noSno bolt break-down

Diagram showing the order of items normally on a noSNo Bolt:

From inside out:

• Large Washer
• Split washer
• Hub comprising bearing / spacer / bearing
• Split washer

Storing everything on the axle keeps everything safe whilst the hubs are away doing other things...

Sticky bindings? Check the ladder strap...

Top tip from Mark Sewell regarding sticky bindings.  I thought that my sticky Rage toe binding (rear foot) was due to wear and tear on the ratchet.  To remove my foot from the bindings involved removing my glove to manually lift the ratchet in order to allow it to disengage.  Mark pointed me in the direction of my ladder strap which had misshapen as seen below:

The advice was to file down these divots and all should be well.  In the absence of a file, I carefully chopped them off using a Stanley knife (too much off and I guess the bindings could slip in future).

Result: one fully working toe-binding that stays in place during riding and disengages at the bottom - woohoo!

So...check your ladder straps for wear and tear, it could save you some bother on the slopes.

noSno Owners Club

The noSno Owners Club is going from strength to strength.  Only a fortnight ago it had zero members, now at time of writing, it has 12 - an increase of infinity percent!!

In contrast, considering that this blog has been going for approximately 2 years now and only has 9 followers (according to blogger) is a little disappointing, but hey, ho, content has been a bit light recently.

So, are you on facebook?  Do you ride a noSno?  Then join up soldier!

Allen Keys - noSno

Following on from a previous post regarding the use of Allen Keys for standard MBS boards, I said that I'd do a similar thing for noSno.

Simples!

An extra tool may be a small screwdriver to insert or remove the grub screws, but apart from that, that's it!

Edit: Okay, so you may want to change a flat tyre, so will probably want a 5mm Allen Key for this part (assuming a Primo Compsite hub), but apart from this, that's definitely everything!

Pete Tatham talks about the origins of Mountainboarding

Short extract, but nicely shot film featuring Pete Tatham of noSno talking about the origins of mountain boarding.  Forms part of the DVD "Big Air" as produced by Five Element Productions.
Contains some lovely fast shots of what appears to be Cleeve Hill.  Enjoy!


Big Air from Five Element Productions on Vimeo.

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The Trailer can be viewed below:

Mountain Board DVD Big Air promo
by FiveElements

Big Air can be purchased from ATBShop from here.  Haven't watched it so if it's any good please let me know!

noSno Snow fun!

Got out this morning with the noSno for a go at snow mountain boarding, a first since last February when I found out that 8 inch tyres and deep snow don't mix!  After the decent fall of snow 6pm last night till late, we had roughly 3 inches but this time I was armed with 10 inch tyres.  Let most of the air out to give me half a chance of any grip and to hopefully ride above the snow rather than ploughing through it.   First impressions, not bad!  This was only on the short slope round the corner from me, but gave me the push to try the golf course tonight, remembering that the snow really lights up the terrain, even when on the middle of a golf course.  Maybe the speed wasn't great, but with only perhaps 50-75% of the usual control, it really keeps the heart rate up.  Brakes sort of work too - surprised me! Looks as though the snow is staying for a few days, so more soon, I hope!  Just wish my bearings luck - they will definitely need a strip down with all this moisture!

Alpine Brake Systems

Exciting news as I've finally got round to placing an order with Alpine Brake Systems.

The intention is to to fit it to the noSno (which I fully intend to write about soon) which should be a doddle given the circular axles and existing 10 inch Primo composite hubs. My main concern has always been not for my own safety, but that of others, particularly on some of the tighter local tracks. Plus it would be nice to have the option of monster off-road which doesn't happen very often, but is possible here and certainly abroad, though it doesn't always go to plan.

Research into this kind of thing showed two other braking systems on the market made by MBS (generally regarded as a slow-down-device rather than a brake, but cheap) and the hi-tech, very expensive, and highly (if not too efficient) disk brakes made by noSno.

I hope to be able to write a positive review soon.

Who knows, maybe one day people will send me stuff to review! ; D