80% of the time I'm on a ski is a fat (110 underfoot), short and turny ski that plays well almost anywhere. Floatation, ability to blast through chop and *easily* maneuver through trees is what I'm generally after. They also happen to do surprisingly well in bumps, and will actually carve at speed reasonably well on anything but the very iciest conditions. I've run them in beer-league gates, for the fun of it, and the did surprisingly well (maybe that's the beer talking, though.)
I do have a pair of true trench-digging, carving skis (cheater GS boards) that I'll take out for those days where nothing else is left to explore on the fat boards. Lots of grins to be had there.
I really want to take out a pair of Heli Guides but the bases have delaminated considerably. They'd need to have the bases come off, be cleared of rust and grime and relaminated. Anyone have a press?
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Thanks @mishka . The Fulham is along the edges only. I figured peel the base off in one piece, clean base of ski and ptex, then clue back on. I presume I should attempt to keep the camber in the ski while gluing other wise I could just put then base to base and clamp them flat to each other.
p-tex need to have flame treatment for adhesion and preferably ski specific epoxy. I wouldn't clamp ski to ski but do one at a time. You will need a lot of clamps.
Anyway this is OT for this thread .....let me know in PM when you're ready. I'll try to help you
I'll give up rock solid high speed stability in favor of playfulness. I can ski a noodlish ski 'bout as fast as I want better than I can make burly ski leap and bound.
While true, it is not the complete story. It's can be more work, the person might hate it even though their skiing looks good, it may infuence how they ski. The sensations/feedback might be awful. Outside observer wouldn't know.I really think that unless you're at the true limits of the equipment, you can ski most of the day on just about any type of ski.
That so true, the skis I learned on 30+ years ago were toothpicks and yet they had to be all mountain, deep powder or packed ice! Any parabolic ski today with even 78mm+ underfoot would've been called a "fat ski" in those days lol!.....I'm willing to give up super-floaty powder skis...especially when my 80mm all mountains are much wider than what I skied in powder 20 years ago......