the 200, but definitely has it's place in the quiver. Looking forward to more war stories, take care. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willywhit Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 btw, Bob did mangle his thumb pretty good getting all aggro with the gas pump. It was a bloody stump when I met him at the train. HIGH FAIVE ! whoa, dude what happened ? left the house at 6:30am(looks like rain) got home at 11:00 pm(tons of rain)-but well worth it getting that first day behind us, still kinda sore. The snow IS all manmade but it was so warm it was fairly soft. Considering how warm it's been, they laid down enuf to make it fun and it was all ADVANCED terrain up top so plenty of carnage, patrol was busy with sleds and banged up newbies. people were walking down with thier rental skiis. Rutabag Bob and his 36 MPG jitney GOT 'Er Done. Good thing we never opened that bottle of whiskey in the back with the rutabagas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin A. Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 Good thing we never opened that bottle of whiskey in the back with the rutabagas. Rutabagas and whiskey? Bob, there has to be a story about that somewhere? :lol: Seems to be a pretty interesting combination to be driving around with? Sounds good though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdea Posted November 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 are in there because I work on a farm, assistant gardener I am the bourbon is there because I can home with a bottle and I never took it out last night I took out my old wagon, my other car and there was a pumpkin in the back seat of that car RJ, the 177 really is great, I don't have use for a anything much bigger in the east because we have trees that are a hell of allot tighter than anything in the west I've see, for what I want to do it beats the pants off of most other wide freeride boards out there the way I would descibe it is take a burton canyon 173 or 181, fix all the problems with it and you have the tanker 177! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin A. Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 Rats. I was hoping for something better :( . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patmoore Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 I hauled out my Hot Shine 154 this morning and made a few cruising runs at Okemo. There's really only one trail open but it was less crowded than I expected. The season is finally here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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