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  1. Toshi

    Toshi's thread

    To this end, the Mindbender 89Ti looks like it’d be fun for groomer days with my wife while not being confined to just that: https://blisterreview.com/gear-reviews/2022-2023-k2-mindbender-89ti And it’d be lighter for hiking uphill. I placed a bid on some Pivot 12s on eBay, too. (Sadly they’re...
  2. Toshi

    Alpine touring skis

    Soooooo many opinions. The anecdotes here re lack of safety on Tectons (!) are concerning. https://www.reddit.com/r/Backcountry/s/BbGjolw8h7 I should take Nick’s advice: - find some sufficiently different than current quiver 90-95 mm skis that I’d actually like to ski downhill on - eBay up...
  3. Toshi

    Alpine touring skis

    you can see why an arbitrary 3-axis system would appeal to my brain's desire to sort the world by this and that eh :)
  4. Toshi

    Alpine touring skis

    Moar readinz https://www.newschoolers.com/news/amp/52422 A good article in that they show tradeoffs (with arbitrary units admittedly) between three axes of weight, safety, downhill performance
  5. Toshi

    Alpine touring skis

    did you add moar shimz to raise up the toe to reduce the delta? from what I read here https://www.powder.com/gear-guide/review-moment-voyager-xv-evo-binding- the Moment-branded version of the ATK Freerider (integrated spacer, taller casting for toe to reduce delta to Look Pivot-like levels)...
  6. Toshi

    ***moandaze GMT***

    interesting. I'd been contemplating switching to ATT (or rather an ATT MVNO) from Verizon (actually Visible along the same lines).
  7. Toshi

    Are we witnessing the death of the Republican Party?

    is this a Mormon Magic Underwear or a KKK robe joke
  8. Toshi

    ***moandaze GMT***

    howdy all :wavingkitty.gif:
  9. Toshi

    Alpine touring skis

    only Shifts for you then?
  10. Toshi

    BOOOOOO E-BIKES

    Narrator: and this is how rideit ended up being banned from being within 1000 ft of elementary schools
  11. Toshi

    Alpine touring skis

    well, I figure you have a pair of skis with an example of every model of every manufacturer's binding in ye olde garage :D
  12. Toshi

    BOOOOOO E-BIKES

    /me wakes up you called? :D
  13. Toshi

    Alpine touring skis

    Are you guys on gapless tech bindings? https://skimo.co/zero-gap-tech-bindings Edit: the Cruise 10 is intriguing in particular: https://backcountrymagazine.com/gear/editors-choice-ski-bindings/
  14. Toshi

    ***Sundays GMT***

    Hello all are you dug out yet, @6thElement? /me needs to pack up our personal belongings in our various private closets at the mountain house. Our owners block on the calendar is ending as yesterday was the last week of Devo. then back to Denver for Peter and the Wolf at the symphony with the...
  15. Toshi

    Toshi's thread

    Made it out skiing for the afternoon. First with just my wife and Baby Aya then the whole crew. videos on the bookface if bored
  16. Toshi

    Saturday <insert emojis here>

    My day thus far
  17. Toshi

    Saturday <insert emojis here>

    one upside of Baby Aya puking in the bunk room a few minutes ago is that while we clearly had to strip the bed and throw all that in the washing machine, we didn’t have to remake it. just shifted her to another already made bunk, and shifted Yuna before the whole cleanup process begun across the...
  18. Toshi

    Friderpittyderpday

    Chilled. Then up to mountains last evening because last week of comp center programs for the big kids, plus last days of our owners’ block on the house so we have to pack away our stuff and lock it up
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    turdsday gfmt

    My mom has a story where she had a ball of wax fall out of her ear while riding the Tokyo subway as a teen. She was mortified