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Best Base Layer Ever

BLThis year I was having a hard time figuring out what I wanted to get my wife for our anniversary.  One thing that came to mind was a new set of base layers.  That is always a safe bet around our house.  Well after looking over Backcountry.com for a bit I came across something that I have been debating on getting for myself for quite some time.  Not wanting to pull the classic anniversary bowling ball gift scenario, I decided that it was best to get us both a one, in matching smurf blue.

What you might ask.  Well it is the AirBlaster Ninja Suit, and it is by far one of the best purchases I have made in a long time. Even though I  hate to report that the wife returned hers.  (I will talk about why in just a bit.)

As for mine, well again this thing rocks and here are a few points why.

  1. One-piece means, one less waist band, and one less shirt coming un-tucked, and one less thing around my neck. With the integrated hood it is solid coverage from head to ankle.  This has been a much bigger advantage than I expected and why I am placing it at the top of the list.
  2. Integrated hood, with a high front zipper.  This has basically gotten rid of the need of a balaclava.  Now for someone that likes to have something over there mouth and nose on cold days, this just won’t cover it.  As for me, I like to cover right to the bottom of my chin and stop there.  This is exactly were the Ninja Suits hood comes to and works well for me.  With a little modding it would not be hard to add a small fleece face mask that integrates into the hood.
  3. Long arms with great thumb holes in the cuffs.  I have heard some people call them monkey paws, but what ever you call them these work, and work well.
  4. Small and simple, around the waist, waist disposal zipper.  Yep that is how I am saying it.  Instead of a flap in the back like your grandpa used to have, the whole thing practically zips into two parts.  This was a plus for my but a minus for my wife and the reason why she returned hers.  The zipper just wasn’t quite in the right place and made the process much more complicated.

Now I have the synthetic version, but Airblaster does make a version out of merino wool.  One day this will get added to my  bag of goods.  They also make a cheaper version that I hope to get my hands on at the up coming SIA show.   I will let you know what I think.    As far as the price goes, you just have to remind yourself you are getting a top, and bottom together.

With all that said I highly recomed giving the Ninja Suit a try.    Check out Airblaster at http://www.myairblaster.com/

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FREE CHACOS

chacoChaco will randomly choose 5 people from the next 500 who follow chaco on Twitter to receive a free pair!  This rocks.  Who couldn’t use a new pair of chacos.

Follow them here.  http://twitter.com/chacousa

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Perfect 10 snow dive

This is an amazing little clip of a fox hunting in the snow.

via The Goat via Wend

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All You Haters

Voted number one bike hipster music video of the day by some random guy with campy cranks, and a brooks saddle.

via: Urban Velo

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Random Post Monday.

Just a few things that I saw this morning that made me laugh.

Science Jokes to Brighten Your Monday Morning via. Boingboing.net

Some things just don’t translate in to ski-masks well. via: Boingboing.net

Pikachu_convertible_ski_mask_by_Sugarcoatidli3z

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Shane McConkey — In Deep tribute

via: The Goat – thanks for posting this. I was hoping it would show up online.

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I can dream can’t I?

Here is a video of Adam McCoy abosultly killing it on his Transition Bottle Rocket.  I wish I could do all that on mine, but hey, its at least nice to know I could.  :)

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Barred For Life

Chain Link Productions just released there new movie “Barred for Life”. This is getting added to my collection. Here are a few teasers, if you actually need some convincing to pick up a copy.  Buy it HERE.

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