New Skis

nuff said

Trencher

ise wrote:People do pay real money for their skis and want to look after them I'm just mentioning the sort of icy surface that's common on red or even blue runs in the alps that most of us find ourself skiing on. This is the normal sort of terrain for us all I thought, it's why manufacturers ship skis at 1'/1' give or take. To suggest it's not good for carving or ice is the exact reverse of what's true.

Maybe just a little more

Most manufacturers do not ship 1'/1'. For instance all Volkl skis are shipped with an 2' side bevel. As for carving, 87 degree side bevel is pretty standard. You can carve on 1'/1', but it's not ideal.

As for scaring people that they will wreck their edges with an 87 degree side bevel, that's just not true. If you refiled back to 89 from 87 degrees, you would need a micrometer to see how much edge you had lost. Definitely nothing to worry about.

BTW I have never said that I ski much other than on piste, and I don't talk about stuff I don't do nearly every day, for four, or five months of the year.

The real issue here is that there are often different views on any subject. Trashing someone, however subtly, because you disagree is just going to cause arguments.

Trencher

Trencher wrote:
There's a good reason Jan and other people no longer post on this forum.

Trencher

I couldn't have put it better myself. I miss him.