I like both the ideas of the cheap bikes and the internet build.

Didn't Bike use to have a "lunch-loop" feature? I haven't read a copy in ages so not sure if they still do them. I remember not...

I'm currently staying in Pau for two months. Didn't bring a bike and the mountains have been filled with snow anyway so can't offer any first hand info.

Lourdes is, as you say, right in the...

OH shit! I've seen the .gif making the rounds on the net but i have never seen the whole clip. That hill is in my town, a friend of mine lives in the yellow house in the background. Wierd to see...

Cool! Reminds me of Signatures

Any info on Chamonix? Thinking about bying a van and living there this season...

i have the billy goat and you should definately get a never summer if you want to go fast.
the billy goat is a really fun, pivoty, board, but it just doesn't have the same stability at speed as the...

very nice! the guys that got runned over in the vid made me cringe...

lib-tech skunk ape?

haven't tried it but the lib'techs iv'e tried have been very fun and able too handle some abuse (not as much as NS though).

awesome! what more can you say?..

++++++ RIP

^^ righto

what happend in the UK? the show aired here in sweden (and i thought it was great/scary) but i haven't heard about any backlash?

that slut! i thought we really had a future together...

second union.

flux makes some nice bindings too

greatest music video ever
YouTube- David Hasselhoff - Hooked on a Feeling

ahh, needs more ass shots!

also, thumbnails that only show the head? yeah thats what i'm interested in. must be the same guywho came up with the oakley ads that made those thumbnails.

this.

also i've heard that it has a realy soft tail, like can't support it's own weight soft...?

there is some talk about it at the end of this edit:

SIA Faction Walkthrough on Vimeo

black diamond:
http://www.freeride.se/img/c/1893_l.jpg
http://www.freeride.se/img/c/1894_l.jpg

head:
http://www.freeride.se/img/c/1898_l.jpg
http://www.freeride.se/img/c/1896_l.jpg

k2...

posting in this thread just to demonstrate my contempt for anyone who thinks that audio that plays on mouseover is a good idea.

second serre chavalier.

bruson is supposedly good but i have no first hand experience...

so, i just bought a pair of surface LAE, witch is basicly a one life with different graphix, witch is basiclay a live life 2.

when researching skis on the interwebs i find it useful to have as...

FYI, i think norwegian television showed all the stops on the norwegian freeride cup.

skiings pipe not being in the olympics is a blessing, do you really want an other shaun white, but with two...

and the atlas mountains in marocco

atomics:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3pQTcHqt1Yc/S18CdrwWmcI/AAAAAAAAEMM/Z02tlEHE5ck/s400/001.JPG

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3pQTcHqt1Yc/S18CczeZc4I/AAAAAAAAEME/5HOuKbnFTRI/s400/004+%283%29.JPG

there is a great risk that i will be getting the prophet 115, if they make a 190ish length

that actually sounds like a pretty cool boot, it had never occurred to me that you could mix and match bootparts between manufactures like that.

maybe now i can get a three part boot with >100...

Hoji skis with dynafits? hah, you learn something everyday...

i saw a guy skiing these in st anton during new years.. looked interesting.

"huge early rise" might be a exaggeration though. it looked more like long tips and tails than a fully rocker'd ski.

really? i just looked but couldn't find them for less than 449...

good too hear, i was a bit anxious about the the extreme rocker but thought, hey, why choose something plain and boring when you can get something awesome and outrageous. ;)

mounting with dukes...

http://skibd.bdel.com/

black diamonds new efficiency line...

what is the flex like on the live lifes? i was choosing between them and the onelifes and caved in and ordered a pair of onelifes last night, having heard that live lifes was a bit of a noodle...

Ha! i just bought some skis online 10 minutes ago. what can i say the traverses were killing me ;)

you probably wont notice.

i have heard stories about shops mounting the binding offcentre when "fat"skis where new. something about getting better edge grip when the skis were so unbelievable...

i'll help by viewing it when it's done, views gets you money, right?



if you do pull this of don't have any slow-mo. slow-mo is the cancer of ski films.

also consider the neversummer summit.

it seems to me that you really have to make a choice between big mountain and powder. i can think of many powderboards that are only good in powder and vice...

huh, i didn't know that you had to wear uniform as a snowboarder in the olympics. the riders outerwear sponsors must be stoked (if they are not burton).

venture snowboards:
http://www.shayboarder.com/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/nggshow.php?pid=7465&width=231&height=479&mode=
helix-r
...

check angrysnowboarder.com and shayboarder.com for all your board review needs.

you can also try splitboarder.com, they have reviews of a few solidboards aswell as alot of splitboards

new skis from dynafit
Edit: no hotlinking images from wildsnow.
the new stoke, 105 in the waist and 1550g for the 173 length.

also a new ski called broad peak, 74 in the waist, weight: "about a...

"What are the biggest forces shaping the changes and developments you’ve made to your boards?
We will bring four models to the market in our first year. A directional freeride board, a powder...

Jones snowboards:
http://business.transworld.net/files/2010/01/jones1.jpg
Flagship and mountain twin.

article here

i think the top ones are last years bentchetlers, don't know about the bottom ones.


in other news: Dynafit is coming out with a race binding that weighs 117 grams

don't worry man. all i lost was the stoke i had built up.

from Johan Jonssons blog:
http://blog.freeride.se/johanjonsson/files/2010/01/IMG_0880.jpg
Nordica Girish, Zero and Jahlove

what do you think about the quality of the fabric they use? the people i have asked (2) have said that it rips very easily...

are you willing to ship to europe? if so, you got a sale...