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I haven't been thebiggest fan of the new diresction BMW is going. Their design continues to look almost like a fish or something and they're retarded to think iDrive is a good system.

My brother just picked up a '97 M3 to compliment his 4 Triumph bikes, Suzuki SV and '88 F250. That man has too much time and money on his hands. I'm looking to drop my Volvo XC70 soon. '02-03 Jag X-type looks to be a strong contender, unless I find some other car around or below $10k that tickles my fancy.

How much did that stuff run you, if you don't mind me asking? Nice haul for sure.

Despite their looks, those FJs are beasts.

I'm not a drag-racing kind of guy. I like my motorsports in GT series and more euro-style circuit races. I suppose straight line racing does better with a solid rear end, but not having IRS is suicide for any other type of racing. Naturally I'm more drawn to Porsche, Corvette, Audi, BMW, etc. There is nothing I would love more than to have one of those cars and make it look like a car from a Le Mans race or something. The Mustang would not be anywhere nearly as successful if they hadn't kept it dirt cheap. There were 20 in the parking lot at highschool, chicks had the V6 convertibles and jocks had the GT hard top. Most of the GTs were some edition or another and looked like a scene from Fast and Furious (they all parked together too). I'm just not a pony-car guy. Camaros, Firebirds, Mustangs, etc all just seem like cheap power to me. Most of them look ugly as sin to me as well. Very few Mustangs look good, but your Bullitt is quite nice. That blue with the clean lines and the subtlety looks great, especially contrasted with some tool's car with hood pins, a fake scoop, body kit, rear wing, etc. I extremely dislike the retro-Mustangs. It says to me that Ford was too scared to redesign the car properly and instead went with what was known to work. Some of those look decent, but most are pure trash. I understand that those cheaper pony cars are good bases to start modifying to get really fast cars out of, but you're still only drag racing. I can't even tell you how many times I've been challenged at a stop light by some tool in a mustang for a street-drag. Every single time they launch with smoking tires thinking a 4000-rpm clutch dump in a stock V8 GT is the way to do it. All the special editions drive me nuts. Cobras, Shelby Cobras, GT Shelby, etc etc. They're all a plow to get an extra $50,000 from Mustang fans when a $500 racing stripe and $3,000 of parts under the hood is all they are.

I hate Mustangs, but that is a nicer one to have. Too bad those special editions command such a premium. That is some nice rubber though, that's gotta make up for a little bit of the traction lost in the solid rear, eh?

Does that strike you as funny? I don't get why everyone has an immediate comment as to how worthless and retarded the 9K stick is. I'll wait until I use it to make judgment. No way would I pay full price, but I won't pay full price for an S17, SE, XXXX, One90 or any other stick that costs so much. You'd think I was complaining that my $500 skates didn't have white tongues The only piece of equipment I care what it looks like are my sticks. I've always matched the tape to the stick, and to have it be several shades wrong is just like wearing a tan shirt with khaki pants. Colors need to match, compliment or contrast. If I used a tape that was a different green it would bug me every time I looked at my stick, one small twinge of OCD I suppose. Come to think of it, isn't most of what you post one-liner quips and shit that has no real value? Opinions are like assholes, and I don't care for either of yours.

Canadian Tire regularily has a nice bright green $5.19 CDN (1"x25m) also seen at sport chek but sporadic $5.99 CDN (1"x25m) also LHS has it (1.25"x18m) generally around $3 bucks I think quite easy to find actually if you're a Canadian! :P You want to go to the shop, grab a 9K and color match? I can find neon and regular (forest?) green. Neither matches and would look tacky, and the only other colors on the stick are a bit of chrome and gray, none of which have a tape color. To the guy showing me a link to HockeyMonkey last page- no grip tape for me, and I won't be blindly ordering a color that probably won't match. The red on the XXXX is actually a bit too bright. It will darken with use, though. I'm fine with black, really. I just like to spruce up the colors a bit, have a rainbow on the stick wall as it were. I had matching yellow on the AKs, White on the S17, red on the SE grip that wasn't pictured. My buddy has an identical blue on the SL no-grip I gave him, and another friend had me make a red one on his SL grip. Another friend of mine makes a very similar grip, but I've become pretty particular about the knob width and spacing/direction of the spiraling. cougarscaptain- only 4 . The same SE is in both pictures, though the Zubov didn't make it upstairs for pictures. As far as the 9k goes- I bought it because it was relatively cheap and I wanted to add it to the collection. It's yet to make a trip to the rink, though I'm sure someone's going to grab it and start flexing every 2 minutes. Somehow the ones at the LHS down the road aren't enough, they need one they can abuse.

