I'm Back!

[EVIL BOTA]

Well if any of you care .I have my pice -o- **** pc back.(Still not fixed argh!). Talk about the blues.No riding ,No computer. I had to work around the house for christ sakes.
I am making plans to take snow board lessons. Have to do something. I might as well at least try to like the snow. WaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaWa chusett here I come. Hope you all had a good holiday . Later

[Mt.A TODD]

I don't care, go away.

[NEMBA_bkr-dude]

welcome back. I am a snowboarder and I love it. Definitely try it

[SloMoJo]

Helluva welcome back there Todd. Ha

Hiya Evil.
Your bike in working order?
Don't hang it up just yet.

Before you break you wrists on the fricken snowboard...How about a sloppy ride thru Wompi some Sunday morn?

[EVIL BOTA]

S.M.J. I will let you know. Hey if you can send me a e-mail so I can get your addy plz(lost it in the 50 reformats.lol). My bike is complete. Just sittin collecting dust.Had a few pic's of it ,but lost them too.
Suppose to be really cold this weekend..single digits. Todd glad to see your still an ignorant prick .Keep it up. I wouldn't like you any other way.

[AGENTGRAPE]

there is nothing wrong with snowboarding i took it up after my flat feet made it impossible to wear hard shell boots. also 'dude get a dell' dont you watch tv! arent you seduced into mass corporate impulse spending? hahahaha

[Big Game]

Evil One, I'd welcome you back too, but I just got back myself. So technically, seeing how I just got back, and you came back before I got back, you'd have to welcome me back first, then I could welcome you back

But I'm not really patient enough to wait for to welcome me back, so I'm just going to say "welcome back Evil" and deal with the political fallout later.

Snowboarding? Wise Evil. My advice is to only learn when you have about 12 inches of powder on the slopes. Otherwise, you may get a little hurty and get discouraged.

If you can blow off work on Friday, my suggestion is to hit Killington. There's some sort of $29 lift ticket sponsored by the Rutland Chamber of Commerce (but please, you must keep it a much better secret than I have). There be some sweet conditions.

Your pal,

Big Game

[Mt.A TODD]

Yeah! now there's someone I care about!

[EVIL BOTA]

Big Game , Nice to see your back with us. Hope ur holidays went well. As for snow boarding, I think I am gonna stay local and try Waschusett , nasoba valley in Westford ma.Or Gunstock.I don't want to travel to far. Wachusett is having a deal $75 for 1 hour private lesson, rentals and all day ski pass(includes their quad). Thanks for the tip anywho.. And Todd I thought you didn't care about anyone but urself..

[splat]

That is a good deal from Wachusett, that is how I learned to Snow board , that exact same package ( 12 years ago) , Tghen went home and soaked my sore body in a tub! , you will get to know the snow intimatly! So welcome back EB

and welcome back big game !

[NEMBA_bkr-dude]

go to wachuset the lessons at nashoba aren't very good.

[AGENTGRAPE]

first thing i learned from snowboarding wrist protection ...you are going to fall alot. good gloves with hard wrist plates will allow you to shift and squeeze your brake levers after about a week.

[NEMBA_bkr-dude]

Ya wrists are kinda in danger but take all of your bike crash landing skills and don't land on them!!!! If you are going to though, make a fist, that way your wrist isn't bent. You can also land on your forearms. I think your tailbone will hurt more than your wrists, so you wanna dress in a couple soft layers.

[Mt.A TODD]

As for snow boarding, I think I am gonna stay local and try Waschusett , nasoba valley in Westford ma.Or Gunstock.


Evil where do you come up with this stuff? In the past you have called me a "dork" and a "geek" for no apparent reason, I let those comments slide. You just called me an ignorant prick, and now you saying I don't care about anyone!? Geeze! Your trying to push my buttons on purpose! I'll throw down some verbal trash with you, but you gotta try harder.

