torihada 2 Posted December 9, 2004 Share Posted December 9, 2004 well I'm just waiting for my first board trip (12 days) to Akita..praying for anything resembling snow..and to kill time I've started to make my own gear due to a lack of cash plus I can't look at those 6 day snow forecasts anymore. So after sliding down a dry slope on my arse last week I've just made my own arse/coccyx protector.Oh what a lovely bodge:old lycra cycling top cut down leaving 3 stretch back pockets in a line. Into each pocket is stuffed two layers of foam cut from an old karrimor sleep mat. It sits nice and snug in my salopettes, so far tested by falling arsewards on to wooden stairs, yeeha bring on the dryslope.The other plus is my arse is now so big I can carry my board on it. Any other DIY ski/board gear out there that you'd like to share? Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted December 9, 2004 Share Posted December 9, 2004 i made my own pouch for my drinking bladder. toque really liked its design. I sometimes make stuff but really it usally blows goats. Link to post Share on other sites
torihada 2 Posted December 9, 2004 Author Share Posted December 9, 2004 my best one (or worst) was a portable sledge I made about 20 years ago. A large sheet of heavy duty polythene, press-studed together so it would fold up in a sac. We were hiking up in the Pennines (UK - bleak, snow swept moors)We find a good drop, good snow (for the UK - maybe 10 cms)I triumphantly pull out my sheet, 6 of us sit on it and shoot down this drop. We all jump up at the bottom hollering, only for me to see this sheet blow across the more at about 30 mph. I run after it, to which eveyone else pisses themselves laughing. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted December 9, 2004 Share Posted December 9, 2004 the best thing I ever made and still have is a toque with the top cut off, so now its a long as.s neck warmer Link to post Share on other sites
torihada 2 Posted December 9, 2004 Author Share Posted December 9, 2004 pardon my igonorance - I'm new to this winter sports lark - what's a toque? Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted December 9, 2004 Share Posted December 9, 2004 A Toque is a guy who writes on this forum all day long because he never works and gets paid well Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted December 9, 2004 Share Posted December 9, 2004 Now you wouldn't be talking about me would you?? Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted December 9, 2004 Share Posted December 9, 2004 errrrr, no Gave the wrong definition. Figued a bloke from Canada could give a better definition. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted December 9, 2004 Share Posted December 9, 2004 Toque = canadian for winter hat. Toque also equals a man so crazy about hiking that...... he even goes during a typhoon with the hope that it will pass. Link to post Share on other sites
montoya 0 Posted December 9, 2004 Share Posted December 9, 2004 actually know quite a few j-hikers who go up during typhoons and wait, hoping for the blue-bird day afterwards. must be on the same wave-length there toque. Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted December 9, 2004 Share Posted December 9, 2004 More along the lines of don't want to spend a weekend in my cold, ugly, rundown apartment But a toque is a hat you wear in the winter. Being from the winter country Canada which is kind of an authority on winter things we try to make everybody in the world call the things toques. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted December 9, 2004 Share Posted December 9, 2004 your place does have a dark feel but for 5000 a month and that much space dude im there. Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted December 9, 2004 Share Posted December 9, 2004 Quote: Originally posted by Yamakashi: A Toque is a guy who writes on this forum all day long because he never works and gets paid well But not as much as you mr moneybags Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted December 9, 2004 Share Posted December 9, 2004 hey, samenameguy dont be spreading rumors about me now Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted December 9, 2004 Share Posted December 9, 2004 yeah thats what we should call you yama money bags. PS take a pic of that new gear, so we can see just how pretty it looks. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted December 9, 2004 Share Posted December 9, 2004 Shut up man Thats just not true - Im sending home a huge lump each month to pay off my freeking college loans and barely getting by my new babies are sweet eh? Got the powbreak ordered from Ishii mate, thanks. Only like 4000? My avalanche gear came in too Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted December 9, 2004 Share Posted December 9, 2004 cry me a river my camera is going to cost 4 man to fix or .... I just might have to do without this year I just dont know what to do? any good used vid cams out there? Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted December 9, 2004 Share Posted December 9, 2004 I hear you on the loans. I can't send more than 100,000 a month and they just seem to be getting bigger and bigger ****ing banks But do throw up a picture of your new gear Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted December 9, 2004 Share Posted December 9, 2004 Cant, lost the software for my digital camera Thats why you dont get to see any pics from my summer adventures Maybe Ill take em and then go to the store around the corner and get it put onto CD. What does that cost to get stuff put on CDrom? My memory sticks are all filled with like 300-400 pics on all of em. Cost much? Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted December 9, 2004 Share Posted December 9, 2004 I pay 500 per CD But then that's only putting 25 pics on. Not sure how much it will cost putting hundreds on Link to post Share on other sites
montoya 0 Posted December 9, 2004 Share Posted December 9, 2004 yamakashi, sometimes you don't need specific software for a digital camera. if you are connecting via USB on WinXP, there's a good chance it'll just show up as an additional drive or network device in the "My Computer" menu. If so, just drag the pics from it to the HD. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 Cheers montoya, but my old sony digital doesnt use USB ports - it used one of those thin credit card looking thingyz and I put the memory stick into there. Damn, Im so computer and English illiterate. (that make sense? ) Maybe if I got ahold of Sony Japan they would probably sell that stuff eh? Cheers. Ill check that out. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 I sent sony a long nasty mail yesterday about my camera what do you think wil they reply? Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 Quote: Originally posted by Fattwins: I sent sony a long nasty mail yesterday about my camera what do you think wil they reply? お前は外人じゃけん意味が分からんよ！阿呆！っ 390;いう風に言うと思うんじゃけど- hows that? Link to post Share on other sites
montoya 0 Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 yamakashi what you then need then is a memory-stick adapter that fits into your USB port. something like from this page: http://www.getplus.co.jp/CategoryImageList.asp?Category=h.memory.RW should run between 2000-3000yen. Link to post Share on other sites
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