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02-15-2020, 07:46 AM #76
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02-15-2020, 10:52 AM #77
Looking ridiculous would be fun, but that run is not long or steep enough for your outfit to matter more than form and MAYBE some liquid rub on at the start.
My local has some long flat spots. Shit, 1 of them kinda goes uphill. Aerodynamics matter a little. And not a stupid gaper tuck with your poles under your armpits. A real tuck.
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02-15-2020, 12:05 PM #78Banned
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A really good tune with fast wax is going to be critical for a course like that. Wax will make or break you across that middle flat.
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02-15-2020, 12:30 PM #79
Having grown up racing I can definitively say a suit is essential. I had a while, maybe 1990ish where I was between the Mahre brothers style padded spyder slalom pants + padded sweater phase and borrowing a suit from a teammate and the difference was huge. It’s an adjustment to suddenly ski without all that drag. I think any racer will tell you it’s shocking how much more speed you have without clothes drag.
A 15 year old YetiBoy, same town dh back in the day.
That’s my buddy’s dad’s gold metal-flake motorcycle helmet!
Padded sweater steeze!
They used to have this dh and the mogul comp on the same day...boner city. It was all very synergistic with the whole emerging freeride scene full of downhillers and bumpers.
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02-15-2020, 01:21 PM #80
Swix Cera-F 100 pure flouro nugget is in the mail and on its way. Fly, Maggot, Fly! Make us proud
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02-15-2020, 05:45 PM #81
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02-15-2020, 08:11 PM #82
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02-15-2020, 08:15 PM #83
^^^ I’ll get in line if Ill Advised is all set with the Spyder.
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02-15-2020, 11:08 PM #84
Singlecross: what’s your timeline like?
Tonight the MRRs went in a box and the Javs got a pair of modern comp 20s. Those MRRs scared me...I couldn’t get the toe to move at all at the lowest setting, at least the comp 20s will move a bit if you reef on them at DIN 11.
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02-16-2020, 07:45 AM #85
IAS...My timeline is very open. I, like you gave my suit away years ago but would like to have one again in the closet for potential beer league participation. No hurry or worries.
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02-16-2020, 07:57 AM #86
Let me attempt to put on that Spyder. If it's Chris Farley style, I'll send it off to you and try that 52. If not, I'll let you guys know and get that 52 moving toward you?
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02-16-2020, 08:03 AM #87
Sounds good, thanks
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02-16-2020, 08:15 AM #88
If neither works, I’m going with green man.
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02-16-2020, 12:52 PM #89
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02-16-2020, 12:55 PM #90
Best thread in a long time. Go yeti man!
And tgr should totally cover this with 80s Rocky style synth music or eye of the tiger training sessions....It's a war of the mind and we're armed to the teeth.
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02-16-2020, 01:59 PM #91
This has really got me chucklin'!!!
As if you need a high din, I bet you couldn't kick a shoe on 11 while on course if you tried.
This race would be better suited if you got 1 DIN for each 50 lbs. you weigh.
The demo derby at JH pits shop techs in a Chinese downhill from the summit on demo skis turned waaaay down. It's funny and impressive all at once.
Are we gonna get some POV video?
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02-16-2020, 09:07 PM #92
Last edited by ill-advised strategy; 02-16-2020 at 09:33 PM.
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02-16-2020, 09:17 PM #93
Don’t tempt me to get to 400lbs. I live between a donut shop and a brewery.
2 things, I have walked out of 11 running choppy chatter-ice GS...so I dunno, that could happen again I guess. Generally I ski around at 11ish and never prerelease. That aside, I pulled those old 12-24 MRRs because I don’t think those toes release at all. I’ve reefed on those things hard with the adjustment backed all the way down and couldn’t get them to even show any elasticity, so I worry about the off chance that I fuck up and need a toe release. The comp 20s are way newer and at least show some elastic travel when I bench test them....and importantly they’re what I have around, so free, and no hole conflicts. Don’t need din 20 though, thankyouverymuch...at least not until I’m 1000 lbs.
Last edited by ill-advised strategy; 02-16-2020 at 09:39 PM.
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02-16-2020, 11:14 PM #94
follow your dreams. BEEFCAKE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQyLIW0Z7Hk
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02-17-2020, 01:50 PM #95
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02-18-2020, 09:02 AM #96
This thread has reached the point of taking it to the wind tunnel for answers. Will a treadmill be involved?
I agree it is a constitutional right for Americans to be assholes...its just too bad that so many take the opportunity...iscariot
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02-18-2020, 07:42 PM #97
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02-18-2020, 08:14 PM #98I drink it up
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Town Downhill GS Suit DIY Options
What would we do with a badger?
Also, I cannot imagine a better use of a drone follow cam.focus.
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02-18-2020, 08:31 PM #99
When is this race going to be held and has TGR confirmed a film crew or will they accept and include some of the GoPro footage for their 2021 movie?
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02-18-2020, 10:03 PM #100
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