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09-23-2021, 06:42 AM #76
I few years ago I got the same type of answer…nobody needs skis longer than 185.
I’m by no means the best skier on the hill and 175 and 6’1” but shitballs….I have some skinny race skis shorter than that, everything else is 190-201
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09-23-2021, 07:02 AM #77
Weird.
I have skis 110 and under.
Never ski 'em.
Good thing I've hoarded
Also, pow skis start ~130ish uf....
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09-23-2021, 07:23 AM #78
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09-23-2021, 07:29 AM #79
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09-23-2021, 07:31 AM #80
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09-23-2021, 08:02 AM #81
I dunno, I know I'm not the average skier - so what I do doesn't matter in the general world of ski production and what sells...but I find that what ski I want to ski doesn't have a ton of correlation between how deep it is.
I often find that my Bodacious skis _way_ better than anything else with just a few inches deep. (In weird snow, I just find I like them, no matter how deep or not it is.)
So, while I get there's relevance in how deep vs how wide the ski is - I'm just not at all sold that snow depth is the only, or even the biggest factor in how wide I might go on a particular day.
(When I'm spring skiing, crushing slush piles, I'm always on my beefy "pow" skis.)
Perhaps the argument I'm trying to make is that wider doesn't particularly mean pow. I just have several skis and I ski whatever seems the most fun to ski for any particular day, even if it's my Bodacious in 2" of new. Or my Volkl One in spring slurpee conditions.
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09-23-2021, 08:30 AM #82
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09-23-2021, 09:04 AM #83Registered User
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yeah you gotta have a few pow skis, just like selling 10K bikes doesnt make a lot of money cuz the margins are smaller but you gotta build the stoke,
you can always kick the product out for cost if you have to but they should be on the wall
IME people see wide skis in the p-lot & chair line so they ask you, that happed with JJ and wailer 112, now those skis are THE most popular ski on the local hill even tho I don't think either was all that greatLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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09-23-2021, 09:22 AM #84
110+ fat skis are the Fuct jeans of the 10s..
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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09-23-2021, 09:28 AM #85Registered User
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So to wrap up 4 pages
the guy in the shop was full of shitLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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09-23-2021, 09:34 AM #86Banned
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If a shop doesnt carry ARGs or Pontoons, then are they truly a ski shop?
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09-23-2021, 09:55 AM #87
Having a pair or two of those flagship powder skis in rentals/demos helps to sell the skis on the sales floor. It’s been a long time, but I had sales data from several ski shops to support that strategy.
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09-23-2021, 10:35 AM #88
Umm... that's dental lawyering to you, sir.
Yup. It's snowing. Better stay home. :
Hear hear. I'm always happy to pay for indie fatties (that's totally a PornHub thing, isn't it?). Sure, I'm usually exercising a small discount, but buying direct for bomber skis is great and is part of what makes this passion great.
Or the JNCOs of the 90s?
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09-23-2021, 11:18 AM #89Anxious desk jockey
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I'm not even a skier and I have a pair of Bent Chetler 120s that I bought off the rack at my local ski shop last season. It must be a regional thing.
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09-23-2021, 11:41 AM #90
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09-23-2021, 11:48 AM #91
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09-23-2021, 12:05 PM #92
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09-23-2021, 01:04 PM #93Registered User
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The prosecution rests
back in the day some kid in a department store type setting told me go 160s for women and 170 for mens
the owner of one of the local ski stores was telling every body they didnt need wide skis but that was cuz he was euro style and he didnt really stock any wide skis to speak of
it they don't have it you don't need itLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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09-23-2021, 01:09 PM #94Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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09-23-2021, 01:16 PM #95
I think 110+ is much more critical in dense/wet snow than typical the 4-6" interior champagne "pow days" where you barely even float anyways. You'll see plenty of fat ski on the rack in Seattle. That said, I think over 120 is become rare,
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09-23-2021, 01:18 PM #96Registered User
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Cater to your demographic. Maybe shocking to TGR, but a lot of casual skiers don’t even look at big pow skis as some sort of grail or high end item, they just look at them as kind of stupid.
Not saying I agree, but my east coast friends found it shocking that my daily driver in the west is a 108.
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09-23-2021, 01:25 PM #97Registered User
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I gots 135 full reverse but the times I can used them are far and few between where I skis even tho i can ski every day
120 is much more versatile, knowing what I know now I wouldn't buy the 135's again cuz the 120's get you almost all the way there
except when the 135's feel like hitting the down button on an elevatorLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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09-23-2021, 01:27 PM #98Registered User
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09-23-2021, 01:36 PM #99
The days of >110 underfoot pow skis are gone...
Even Iggy made a statement about how he doesn’t know why they even make skis over 112 anymore. Having knee issues.. My buys since spring
83 Stockli Laser AR
95 Stockli Stormrider
108 Kastle ZX
110 custom skinny BG down from 118
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09-23-2021, 01:41 PM #100
I'm 39. I haven't bought skis off the wall since the last time daddy paid when I was maybe 16?
Just saying, "real" skiers who know what they want aren't shopping at brick and mortar shops.
Not at all surprised that they aren't carrying stuff on either end of the spectrum.
Are you shocked that your average downtown ski shop doesn't stock WC SL skis?
Same thing.
Those who know what they want get it from the source.
The fringe tends to know their product and buy direct or used.
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