philfell
March 8th, 2005, 06:01 PM
Today was the last day of the Trenchn' Convention. We had excellent weather throught and the snow held up really well considering the temps were better for hanging out and drinking beer rather than riding, but we made it happen anyways.
A huge thanks and two big thumbs up to Fin for coming for the final two days. He brought tons of demos and lots of smiles to the already freindly vib that the hardbooter guys had going.
Personally I had a blast riding on different boards and talking shop with other hardboot riders. I was a little disapointed that there wasn't too many new faces, oh well maybe next year some of the east coasters will make it to Utah.
Some of the equipment I got to put under my feet included a Madd 170, a Sword 173?? med flex, Pete Thorndikes personal PGS word cup board from last season (it's a Donek), I also got the make some turns on some TD2's with a new super soft rubber elastmer that Fin was kind enough to let us try. But the board that suprised me the most and brought the biggest smile to my face the entire weekend was......... a Prior wcr 181, man was that board nice, way nicer than I thought it was going to be. Don't get me worng, I have ridden some of Chris' boards in the past and have a 185 wcr, but the board I demoed really felt extra good (not as good as Billy's Kessler, but still stood it's ground.)
I might be reviewing some of these boards for the hardbooter website so look over there in the future for more indepth thoughts on these products.
Again thanks to Fin for getting out of Co. and making turns with us in UT.
A huge thanks and two big thumbs up to Fin for coming for the final two days. He brought tons of demos and lots of smiles to the already freindly vib that the hardbooter guys had going.
Personally I had a blast riding on different boards and talking shop with other hardboot riders. I was a little disapointed that there wasn't too many new faces, oh well maybe next year some of the east coasters will make it to Utah.
Some of the equipment I got to put under my feet included a Madd 170, a Sword 173?? med flex, Pete Thorndikes personal PGS word cup board from last season (it's a Donek), I also got the make some turns on some TD2's with a new super soft rubber elastmer that Fin was kind enough to let us try. But the board that suprised me the most and brought the biggest smile to my face the entire weekend was......... a Prior wcr 181, man was that board nice, way nicer than I thought it was going to be. Don't get me worng, I have ridden some of Chris' boards in the past and have a 185 wcr, but the board I demoed really felt extra good (not as good as Billy's Kessler, but still stood it's ground.)
I might be reviewing some of these boards for the hardbooter website so look over there in the future for more indepth thoughts on these products.
Again thanks to Fin for getting out of Co. and making turns with us in UT.