FWI- I've been snowboarding for 16 years now, used to be a instructer at Gunstock back in the 80's', and lived out in the Colorado Rockies for four years.......... your burning your bridges dude!

p.s.... the World needs another Snowboarder from Massachusetts, just like it needs Seabrook to blow up!

[NEMBA_bkr-dude]

Todd that's awesome! I don't know many people who have been boarding that long. What brand did you ride back then?

[Mt.A TODD]

Burton then, Burton now.

You newbies have it soooo easy today! In my day, I had to ride a piece of lacquer plywood with no metal edges or p-tex. The bindings were a big rubber band which only covered the top of your foot. Burton called this board the "performer", I can vividly remember waiting for the performance to kick in while trying to make turns on a sheer ice Stratton trail. Unlike today when you guys just pluck down half a grand for a lift ticket, I had to get "certified", all snowboarders needed lower and upper mountain certification before you could ride the lift. Every resort required it's own picture pass. And when I finally did get to wait in the ungodly m******* induced lift line. The questions... my god all the questions...I was a FREAK! How do you stop? How do you turn They let you in here? What's that called? Are you Gay? All the looks the stares, ugh, it was all too much! I'm rambling now.... many more oldschool snowboard stories for you kids later. Like the one when I used to work in the James Bond stunt double's shop, where we made handmade boards.. but that's for another day.

[splat]

I've been riding that long too! first board was a burton performer , with a Tail Fin , not the V-tail,that came later, but a steel Fin that went through the bottom! and Only a few Mountains would allow them , had to get special passes, and pass a test to ride all the way to the top.

[NEMBA_bkr-dude]

I dunno, some rental boards are pretty screwed up too. Just kidding. That's awesome. You could probably kick my ass any day. This is only my third year boarding. I am pretty good I guess. I do hard blues/easy blacks and I can do a couple tricks though I care more about having a smooth and relaxed ride than showing off. The best place I have been is sunday river. Heh ya I get those same looks when I bike down com. ave. to go hit some urban stuff from the roadies. Then I whoop them in a sprint and they pedal their asses off trying to catch up. It is hilarious.

[EVIL BOTA]

Todd I'm just bustin ur balls is all. I few months back you busted mine for my on line lingo(lol,lmao,etc.) with a comment like geek or something.Also ur first reply to this post was a bit harsh . I shount bad mouth you any more. Didn't mean to offend. Back to the subject. Wachusett it is. I am gonna call today and see what day of the week is the best time to go. I am taking my son out of school for the day so he can learn with me. Sounds like I should pull out the old football butt pad and forearm pads.. Well thanks for the advice. Can't wait to go.

[Big Game]

Oh pleaze Todd. You had it sooo easy yesterday.

Why I remember, back in my day, we had to make our own snow. But we didn't have your fancy snow guns or water pressure. In fact, we didn't even have water. We had to make our snow out out of used barbed-wire from the Great War. We would bundle as much of the rusty-tetenus infected steel as we could, drag it 35 miles to our ski hill (we had to make that ourselves too, out of tailings from the sulfur mine where our daddy lost his life, making five cents a week, digging sulfur with his bare arthritic hands that were near worn-down to little nubs). Then we sat down, and start breaking peices of barbed-wire off, filing them into unique "snow-flakes." We knew it really wouldn't matter to most people that our barbed-wire snowflakes were unique, but we had standards, so it mattered to us.

After 15 years of doing this, from sun-up to sun-down, every day, we had finally made enough snowflakes to get an actual run in.

We were sure excited that day. But then came a big rain. It washed all of our barbed wire snowflakes down the hill and into Misery Crick. We tried to reclaim our barbed-wire snowflakes, but they all rusted together into a giant ball that must have weighed 150 tons. There was not a thing we could, but cry. So we cried.

We never got a chance to snowboard. And do you know what? We're better off for it. Snowboarding only gives you the impression that you can be happy and content with your life. We prefer to live life a little d'ffrent 'round here. We like not having hope. We like our little depressing life we've managed to eke out of this old mud farm of ours.

