Torpedo Tobbogans, My name is Scott Wiersdorf and I represent the Tubbing Foundation of America (TFA). We have been buyers of your plastic toboggans since your product appeared on the shelves of our local sporting goods stores over ten years ago. The TFA (http://www.tubbing.com/) is an "extreme sledding" organization which uses your toboggans, almost exclusively, for our excursions in the greater mountain ranges of Utah and Idaho. We have been organized for over fifteen years and have covered hundreds of miles (collectively) in your plastic toboggans. While we're not widely known (we are not a marketing organization, but, rather, simply enthusiasts), we are respected wherever we go. The toboggans we used when our organization was first formed were the red Coleco toboggans. These worked well for most of our needs. We found, however, that the Coleco toboggans did not perform well under extreme conditions because the plastic they used was thin and would become brittle in cold weather conditions. We began to buy Paris brand toboggans. We found that these performed very well for most of our needs. We found that riviting two of these toboggans together provided added strenth and stiffness and improved our ride generally. As Paris toboggans became scarce, we turned to Torpedo toboggans, whose early models were nearly exactly like the Paris models. Later Torpedo models, however, deviated from the original Paris models in several ways: they were made of a thicker plastic, their hull was a little deeper, and their nose was more blunt. We have a few suggestions which would make your toboggan a more efficient vehicle. Our first suggestion is to make the nose of all your models more gentle. The blunt nose is not streamlined at all and causes the toboggan to 'dig' into the snow. This makes sledding on most terrains sluggish and inefficient. This is our chief complaint about Torpedo toboggans. Our second suggestion is to keep your current line of toboggans. We have noticed the black plastic toboggan is somewhat different than the colored toboggans. We like using both models for a variety of terrains and often 'couple' the two models together. Our third suggestion is to make sure all toboggan models fit snugly inside each other. Sometimes when we couple two toboggans with rivits, there are large gaps between the two toboggans, which puts additional strain on the toboggan, which causes them to crack in certain conditions. Needless to say, this can be dangerous in some situations. Thank you for your time. I hope you consider these suggestions; our organization and others like ours would be very pleased. Should you have any questions, please contact me at the address below. Respectfully, Scott Wiersdorf scott@tubbing.com