Diy monoski?

[mattfredricks]

I was snowed in for a few days during the recent storm and created this. 3/4" plywood bolted to the snowboard where the normal bindings would attach. An old pair of rossi bindings atached to the plywood. I got about 60 miles of riding in on it this week and it held up pretty well. Its about a 155mm so its a little short, which makes it very playful. Thought someone on here might enjoy seeing it.

 

[dbostedo]

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I was snowed in for a few days during the recent storm and created this. 3/4" plywood bolted to the snowboard where the normal bindings would attach. An old pair of rossi bindings atached to the plywood. I got about 60 miles of riding in on it this week and it held up pretty well. Its about a 155mm so its a little short, which makes it very playful. Thought someone on here might enjoy seeing it.

Crazy! Had you monoskied prior to this?

 

[mattfredricks]

Crazy! Had you monoskied prior to this?

Not really, I demoed a monoski at demo day and thought it was fun but not 800 bucks for a setup kind of fun but I picked It up pretty well.

 

[Joshua S]

In the mid-1970s, I built a mono-ski on top of a single regular ski I put a piece of 2x4 on top of the ski, with a piece of 3/4" plywood on top of the 2x4. Then, I screwed the bindings to the plywood. It worked pretty well, but it was a little clunky getting into the bindings.

It would have been nearly impossible to use a surface lift with this contraption. Only one area would not let me on their chairlift with it. Ironically, it was Stratton, who were the first to allow snowboards!

 

[Rod9301]

The mono is so wrong on so many different levels

 

[Joshua S]

The mono is so wrong on so many different levels

The same was said about snowboards 30 years ago. Snowboards caught on. Mono-skis have not.

 

[Rod9301]

The same was said about snowboards 30 years ago. Snowboards caught on. Mono-skis have not.

Nope, snowboards are ok, you're on the inside edge. Monoskis, your always riding the outside edge. That's why they never caught on

 

[crgildart]

Also why the techniski never caught on.. It's the asphalt monoski.. How do you determine how to set the binding DIN? Don't you really need BOTH to pop loose whenever you get in to trouble? Yer gunna die!

 

[James]

We were there just before Monopalooza in Jackson.

 

[Tex]

The same was said about snowboards 30 years ago. Snowboards caught on. Mono-skis have not.

They were doining mono way before snow board. I remember in the 80's the ski lodge I worked at, we had a lot of those old big wheel film projectors, we played those movies for the guests, they loved it. Alot of mono sking like the one below, it was hip and cool back then.

 

[cantunamunch]

Eh, if you can do a White Pass turn, you can monoski.

 

[mattfredricks]

Nope, snowboards are ok, you're on the inside edge. Monoskis, your always riding the outside edge. That's why they never caught on

you are really on the inside edge the whole time it feels like.

 

[mattfredricks]

Also why the techniski never caught on.. It's the asphalt monoski.. How do you determine how to set the binding DIN? Don't you really need BOTH to pop loose whenever you get in to trouble? Yer gunna die!

Yes, you don't want just one to pop out so I chose to set the bindings as high as they go to minimize the chance of realease and just send it.

 

[mattfredricks]

The mono is so wrong on so many different levels

why?

 

[mattfredricks]

In the mid-1970s, I built a mono-ski on top of a single regular ski I put a piece of 2x4 on top of the ski, with a piece of 3/4" plywood on top of the 2x4. Then, I screwed the bindings to the plywood. It worked pretty well, but it was a little clunky getting into the bindings.

It would have been nearly impossible to use a surface lift with this contraption. Only one area would not let me on their chairlift with it. Ironically, it was Stratton, who were the first to allow snowboards!

I had a few liftes and a few safety patrollers give me a bit of a hard time, but most of them were fine after I explained what it was and how it was attached to me. Other than that everyone I talked to loved it and got lots of great comments from lift attendants

 

[mattfredricks]

They were doining mono way before snow board. I remember in the 80's the ski lodge I worked at, we had a lot of those old big wheel film projectors, we played those movies for the guests, they loved it. Alot of mono sking like the one below, it was hip and cool back then.

Almost every I talked to thought it was pretty cool still and weren't surprised when I told them it was more popular in the 80s. But I would have loved to be a part of mono culture back then. That's a really cool video from the prime time of monoskiing.

 

[mattfredricks]

Also why the techniski never caught on.. It's the asphalt monoski.. How do you determine how to set the binding DIN? Don't you really need BOTH to pop loose whenever you get in to trouble? Yer gunna die!

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That thing looks terrifying!

 

[mattfredricks]

The same was said about snowboards 30 years ago. Snowboards caught on. Mono-skis have not.

Maybe they will someday.

 

[mattfredricks]

Update: New coat of stain and a better attached leash.

 

[Joshua S]

I had a few liftes and a few safety patrollers give me a bit of a hard time, but most of them were fine after I explained what it was and how it was attached to me. Other than that everyone I talked to loved it and got lots of great comments from lift attendants

In what year did you have this interaction?