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english, do you have a profile cut into the steel for more forward lean on your Cobras? I tried a custom profile and wish I had gone for physical lifts for the number of times it's been sharpened out.

I'm not a fan of them. My friend has a shaft and I couldn't stand the shape and finish of the shaft, it felt too small and plasticy. I've been looking for a deal on Vapor or 4-roll gloves in those colors for a while though.

Nice floors, and I love that color on the mitts. I wish my XXs were Red/White/Blue.

Looks more straight Drury to me, he's got the shaft opened a bit in the pic. I don't know if I'm crazy, but i was looking at the new stock of Easton sticks at my LHS and the Drury looked like it had a bit of a toe hook to it, rather than just the general heel wedge. I was shocked.

And that a big-box online retailer with physical retail outlets would be the sole carrier as it was added to the booking after most retailers put in orders.

Shop around on that one... I had one ford dealer in the northern twin cities quote me $160 and another ford dealer in the south metro did it for around $60 Don't buy a Volvo. I think mine are $250 a piece, good thing the car came with 3.

You can often find the remotes on ebay and there should be instructions on the internet somewhere. Usually it's something like turning the key in the ignition a couple times, dancing around the car under a full moon and sacrificing a chicken. Depends on the car. If it has anything special like an immobilizer or factory security, dealer may be only option. My car's fob broke and fell in the snow somewhere and I've just been using the key ever since (remotes are $10 on eBay, $100 to program at the stealer).

The one I've got is a short-bladed heel hook.

It wasn't just the behavior at the pedal. Call me crazy, but I adhere to the turbo stipulations about warmup and cool down times pretty stringently. Start the car, let it sit a minute and drive it like gramps until the temp gauge pops up into the warm section, let the car sit for a minute after having the car on the highway for more than 30 minutes or after driving hard around town where I'm red-lining it a bunch. Call me crazy or overprotective or whatever, but just the fear of running a cold turbo gets me to slow down. Plus my car shifts like piss and holds gears too high in the rev-range when I drive normally and it's cold.

No. My Volvo was $8k and it was a 2001. I was looking through listings and found some deals hovering around $15k for '02 or '03 models with less than 60k miles. I figure $10k cash with at least $5k trade-in. My heart's not set on an Audi, but after driving a $40k euro wagon, I don't think a Taurus is in my immediate future. I found a great deal on a great looking CTS as well, but I'm just more drawn to wagons.

kk2- You'd be surprised what people who know what they're doing can do with forced intake systems to get the torque curve to flatten nicely. Most of my beef is with the Volvo setup anyway. The boost doesn't kick in until upwards of 2500 revs and the throttle tip-in is so horrible I have to use the accelerator in the parking lot to inch along. Idling won't move the car unless I'm on a hill. Spreedizzle- I'm going used and probably going for something just north of $10k. I need to see how much I can get for trade-in on my Volvo though.

I seek out cane sugar soft drinks. A lot of micro-brew rootbeer, Jones Soda, etc. Anyway, on cars. I'm going to start looking to replace my XC70 with something a little less safety and a little more sporty. I was thinking an A6 quattro avant since allroads are hard to find and stick to natural aspiration. My stint with turbochargers will probably be over unless I find one with really nice low-band torque and good throttle response.

The government subsidizes gas prices for the public in all of those countries with absurdly low prices. Plus they use a higher ethanol blend with homegrown crops. E85 came from latin and south american countries that can make it cheaper than water.

Hi, I'm Ross and I have a slight Addiction. From the bottom; My dad's college stick Woodie Koho my friend left behind RBK 1k Street hockey stick SE cut OPS shaft with wood Christian blade SE Drury SE painted ST- Sergei Zubov Ballistik Senior Light with V4 Ovechkin blade TPS Rubber whip with Robert Lang blade XXXX P91A One70 PM9 9KO Phaneuf 6K cut OPS with Sickick paint, Christian wood blade Koho street hockey stick junior (great for indoor ball work) SherWood 950 Soderstrom goal stick 8 of these were obtained from members here, as well as some blades. Wider shot http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y279/rust...ar/IMG_0884.jpg

Using a monitor with jacks for it or bought the DVI cable for the 360?

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.