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The "I need to brag about a gear purchase" thread
Somebody just got jetted out for next year.
gotta love end of season deals! Set my 12 year old son up with a new pair of Blizzard Cochese Team skis and Tecnica Firebird SC 90 boots. Orange is officially the new black lol
gotta love end of season deals! Set my 12 year old son up with a new pair of Blizzard Cochese Team skis and Tecnica Firebird SC 90 boots. Orange is officially the new black lol
My two newest toys. Head Wild Joys. I also have a pair of Renoun Z90s I LOVE. I'll keep one at Bromley and the other at Magic.
Ever seen someone winning a WC event on 80mm Monsters? No? There you go then.
Anyway, point is this marketing BS is effing annoying at times, otherwise I have no doubts that the skis are great.
They look great, enjoy your new skis.
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I ordered the 174 AM version and plan to put SHIFT bindings on them for occasional skinning. Should be a similar construction as the Pure99/Namaste. I was waiting/hoping for Blossom to build a R87 shaped ski with thin metal layers for years. Now I have it.
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I missed out on the Augment AM88C. I'm hoping this is the next best thing. Bindings go on today.
I think this is an important point & I’d love @Philpug to do more in this space here.
For mortals (this means me!) a Kendo / Monster / Corvus is a performance ski bc I can bend the arc like a WC modulates their skis.
*Sure, I’d love a Kendo 75 instead of 88 but hey…. we can dream.
Lose that binding ASAP. Almost anything but that Salomon demo.
Isn’t there some Deacon in 75ish underfoot? Deacons are very nice.
Another ski that would sell in the tens ... at cloeout. LOL.
Just curious why, I don't think I ever heard you say anything bad about Salomon bindings.
That was a bad demo binding, a ton of extra weight and very loose with a good amount of disconect from the ski. I have said a lot of bad against the Z heel, that should have been retired years before it was. It was never meant to be used on a ski over 75mm underfoot and the frame would break with too mich lateral stress.
What Phil said. Mamie had the heel track cracked in Rasta Chute at Snowbird, 2014. Not exactly what I would called a enjoyable experience. Check the rest of the skis with Salomon Z bindings in our family. Found 6 other pairs of Z binding with partial cracks in the heel track.
You can draw your own conclusions. I have already came to mine long ago.
Thanks. I'll see what I have in the garage for bindings to put on here instead. Would the issue that you described be more of an issue for an aggressive skier? I get free release checks at my mountain so was thinking I'd get them set to my boots and take a couple runs on them. If we gel together then I'll replace the bindings.
I liked the way my Ripstick 96 BEs tracked on groomers (but got bumped out of the quiver by the 2023 Rustler 9s). So, I have become carve-curious, but still want to be able to dabble in the bumps. These are replacing the last Gen Rossi Exp 88s in my quiver. Going to slap some Protectors on (not pictured, but got a great deal on those as well) for good measure.
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Visited the Sports Den in SLC and purchased these boots with a custom foot pad for my wife. Total package $400. Going to be a more enjoyable season for her next year.
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You sound disturbingly familiar with her feet .........
My silly additions to the fleet;
