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01-14-2022, 12:31 PM #201
Pretty sure Trab skins are rebranded contour, so your feedback aligns with mine
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01-14-2022, 12:40 PM #202
it's only a problem if you're a pussy-ass bitch
or if you're one of those "skimo" types with your fancy "mohair" skins
i guess the two things are really one and the same
(signed, someone who skins on as much mohair as possible. and agreed re: skin wax - but i just use cheap parrafin wax for that, no need to buy the fancy shit)
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01-14-2022, 01:21 PM #203
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01-14-2022, 07:17 PM #204Registered User
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01-14-2022, 07:42 PM #205Gel-powered Tech bindings
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The initial generation(s?) of this model definitely had a durability problem:
https://skimo.co/fischer-alpattack
I think Fischer eventually improved the durability.
(Or maybe just anyone wasn't a flyweight or who wasn't a really slow skier gave up and moved to different brands!)
This the ski model with the warning not to use it for ... skiing:
https://skimo.co/fischer-verticalp
I've used it for only evening crit-format skimo races on groomers, plus some PR attempts on uphill segments. I might also eventually use it for outings that are 99% hiking with a few symbolic late-spring/summer turns.Mo' skimo here: NE Rando Race Series
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01-14-2022, 11:06 PM #206Registered User
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The Trab WC Race skins are re-branded Colltex PDG. The Trab non-race skins are Contour.
I find that Contour non-race mohair has less glide than any Pomoca I've been on but grip comparable to a North American skin.
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01-15-2022, 04:27 AM #207
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01-15-2022, 08:24 AM #208Registered User
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"High risers are for people with fused ankles, jongs and dudes who are too fat to see their dick or touch their toes.
Prove me wrong."
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01-15-2022, 09:14 AM #209Gel-powered Tech bindings
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Heh, we had a big discussion about exactly that same topic at the finish of the A-Basin race last month!
(Yeah, I know, something only that a bunch of race organizers would find worthy of a discussion.)
Still my favorite race skin:
https://skimo.co/ski-trab-race-rollMo' skimo here: NE Rando Race Series
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01-15-2022, 09:35 AM #210Registered User
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I find that going straight up is faster for a lap or two, but I get much more tired over a long day. Maybe some kind of slow twitch/fast twitch thing?
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01-15-2022, 11:02 AM #211one of those sickos
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It's the same as shifting to appropriate gears when climbing on your bike. Yeah, you can mash along at 40rpm and get to the top while feeling manly, I guess. Or you can downshift, get to the top at the same speed or faster, and have enough energy left for another 2 laps.
I don't often see other tracks where I tour, but if there is a stupid steep skintrack up something that I want to lap (i.e. it isn't just a short section that accesses another zone that is the main objective) I just put in another one at the right angle. More than once I've later passed the people breaking trail at the steep angle.ride bikes, climb, ski, travel, cook, work to fund former, repeat.
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01-15-2022, 11:44 AM #212
There is also an aesthetic element with skin tracks. Both the movement and the track itself is more enjoyable when you climb steadily and avoid going to steep or flat. Extra kick turns are bad too. I followed a real nice one this morning. Respect to whoever set it.
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01-15-2022, 11:59 AM #213
Steep skintracks suck, unless that's the only option. They're a waste of energy and not faster, because you can move more quickly up a track that's set at the sweet spot angle.
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01-15-2022, 12:36 PM #214
Definitely on board for lower angle skin tracks. Better for multiple laps, better for not sweating out layers, better for my body to take longer, more natural strides. They also don’t blow out and suck on day three or four after a storm. And lighter, more glidey skins with less maximum grip such as my beloved pinks are just fine on them.
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01-15-2022, 07:26 PM #215Registered User
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dont let the wide ski ski tourers/steep skintrack skinners get us all riled up
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01-16-2022, 11:41 PM #216Registered User
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TLDR; Ski faster. Quit breathing. Don't crash.
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01-18-2022, 10:19 AM #217Gel-powered Tech bindings
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Skimo Co has hot pink Pomoca by the cm for about the same price.
Mo' skimo here: NE Rando Race Series
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01-18-2022, 10:37 AM #218Registered User
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Yeah those were both off the roll prices not including shipping or taxes.
-Race 2.0 62mm is 0.43/cm
-Trab WC 63cm is 0.28/cmTLDR; Ski faster. Quit breathing. Don't crash.
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01-18-2022, 06:42 PM #219Gel-powered Tech bindings
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Mo' skimo here: NE Rando Race Series
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01-20-2022, 05:11 PM #220
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01-21-2022, 07:06 AM #221Registered User
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@Lee Murian, great photo!
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01-24-2022, 10:27 AM #222
Has anyone gotten the chance to use the Pierre Gignoux Mountain boots? Trying to decide if its worth the mega $$ to try em out, and there is no info online apart from the wildsnow review
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01-26-2022, 08:56 AM #223Gel-powered Tech bindings
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Mo' skimo here: NE Rando Race Series
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01-26-2022, 09:02 AM #224Gel-powered Tech bindings
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I'm a big fan overall of PG, but I'm a skeptic of those boots -- just seems to be trying to make a full-carbon boot into something it's inherently not.
I mean, the baseline PG race boot has benefitted from a long history of refinement. The Pro version adds an internal forefoot tightening mechanism linked to the walk/ski lever that a ski buddy raves about. The Black version adds a little more versatility that impressed me when I mounted up one for a racer, and at a trivial weight penalty.
But the Mountain is getting into the weight territory of race boots with carbon upper cuff + plastic lower (1.1, Raceborg, new Dynafit model), yet the price of a full carbon boot, and the fit problems of a full carbon boots.Mo' skimo here: NE Rando Race Series
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01-26-2022, 06:44 PM #225Registered User
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Cripple Creek has the Race 2.0 62mm for $29/meter. https://cripplecreekbc.com/collectio...l-by-the-meter
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