AK-27 shafts and S17 are gone. Current 3 sticks. Yet to get on the ice with the 9k, too many exams this last week for late-night hockey. My handle. A ritual for every new stick. Color coordinated to the stick (though I'd rather have matching green for the 9K, I can't find any cloth that color). Each one takes me about 10-15 minutes. I've tried many other styles and I just can't get used to other styles. The Eagles I had my hands in/on for about a week before selling them. Was not impressed with the fit, they felt like roomy 13" fingers with palms from a 12" glove. Also, I learned I detest solid fingers. Oh well, lost $5 on them is all.

70k is nothing to brag about. My Volvo has 153,000 and looks almost new.

Gotta get pro stock or go custom. X70+ is the model you need. Or you could do like I do, 1/4" added to the fingers, keeps the cuff short. I'd need a lot more than 1/4" on the fingers. .5-.75" on the fingers, .25-.5" in the palm, ~1" on the cuff all around. At that point it's almost not worth getting it. I'm still not at the level where I want to spend $200 on gloves. I am thinking about asking fixitbymail about some MSH2 palms on my XX gloves though. I'm not a huge fan of the stretch with finger pads, and even for being 14" that glove is only a hair too small. $40 for the palm work (no gussets needed) would be amazing. I'd be worried about the rest of the glove falling apart before the new palms though.

Damn Eagle for making their gloves so small. I sold the pair of X70s I had in less than a week, they were so tiny.

He was a drunk, cocky asshole and a few of our players weren't what you'd call "star athletes" and were from Asia and the Middle East, fill in the blanks. We debated calling the campus police on him. Public drunkenness, lewd behavior, having and consuming alcohol at a University event.

I played inter-department for the university last summer. Despite being an engineer, i played with the Computer Science team since a few of my friends were on it. I'm kinda glad though, the Mech.Eng team was a bunch of drunk assholes, their pitcher would not stop making comments that were in very poor taste. Had a good time most games, practices, dinners after the games, etc.

No. I meant the buckets that aren't available yet, getting skates, etc. I'm kind of nervous about getting a co-op in August, I might be filling this thread with a lot of pictures What's on the list to get- New Skates Roller skates for dryland Sticks, shafts and more sticks Gloves Elbows

I still gotta come see you in person next time I'm back home in Detroit. Do you get these wonderful toys just because you're the man and have good friends, or is there a way for an average gear-whore wannabe to get some goodies? Just too bad I can't get a job in your shop.

