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Thread: 90's appreciation thrad
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05-23-2022, 09:21 AM #501
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05-23-2022, 09:22 AM #502
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05-23-2022, 09:39 AM #503
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05-23-2022, 10:16 AM #504
Damn straight. Skiing off piste on skinny skis was such a PITA. It was like watching the early mountain bikers navigate super technical terrain. Doable, but kind of pathetic to watch now. There were outliers like Coombs, of course. But snowboards brought flotation and spinability to the masses, forever changing alpine sports.
Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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05-23-2022, 10:21 AM #505
They stole our women. It’s true.
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05-23-2022, 10:29 AM #506
This got me thinking. I came into the 90s rocking Dynastar Vertical Assaults and I think my last non-Solly (or Hart) ski for about 18 years were these Atomic 533ce:
Then these came out and I never looked back:
I even paired em up with these bad boys:
and the matching Force 9 bindings.
When the Super Force 9s hit, I got a few versions of the Edgar Grospiron-designed 3s and ended up picking up the stiffer 2s as well the next year:
^^^I still have these in the garage for longboard days, and they still truck.
Then these came out and skiing changed. If anyone can remember Vinny Dorian's song about trying to find them "Gimme yo 1080s, and I won't break your face" in Superpark 2, it was fact. I finally tracked down a pair from Euroland via some shop in France. Eventually got the blue versions from Japan a year or two later.
I had three pair of these, and to this day, they're one of my favorite skis ever; still have a pair in the garage as well:
(I know getting out of the 90s at this point, but hey)
My first pair of "fat" skis, 1080 Gun Labs
And lastly, a ski I've loved so much I still ski it to this day because it's the best all-mountain bump ski I can find (we'll see next season when I step into some Faction CT 2.0s), and own 3 pair of, the CR 1080 Lab:
Skiing in the 90s fucking rocked.
[no pics mine]I still call it The Jake.
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05-23-2022, 10:34 AM #507
I was just moving a pair of '90s vintage straight skis in my garage last night and couldn't believe how skinny they looked. Nowadays they look more like XC skis than downhill.
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05-23-2022, 10:38 AM #508
your thoughts on 90s era shaped skis reminded me of attending various ski racing camps at Hood and Valian's in Govy had the Volant guys out font pushing their shaped metal ski "Ski the Steel!". Having a hard time finding a good image but I do recall the Volants being pretty early in the adoption of the shaped ski.
Damn shame, throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that
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05-23-2022, 10:44 AM #509
Elan SCX - 1994:
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05-23-2022, 10:46 AM #510
^^^ carve or DIE!!!
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05-23-2022, 10:49 AM #511
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05-23-2022, 11:54 AM #512
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05-23-2022, 12:04 PM #513
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05-23-2022, 12:18 PM #515
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05-23-2022, 12:30 PM #516
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05-23-2022, 04:28 PM #517
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05-23-2022, 04:32 PM #518
On that note, I was watching "Weekend at Bernie's" (don't judge) over the weekend, which actually came out in 1989, but close enough. There's a part where the two guys first show up at Bernie's massive beachfront house and the Andrew McCarthy characters says "wow, what do you think a place like this goes for? 1.6-1.7 mill?" Those were the days.
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05-23-2022, 04:49 PM #519
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05-23-2022, 05:46 PM #520Registered User
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05-23-2022, 05:51 PM #521
Having grown up with friends whose families had massive west shore Tahoe lake fronts it’s sad now. Back in the recession of 93-94 my buddies family sold a acre plus, with three cabins on it in Tahoma for 1.6 mm. That home today would be 16mm plus.
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05-24-2022, 07:56 AM #522
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05-24-2022, 09:25 AM #523Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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05-24-2022, 02:08 PM #524
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05-24-2022, 10:37 PM #525Registered User
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They were great at one of out early 80s dorm parties, but that was their apex to me
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