Want to win TWO movie tickets to the November 4th premier of Race Across the Sky 2010 in Denver at the Paramount Denver Theatre? Answer the trivia question below and send your answer to dax@backbonemedia.net to be entered in the random drawing. Only correct answers will be collected. One winner gets two movie tickets! Question: What’s the name and altitude of the halfway point aid station on the LT100 MTB course? Contest starts today and ends on Monday, November 1st at noon MST. You are responsible for you own travel to and from event.

Race Across The Sky 2010 from Citizen Pictures on Vimeo.

Another rowdy season for the K2 Snowboarding crew is about to begin. It’s snowing in the Rocky Mountains, six inches in Jackson Hole and a few more in Aspen! It’s time to get those Boa Lacing System boots dialed in and check out the latest K2 Team Video featuring Boa lovers Gretchen Blieler and Travis Parker. Enjoy!

Reel Pink in action! 30 Boa employees, friends, and family members were pretty in pink on October 3rd. That was the day they joined over 50,000 people united in downtown Denver for the Race for the Cure, one of the nation’s biggest such events to help fight breast cancer.

The Boa Team, called “Lace for the Cure”, worked together to raise $1,555 for the Denver Metropolitan Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization. The team ranged from Boa’s Inventory Coordinator aiming to crack the 20-minute barrier for the 5K distance, to those aiming to simply complete the 3.1-mile course. The whole team was united for one common purpose, however: to do their part in helping to fight breast cancer.

Boa Lace for the Cure team members and friends meet before the big event.

“We had speedsters running for time and also recreational walkers,” says Boa President Mark Soderberg, who also took part in the event. “The important thing is that we were out there, supporting a very important cause that affects so many of us, both directly and indirectly.”

Accounts Payable Specialist Alyse Monachino honored the cause by running her first-ever race. “Race for the Cure was a way for me to set a goal and challenge myself,” she says. “It is about being happy and feeling healthy.”

Boa Technology’s participation in Race for the Cure reflects part of a larger company commitment to helping beat breast cancer. In September, the company launched its “Reel Pink” promotion, which provides pink Boa dials to anybody donating $10 to the Beast Cancer Network of Strength. More information, including how to donate, can be found at: www.boatechnology.com/reelpink.

Check out this Boa Lacing System review! Fast Company highlights the latest and greatest from DC featuring the Boa Focus system. Click the pic to read the review.

Following the overwhelming success of the Korkers Guide and Predator wading boots in 2010, more and more fishing manufactures are seeing the light and recognizing the benefits the Boa Lacing System adds to superior fly fishing product and apparel. Check out this Boa Lacing System review from the crew at Midcurrent.com covering the new Simms RiverTrek wading boot.

Orginally Posted on Midcurrent.com

In early August, we visited the Simms design and production facility in Bozeman, Montana to get a sneak peek at their new wading boot, the RiverTek Boa, which features PVC uppers for super-easy cleaning and the Boa Lacing System. For those who haven’t tried Boa laces — a coated braided wire system that tightens via a knob at the top of the boot tongue — they make lace-tightening and fit a no brainer. But more importantly, if your fingers are freezing, wet, or just tired, the instant-release feature makes boot removal a breeze. The new RiverTek Boa also features Simms’s CleanStream design along with their Vibram StreamTread.

With a Boa lacing system providing simple, even closure, the Rivertek is designed to take Simms wading boots to the next level in environmentally conscious design. Featuring StreamTread Vibram soles and minimum exposed stitching, the boot is specifically designed to be easy to clean.

The RiverTek Boa will begin showing up at Simms retailers in the Spring of 2011 and will retail for $169.95.

We usually don’t poach content directly from an email or article online, but this time we copied a note sent to us via Team Honey Stinger/Trek Captain Len Zanni. His email sums up the presence Team Honey Stinger had at the 2010 24 Hours of Moab this past weekend. They rocked it! Here’s the email below and we will get more photos up once they are available!

From Len:
Below is an initial report with some editorial coverage links/ pics/ video from 24 Hours of Moab. Thanks to your support we had a great cap to the season and scored some National Championship jerseys (to add to Pete Kalmes’ National title from Cat 1 earlier). We had a huge presence this year with multiple teams wearing the kit and/ or racing under the Honey Stinger/ Trek team name. The announcer must have said Honey Stinger hundreds of times!

Click this pic for more images on Honey Stinger's Facebook page

2010 24 Hours of Moab Team Honey Stinger/Trek Results
1st Duo pro co-ed – Sari Anderson and Max Taam (Sari had fastest women’s lap time)
1st 4 person men’s – Len, Jay Henry (racer who likes our stuff), Ross Schnell (Stinger athlete), Kalan Beisel (Stinger grassroots athlete)
2nd Men’s Duo pro – Nate and Dax Massey
2nd Women’s solo – Kris Cannon
1st place singlespeed 4 person men’s team had Michael Hayes from Carbondale who is on the race team too
12th Chris Tamucci’s Mooch’s competitive Men’s Sports team
*1st place 35+ National Championship team was from Basalt Bike and Ski so guys I know from down here. They are a dealer too and our logo is on their kit!

Are you riding in yesterday’s product or tomorrow’s snowboard boot lacing technology? Today, performance-minded riders around the globe are turning to the Boa Lacing System when it comes to snowboard boot laces for the precision, durability, convenience and comfort our technology provides.

So, the question is, are you ready to get dialed in with Boa?

Why Boa is Best in Snow from Boa Technology on Vimeo.

Click HERE to see all brands that feature Boa snowboard boot laces.

Boa snowboard boot laces deliver what pull cord systems can’t.

GUARANTEED FOR LIFE
The Boa Closure system is designed with aircraft grade stainless steel cable and bomb-proof nylon reel guides that are designed to take all the abuse you can throw at them. The revolutionary Boa Closure System Is backed by the Dialed In For Life Guarantee.

Debunking Boa Snowboard Boot Lace Myths
Myth: “I heard that boa is for beginning snowboarders.”
Fact: Ask pro athletes like Gretchen Blieler and Travis Rice how beginner the solution is. Boa snowboard laces have been on the feet of numerous Olympic and X Game medalists. They turn to Boa for the precision, durability and on-the-fly adjustability that the Boa Lacing System provides.

Myth: “Boa snowboard boot laces are a rental-boot solution, right?”
Fact: The truth is, the Boa user interface is easy to use and understand, which actually does make it a great rental solution. However, here’s the important point. Nearly a third of all boots sold in the world today include the Boa Lacing System. Only seven percent of our entire production goes into the rental market.

Myth: “It doesn’t seem as durable as a traditional lace.”
Fact: With over six million pairs of footwear on the market today, across more than 90 different footwear brands, we still have a warranty support department made up of a single person, and he stays pretty bored. Our equipment is all designed and tested to handle the loads of extreme sports like snowboarding, motocross, and mountain biking.

“Behind The Barriers” Episode 2 starring Lake athlete Jeremy Powers. Jeremy wears the Lake MX330 and a few other top secret Lake creations with Boa…enjoy!

“Behind The Barriers” Episode 2 from Behind The Barriers on Vimeo.

Show you support for the fight against Breast Cancer on your feet! It’s easy! Make a minimum $10 donation to the Breast Cancer Network of Strength® and Boa Technology will send you a free set of pink replacement reels for Boa-powered footwear. The Breast Cancer Network of Strength® is an organization that provides immediate emotional relief to anyone effected by breast cancer.

Reel Pink from Boa Technology on Vimeo.