Been eyeing those too. Usually I ski over 100 or sub 80 if it's a refrozen mt until it softens. Not sure I'd use em and I need the longest length.

Blades are also on my radar.

I have some topsheet chips and a small metal chunk out of my 104s where I have cracked em together in steeper tighter trees.

A little JB Weld and a panzer cleaned em a bit. Gonna round off the...

Toes can wiggle in the MV box but they don't ski sloppy at all. I have a high instep and the shadow clamps without pain. Heel pocket grabs the heel.

I have needed sixth toe punches in Langes...

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I assume the violet toe template is what I need to combine with the current heel template which must have not changed as my old heel fore aft bolt span is 32m. Or I can use the one you...

Your 32mm distance between the 10mm and 12mm/19mm and the 8or 10mm/21mm looks correct on the toe for the older pivots. Is the turntable template same as the new pivots? Can't figure out which file...

Is this the right template for these old pivots?


Cant load the heal template. But spacing is a bit further between the screws than the new or old PIVOT heals. The toes look right. I mounted...

Interesting. May not be the same results with a longer Blank tail.

Still real easy to slash those 106s or more.push back and control when you do?

My blanks side was pretty even from the factory.

Line optics 104 side was not even 2. The 114 were closer to a uniform 2. Bases on optics a bit past 1 maybe compensating for slightly concave...

Aurbroaing how much base bevel some companies are sending wider boards with from the factory. Loose goosy.

The original line before k2China. Supacool graphics. Hard to hit those giveaway overstock prices on the Optics with the USA small batch skis.

Are the Leventhals cap/wall like the Optics or full...

Bummer four you and Altacoup. Hope Line takes care of you and the epoxy and clamps do the job.

Hope my China skis dont fall apart. Sounds like a ride til it dies rockski especially if they get...

Great review Bandit.

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The new graphics are less polarizing. The monster varicose metal is a mountain dew extreme statement. The new Optics look a bit more toned down with the neutral...

Nice. I'll br doing the same once I get my bsses sorted. Have you checked your 104 bases from the factory?

I rechecked both 104s and 114s and both seem a bit concave.

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Thanks for the insight. Railed is bad. I have not problem re doing the base bevel and edges. Just hate starting off stone grinding a new ski that should be flat.

Sounds like you are on great ski...

Damper and carves is encouraging. I expect I will be adjusting my stance to more upright. They are forward mounted a cm or so compared to my trusty Motherships - the grandma titanal mapleblock 2900...

190 104s are 2350 each on the bathroom scale.
192 114s are 2575 on the bathroom scale. Lighter than my Motherships.

Same.

Trying to verify this.
I have a few questions about the potential to swap the old pivot 14 5355 afd for a new GW afd..

First, is it worth it to use the old but good px 14s or go with the new...

A Very, Very Yellow Christmas https://g.co/kgs/J2Cki6

^outta make a Viking eagle out of them and feed em to raptors in rehab.

Rad. Very helpful.

I have a few questions about the potential to swap the old pivot 14 5355 afd for a new GW afd..

First, is it worth it to use the old but good px 14s or go with the new attack 14s I have just...

I think I saw a thread, maybe newschoolers, showing some work that had to be done to modify a GW afd to replace the old 5355 afd. I would like to do that on some old 14s that work great.
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I called them for some 5355 heel and toe plates for the GW shadows. They said it would be $50. Either I talked to the wrong rep or you are special.

I have a bunch of toepieces that work, but...

Heavy arrival. Yeee!


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Like to hear how the 104s and 114s go for you when the snow allows.

Blanks are easy and capable fun. Still can carve for a 112 underfoot. If it's big open bowls 194. I like the 186 in the treesand skiing with the kids, but the are a bit short for wide open...

Much appreciated. Kind of what I was wondering. Sound like a big mush up top later. Look like the weather is getting a bit more active the next 2-3 days.

Ouch. Sarcasm aside...Sounds like you had a great time and luckily missed a soaking and t-storm lift holds.

Back for more Tuesday despite the T-storm chance? Must be luving it. Spoke to a guy...

Looks super cruisy today. Should be fun til 1. Canceling next weeks trip due to the rain forecast. If that changes to lower probablity of rain and thunderstorms, I'll go.

Looks a bit wet and...

Looks like the rain is going to shit the bed on that snowpack up there on the Beartooth just like on Mammoth this week.

Sorry for the interruption. By the time I am up that way in July the snow will be minimal. Although I did get snowed on in August of 2012 driving over to Red Lodge, so maybe not. Will it be going...

Worth going next (M-Th) week? Looks like rain and the gondola is closed. ? Not sure if the McCoy to Main Lodge will freeze at night? Don't want to waste a trip for skiing only til 1:30 close if it...

Just to verify the GW FCFHOO4 plates would not work with a Pivot 14 circa 2010? I know you explicitly stated it in a prior post but the one above made me wonder. I can also try the look/rossi ...

Great information L9 pairs got snagged. Nice send vvideo! Looks like they are absorbing rather than transmitting the chicken head chatter.

Is anyone here still riding the squad regularly or plan on continuing to next season? Pros/Cons?

Only real online reviews are a few short sentences on random forums. Even this thread is pretty...

Great info posted on the 104 and 114. Love the Fernie sticker on the 104s. Makes em better.

Does anyone here have time and comparison strengths and weaknesses with the Squad and the 114? Big...

Last two replies are great beta. Line's own beta is contradictory on the 104 and 114. One marketing bite says the 104 is built more for charging the fall line than the 114. Another states the 114...

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I am interested in the Sender Squads as a new charger. Probably could use its own thread. How do you like em? I am guessing you ski Hood or Batch from the Emerald City?

Funny. My lopro box holds my 195s but it is low pro and reached a ski/binding lo-ceiling. So my hoarding and family's skis hit the box limit a while back. Definitely first world.

I have 7 days...

Are those 120mm brakes? I have a pair from Marshall that have had frame Dukes for a decade with 100 brakes. It looks funny with a tiny brake nub over the edge. Thinking of popping on shifts and...

Only rode the bodacious for a few runs but that was 118 underfoot of rred white and black get out of the way. Must have been a decade ago, but it was April at Alta after a big dump which makes any...

Going small for the tight tree ease. I should go bigger but the initial search was for short and super nimble. The 194 would probably be peetty nimble too with the massive fore and aft rocker.. ...

Where did you mount the 186. The line? +1? Back?

!st worls issues. I have strive, shift and pivot sitting in front of me. Shifts are gone.

Its hard to want to jump on them after reading the last 7 pages of this thread. Between icing, brake deployment on the skin track, the forward pressure adjustment, and AFD adjust going between DIN...

Sounds like line has a similar radius and profile successor to the burley motherships. My 2800 Gram motherships have the gas pedal, but they are an old american sedan (chinese actually( with a worn...

Excellent. So instead of straightline hoping the run out, it is a turning exit.

CAST seems a better option than the Shift or Duke PT for charging down and easier up. What Solly pre ejected...

Sounds like you can crush stones on the 184. How much do you weigh?

I thought they might be a little soft for jamming out set up crud? But you want the 194 to charge the chunder at Snowbird? ...