daveo Posted March 29, 2021 Report Share Posted March 29, 2021 (edited) On 3/21/2021 at 8:34 AM, Q's said: You wanna get nuts...let’s get nuts! Just in case you thought this fell on deaf ears...... On 3/21/2021 at 12:21 PM, SunSurfer said: Probably T4, as Bruce had a limited T3 supply and was saving it for smaller riders. If I had a Contra made, I would want it to be the All Terrain version for crappy conditions and made out of T3 to be more forgiving Just saying ... if ... Edited March 29, 2021 by daveo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quentin Posted March 31, 2021 Report Share Posted March 31, 2021 On 3/29/2021 at 3:51 AM, daveo said: Just in case you thought this fell on deaf ears...... If I had a Contra made, I would want it to be the All Terrain version for crappy conditions and made out of T3 to be more forgiving Just saying ... if ... Hilarious- love that you got this Daveo! Definitely miss my Seinfeld! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveo Posted March 31, 2021 Report Share Posted March 31, 2021 26 minutes ago, Q's said: Hilarious- love that you got this Daveo! Definitely miss my Seinfeld! Legends never die! I still watch it reasonably frequently. Love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dredman Posted April 7, 2021 Report Share Posted April 7, 2021 Just arrived! Winterstick 170 Montucky! P-Tex top sheet, titanal, rubber and carbon yum! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunslinger65 Posted April 7, 2021 Report Share Posted April 7, 2021 Beautiful!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveo Posted April 7, 2021 Report Share Posted April 7, 2021 9 hours ago, dredman said: Just arrived! Winterstick 170 Montucky! P-Tex top sheet, titanal, rubber and carbon yum! What's the sidecut like on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shred Gruumer Posted April 7, 2021 Report Share Posted April 7, 2021 (edited) 20 hours ago, dredman said: Just arrived! Winterstick 170 Montucky! P-Tex top sheet, titanal, rubber and carbon yum! What weight is it made for... Bahahaaa Edited April 7, 2021 by Shred Gruumer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dredman Posted April 8, 2021 Report Share Posted April 8, 2021 13 hours ago, daveo said: What's the sidecut like on this? Magical. 11ish. Rides like a cross between a K168 and a Contra. Really good ride. Winterstick really does carving well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveo Posted April 8, 2021 Report Share Posted April 8, 2021 5 minutes ago, dredman said: Magical. 11ish. Rides like a cross between a K168 and a Contra. Really good ride. Winterstick really does carving well. Sounds cool. I had a k168 from 2014 so I guess I have a vibe for it. Really love that Winterstick logo for some reason. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kirk Posted April 9, 2021 Report Share Posted April 9, 2021 This began as a bit of an experiment about a year ago. I’d been riding a RadAir Tanker 187 as my everyday all terrain board and while I liked it I wanted something a little less twitchy and more damp. On deep days the 187 was really fun but with an 11m radius it really prefers to be carved on groomers at a low speed. It also isn’t stiff enough torsionally to hook up on firm groomer very well. So I went on a search fo a more damp board with a longer radius that would be happier at higher speeds, be comfortable at steep edge angles, carve steep groomers well enough to be fun and deal with a moderate powder day (leaving deep days for the Tanker 200). I started looking at the Oxess boarder cross boards and found a used 169 with the stock 17m radius here on the forum. I rode it all of this past year and it’s shockingly good. It does most everything I hoped it would do very well including 8-10” powder days. It’s so much fun to float on the fresh pow and then hit the groomer and dig some serious trenches on the same run….all at a highish speed. Really fun. Toward the end of the season I was thinking that having a board with a slightly shorter radius….say about 14.5 m….might be ideal. The 17m Oxess ran a bit long for some of the trails I frequent and carving it tight was a bit more work than need be. So I contacted Oxess and asked if they could build me the 169 boarder cross board but with a 14.5 m radius. The answer was yes and with a stimulus check in hand I placed the order. This new board is the result. I placed the order about 5 weeks before our season was to end and Marcel at Oxess said he’d need about 3 weeks to build the board. Awesome…I’d get to ride it before Bridger Bowl closed for the season. Marcel shipped the board ahead of schedule and then Fed Ex took SO long to get it here. It went from Oxess to Paris in a day and then it spent a week at the Paris airport. It then went from Paris to Indianapolis IN where it stopped again for another week. I have no idea why. In the end it was delivered 2 days after Bridger closed. So I’ve not gotten to ride it. If Big Sky gets some good conditions in the next few weeks I might head there but spring conditions are not my favorite so it might sit on the shelf until next year. It sure looks like it will be fun. Dave 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnasmo Posted April 9, 2021 Report Share Posted April 9, 2021 Final week for Big Sky. Should be half a dozen of us hardbooters there next weekend. Friday and Saturday for sure, maybe Sunday too. April 16, 17, 18. https://forums.alpinesnowboarder.com/topic/51458-closing-weekend-shenanigans-bigsky/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kirk Posted April 10, 2021 Report Share Posted April 10, 2021 19 minutes ago, johnasmo said: Final week for Big Sky. Should be half a dozen of us hardbooters there next weekend. Friday and Saturday for sure, maybe Sunday too. April 16, 17, 18. https://forums.alpinesnowboarder.com/topic/51458-closing-weekend-shenanigans-bigsky/ I'll keep that in mind....if the weather turns more winter-like that could be fun. If it stays springish I'll be racing my autocross car. Tough choices! dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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David Kirk Posted April 13, 2021 Report Share Posted April 13, 2021 On 4/9/2021 at 1:12 PM, David Kirk said: This began as a bit of an experiment about a year ago. I’d been riding a RadAir Tanker 187 as my everyday all terrain board and while I liked it I wanted something a little less twitchy and more damp. On deep days the 187 was really fun but with an 11m radius it really prefers