And if you do ever happen to come on by these parts, be sure to stop by say hello. We'll be waiting for you. I got me a pitchfork and my brother gots himself and billy club. And we'd be real happy to show you what you can do with your "hello."

Now git!

[AGENTGRAPE]

dag nab it game. that story has me pulling daddys ole scattergun down from the mantle to blow my brains out. ceptin it going to take a real long time to grow the necessary minerals to make some black powder. on to boarding i started 8 years ago on a god awful gnu board. stupid plank was so stiff it wouldnt turn turning consisted of leaning in one direction and falling over geting up and then leaning over until falling again. any way after one ride from the top of loon. i went in and rented a board went up ripped of a good run to the bottom. then i proceded to turn taht gnu piece o crap into a large pile of toothpicks in the parking lot. now that got some people staring at me.

[splat]

Sounds like I should pull out the old football butt pad and forearm pads.. Well thanks for the advice. Can't wait to go.


Pads == Good Idea!
especially one to cover your tail bone ! that really hurts when you land on that.

If you or your son have roller blade wrist gaurds , wear them !

[Mt.A TODD]

I'll share some snowboarding horror stories with you guys. One day out in Colorado, This cute little girl from Ohio came out to visit us and try out snowboarding. She was wearing ski boots inside the bindings. We were all watching her ride down toward us, when all of a sudden she just fell forward onto her face, no big deal, but what was odd was the fact that the snowboard base was still flat on the ground! We ran up to her, and both her shin bones broke at the ski boot line! I guess she had weak bones...... And then there was the time we were watching the guys video taping themselves on a big snow jump, one dude launched off to the side and impaled himself on a tree, he was alive, but the ski patrol had to climb up and saw him off the branch which was sticking into his chest! The bummer is, the ski patrol confiscated the tape. Am I grossing you guys out yet? GOOD

[Big Game]

We ran up to her, and both her shin bones broke at the ski boot line!

I don't know Toddski. This is pretty un-f'n believable. Both her shin bones broke? Really.

In order for her to fall down in the manner you mentioned, wouldn't all of her shin bones need to break? Each leg has two shin bones (the something and the other thing). So are you saying that she broke four shin bones?

I guess its possible to break four bones simutaneously. But if this chick's bones were weak enough to break in this manner, then how the hell did she walk around doing regular day-to-day crap without breaking her ass?

You've never lied to me before, so part of me believes you. However, the part of me that contains the logic and reason says you are full of sh*t.

Your pal,

Big Game

[Mt.A TODD]

I swear to God. (even though I believe "GOD" is plural for aliens). It's 100% true! I'm not a bone doctor, but BOTH her legs below the knee and above her ankle broke cleanly! Her face was on the ground, her feet flat in the board. Weird thing is she wasn't screaming and crying, like I sure as hell would be. She was a very thin and frail girl, I suspect anorexic. I swear BG I'm not making this up. Poor chick spent her vacation in a wheel chair with double casts up to her crotch!

[NEMBA_bkr-dude]

Oh last year at sunday river I scorpioned myself. It feels like you shatter your back and ribs. You can't breath and you body is on fire in pain. Also your head hurts from your board whipping around behind your back and nailing you in the head. Not fun. Don't try it.

[EVIL BOTA]

Maybe I should stay with our safe sport of mtn biking. I figured ridng on nice soft snow would be painless. Maybe some motocross gear and a kevlar vest(don't want to get impaled) would be better.
Real tv would like to have that tape I bet..lol

I swear to God. (

I believe you Todd. I have broken bread with you and can tell you are a straight shooter. Plus people from ME are honest and not very creative. You coudn't have made up that story.

lol, lmao, ttfn, ebf, bump!!!!!!

[NEMBA_bkr-dude]

Oh don't worry. You won't have crashes like those when you are just starting. Only when you get better and stupid. Use your mtb judgement and you'll be fine.