Palmer P01 TwinTip Review

**ExoticSkis** · 04-25-2007, 08:24 PM

Anyone else skied Palmer's twintips yet?

Here is a quick summary of my outing on them...
Full review with some pics at:

http://www.exoticskis.com/ExoticSkis...x?g=posts&t=13

Wicked easy to ski. Goes anywhere with very, very little effort. This is the kind of ski you might want to ride the first ski day after getting your ACL fixed. Great spring ski. Really soft. One observer stopped me and said "Looks like you're having fun...that ski just flops down the hill through the bumps and corn snow like nothing...kinda cool watching it flap." (true quote). More grip than you might expect for a ski that can smear in any direction with the best of them. Suprising snap if you load up the tail and let it fly...comes back down soft as you like. I think Palmer has hit on a ski with appeal to newbies and park rats. Excellent maneuverability. Nice job....just no excitement. Extremely light weight (nice to see ...don't knock a light ski)

While they are pleasingly damp, I wouldn't want to get them up to warp speed on a hard surface...I think they'd get you unglued...but then again, that's not what they're for.

Palmer says these skis could be for beginners or experts...hard target to hit...but they might have done it...now, if they only had some more...something....

**Tuckerman** · 04-26-2007, 07:12 AM

Originally Posted by ExoticSkis

Anyone else skied Palmer's twintips yet?

Here is a quick summary of my outing on them...
Really soft, that ski just flops down the hill, kinda cool watching it flap.

Yeah that sounds great if you like really soft, floppy, flap skis. Or if your soft and delicate like a tulip.

Squatch · 04-26-2007, 07:32 AM

I am very much like a tulip. I think I will get me some. Do they come in a 195?

**ExoticSkis** · 04-26-2007, 07:36 AM

Tuckerman....Some like 'em HARD...some like 'em FLOPPY... I like 'em harder...

I hear there's some guy maybe related to you doing the "adventure" outings at Sugarbush who skis floppy Dynastars....rides a fluffy dirtbike too...next time you talk to him, tell him ExoticSkis says he should get some hard skis and a man's dirtbike...

**ExoticSkis** · 04-26-2007, 07:38 AM

Originally Posted by Squatch

I am very much like a tulip. I think I will get me some. Do they come in a 195?

179 is as big as they make 'em.

Squatch · 04-26-2007, 07:43 AM

Originally Posted by ExoticSkis

179 is as big as they make 'em.

Dang, the giant obese tulip segment must be smaller than I thought.

**s.p.c** · 04-26-2007, 08:00 AM

Originally Posted by ExoticSkis

Tuckerman....Some like 'em HARD...some like 'em FLOPPY... I like 'em harder...

I hear there's some guy maybe related to you doing the "adventure" outings at Sugarbush who skis floppy Dynastars....rides a fluffy dirtbike too...next time you talk to him, tell him ExoticSkis says he should get some hard skis and a man's dirtbike...

Sounds like Uncle Jesse or Egan?

**ExoticSkis** · 04-26-2007, 08:04 AM

Originally Posted by s.p.c

Sounds like Uncle Jesse or Egan?

Mr. Egan.....

**Tuckerman** · 04-26-2007, 12:48 PM

Not related but I'll let him know. And what I am trying to say is that when you are trying to make penetration most of the time its easier to warm it up first you know rub it a little get it wet. Don't just try to jam the reviews in all dry stuff. If they are good skis someone will post a review. Now the Dynastar Legend Pro is not all that soft, or floppy.

**skimasterflex** · 04-28-2007, 02:30 PM

You forgot the most improtant part, they are $600 MAP, more than any other floppy park ski ever made. All of the Palmers are priced at a good 2X what they are worth/how they perform. Good to know they're passing on the startup costs of ski building to the customers.

**ExoticSkis** · 04-28-2007, 08:20 PM

Originally Posted by skimasterflex

You forgot the most improtant part, they are $600 MAP, more than any other floppy park ski ever made. All of the Palmers are priced at a good 2X what they are worth/how they perform. Good to know they're passing on the startup costs of ski building to the customers.

Price is VERY important, especially with a "park and pipe" ski that gets the b'jeepers beat out of them and have a short lifespan under a hard-core user...

MSRP quoted from Palmer on their two skis:

P01: $750 usd
P02 with Tyrolia / Palmer Binding: $1200 usd, w/o binding:$ 900 usd

**ExoticSkis** · 05-04-2007, 06:20 AM

Got back on the Palmer TwinTips yesterday...Finished up the year in bottomless corn snow (smooth in the AM, cut up and deep in the PM), and the thing that sticks in my mind after getting back on the Palmer P01 twintips is "effortless". This ski really requires no muscle or effort to go into a turn or come out. It definitely has an upper speed limit, beyond which it starts to flake-out...but it's not meant for high speed...manuvering is what it's all about...and it does it well.

A superbly soft, all-terrain ski for nearly anyone who does not muscle their ski or expect it to hold tight at mach speeds. Goes in and out of the bumps with no effort, turn here, turn there...no problem. Floppy at speed cutting across the shin-deep corn waves, but docile. This ski would appeal to a HUGE audience who are not hard-cores. One woman who tested the ski today said it would be ideal for intermediates looking to go in any terrain and get off the groomers all the time...just don't push DOWN on it too hard...it'll go away on you...it's not meant to be pushed down on...just steer it. Nice pop at the end of a soft snow turn...freindly...never explosive... Again, effortless and easy ride and it could go anywhere but the race course or nasty windcrud. Nice ski for the masses. Palmer hit their target audience...right on the money.

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