You are hanging out an awful lot in the downhill forum for someone who doesn't ride DH or owns a DH bike then. Just do like the rest of us, get a token DH bike that never sees any kind of use (Udi and buckoW are exceptions) and at least pretend you are one of the cool kids. Jeez!
You are hanging out an awful lot in the downhill forum for someone who doesn't ride DH or owns a DH bike then. Just do like the rest of us, get a token DH bike that never sees any kind of use (Udi and buckoW are exceptions) and at least pretend you are one of the cool kids. Jeez!
We're giving you an opportunity to piss on something you can relate to.You mean that forum currently dominated by discussions of 3 bike companies that don't currently have a DH offering, single crown forks, dropper posts and 12 speed drivetrains?
This the way of New England, too.
I say it in jest because our "big" ski resort is Alyeska and everything on the lower mountain becomes insane ice, unskiable. It can be decent on the upper mountain, but everyone flocks to a new section that opens in less than 5 minutes and it gets completely skied out. If the North Face (double black 2000' vert) is open, that can be decent, but it's about as rare as a coherent Giuliani court case, we just don't get those conditions top to bottom, the bottom of that mountain is just too low (sea level).
Heh. My first snowboard was a roundtail version of that Winterstick, with those shitty canvas/strap bindings. Oh God, it was terrible/awesome.
Haha, I never rode that one. I found it at the dump. Pete the owner of Unity Snowboards once told me he learned to ride halfpipe on one of those!dafuq is that thing with the plate bindings?
It still smells like smoke.... I bet it was sick back then!
My cousin is one of those French mountain people (born and raised in Les Gets). He grew up in the 80s... was one of the first people I knew on a snowboard (in fact, he started on mono-skis before snow boards were a thing). He's also the only person I've seen carve so hard he could touch the back of his head to the snow. He was on hard boots. I don't snowboard (because I live on the ice coast), but he opened my eyes to how awesome they can be...
I had a Morrow spoon, cutting edge technology at the time if you didn’t want to catch your edges. But good lord, was it a handful on groomers/ice.
Tahoe based, but socal genes. Same thing as french as far as the 80s were concerned. Equally as much spandex.
Steep Ice makes traditional shaped boards relevant every time! Burton has some new spoon style boards. Way more angular but similar idea. The Bataleons also have that idea. What are you running? This Salomon Wolle Nyvelt felt pretty good yesterday. On steep and icy entries to couloirs last year I hated this thing but it’s pretty nice in pow. That’s my wife’s favorite powder board on the left. It’s a one off from a small brand in Colorado.
Heh, sun.....same here usually. Paste is good early season. We just don't have any yet.
Early on up here I used to like riding freshly graded gravel roads at 90 mph on my GPZ. One had a railroad crossing that served as a pretty good launch point. This led, one day, to a lecture from a state cop who said he was tired of recovering motorcyclists from roadside ditches.
That got you a lecture? Got a friend of mine arrested, loss of license and a hefty fine.
Vermont is, I think, a hair different, plus I tend towards a dead stop the second the blues go on and am respectful.
Dents Du Midi!
I think you guys would be more than welcome in Switzerland these days! I’ll even properly sanitize the bowl and give you a celebratory trim with a view of the Dents and a beer! Haha. One day.....Dents Du Midi!
Damn I miss seeing those hills!
Only turns I'm doing down here are on the bike.
People have been taunting me with pics from my place just over the hill from you (got an apartment 100m from the base station of the Grande Terche).
Hopefully next year when international travel from NZ is back on the cards.
There are enough slots for everyone Woo. I’m thinking 3 mustaches and one shaggy bowl mullet for you. Something like this.... although the top 2 mustaches could be one?
Did you run that Libtech at some point? How sh!tty was it to ride?
Haha!!! No! I inherited that board because none of our friends can ride it on the traverses out of the pow runs. It turns the opposite direction than you think and are used to... like you turn right and it goes left. So funny watching people ride it! It’s like those Shane McConkey Machette Volant skis. They only kinda work in untracked snow. I like interesting designs! I should hang it next to the Lahar.Did you run that Libtech at some point? How sh!tty was it to ride?
I imagine.
Nice taste in boards! I’ve always like what Taro Tamai was doing and his board are very interesting. Which one do you have?I imagine.
Always was surprised that such a lousy design could come out from Libtech and Rice. I mean, that thing definitely wasn't going to work.
I have a soft spot for boards from Gentemstick and Korua. Riding myself a Korua Stealth on deep days. Daily driver is a Salomon Super 8, as splitboard I use a Rossignol XV, but damn that thing is STIFF.
