Freerider considering switch to alpine

Post by **trfe** » Friday 14 January 2005, 16:52

Hey just looking for some quick advice.

I have Burton SL-7 boots. They are semi-hard and I use the hard plastic insert to make them a little harder. If I was to buy a cheap alpine board to give it a try could I continue to use my SL-7's? Or would I need buy new boots too?

Here are my boots(link below) so you have a better idea of my question:

http://www.burton.com/burton/gear/produ ... oductID=58

thanks for the help.

Post by **SITO** » Friday 14 January 2005, 21:10

Hi trfe!
I would suggest you that buy a complete alpine gear, boots-bindings-board.

Sito

Website · Post by **Dave** » Friday 14 January 2005, 21:32

Hey,

For my first alpine gear, I look for months to buy good used gear.

My boots, I asked a man if he had something? He looked in the back of the store and picked out brand new Raichels (2years old but still in the box)

Price: 70€

Last month, I found something for 200€: board from HOT, X-bone step-in and boots from head
(See my website:http://dendave.fotopic.net/c318948.html for more pics)

It's not a swoard, I know, but as a student, I can't buy a swoard yet

So look and find on the web, good luck

Dave

Post by **kjl** » Tuesday 18 January 2005, 20:11

If you are really strapped for cash, I would suggest getting hard boots first and then the carving board. In my opinion, putting hard boots on a good, stiff, freeride/all-mountain (as opposed to freestyle) board is much closer to the real experience than soft boots on an alpine board (which seems like it would be just plain miserable).