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I'm hankering to change kit.
My boots are wrecked, my Flows are almost broke and my board (Santa Cruz Gold Series) is good, but long and stiff so rubbish for that 'jibbing' malarkey I've seen on the telly.
I ride been riding for a while and I'm toying with doing the basi L2 at some point (have the L1). I'm not interested in the park\freestyle but will have to do a bit on the L2. Off piste and carving is more my thing.
I liked the idea of a Forum board after watching old skool videos of JP Walker & Peter Line, but have just seen the brand was taken over by Burton. Maybe a twin tip would be the thing to make riding switch easier.
My Flow's Pro IIs are nice and quick when I'm out and about with skiers but my L1 trainer suggested 'trad' bindings for more performance, but I'd want cap straps if I went that way.
Any suggestions for a set-up ?
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| david@mediacopy wrote: |
I liked the idea of a Forum board after watching old skool videos of JP Walker & Peter Line, but have just seen the brand was taken over by Burton. Maybe a twin tip would be the thing to make riding switch easier.
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I belive JP Walker is still deeply involved with Forum but your right they are now owned by Burton, don't know if thats such a bad thing more cash for design and development!
Recently swapped to a K2 board and love it on the indoor parks not had an all mountain run on it yet (and won't now for a good 9 months or so)!
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JP Walker actually had quite an acrimonious split with Forum and now rides for Stepchild.
I would also give a big thumbs up for K2, my current board (Titan - wide Zeppelin) is superb!
At the moment there's so much "new technology" around, I would seriously advocate considering Bataleon and Lib Tech who are at the bleeding edge. Next season every brand have variations of "rocker" so I would explore what's available when the new models are released.
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ronaldothefrog, Titan / wide Zeppelin is one of the boards I'm looking at. At the moment I ride a standard width board with Burton Elevators to lift the bindings a little. They solved any toe\heel drag problems. What size feet are you ?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I'm a size 11 boot and I have no probs whatsoever with the titan. Mine is the 08 model with the carbon sintered base and seriously it is biblically fast. Took it away to the 3Vs in feb and was just amazed at what a good ride it is. The Zep has got a reputation as being a bit of a beast - punishing if you don't ride it right, I guess I am a mid-intermediate and I just found it really stable, even at speed. I was overtaking just about everyone on the flats. I would really recommend it if you can get your hands on one 
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Im considering a Jamie Lynn 154 when it comes out 
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forum are owned by burton but tbh burton tends to stay out of their business. they bought forum 'to stop another core company going under'
how much of that you believe is up to you. JP did rather unceremoniously jump ship to Stepchild, as did a number of other riders, but forum still has a strong team with some great young riders like pat moore putting in some R&D.
have a look at the stepchild terry kidwell from a couple of years ago, im pretty sure they still have one at snowboard-clearance.com
its an all round stomper. great on piste, awesome off piste and its killer in the park. its big, its bad and it'll rip your balls off if you get it wrong but when you get it right, its friggin awesome.
The Zep is cool, its not changed much over the years and is pretty standard fare for anyone who is a little bigger or who wants to go harder, it not anywhere near twin though and it sucks on a rail... so your so called 'jibbing' will be very difficult to learn on a zep.
when you look at bindings, have a go at looking at union bindings... they are the dogs danglies, nuff sed. DONT BUY FLOWS. YOU ARENT OLD OR A BEGINNER. you want something witht he same ease of use, get some K2 Cinch's, they are rock solid, 'light' and very very comfy.
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Bigpantsjayke, Cheers for the info. I've just looked them, & up it's a tempting proposition.
Out of interest what's your recommendation for 'trad' bindings ? How do you reckon the Cinch's compare ?
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dave_wick, oh god yes!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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oh my - the aliens have landed 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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snowboard-clearance.com - anyone bought from them ? There's not much in the way contact details on the site.
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no, but i reckon you could trust them - it's The Snowboard Asylem's outlet to get rid of old stock. i've only had good experiences with TSA/EllisB's mail order system. 
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You know it makes sense.
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rogg, Ah, fair 'nuff
I'm tempted for the stepchild, terry kidwell as mentioned above. Anyone else have any experience with the K2 Cinch's bindings mentioned ?
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dave_wick, i assume you have looked into the spec of the Jamie Lynn - what's the main diffs between that and a Skate Banana?
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david@mediacopy, I like them, exactly what is wrong with flow is right with them. Only problem I ever saw was the cable pop out of one but that was it. I would never sell flow to anyone, not even my worst enemy, the cinch I would sell quite happily.
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Jonny luv plums, as good as 'trad' strap bindings ?
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david@mediacopy, The same just with a better flow type rear entry that you can opt to use or not.
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I used to work for snowboard-clearance.com or TSA manchester, what ever you prefer.
I have owned a couple of pairs of K2 cinchs... dont buy the cheap ones, they are cheap for a reason... get the Cinch CTXs... they wont let you down
I had greatr experiences with my cinches, I had the first pair when they came out and they weighed about as much as my board. now they weigh a fraction of that thanks to advances in tech. They have all the good things about normal strap style bindings and all the good things about flow style bindings without any of the cons. Flows are unresponsive and soggy and difficult to get in and out of in powder or on a slope facing down hill... Cinches are so quick and easy when you want them to be but they stick to their guns when you need them to.
If you want to contact the guys at snowboard-clearance, send an email to info@snowboard-clearance.com you should get a reply within a day or two.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Bigpantsjayke, what do you think to the Apo Expresso against the K2 cinchs........i guess you have allready ruled out the flows 
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andybabes, apo expresso are without doubt the nastiest binding I ever had the misfortune of setting up, ever. I couldnt care if they do whatever, I reckon I'd destroy them within one week, maybe less.
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