Hey all, I'm new on this forum, but it seems like a pretty active one, and I'm hoping I might be able to get some objective answers on replacing what I considered my favorite board of all time since it has been stolen.
I owned a 2001 Ride Timeless 167, and I felt it was the perfect board for me with the exception that I'll explain below. It had great feel (I loved the stiffness), excellent edge to edge transition, was ridiculously fast, kept awesome speed through the flats, it floated through pow, and held an edge with practically NO chatter on most any of the icy crap that Minnesota could dish out!
The only drawback is that I have size 13 feet, and toe/heel drag was common when doing any deep carving in pow or on pack... To help combat that, I installed some Burton Elevators underneath the bindings to give me some more lift, and tried adjusting my stance in various ways, but even then it wasnt enough to eliminate the drag problem. I had demo'd some wide boards in the past, but kind of just gave up on trying to find something wide that would be as nimble edge to edge as the Timeless normal waist width was. I figured that the drag wasn't a big enough reason to settle when the Timeless did everything else so well for me.
So, since the board was stolen from me, I have been trying to figure out whether I should get another Timeless and try to deal with the drag issues again, or move to a wide board and try to fix that problem by sacrificing some edge to edge transition quickness. I had planned on doing some demos this year, but they were all pretty much around Thanksgiving and I couldn't make it. So right now I guess I'm kind of looking for something I might be able to find used for a relatively low price.
That being said, let me try to give you a little info on myself and my riding style...
I am 5'11" tall, weigh about 250 lbs, have size 13 boots, regular footed, pretty much a duckish stance at -12 and +12, and consider myself to be a somewhat advanced rider. I have given up on park riding due to injuries sustained, and these days I mostly carve with the occasional natural hit thrown in, so I guess you could call me a toned down freerider. I also live in Minnesota, and spend most of my time riding here with a few vacations to good spots, so sometimes we get a decent amount of pow, but mostly we have groomed and icy runs...
I am willing to sacrifice some edge to edge quickness, since I know it's impossible not to going from a narrow to a wide, but I would really like to retain the edge stability and lack of edge chatter that the Timeless had, and preferrably a wide board that won't fight turn initiation.
Thanks in advance for reading through all of this, and I am open to any suggestions you all may have!
-J.P.
