Thread: Volkl Website

Volkl\\\'s 05/06 website is up!

Very nice.....let me guess, you've been checking everyday since this time last year for the update?







...I have

Ever since I knew I was going to be getting a pair of Mantra's.

Originally Posted by skier666

Very nice.....let me guess, you've been checking everyday since this time last year for the update?







...I have

FKNA!

looked yesterday with no luck, wasn't planning on looking for another week or so...

Stupid Sumo snowblades... Sanouks make me drool as always.

Nice!

I love that in the team section it has in Sarah Burkes' bio that she is making her ski movie debut this year. I guess that until you ski on Volkl's you don't really exist.

debut in a warren miller film, if you actually read the bio....

Originally Posted by jonski

debut in a warren miller film, if you actually read the bio....

. This year, Sarah makes her ski movie debut in the new Warren Miller Entertainment film Higher Ground.

You tell me.

I can't wait to get my new Gotamas. Soooo sexy!

Except for the white bases...not that I ever crash and lose a ski...nope...never...

Originally Posted by Arty50

I can't wait to get my new Gotamas. Soooo sexy!

Except for the white bases...not that I ever crash and lose a ski...nope...never...

The 190cm Gotama's I saw in NZ had black bases. The smaller sizes were white. Not sure if this will be universal or not.

Originally Posted by slim

The 190cm Gotama's I saw in NZ had black bases. The smaller sizes were white. Not sure if this will be universal or not.

Half are white, half are black. Size doesn't matter. No rhyme or reason...It's luck of the draw. Thicker than last year's base.

Originally Posted by weibo

I love that in the team section it has in Sarah Burkes' bio that she is making her ski movie debut this year. I guess that until you ski on Volkl's you don't really exist..

The current "team" page is only a temporary cut-and-paste job. A new, thorough, Team roster will be up in a few weeks.

We know it's not Sarah's first film, but sometimes even we make a mistake.

Sarah will also be in Hit List.

Originally Posted by slim

The 190cm Gotama's I saw in NZ had black bases. The smaller sizes were white. Not sure if this will be universal or not.

I noticed that last years karmas had the base colors inversed half way through the season. The mantras I've noticed also had orange bases, but the web shows black?

Heard intresting stuff about 05-06 Gotamas.
One dude that has ridden all years (budha,calligraph and new one) said that the new ski suck.Well, not suck, but is inferior to the old ones.
The reason is apparently that they have removed the titanal layer(well,metall anyway) and replaced it with a carbon fibre one.
The result is poorer torsional rigidity and thus poorer edgehold.Some talk about the ski being even chatterier on ice than before. Ski is supposedly a bit stiffer longitude wise, wich makes it a more dificult "carver" on soft spring slop or new snow on the slopes. The tip has a tendency to go straight,instead of bend (wich the old explosives are famous off...).

But as said, theese are only talk, not fact.Well,exept for the guy who has skied them.

Anyway.

Originally Posted by Meathelmet

Heard intresting stuff about 05-06 Gotamas.
One dude that has ridden all years (budha,calligraph and new one) said that the new ski suck.Well, not suck, but is inferior to the old ones.
The reason is apparently that they have removed the titanal layer(well,metall anyway) and replaced it with a carbon fibre one.
The result is poorer torsional rigidity and thus poorer edgehold.

But as said, theese are only talk

False. Structurally, the ski is the same it ever was, except for the sidewalls.

There never was a full titanal topsheet in any version of the Gotama. The first two versions had exposed titanal top edges - not a full topsheet. The new one has these also, but they are covered by the new ABS sidewall.

There is no carbon fiber in a Gotama.

nothing like getting it from the horse's mouth.

EDIT: Man, could that ever be taken the wrong way.

Originally Posted by squaretail

False. Structurally, the ski is the same it ever was, except for the sidewalls.

There never was a full titanal topsheet in any version of the Gotama. The first two versions had exposed titanal top edges - not a full topsheet. The new one has these also, but they are covered by the new ABS sidewall.

There is no carbon fiber in a Gotama.

Thank you for the info!
As said, that was only talk.

And btw, the first version (black budha)did not have the titanal top edges. The 2nd year,calligraph got them.

squaretail, I sent you a pm.....

Originally Posted by Meathelmet

And btw, the first version (black budha)did not have the titanal top edges. The 2nd year,calligraph got them.

Indeed. You are correct, Meat.

Squaretail, Thanks for the good information.
Now if Volkl would buy themselves out of K2...

I love my 03/04s, with the exception of the well-noted sidewall and topsheet issues, they make me way happy. I blew the walls on mine last season after about 30 days, and local folks here told me that Volkl wouldn't warrantee becuase it looked like user damage rather than defect, so Mr AG plugged it up with some epoxy, and they're almost good as new. They will serve well as my touring ski this season.

However, the new Goats are sexy. Like Angelina Jolie sexy. Topsheet is sweet, ABS sidewalls look burl. Its nice to hear that they also have a thicker base. If they ski the way the old ones did, these structural improvements should put the skis over the top, IMO.

They have just been chillin in my kitchen all summer, giving me come-hither looks. Its breaking my heart to keep telling them "Just wait until November".