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Strada bindings are on the way. Going to mount on the separate plates for now. May switch over to the sequence plate later.

Rippen deals on Ski-it-again. THANK YOU!!!! 2012's for $120. E-mail sent.

Doug, could not agree more. Last season while karting, I had all the newest stuff & was lost most of the race season. Tough to know when you are helping yourself or hurting. Also, not that I was @ that level, but the best times I have had racing bikes, boats & karts has been when you are tearing it up with your good friends. Never mind who is watching. When I free ski I usually do 10-12 turn sets. By the third my front foot is done. Me too usually, but I am working on that. I am hoping to get to the point where my ability will progress by using the hard shells. Now it is for comfort & safety. I am going to start leaving my rubber bindings looser when skiing. Takes everything I have to get out of them after a ski. And that is with the strings & straps loosened. Hoping to be @ Sunset ski ranch next weekend & get my first official lesson. I will evaluate after that. Dave, Reflex look like an awesome deal. If I was planning on skiing as much as I will be karting next year, I would look real hard @ those. Can't tell you guys how much I appreciate the input. THANK YOU!!

I greatly appreciate the input guys. Most impressed with the fluid motion e-series, a bit costly but looks to be be well worth the price. Strada Radar boots appeal to me with the simplicity. HO EXO are now more of a consideration reading that they have improved. I wear a size 13 to 13-1/2. One of my concerns with hard shells is the spacing between the boots. Thinking I will just have to adjust boot placement to get myself comfortable with the larger spacing the hard shell will require? Main thing I keep getting back to is, does a recreational skier with aspirations of getting more ski time & being able get into a course now & then, really need to have this level of equipment?

Yes Radar Strada

All good advice above. Check your water system to make sure it is not plugged on exit. Lots of ways for water to get into the oil. Condensation the most common. Leaking somewhere into the exhaust & being sucked in during reversion also common. You can plug off the water inlet & put a pressure gauge & put air pressure to the system. NO MORE THEN 5 lbs of pressure. Listen for leaks, pull plugs, open up carb butterfly. If this does not show where the leak is. Do a leak test. release the valves so they are all seated, pull the plugs & see if you are leaking cylinder to cylinder. Remember changing oil will not get rid of all of the water. Run the boat & check, easy way is to pull a valve cover. Then run it & try to get warm. Look @ the pvc valve, getting the motor hot enough to get steam is the goal. Then check again to see if you have more or less milk. All the while paying close attention to make sure the motor is running okay & you are not causing more damage. Head gasket or cracked block as said above should show on the plugs. Also as said above, unless the boat had a problem I doubt head gasket or cracked. Look @ exhaust & manifold crossovers.

Strada does look like a very nice system. Any updates on the HO EXO. Threads about the injury's all seem to be a bit older. Fluid motion seems to also be a nice system. Anybody riding these? Thanks for the info. on the speed.

Okay so I skied hard in my 20's & went on to racing bikes & boats. Now just racing Karts & this is allowing time & budget to ski again. It is all so different now. I am trying to catch up. So I have a few questions I am trying to get answered. I was skiing on a 65" HO extreme that I got back in 89'. Could barely get out of the water with this tank. A friend found me a deal on a HO S2 & some attack bindings. OMG after getting in decent shape I was able to pull harder through the wakes with so much more confidence that I ever had. LOVE THE SKI!!!. Still struggle to get out of the water, but that is a completely different subject. So hear is the first question. I have always like to ski fast. I am strictly recreational. Always skied @ 36. Now I am @ 35-36 when free skiing. Any effect of skiing a 34 mph ski faster?? Second Q, & more important. I am happy with the attack bindings, but time is limited when the front foot is in. I can only get a few sets in before my front foot is cramping. So, I am looking into hard shells for comfort & control. Been looking & trying to find information on the internet. Like the HO EXO system, but heard of some injury's when the system came out. Any kind of an update on injury's. Really like the fluid motion evolution E-series. Any input on these?