posted November 09, 2002 09:44 AM
Now you have really put the temptation out there. "Big steaks" and a race track!
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posted November 11, 2002 09:47 PM
165!!!, i paid 45 bucks for 4-ish hours. now granted this ainf thunderhill, its 2nd creek. but it was still pretty good. and for 45 beans, ya cant beat it. we did over 120 miles, prolly something like 60 laps. man was i beat, (i mean tired, the busa, 954, and aprilla got beat...hee hee).
definitely need to learn more about tire pressures and temps when it comes to the track. suspension settings too.
posted November 12, 2002 06:39 PM
You know Jason.... Everytime I see this thread the first thing that comes to mind is that it was a big bore (boring) track day! When you first posted I thought wow he must of had a bad day at the track. Obviously you had a good time, but first reaction was to associate boring with bore not displacement!!
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posted November 12, 2002 09:17 PM
never really thought of it that way zhoo, but now that you mention it it did get a little boring after the 30th or so lap of killing the busa over and over and over. i would actually slow down to a crawl, wait 10-15 seconds so he could catch up to me and then just pass hin withinn a turn or two.
you are correct, boring track day indeed.
posted November 12, 2002 09:25 PM
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posted November 13, 2002 10:12 AM
im jealous dude,
if i didnt have to drop 650 clams on a ski pass, i'd be driving out to laguna to do level 2. nice work my friend, i guarantee you that you will be ten times the rider after 1 day of csbk.
that is a sweet track, especially the corkscrew that seems to drop straight down.
posted November 13, 2002 02:09 PM
I've actually decided to take the snowboarding season off. (tough decision during an El Nino year.) I don't feel so bad. I already got 5 outstanding powder days in Chile a couple of months ago. But, now, I want to do more track time and more drag racing this year. I've got all my friends convinced that I don't like to turn and that I only like to take passes down the drag strip.
I'm not telling any of them that I'm going to the Keith Code school. So, when we hit up Thunderhill in March, I'm hoping that I have the same experience passing everyone too.
EastBayDave: If you're reading this, don't tell anyone. Shhhhh...
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posted November 13, 2002 03:40 PM
jason, where the hell u goin slidin this time of year? we got next to no snow in whistler thus far. gettin rather disconcerting at this point actually.
did you put new tires on the 12 before the track day? If so, what kind did you use? What size did you throw on the back?
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posted November 13, 2002 05:25 PM
vail eh? guess we're sworn arch-enemies
was in a training (read: management & executives spewing propaganda) day on sat & a couple of the top execs were gloating how we beat vail on most of the major ski mag's ratings again this year. i'v never really understood why vail is the focus of attention and aspen hardly gets mentioned? always thought aspen was the big one, and vail was #2 to aspen. i really have to get to ur resort one day. here i am givning tours of the mountain to guests and telling them all about it, yet i'v never been to any other major ski resorts.
i had a bt010/200 with about 2000 miles on the rear, and the stock dunlop 208 with 3700 miles on the front. ( i was gonna put the 011 on the front but i figured why chew it up when the 208 has a little life left in it). needless to say that both tires are very chewed up on the sides now. they might have 1 more track day left in em.
freek,
u work for whistler? vail has tons of terrain, thats what it has goig for it. i wouldnt call it steep at all, aspen is considerably steeper, but vail has some very good terrain anyway. also, people in vail are down to earth, aspen is a scene full of rich folk. i've been planning on a whistler trip for sometime now, maybe this year. i already am going to snowbird and gand targee and jackson hole so my schedule is prety full for roadtripping.
posted November 13, 2002 08:08 PM
bastard. it's just nice warm rain here
don't "work" for them per se. just a mountain host; vollie position. i did work as a lifty for a year tho, back in that legendary season that was 98-99. funny, i thought vail was supposed to be the more stuck-up rich folk resort (compared to aspen). i do seem to remember vail added some 3000 acres or so just a couple years ago by delevoping the valley behind the mountin, or something like that. but i'm pretty damn sure u'r still smaller than us. 7000acres if i remember correctly. and me personally, i gotta have my steeps. obviously it's not what most people care about, but it's what i live for. freeskiing (or extreme skiing if u will) is so fuckin huge here. but it still don't pay squat. the top rated female freeskier in the work (Jen something) works in a little pemberton (jsut north of whistler) restaurant summers to make ends meet. friend (acquaintance?) of mattie_k (board member & good friend of mine). crazy.
anyhow, ddpete3 is commin up in march this year with some folks. i think they'r commin from chicago. may be worth checkin w him to see if there's still room? i think it's full tho. if ya do come up, make sure ta let me know & i'll take ya round.
posted November 13, 2002 08:34 PM
Whistler freakin rocks!!! The only advantage that vail & aspen has is that most of the stuck up reach people tend to stay on the groomers and leave the steeper & deeper stuff for those of us who don't mind a hiking a bit to get there.
As for Whistler/Blackcomb, damn, what can I say. Freek, you are one lucky bastard. Blackcomb is my second favorite place in the world to snowboard.
posted November 13, 2002 11:27 PM
i think that snowbird is actually the best, but i havent been to whistler so i cant say for sure, but the bird is insanely steep with mega pow. its all abOOt the steeps freek, i hear ya on that one. and if or when i come out, i guarantee ya that ill take ya up on the "take ya around" offer.
posted November 13, 2002 11:33 PM
I'm not a big skier. But from what I always hear it sounds like you get good snow in Colorado most of the time and Whistler has too many days where you get to set and bitch about shitty snow because it is raining again!
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posted November 14, 2002 12:44 AM
too true zhooligan. we have our fair share of big powder days, but the super light fluffy stuff they get farther sounth is pretty rare, and days where it's rainin halfway up the mountain (all 5280 vertical feet of blackcomb) are too frequent, even if they really are not all that common. it's just a fun place to be. the sport is a real equalizer, more so than any sport i know. people from all walks and classes of life, and all over the world, ski. and they all come to whistler to partake in their sport of choice. ya got a third of a mountain of minimum wage punks who life to ski, a third who are just normal middle of the road folks up fomr the city or on a hard earned vacation, and a third of richer than god playboys and ski bunnies who r just livin it up international style. but once ya get bundled up and hit the slopes, everyone's equal. u can't tell what someone looks like under the goggles and touque [sp?], u can't tell how much $$ they have, and u can't tell what they believe in (other than Ullr and the rest of the snow gods). noone gets treated any differently in the lineup for the chair or on the chair. it's like people forget all that shit, all the politics and realities of life, once they start slidin on the cold white slopes of paradise. ok ok, i'm gettin a little too poetic for my own liking. stepping back from the gates of woodstock (wtf?)...
anyway, it's a good bunch of people in whistler, and just a fun place to be. but the best part is given tours to people who've never seen a "real" ski resort. we get ALOT of people over from the east coast who have spent their live's skiin blue mountain and the new jersey ski hills. never even been to Big White, much less vail, jackson hole, or whistler. u show them one of our medium difficulty doubel blacks, and the jaws just drop. back home they were solid black diamond skiers. that takes on a whole different meaning round here. fellow host was just tellin me saturday bout the spoiled new york teen that wouldnt shut up bout how good he was & how bored he was with the easy tour. so jim takes him to the top of said medium doubel black. the kid litereally started to cry. classic.
posted November 14, 2002 12:46 AM
and wannabe, yes i am a lucky bastard. except for now i'm back in vancouver, 1.5 horus south of whistler, cause i can't get rid of the house i got down here. fuck, i wish i could get back up there. i'm not a big fan of the city :\
posted November 15, 2002 01:57 AM
boring
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