Any way you can post a video of this? The way these boots are designed it's actually really hard for the cuff pivots to develop slop. Traditionally with most boots the rivet is what holds the cuff...

Yeah scraping the wrong way causes damage to the p-Tex base and could cause the hairs (or whatever you want to call them) to face the wrong direction, essentially slowing the ski down. The guy I...

I’ll repeat the only thing that does any sort of damage to a ski by going tail to tip is scraping.. you can brush a ski with the gnarliest steel brush from tail to tip and it won’t do any damage or...

The only thing you shouldn’t do tail to tip is scrape. Everything else it doesn’t matter.

Never push a file, always pull.

Correct

He.. works for backcountry, not sponsored by anyone in particular but I’m sure gets his fair share of product. He probably has more days on zeroG skis in the backcountry over the last 4 years than...

196 Bodacious. Buddy who was one of Theo’s first guides at ARG. Spent maybe 12-14 years guiding up there. Still says a 196 Bodacious is the best ski he’s ever used in AK. He’s about 6’ 230. They...

With the amount of snow Mammoth has they’ll be open until July. There’s got to be camps he can go to there. I would say at 10 don’t bother with Hood. If it’s a must I’d highly recommend a smaller...

Blizzard Rustler Team Pro

It was a one and done for 18/19

It’s a 164 Rustler 10 in a different graphic for less money. On sale if you can find it would be a great deal for an adult ski.

I’ve skied hundreds out of the wrapper and would disagree.

Skied some horribly finished Stockil’s too.

The Helio and ZeroG are very different skis in construction and profile.

There’s no real reason to grind that area very far. They’re not plug boots. You’d be better off punching it.

If you’re gonna be grinding your boots buy a used Foredom on eBay for cheap. And...

What year are your boots?

I’ll give you the exact plastic configuration if you want it.

Those stamps aren’t always correct. They’re put in by hand and someone can always screw that one up.
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They definitely don’t need to be ground, In fact the likelihood of a shop actually doing more damage is greater than them fixing anything that might be wrong.

You should be good to go.

The only...

What year?

120MVs are definitely not PP lowers, the cuff shouldn’t be either.

I would suggest upping the base bevel to closer to 1.5 on the Cochise. You’ve still got your base bevel guide from your race days right? Also take a gummie and/ or sand paper to anything with...

In size 164 yes

If you have high insteps you’d should be looking elsewhere...

Rustler 10 is 100-150g heavier with a core that’s 1mm thicker from tip to tail. Not a dramatic difference but noticeable if you know what you’re looking for.

Rustler 10

So the skis felt fine before right? Like when you first got them. They just started to get a little dull?

If that’s the case and the shop didn’t touch the bases then they’re not edge high or the...

I’d be interested to know what they actually did to the skis. If they ground them or just ran them through the side edger? Did anything by hand?

It sounds like they just might have a hanging...

A little depends on where you’re skiing them. Sorry not paying attention if you said where that is.

I’ve got you by a couple lbs and an inch or so. 180 Bonafides are fun on groomers and in...

It’s stiffer than a Latigo, has a little less rocker

It’s much closer to a Brahma in construction. 98% of what a Brahma 88 is. Just a subtle tweak more for durability when Bruce is out there...

What lightweight construction? Still 2.5 sheets of metal and I think they’re actually heavier now than the original construction.

The sheets of metal still extend to the end of the ski, the...

95 and 85 mount points should be the same. 105s will be slightly forward of the 108s due to obvious length differences. They might be slightly more forward as well just due to a little more modern...

Footbeds, laces, rubber spoilers all come in a bag in the box. If you’re skiing in them without footbeds and you think there’s too much volume then yeah you need footbeds.

Headed to Denver now so I don’t have the skis near me. I believe the mount point is very similar. Rocker profile change is simIlar to how the rocker on say the Bonafide changed. There’s more splay...

Bushwacker has been around last two years. Reintroduced it two years ago as Brahma CA, changed name in 18/19 to Bushwacker

Bodacious and Cochise come back. Bodacious continues with all black...

Not much change. New graphics

Rustler 10 gets a little construction tweak.

Only new ski in the “Freeride” lineup is an 82 wasted Brahma/Black Pearl model. Doubt many people would care about...

There will be limited quantities of the new 19/20 skis available through certain retailers starting in February.

.5* base bevel can be frightening in skis over say 80mm under foot, especially if said skis have any metal in them.

The difference between .5 and 1* base bevel is huge and is magnified as you get...

Torsionally stiff... I think you will find the new skis slightly more “balanced” than the old ones. The tail was the primary focus. To make it release easier and less prone to catching especially...

Titinal does not in itself make a ski stiff.. has more to do with core profile and glass than titinal. There are definitely sidewall materials out there that are quite burly. Didn’t listen to the...

No not the 108 of course... cause it’s heavy. It’s not light enough to really be a touring ski. It’s a bit of no mans land.

I was referring more to the 95s and 85s.

I too have pairs of...

Just to clarify a few things:

Old ZG 108 was just a lighter weight Cochise. It shared the same mold so it had some restrictions on what we could do with it. 95 and 85 were their own molds and...

I’ll call Josh tomorrow..

The pre production models have a slightly offset female piece. It’s not much, but it doesn’t take much to equate to 1 more degree of forward lean.

I thought maybe...

12 is stock

13 when you flip the female piece

Those are pretty modern ski boot angles.

Add a nice thick spoiler in the back and you shoud be good.

For those struggling to get the boots on for one reason or another stick the liner on your foot and shove it into the shell.. works very well especially for those with a high instep. I do the same...

The biggest difference is weight plain and simple. A 1300g boot won’t ski even close to as well as a 2000g boot. Just like a 1300g ski won’t ski nearly as good as a 2000g ski.

Regardless of...

There is much less volume in the cuff of the new boot. I doubt an HV liner will fit in the new ones. You probably won’t need it.

I’d say they fit pretty similar lengthwise. Overall volume of...

Same mounting point

Still has carbon drive, profile has just changed slightly.

I’ve seen a few comments on people thinking skis are base high or enge high lately.

Granted I haven’t checked every ski but I’ve probably hand tuned roughly 1500 pairs over the last 12 years or...

We don’t. Stock out of the wrapper 188s. A few years ago they made some stiffer 193 Cochise for a couple athletes but that’s it when it comes to free ride skis with different layups.

It’s...

192 is indeed stiffer (and wider) than the 188. Which is in turn wider and stiffer than the 180.

Same goes for the 9 and 10.

Not 100% sure but I believe Leo and Loic ski the 188, pretty sure...

I think the biggest issue with the new Spur is people thought it was going to be like the old one when in fact it’s almost the opposite, prolly should have called it a different name.

Old one did...

There are no shims. The metal female piece is offset one way so when you flip it it creates more forward lean. If I had one in front of me I'd take pictures. Literally unscrew the screws, flip the...

All the product photos on the website are taken of early (sometimes pre) production photo samples. Those aren’t rivets designed to look like screws, they’re screws. Most of the early boots are not...

Keep in mind that these boots have a standard boot board that can be sanded down to give you more room over your instep. Not many boots in this weight class do you even have that option.

Widest...