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#25 Re: One for the surfers
January 23, 2007, 10:43:24 pm
PS, my chicks been here 19 times, and the winter family are looking after us so should be well looked after...

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#26 Re: One for the surfers
January 24, 2007, 04:49:15 pm

Plastic type 'short' longboard, pretty indestructible, reasonable easy to stand on, quite cheap, hence gets a bad reputation for being a punters board.

Without generalising, as I am sure there are some competent Bic riders, but the fact that they are indestructable is a good reason why they get a bit of a bad reputation. They are often ridden by less competent surfers ( I'm loathe to use the word punter) who occasionally bail the board when paddling out, drop in, or generally get in the way, often resulting in more chance of injury or damage to conventional boards, due to their heavier and more robust nature.

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#27 Re: One for the surfers
January 24, 2007, 06:42:49 pm
PS, my chicks been here 19 times, and the winter family are looking after us so should be well looked after...

I've bumped into Russel, his brother and a couple of the Irish mates out there a couple of years back..

Your chick must be wadded if she's been out there 19 times!

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#28 Re: One for the surfers
January 25, 2007, 05:37:55 pm
Nah, just old, ha ha. They all go out there on trade, business. having trouble booking for the wedding, who have you booked with? belive its the cricket putting up the prices, will be keen to meet up...

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#29 Re: One for the surfers
January 27, 2007, 11:21:13 am
very nice session yesterday, a couple of feet, super clean, and two hours in the water with no booties. (one finger turned very white, though). i have to say that the money i invested in the new board is some of the best spent money in my life. it turns and speeds, and makes me happy.

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#30 Re: One for the surfers
January 28, 2007, 06:02:50 am
No self respecting surfer would still ride a Bic, fair play if you are learning, saving on dings etc, but as soon as you can take off and have started to be able to turn on a wave a Bic (even the shortboard versions) are pretty damn shyte. You would surely have to be seriously poor not to buy a normal board and have twice the speed on a wave. (I am sure Slater et al would have about 5 times my speed on a Bic though!!)

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#31 Re: One for the surfers
January 29, 2007, 08:08:12 am
very nice session yesterday, a couple of feet, super clean, and two hours in the water with no booties. (one finger turned very white, though). i have to say that the money i invested in the new board is some of the best spent money in my life. it turns and speeds, and makes me happy.

I'm still coming to terms with my new one. Went out for a brief session in Aberdeen on Saturday afternoon. Waves were huge and heavy. Duckdiving a lot easier, but soon learnt that messy but functional popping up, while fine for my minimal is definitely not good enough for the fish. Also that I need to wax it a lot more.

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#32 Re: One for the surfers
January 29, 2007, 07:29:50 pm
Guys when you are done beting my sorry punter ass into the ground :spank:...do you have a wetsuit recommendation?  i am skinny but tall - consequently my current realy shagged cheap and very cold 3x2 has a wierd baggy bit round the waist which fills up with water.  The skinny frame also means i get really cold really fast.  should i go elasto or just steamer myself up in 6x4?  Probably willing to go up to £200...and mooch around the sales a bit too.

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#33 Re: One for the surfers
January 29, 2007, 08:18:26 pm
i cannot recommend anything in particular, cos i still have a beefy 5-4-3 that found for cheap in rome, but i think you should consider a few things.
- you like surfing
- you want to surf and have fun
- if you freeze you cannot surf nor have fun

so i think that its good to spend all the money you can in the best and most durable wetsuit you can have.

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#34 Re: One for the surfers
January 30, 2007, 07:40:21 am
clm, I am a similar build to you, and I have a 5/3 Gul I bought about 5 years ago that's still going strong. I've hear they have gone downhill since then though. I've heard good things about the excel wetsuits. I don't think you need anything thicker than 5/3, I surf mostly in NE scotland and only ever get cold hands and feet, when using mine with one of the C-Skin Hooded Rash Vests, which I highly recommend.

Unfortunately the only way to check for a good fit is to try them on. A good tip is to keep your scoks on when trying on wetsuits, makes them a lot easier to get on.

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#35 Re: One for the surfers
January 30, 2007, 09:33:09 am
I recon you need some thing like this

Obviously you need to try it on but recent modern suits are really stretchy compared to cheaper old ones, either that or you need to hang around with Jim some more.  ;)

Are you keen for a winter/spring trip west? I haven't been in the water for months!  :'(

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#36 Re: One for the surfers
January 30, 2007, 08:03:16 pm
Definately, not been out on my bic for a long time...

and could do with getting back to abersoch...

doh, wait a minute...that was the bic daydream...
i meant abersoch...
...flat again.

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#37 Re: One for the surfers
January 31, 2007, 10:24:58 am
Clm, what you need to keep warm is some body fat.
I may be up for providing some hospitality in Lleyn sometime soon, missing the sea.

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#38 Re: One for the surfers
January 31, 2007, 04:16:43 pm
Went off yesterday, clean and mean. looking foward to no wetsuit warmth...

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#39 Re: One for the surfers
January 31, 2007, 06:50:16 pm
Blimey - seem to have posted a daily webcam.  was flat when i posted it - bit bigger today.
Shes got nice bics hasnt she.

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#40 Re: One for the surfers
February 01, 2007, 08:47:00 pm
Pleased with this shot.  Lines coming in from a great height.  And if you read this today (1st) look at how clean hells mouth is (scroll up a bit)


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#41 Re: One for the surfers
February 02, 2007, 07:44:52 am
Actually someone on a wave (2nd). East Coast looks pretty gash again.

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#42 Re: One for the surfers
February 02, 2007, 09:38:34 am
Yummy!

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#43 Re: One for the surfers
February 02, 2007, 09:52:30 am
Quote
Like your thinking there

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#44 Re: One for the surfers
February 02, 2007, 10:16:41 am
Swell lines like you (almost) never see on the East Coast.

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#45 Re: One for the surfers
February 02, 2007, 08:09:11 pm
Looks nice at The Mouth for tomorrow, smallish swell but with a very long period. If it wasn't such a good forecast in the Peak (... and I wasn't going to Barbados for two whole weeks at the end of the month  :great:) I'd be doing an early one and heading over.

Nice pic's - you can see my mates house on Callums shot.

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#46 Re: One for the surfers
February 02, 2007, 11:59:43 pm
MMM.. long workable rides, like a good wooooman.

I'm really just getting my 50th post so I can wreak some Karma :guilty:

There's a fine reef break just south of Torness nuke station, waters always warm..

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#47 Re: One for the surfers
February 07, 2007, 04:27:54 pm
Oh dear, another snapped leash. got rescued again during the most advanced session ever...
perfect 2ft Fistral point breaks, the best wave i have ever seen...

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#48 Re: One for the surfers
February 08, 2007, 11:37:23 pm


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#49 Re: One for the surfers
February 09, 2007, 02:50:09 am
alright, old and new. will try and get some recent additions from the big days that have occurred.

 

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