Popular Post Jack M Posted March 30, 2018 Popular Post Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Please bear with us as avatars and images continue to migrate from the old forum. Feel free to update your avatar manually if you don't want to wait. Please also see the new Mission Statement in the pinned rules post. Thanks!! 8 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kirk Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Thanks for making stuff happen Jack. dave 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.oldsnowboards.com Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Thanks Fin and Jack for keeping the community alive and well!!! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_s Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Wow, look forward (sorta) to hearing what this means for BOL, the business. @Jack Michaud, are you seeking or accepting financial contributions to keep the servers humming? Let us know if so (now, or some future time) - I suspect you'll find a log of willing 'helpers'. Thanks for keeping this all alive!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack M Posted March 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 29 minutes ago, jim_s said: Wow, look forward (sorta) to hearing what this means for BOL, the business. @Jack Michaud, are you seeking or accepting financial contributions to keep the servers humming? Let us know if so (now, or some future time) - I suspect you'll find a log of willing 'helpers'. Thanks for keeping this all alive!! Thanks Jim. Watch for changes in the days ahead for how members can support the site. At the moment I am paying out of pocket. The plan is for ASB to become self-sustaining, and to also financially support USASA and USSRT. Stay tuned! 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buell Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Thanks Jack! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_s Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Its a tiny, minor thing, but once the dust settles and you can breathe again, and you get an idea of a logo, and maybe some funding (you could treat it like a funding goal - reach $XXXX.XX, and we get a favicon!), it'd be awesome to have a favicon set, so the ASB browser tab sticks out for those of us who have ridiculous numbers of tabs open at any one time, but feel the need to compulsively check ASB for the latest posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slabber Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Happy to be logged in. Thanks for smooth transition! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueB Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Thanks Jack and Fin! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barryj Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Thanks Jack and Fin!! Happy .... and sad to be here! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhD Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Well - getting over here was technically easy but emotionally difficult. Thanks to Jack, Fin and anyone else who helped! I may have missed a few recent posts somewhere, but I am wondering what are the prospects for someone taking on the manufacture of Bomber gear and parts. My TD3's are pretty tough and might outlive me without any more parts, but FinTec heels need treads and cables now and then. I have parts to convert one pair to standard, but getting clipped into those after lunch is not something I'm looking forward to. Has anyone used Intec heels and receivers on TD3's? I found Intecs a little dainty compared to the TD2/3, but I was rather klutzier then. Is there any stock of TD parts extant that someone might acquire and make a little business out of selling to the community? Have any of the other retailers in the business been showing any interest in handling parts? Is there any prospect of licensing the designs (and tooling) and having the wearing parts manufactured? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjnakata Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Thank you Fin and Jack for your many efforts in keeping this group of extraordinary enthusiasts together. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoroSnow Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Fin, Jack and others who moved theirselves to keep all this alive, thanks, thanks, and many thanks. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nils Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Thnx guys! we all know the hassle it is to maintain such places online...and how important it is for our community. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcousticBoarder Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Words cannot express how thankful I am that we are working to keep the community alive. Thank you Jack and Fin and everyone else who have helped keep us afloat. Very smooth forum transition so far, and it is nice to have the forums where they are not dependant on bomber. Does anyone have any light to shed on what this means exactly for the business as well as manufacturing of bomber? I too am crossing my fingers that it is transfered to a new or existing company. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smaynard Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Thanks Jack & Fin! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patmoore Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 I'll echo all the comments above. This community has been a wealth of information for many years and I'm grateful it will continue to be a valuable resource. Thanks Fin and Jack! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corey Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Sad day for Bomber, but also a new beginning. Thanks Jack for the dedication! Bomber saved snowboarding for me, as I was about to quit altogether. I've learned so much from the community and met countless good people that I wouldn't have otherwise. Thanks to Fin for having the vision to set it all up so many years ago. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redia Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 (edited) Merci Jack et Fin De garder le site en vie et toute c’est archive qui est très important Edited March 30, 2018 by redia 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boardguru Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Thank you Fin and Jack for keeping the stoke alive! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surf Quebec Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Merci Jack et Fin ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack M Posted March 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 12 hours ago, jim_s said: it'd be awesome to have a favicon Done. Thanks everyone for your support, it means a lot. Also please bear with me, as I also have a full time job (believe it or not) which is not ASB. So I'm learning Wordpress on the fly here for the main site, and handling things in spare time. Big thanks to @Corey for staying on as moderator, and please welcome @GeoffV and @Mellow Yellow as your new moderators. Thanks guys! They have been around BOL for longer than I can remember. Thank you also to Bryan (@www.oldsnowboards.com) for your service as moderator these past 5 years. Bryan is stepping down to manage his several groups and pages on Facebook, including Alpine Snowboard Trader. Good luck Bryan! While this does appear to be the end of the trail for Bomber and the bindings, the silver lining is that now we have an opportunity to have a carving community not connected to any manufacturer or vendor. I think this could turn into something special, especially if we can support USASA and USSRT. I believe youth racing is what will keep this sport alive. As we can see in the demographics poll, the population of enthusiast freecarvers is aging. Thanks again! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_s Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 55 minutes ago, Jack Michaud said: Also please bear with me, as I also have a full time job (believe it or not) which is not ASB. So I'm learning Wordpress on the fly here for the main site, and handling things in spare time. Don't thrash yourself all at once, @Jack Michaud - stretch the pain out slowly over the long-haul - its better for you, and all of us! And seriously, let us know if, when and how we can help. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poloturbo Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Thanks guy's Like the sound of ASB!!! ? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcousticBoarder Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Just a thought atleast for a good while... Might want to buy/ keep the domain name alive for bomberonline.com and forums.bomberonline.com with redirects here (no actual page needed) Can we also keep all of the resources from bomber website including pictures and names of parts, etc? Even though catek is gone it is nice being able to look information up still. For that matter (not now but down the road) it would actually be nice to see the ASB site become an updated carvers almanac with information on other brands as well. Just thinking out loud. I am sure you could get help from us when the time came. Very sad to hear it is likely the end for the bomber products too. I am curious now as to the legalities and possibilities of releasing detailed specs and information to us on the parts and bindings. I think it would be amazing to see from the ashes of this like an open source binding project, perhaps a way to maintain parts for existing bindings too. In my opinion, while the TD3 was not perfect, it made huge strides in improvement over most other alpine bindings out there that seem to use the same or similar mold of the f2. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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