Hey all. Just wanted to share one of my little projects I just completed with yous guys. One of my passions is long boarding, its great for transportation and just general cruising the campus ect. I have a couple 46 inch boards but my showpiece is a Cindrich billet board. Well since snow season is upon us I decided to make a little snow conversion. Unlike a snowboard, this board still has the trucks (Randal 180's) attached and should allow it to carve just like a long board on the white stuff.

My boss was nice enough to let me do this after hours and I had the skis completed in about 3 hours all together. These were designed for hardpack/icey conditions, they are a little narrow with runners that stick down about 3/8s under the skis. Next week i plan to make a powder set. They will be a little longer and wider, they will span almost the entire length of the truck to eliminate any buildup and will only have one center set runner per ski.

As of now my 4x4s are untested but there are a few companies that make a similar product that seems to work well so i have no doubts.


Now introducing the CTD-Fab Avalanche

Equipped for life on the streets


1/8 6061 bead rolled for strength


Runners


Bottom view runners welded


side view









side view complete


And Here is a little vid of the trucks doing their magic with the skis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeFzcQVKNlA

 

Not bad, you need to get videos of it on the snow specially now that theres like six feet of snow up north DO IT!!

 

That so gnarly!! I would love to try that out.

 

That is effin awesome! When are you going to try it out. I'll have to do that to my skateboard.

 

ya i wanna see you crash too!

 

I plan to find some snow on sunday. Will try and take vids for you guys but with the massive amount of snow we had fall it may be too powdery to work well.


Here is a vid of a short board with skis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnd--Dp1NBM


I do plan on falling quite a bit as ive never snowboarded before. But if you ain't falling you ain't trying hard enough.

 

That looks incredibly dangerous. I love it.

 

snowskating is much harder than snowboarding, but way more fun too.

 

Wow. That is cool, careful kick flipping that thing!

 

in for ripper vids.

 

Make sure you leash it to your body.

 

^^Yep....lol.

 

I'm dying to give it a real run! I'm not trying to get all kick flippy tricky with it just cruise the snow ya know. What kind of setup did you ride?


For sure. I gonna have to be careful not to take anyone out, lol. I used a cheap dog leash on the first try but gonna see what the ski shop has.

 

So Sunday was supposed to be the big snow day....didn't go as planned

Halfway to Payson and some real powdery stuff I had to stop and settle for an inch or two of snow because my GF wasn't feeling so hot. My Gf, her 3 year old, and I ended up hiking a little on Mount Ord and it had some snow on the access road in the shade. Not enough to have any fun but just enough to prove the concept is good to go.

I definitively need to make some wider smoother skis for the powder and I really am contemplating making a whole new lightweight snow only upper deck. The deck and skis right now weight about 30 lbs!!!

Here is a pic of our trip. Didn't really get to snow skate but it worked amazing as a kid carrier, lol.

This was right after we told her she probably shouldn't be eating that snowball, lol...kids



I am trying to plan another snow trip, hopefully a successful one, this weekend.

 

haha if you can skate board you can snow board. I can snow board but i cant skate board at all because it involves I THINK alot more skill but you got the skill so i think you will be fine on a Board

 

how do you plan on slowing down on that thing, it looks like its going to fly, and is there anyway to keep your feet from sliping off maybe add some grip tape or 2 stomp pads? it looks fun as hell id love to bomb some hills with that

 

how do you plan on keeping your feet on it without sliping off, i would add some bits of griptape, and how do u slow down on that thing it should fly i bet, i wish i could bomb some hills with it,

 

dude get the randals off, throw some legit trucks on there!

 

The build quality looks awesome. Great work