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A little manual mill practice side project. In the last 10 years there has been quite a bit of development in alpine snowboard plates designed to isolate the rider and increase edge pressure. I made a monolithic shear type with a fixed rear and floating front for this JJA slalom board.
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What material did you use for the isolation plate please?
UHWPE with 6061 "t nuts" and stainless snowboard threaded binding inserts. Nothing really radical here- I amalgamated a few designs I have experience with.
Is there a place where slalom boards are still popular? I rode one for a few seasons but nowadays I see maybe one per year on the slopes. Still plenty of wanna be ski racers around but seems that slalom snowboards are nearly extinct
There are pockets around the country where they are less unpopular- generally places with a race culture. Parts of New England, Park City, Summit County, parts of California, Bend, etc. Canada. Europe. Pretty huge in Korea.
Surely "alpine snowboard" is tautologous: the only people I see trying to XC on those things are definitely lost.
20 years ago, the Mount Hood glacier was swarming with 'em in the summer. That's where my friend Jay used the slalom board and boots that I got him on pro deal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric Estlund
I can’t tell if the thread is about trench digging, hard boot goodness or back country shenanigans...
Summer camps still happen on Hood, as well as glaciers in Europe and some of the Southern Hemisphere winter resorts.