snowboarders?

Now that the season is almost over, any new (or old) snowboarders? And what are you riding?

I'm riding a K2 Temptation, Nidecker FF760 bindings, and some crap lamar boots that were cheap as dirt and hold their shape real well.

ehmm im ridin :) but i have no idea what exctly is my snb its just some Scott :lol: with burton bindings :)

if there was any snow near me i'd snowboard or ski, probably snowboard, and i've been a few times.. but i'm hoping to head up to canada next winter and catch some powder :P

Snowboarding is like the oxygen required for life on Earth.

I'm riding a 2005 Burton Bullet 157 with Burton Mission bindings and DC Phase boots. Sessions jacket, Dakine gloves, Spy goggles, steeeze bucket.

The closest mountain is a 40 minute ride from my house, and I go every weekend from December to March. This winter we had a horrible amount of snow. Some trails on my local mountain never opened once during the entire season.

Don't forget your bucket. :D

I think I said this in another thread somewhere.

I'd like to learn how to snowboard. I'm actually going to Colorado in a few days - although i'm skiing there. I don't want to waste a few days learning how to do it.

i love snowboarding. but, i've only ever rented boards, and they were always burtons. well, having a snowboard in taiwan would be kinda pointless anyway.

This year is my first serious year of riding. I had just gone out once or twice before. Now I ride at least three days a week, since I work at the resort. I've probably been riding 30-40 times this year.

Nice, you work at a resort? As a liftie or something? Ticket-checker guy?

Like fock, I live near the mountains and I don't snowboard :( Someone shoot me, I never really had to interest to learn lol..

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Originally posted by sublime@Yesterday, 1:46 PM
Nice, you work at a resort? As a liftie or something? Ticket-checker guy?

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Ski and snowboard tech. I give out rentals and repair equipment. It's cool because I get to ptex and wax my board like everyday, in the tech room. Free of charge beetches.

I was working last night, got drunk as shit, went out boarding from 10:30pm-4:30am, came in, got drunk with my boss, played darts, went back out for a bit, passed out in my car, and then went and yelled at the mountain for sucking this mourning. The mountain did an allnight ski thing, so there was like 20 people on the entire mountain all night long. Everyone was drunk and/or high. The park and pipe crew had a big party in the terrain park. And there were rollers and kickers all over the mountain from people carving the same paths, it was intense. I caught 3ft of air off a kicker on the bunny slopes.

sheffield has a fake snow slope and so does ribchester and so does the other side of pendle hill if you know where that is deadloader.

w00t!!!!! Goin in two weeks for one last go this season. Huzzah

i'm riding a burton floater and i have burton cartels. once you get cartels you'll never ride any thing else.

yeah i know, i go to the one in rosendale i think it's called, or it begins with an R about a 45 minute drive from me :D

Cartels are nice. I also hear good things about Ride SPi's.

43, that sounds like a hella good time to me. No resorts I know of that have all night skiing, though. You must have a kickass boss.

Ride makes a good board. Especially if you've got big feet, go with Ride Fleetwood.

I think Burton is really over hyped. They make a good board, but you can get a better deal from other companies. It used to be that you were paying for quality and not name brand, but Burton is deffinetly relying on their name now. Still good boards, but like I said, you can find better deals for comperable boards. I recommend K2, Ride, Rome. The best boards are european (Volkl and such), but they're very expensive.

Oh, and stay the hell away from Burton bindings, they are WAY overpriced. Ride and Flow are where it's at as far as the bindings. Same goes for boots, stick to K2, Ride, or boot only companies.

I started on a lamar, and bought a used K2 05' Temptation off a coworker. The temptation's a great board, it'll handle anything. At 158cm I can fly down the slope, but it has enough bend that I can ride out a good manual without dislocating my hip. And the pop is amazing, this board can fly. The lamar, in comparison, sucks. But it was a good beginner board.

Sublime,
Yeah, she's cool. The shop is basically run like the movie Out Cold. As long as we handle the customers it doesn't really matter what we do.

Yeah, the hype went a little too far when they opened the Burton outlet store in NYC.