Unfortunately that sounds like the tune. Base grindI now have 6 days at Revy on Woodsman 92-186 ripper extra stiff. Coming from 10yrs on Viciks, BGs, various Wrens. I'm.... confused. On steeps/bumps/real terrain, the Woodrippers are phenomenal, basically a super agile Wren, exactly what I wanted. I cannot figure them out on groomers. On steep corduroy I can't slalom them, can't find a natural turning radius, can't lay them over into a proper carve, may as well be skiing 2x6s at a 40mph speed limit. On low angle or even slightly slick groomers they will randomly bite into a high radius 'turn' that is uncomfortably hard to break. It kinda reminds me of how my old 2013 BGs would lock into an absurdly large like 50m turn, except the BG was stable in that turn and the Woodripper is squirrely AF.
Again, my basis of comparison is Wrens, most recently 2021 Wren 102 TIs and 2018 Wren 108s. On groomers, the 108s are great for what they are, and the TIs are imo legitimately great - last year I demoed some of those Bode Miller carving skis everyone was presumably paid to say nice things about, and I sincerely prefer the Wren TIs on groomers because they are so stable at speed.
I plan to get them re-tuned, but any other ideas what is going on here? Is the woodsman THAT different from the Wren? Should I just shut up and stop humoring my wife with groomer laps?
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