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beaglebuddy
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U2U2U2
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Joined: 06 Jul 2001 Posts: 5467 Location: Shipsterns Bluff, Tasmania. Colorado
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 10:03 am Post subject: |
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must be bored in Utah,
notice the board was never turned over
use a real truck next time, like a Dodge _________________ K4 fins
4Boards....May the fours be with you
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isobars
Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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"Can your board do this?"
Sure.
Once.
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beaglebuddy
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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There are some other videos out there where they set it on a curb and drive a vehicle up on it and it doesn't break.
They make their boards for SUPing in whitewater rivers, why can't they make our boards like that? |
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isobars
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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Takes two guys to carry them? |
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nw30
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Joined: 21 Dec 2008 Posts: 6485 Location: The eye of the universe, Cen. Cal. coast
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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beaglebuddy wrote: | There are some other videos out there where they set it on a curb and drive a vehicle up on it and it doesn't break.
They make their boards for SUPing in whitewater rivers, why can't they make our boards like that? |
Not until they start making inflatable boards for windsurfing.
But who'd want an inflatable? I've yet to see one that doesn't bend a little bit while being used.
But I do love the way Steamroller sells the Uli.
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cgoudie1
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Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 2599 Location: Killer Sturgeon Cove
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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Well, my go to Gorge board got that treatment inadvertently, and I'm
still riding it without noticeable difference in the ride, but the randomly
phasered bottom does give people pause.
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westender
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Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 1288 Location: Portland / Gorge
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 2:11 am Post subject: |
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Hell Yes!! What good is a board you can't drive over.
I've only been on 2 boards that should've been driven over but they went to the swap meet before we got around to driving on them. |
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spennie
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Joined: 13 Oct 1995 Posts: 975 Location: Thousand Oaks, CA
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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Remember "Tiga Toss"? You'd see how far you could throw your Tiga. Those things were pretty close to indestructible, too, and had an interesting side-effect: I was riding a rental Tiga in Margarita, since all the epoxy boards were out, and noticed that it's flexibility was absorbing all the small chop "chatter", making for a very comfortable, albeit slow, ride.
I wonder if that would be a good avenue to explore, making slightly flexible boards? George Greenough used to ride flexible kneeboards, because he knew that when you load up a flexible board in a turn, it bends, like a ski, and turns better. Mistral had a board with an adjustable flex tail a long time ago. I never rode one, but a guy I knew had one, said it worked great but was heavy. Probably the biggest obstacle to making a flexible board would be weight.
It would be fun to explore these possibilities, think I'll run out & buy a Lotto ticket! _________________ Spennie the Wind Junkie
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nw30
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Joined: 21 Dec 2008 Posts: 6485 Location: The eye of the universe, Cen. Cal. coast
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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Not to sure about that flexible board thing. All I can see it doing is scrubbing off speed.
Remember the Aitken sailboard of the late 80s? That thing flexed like crazy, nobody could get any speed out of them, one of the worst boards I ever tried. But that board became history when Aitken moved onto something that his technology was better suited for, kayaks, he founded Cobra Kayaks. |
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