2023 Sneak Peek Gear

[James]

Brown is the only colour I hate with passion. Hate it!

So late fall is a nightmare?

We live in a world of brown. Think about it.

Juan Gris

 

[cantunamunch]

We live in a world of brown. Think about it.

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Juan Gris

Do we? Do we really? Or are our oranges just badly lit?

 

[Tony Storaro]

So late fall is a nightmare?

Nah...it is yellow and orange and red. And melancholic. It is beautiful.

 

[Tony Storaro]

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DRIVE, DON'T FOLLOW, FASHION!

Please man, don't give me ideas. I am this close to buying a fluo yellow onesie anyway. Just so I can combine it with them Bianchi Rangers 102 and mightily piss my buddies off.

 

[ski otter 2]

I don't feel like they would destroy the Blue on purpose, but devoting their marketing budget and guiding athletes towards the Rossi set-up makes sense, since they have the skis. I bet they continue the Lange boots as an alternative, but it becomes a Rossi first race program.

It already has. It's just the racing ski/boot public/programs has/have yet to catch up, and get with the program - or even want to.

I know I haven't, and maybe won't unless they force me to. (The Lange RS 130 is my boot, and has been for quite a while now: I have a fourth, newer pair waiting for when my current pair/liner wears out, if ever. And I'd just get a new Lange liner, except the boot design/mold changed slightly.)

It was easy for Rossi to downgrade and wither the independence of the Dynastar top level race program, since Dynastar was never tops, and Rossi was number one or two each year with skis. Doing the same to Lange is harder, since Lange was/is number one or number two (number two if one has a flat arch for the Heads, instead of a normal, healthy arch for the Langes. )

 

[Tony Storaro]

It already has. It's just the racing ski/boot public/programs has/have yet to catch up, and get with the program - or even want to.

I know I haven't, and maybe won't unless they force me to. (The Lange RS 130 is my boot, and has been for quite a while now: I have a fourth, newer pair waiting for when my current pair/liner wears out, if ever. And I'd just get a new Lange liner, except the boot design/mold changed slightly.)

It was easy for Rossi to downgrade and wither the independence of the Dynastar top level race program, since Dynastar was never tops, and Rossi was number one or two each year with skis. Doing the same to Lange is harder, since Lange was/is number one or number two (number two if one has a flat arch for the Heads, instead of a normal, healthy arch for the Langes.)

So perhaps we shall stock up on last year's bright blue RS 130 then?

 

[ski otter 2]

Please man, don't give me ideas. I am this close to buying a fluo yellow onesie anyway. Just so I can combine it with them Bianchi Rangers 102 and mightily piss my buddies off.

Oh, dear Tony! What color(s) do the luxury car makers often reserve for their top level/model versions? Brown and gold (warmer feel), and/or black and gold (colder/cooler feel). Ha!

Will all threads devolve to a fashion/color show, if given long enough to do so?
Besides, my brother's color has always been brown. It looks real good on him.

For years I've generally been in line first thing for first chair in the morning before the lifts open. Beside me for two of those years at Copper Mt., when I went there, which was usually, was Fred, the yellow banana, in his yellow onesie. No mistaking him! But this year he stopped coming. Did he join you where you are?

 

[ski otter 2]

So perhaps we shall stock up on last year's bright blue RS 130 then?

"When a body sees a body, comin' thro the rye!" Now you're giving me ideas!

 

[Tony Storaro]

"When a body meets a body, comin' thro the rye!" Now you're giving me ideas!

They are at a nice discount around here and I am definitely buying a pair of the current ones and keeping them secret and safe in a cool and dry place.
Just to be on the safe side you know. Conservative approach. For you never know...

 

[Tony Storaro]

Oh, dear Tony! What color(s) do the luxury car makers often reserve for their top level/model versions?

Ermmm....black?

 

[Premier Skis]

Any word on the sizing for the Pure 94?

Still in development, but I'll post something when I know.

 

[ski otter 2]

Ermmm....black?

I'm sorry, I worded that wrong, confusing. Both black and gold, and brown and gold are the top of the line luxury interiors most used by Car makers, instead of all other options. (Brown looks more like natural leather, probably.) So someone out there likes brown and gold, anyway.

I can understand how some colors have associations or just bug people the wrong way, though.
I'm that way with bug green, the bright neon lime green so prevalent today. (And common in bug blood, where copper replaces iron in their chemistry.)

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Brown is clearly the color of choice for some.

 

[Tony Storaro]

(And common in bug blood, where copper replaces iron in their chemistry.)

It is blue. Oxygenated hemocyanin is blue.

The only brown I tolerate is that in the interior of a British race green Morgan. And on some shoes. And belts. And other leather stuff.
But ski clothing? Suits? Absolutely not!

 

[cantunamunch]

Will all threads devolve to a fashion/color show, if given long enough to do so?

Yes. Since most novelties are nothing but fashion exercises anyway.

I'm sorry, I worded that wrong, confusing. Both black and gold, and brown and gold are the top of the line luxury interiors most used by Car makers, instead of all other options. (Brown looks more like natural leather, probably.) So someone out there likes brown and gold, anyway.

I can understand how some colors have associations or just bug people the wrong way, though.
I'm that way with bug green, the bright neon lime green so prevalent today. (And common in bug blood, where copper replaces iron in their chemistry.)

Brown is clearly the color of choice for some.

James May?

 

[ZionPow]

Any changes to the Salomon Shift 13 bindings? Will the Strive replace the STH 2 or Warden? Thanks

 

[ski otter 2]

It is blue. Oxygenated hemocyanin is blue.

The only brown I tolerate is that in the interior of a British race green Morgan. And on some shoes. And belts. And other leather stuff.
But ski clothing? Suits? Absolutely not!

Yeah, whatever the chemistry, bug blood is often bright neon, slime green, not blue.
(I had bug collections and identifications as a kid, enough to know firsthand.)

 

[Philpug]

Any changes to the Salomon Shift 13 bindings? Will the Strive replace the STH 2 or Warden? Thanks

No change in the Shift. The Strive replaces the Sth2 13, the Sth2 16 and Warden stay in the line because they are MNC

 

[ski otter 2]

I wish the new Rossi Black Ops were a rich, warm brown with gold instead of the murky, thin underwater green with fish that has apparently overtaken them.

 

[ARL67]

A local shop had the new Atomic Bent lineup on the floor - top sheets look reeeally good in person . I will be after a wider ski so will keep on eye on the reviews.

 

[James]

Lange race boots haven’t always been blue. But maybe 30yrs of some sort of blue.

1980’s