Sorry you people finding our site through odd searches, this really is about bindage, not bondage. At the end of this past WB trip, I picked up a set of this years Burton Cartel bindings courtesy of the cool people at Showcase snowboard shop in Whistler village. I only rode them one day, but that was enough for me to do a review here on how it compares to the Flows I’ve been using for years. I started a season or two on some entry level strap bindings, then switched to Flows. Flows are a pretty clever quick entry design that makes use of folding back the highbacks to allow entry into the bindings. They did not suffer the problems of step/click-in binding system of clogging with snow, having to precisely place boot, and possibly its biggest was being able to use just about any conventional boot. Continue reading ‘Of Bindage’
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So I find myself around 1300 miles short of attaining premier status on united. This would be highly advantageous for future travel because of the waived baggage fees. United won’t give me or sell me those eqm’s so I need to fly them on the cheap.
So what I have here is a pretty whack plan.
HNL-LAX 2139 0511
LAX-SFO 0640 0805
SFO-HNL 0849 1205
BUT it was cheap and should save me at least the amount of the ticket in baggage fees.
If you have boot fitting problems, Fanatyk Co in Whistler village is the place to go. They’re primarily a ski shop but they know what they’re doing and can assist you with what ails you in the way of boots. I first visited them a couple seasons ago with my DC boots. Good boots, but they told me that they were flat out too big. They tried what they could & it helped, but they were right. Since then I’ve switched to a Thirty Two brand dual BOA in a ladies size. So far best fitting boots for my foot shape but I still get hot spot pressure points on the bone along top of foot. We heat formed the liners with additional spacer on the pressure point that gave more space at those points. Additional C pads at back of ankle bone put in to help with heel lift. I can report that riding the day after this was done was dramatically better.
Saw a bone-stock Honda Civic EX (well bone-stock except the illegally-dark tinted windows – so dark the driver had to roll down his window to see) with a “Type R” badge. Oh, yeah, I’m sure a Type R has that tailpipe that a roll of quarters would get stuck in, and those steel wheels with plastic covers! Sorry, buddy – you’re not fooling anybody. I do believe what the Phillippines flag sticker is supposed to be telling me though…
(0)What’s up with people today? I saw two drivers on two seperate occasions purposely running the red light – not like gassing it thru a stale yellow and being caught in the intersection on a red: It’s slowing down at a fresh red, seeing that the perpendicular traffic hasn’t started moving yet, and purposely entering the intersection on the red! One was a white Dodge Durango minivan (no, it’s not an SUV – tell me the last time you saw one off-road!) from the left-turn-lane into Nalani’eha from Like Like Southbound, and the other one was a white Honda Civic coupe at the top of the Northbound Ka Uka off-ramp from the H2.
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