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03-02-2009, 10:34 PM #76
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03-02-2009, 10:51 PM #77
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03-03-2009, 12:19 AM #78
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03-03-2009, 12:32 AM #79
what happens when one of those metal skegs hits some rock under all that fresh snow?
Bet it don't slide like polyethylene.
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03-03-2009, 12:40 AM #80
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03-03-2009, 12:51 AM #81
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03-03-2009, 12:54 AM #82sucks on the internet
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Of all spamming, this is truly the most annoying in the meantime.
Do us all a favor, quit bumping your shit up all the time and get lost. Seriously.
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03-03-2009, 01:00 AM #83
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03-03-2009, 02:04 AM #92
I'm sorry, but from a purely engineering viewpoint, I fail to see what you are offering. Excuse my following rant, but I had to drink some Macallan 12yr to make some shelf space....
With a traditional ski, when the skier initiates a turn by inducing roll angle into the ski, a point load (skier weight) is applied to the ski between the 'fixed' points touching the snow; the tip and tail. This applied load causes the ski to flex, causing the ski to elastically deform, allowing the ski to carve the turn. With your design, you are essentially compensating for the removal of the tail by using fins - but in a less mechanically efficient manner. From the video evidence above, I don't see any advantage to this setup over a slalom/GS ski in those snow conditions. Also, as pointed out above - you loose stability and force skiers weight to the 'back seat'.
Regarding powder conditions, you mention the ski is 130mm wide. While this girth would be overly sufficient for a 'normal' length ski, you fail to see the simple aspect which keeps a skier afloat in powder conditions: surface area. And with this design, there is too large an offset between the ski center of floatation and skier's center of gravity. So, I'm going to go out on a limb here and make a bold claim by saying these will be the suck in powder.
But I wish you the best of luck in your endeavors.
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03-03-2009, 02:05 AM #93
Would it be possible for me to "float test" these?
A woman reported to police at 6:30 p.m. that she was being "smart-mouthed."
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03-03-2009, 03:38 AM #94
1) You are in the best society. Patent engineers told me that the only way to turn Rax skis is to stop and lay the skis in the new direction
2) You are describing the carve turn. The base of typical Rax ski is a short carver so it must be able to carve as a short carver.
3) Why, the fin is less efficient than the edge ? Wonder why boats and planes are using fins. Is a boat rim not enough?
5) Here you are forgetting the dynamic component: you are skiing down the slope !
4) and 6) Do you really think I would ever start this campaign if this were true
Wish you to have opportunity of testing Rax skis.
Answers come automatically then.
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03-03-2009, 03:41 AM #95
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03-03-2009, 04:44 AM #96Registered User
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Tom is saving skiing, just like snowboarding did. WAKE UP FOOLS!!
Good work Tom.
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03-03-2009, 05:06 AM #97
Tom, watch this, where are these clowns now? I give you the same odds of success. We used to taunt these guys in the liftline. Me "free your feet" snowboarding friends "free your hands".
Would love to see someone in Dodges this spring doing the straight line thing at 1:20 in first video.[from Hojos with binocs]
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03-03-2009, 06:41 AM #98
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03-03-2009, 07:13 AM #99
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03-03-2009, 08:04 AM #100
Tom, four pages were funny but you are competing with Thiefs that fled the country to Canada, plows hitting eachother, and TR's from a rapidly improving winter.
I'd suggest two things:
Get a set of these to Marshalson, the resident ski tester. I'm sure he'd shelve some moments for these on an epic powder day.
Get freaky-deaky euro babes (with shaved pits) running these topless on a bump run
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