to be carved on groomers at a low speed. It also isn’t stiff enough torsionally to hook up on firm groomer very well. So I went on a search fo a more damp board with a longer radius that would be happier at higher speeds, be comfortable at steep edge angles, carve steep groomers well enough to be fun and deal with a moderate powder day (leaving deep days for the Tanker 200). I started looking at the Oxess boarder cross boards and found a used 169 with the stock 17m radius here on the forum. I rode it all of this past year and it’s shockingly good. It does most everything I hoped it would do very well including 8-10” powder days. It’s so much fun to float on the fresh pow and then hit the groomer and dig some serious trenches on the same run….all at a highish speed. Really fun. Toward the end of the season I was thinking that having a board with a slightly shorter radius….say about 14.5 m….might be ideal. The 17m Oxess ran a bit long for some of the trails I frequent and carving it tight was a bit more work than need be. So I contacted Oxess and asked if they could build me the 169 boarder cross board but with a 14.5 m radius. The answer was yes and with a stimulus check in hand I placed the order. This new board is the result. I placed the order about 5 weeks before our season was to end and Marcel at Oxess said he’d need about 3 weeks to build the board. Awesome…I’d get to ride it before Bridger Bowl closed for the season. Marcel shipped the board ahead of schedule and then Fed Ex took SO long to get it here. It went from Oxess to Paris in a day and then it spent a week at the Paris airport. It then went from Paris to Indianapolis IN where it stopped again for another week. I have no idea why. In the end it was delivered 2 days after Bridger closed. So I’ve not gotten to ride it. If Big Sky gets some good conditions in the next few weeks I might head there but spring conditions are not my favorite so it might sit on the shelf until next year. It sure looks like it will be fun. Dave So….a bit of a follow up - I had a chance to spend most of the day today riding the new Oxess at Big Sky. The conditions were anything but springlike with a bit of sun here and there and temps in the upper teens. The off-groomed was not good with coral reef under a few inches of fresh dust. But the groomers were pretty good if a bit firm. The board turned out awesome. The edge hold is staggering and you can dive in hard on it in nearly the same fashion as I can on my two Kesslers (slalom and GS) and it just slices and holds. The snow was super reactive and the board can be made to hook up in a big way and it just doesn’t fold up if you dive it harder than need be. It feels like a wide race board….which of course it is. I wish I could go back tomorrow but today the stars aligned and I was able to skip out on work while waiting for raw materials to show up. But I came home to them today and the rest of my week is going to be full on work. Whoever gets up to Big Sky this week will love the carving in the next few days as it warms up a bit. I really look forward to getting the new Oxess out in the fall and floating in the side pow and then digging trenches. dave 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveo Posted April 14, 2021 Report Share Posted April 14, 2021 @David Kirk Hey mate this board sounds great! I'm a big Oxess fan myself. Can I just ask, did you discuss with Marcel the powder performance you require and if there were any changes to the stock design to accommodate this? Just for my own curiosity and future reference. Did you consider getting a P1 hardboot version made instead of this? Or was this not a consideration? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunSurfer Posted April 14, 2021 Report Share Posted April 14, 2021 On 4/13/2021 at 3:49 PM, daveo said: Well it's for 21/22, but whatever. Arrived today. Like all my porn, it's black on black... If you were a dinkum Aussie it'd be green and yellow! Can't think of anywhere in particular where All Black is the favoured colour scheme. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveo Posted April 14, 2021 Report Share Posted April 14, 2021 45 minutes ago, SunSurfer said: If you were a dinkum Aussie it'd be green and yellow! Bloody fair dinkum moit! 45 minutes ago, SunSurfer said: Can't think of anywhere in particular where All Black is the favoured colour scheme. Haha this is great! Can't argue with that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kirk Posted April 14, 2021 Report Share Posted April 14, 2021 8 hours ago, daveo said: @David Kirk Hey mate this board sounds great! I'm a big Oxess fan myself. Can I just ask, did you discuss with Marcel the powder performance you require and if there were any changes to the stock design to accommodate this? Just for my own curiosity and future reference. Did you consider getting a P1 hardboot version made instead of this? Or was this not a consideration? Good morning - No....I told Marcel that I had a stock 169/17m board that I loved and that the only thing I'd change was making the radius a bit tighter and I asked for a 14.5m radius. I wanted to change as little as possible and just wanted the board to hook a tighter turn. Performance in moderate powder is easier to come by, IMHO, than making it hook up on a carved turn and I didn't want to compromise the carving performance for a small gain in soft snow. For sure this board will not be the one I grab when I wake up to see that the hill has 18" of fresh...but when there's 6" of new and the groomers are too soft to hard carve a GS/slalom board the new Oxess will be an easy choice. We have a lot of those days here and it's worth having something in the quiver for them. dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveo Posted April 14, 2021 Report Share Posted April 14, 2021 @David Kirkunderstood! Looks nice! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pokkis Posted April 23, 2021 Report Share Posted April 23, 2021 Black is new black 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveo Posted April 24, 2021 Report Share Posted April 24, 2021 (edited) New Crab Grab Shark Teeth stomp pad for 21/22. Keeping with the black on black theme. On 4/23/2021 at 11:51 PM, pokkis said: Black is new black Couldn't be more true. Edited April 25, 2021 by daveo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack M Posted April 25, 2021 Report Share Posted April 25, 2021 We’re on to 2022! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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