Beautiful JR

Product is a CCM Vector helmet (V10) size large. Used maybe a dozen times. Paired with my salvaged 4000 TruVision cage. Background - I'm a low lever player, coming from a Bauer 4000 in XL that's opened less than half way. I got the Vector since the current NikeBauer 4500 in XL is narrower than the Bauer, and I wasn't comfortable in the RBK 6k/4k, Mission Intake, M95 or NBH 5500. Fit - Initially had a slight problem with my hair being pulled out. Turns out I needed to put the back on first, not the forehead like I was used to. Gel-like memory foam is very nice, it provides my head with a secure and comfortable hug. This helmet feels like it's contoured to my head and contacts my skull in many more spots than the 4000. It's very snug and opened all the way, takes a moment to get the fit right so no hair is pulled. The temples are a bit tight, but not uncomfortably so. The memory foam also feels like putting on a new helmet each time as it won't keep your head shape for long. Doesn't have a tendency to slip and slide down my brow like the 4000 did, a much more secure fit that stays put, I don't need to rely on the chin cup to keep the helmet in place. Wraps the back of the head more near the base making the helmet very hard to slip off when the cage is snapped close. 10/10 for me Ventilation - I don't feel the need to remove the helmet while I'm on the bench like I did with the 4000. I don't notice more flow when skating, but I never really paid any attention to it. I do, however, notice more sweat dripping down my face from my forehead while on the bench. I'm not sure if the VN in the 4000 absorbed sweat at all, but this bucket certainly isn't. Goalie style sweat band might have been a good consideration, but I've never worn an EPP helmet, so chalk it up to that. 7/10 Protection- Haven't been hit in the head or slammed my head into anything. It does feel like a tank up there, but I hope to never have to test this. No score. Weight - Feels the same as my 4000. I'm not a bobble head and there's no "zomg so light!" when I wear it. I guess there are lighter helmets, but this is perfect for me, no adjusting to a new feeling. 10/10 Durability - I hope this will last 2+ years as my 4000 did. The snaps aren't placed where they can crack the helmet, the tool-free feels really secure and won't be fiddled with often. The helmet doesn't feel like it can flex like my 4000 and the EPP should last a while. The inside looks exactly the same, no wear to any of the memory foam spots, all the graphics intact, no scratches while in the bag or anything. If I had this for another year and it's still rocking the same condition it would get a 10/10, but as-is I can't really give it much of anything. Conclusion - Great bucket if it fits your dome. Fills a niche by being slightly wider than the Intake and narrower than the 6K. Looks sharp and feels great and secure on my head. My Bauer cage mated up perfectly and I had no problem adjusting to it, and I see it as a much better helmet than the 4000 that was built to fit as many heads as possible. Only the sweat issue brings it down, but the VN version (not yet released Vector 8) may be an 11/10 in comparison to this. Final Score 9.5/10 I also snapped a few pics to compare to the 4000. http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y279/rust...et/IMG_0723.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y279/rust...et/IMG_0722.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y279/rust...et/IMG_0721.jpg

The V08 is just a Vector skate. $275 is a good price for them. The U+ isn't just a step up, it's a completely new and revolutionary skate. It's not the V10 with new graphics. It commands more money for its substantial jump in technology.

JR skipped page 21, after the SC1 OPS, just before the ST shafts, I assume the SE shaft would be there as it is "higher" than the ST.

Is that all of what you've got from the Mission and Warrior pro stock orders? LHS only stocks black helmets, I wasn't about to go online after they spent a half hour trying to get every bucket in the shop on my head and had a large Vector sent in from their sister store for me to try. I didn't think there'd be this much issue over it, especially when the helmet it's replacing is also black. I'm still waiting on my toy drive stick and my SE from cougarscaptain. Damn slow mail.

Toolbarn.com - they were $1.50 each and regular hockey squeeze bottles are $5 at my LHS, so I figured what the hell and got 4. These newer ones don't have the white bar at the bottom for your name, and they don't actually say Gatorade (just have the bolt) but they're just the same as my old ones. I had bought 6 from them before when me and 5 friends all got one. I think shipping was $5 or so, but I also got a saw and a rasp for cutting sticks and extensions and cleaning up/shaping the cut end. I absolutely love these bottles. No pull-spout, no leaking when dropped off the bottle shelf on the bench. Some people with the wide hockey bottles wrap tape on them for a little grip, but the grooves on these are great to grab. Nice and slim so you can get your hand around it. My old one got punished pretty bad. During our weekly midnight drop-in my friend who is a goalie constantly forgot his bottle, so halfway through when I could tell he was dying I'd just chuck my bottle out on the ice and if it didn't make it the next rush would get it to the net and he'd sweep it into the goal before he got a chance to grab it. Never had it break when people shot for the bottle on the net either. Edit- this is not only the cheapest I have ever found them, but shipping isn't too bad. I think 7-11 has them for $2 each if you can find them, but I've never seen them there. I was told about ToolBarn a few years ago on GSBB.

Just got a new bucket- Vector to replace my aging 4000 that finally cracked behind the ear and is coming apart. Also got 4 new Gatorade bottles, had to throw out my last one as the mold was growing strong. I love the spouts on these bottles, no more pulling the valve open only to bump it on my cage and have it close again.

I don't think they have a copyright on the metal fish hook letters. Unless there was something else you saw in there? An I assume you were insinuating a Napster redux?

Don't get slashed much, better arm mobility. They attach with velcro straps, I probably wouldn't have permanently removed them. All the benefits of wearing minimal pads with the sternum, clavicle and shoulder protection of a bulky set. I don't wear the shoulders much anyway. They make me really warm and I play no contact college rec, and I don't jump in front of shots.