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09-05-2006, 02:36 AM #1
Need help on time line for fatties
I've managed to infiltrate the Scandinavian ski media in a big way, call me Deep Throat from now on Right now I'm writing a story on the evolution of fat skis over the past 15 years. I'm pretty well covered from 97 and on but would appreciate some board expertise on the early years. What models were floating around in the early/mid 90's and about when did they come out onto the market?
Atomic Powder Ride, Plus, Heli Dog
RD
Völkl Explosive
Rossi Axiom
Dynastar Big
Volant Chubb
K2 Kahuna
I've probably missed a bunch, would be cool if you could fill me in and help me enlighten the ever so uninformed and misled dark mass of Scandi piste skiers.I like big bikes and I cannot lie. You other brothers can't deny
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09-05-2006, 02:57 AM #2
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09-05-2006, 03:58 AM #3
*Think* that the SnowRanger was a bit before 97 originally...and it was fat fot then!
Riding bikes, but not shredding pow...
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09-05-2006, 03:59 AM #4
You could PM Flexon Phil. As far as I can tell from his Epic's posts, he's a living encyclopedia of ski gear history.
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09-05-2006, 08:13 AM #5
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09-05-2006, 08:33 AM #6Originally Posted by El Chupacabra
Originally Posted by jonskiI like big bikes and I cannot lie. You other brothers can't deny
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09-05-2006, 08:37 AM #7
Rossi Cut 11.5...mid 90's...evolved into the XXX...considered huge and unwieldy at the time...grin
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09-05-2006, 08:38 AM #8
rossi cut 10.5?
btw, gliss, your box was full so i couldn't reply, but thanks for the shells!
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09-05-2006, 08:38 AM #9
IIRC: original Kahuna = reskinned Explosiv
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09-05-2006, 09:00 AM #10
RD Heli-Dog (there were I, II and II phases).
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09-05-2006, 10:23 AM #11
i remember seeing the volant chubb in shops in 95/96 for sure...and i believe at least the prior season.
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09-05-2006, 10:31 AM #12Originally Posted by Glisseur
If you're going back to the start of "fat" skis, what's your baseline for a fattie? A powder-specific design? --> Miller Soft ? (though not fat by any means today)
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09-05-2006, 10:33 AM #13Originally Posted by ulty_guy
What about Atomic Powder Plus/Ride/Heli Guide? Any clue when the first ones of these showed up? Or what they were called for that matter...
Originally Posted by El ChupacabraLast edited by Glisseur; 09-05-2006 at 10:39 AM.
I like big bikes and I cannot lie. You other brothers can't deny
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09-05-2006, 10:52 AM #14Donkey Puncher
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Back with the Miller Softs, there was the Rossi Haute Route. Olin made one in the early 90's, can't remember the name right now.
edit: Yostmark & Voile too.
edit x2: Hagen DolphinLast edited by Keoni; 09-05-2006 at 10:56 AM.
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09-05-2006, 11:03 AM #15
what about the old fat boys (it's what it says on the skis), there's a pair sitting in my uncles garage
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09-05-2006, 11:33 AM #16indentured servant
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Miller Softs late 70s all of the 80s early 90s orange top sheet and base very very "cool" and definite insider ski (CMH used to used them as the "beginner" ski when guides got mad at less than accomplished skiers holding up groups)
the cut 10.5 was a carver
the cut 11.5 (or 11.3) was the fatty that followed the axiom in rossiland...Last edited by waxman; 09-05-2006 at 01:53 PM.
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09-05-2006, 11:37 AM #17Registered User
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I started working in a ski shop the winter of 95-96. Snowrangers were the rage that winter at snowbird. We also had some Atomics that were assym mounted and were black, with stripes of blue and green. Volkl also had the Exsplosiv (original) as well as the Explosiv II which was a blue topsheet with stripes of yellow. We couldnt get rid of anything wider than the Snowranger until the winter of 96-97. By that point a few of local rockstars had been to AK and come back looking for the fattest thing they could get. The first XXXs I believe showed up the winter of 97 or 98. Which means the Rossi Cuts would have been the winter before and Rossi Axioms would have started showing up in 1996. Whatever was the first winter that LB came out to Salt Lake would be when the Ak Rockets showed up since the first day I skied with him was the first day I skied my 200 Rockets. Hope that helps.
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09-05-2006, 11:41 AM #18Donkey Puncher
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Originally Posted by waxmanSignature removed for non-payment
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09-05-2006, 12:03 PM #19Originally Posted by Professor"It is not the result that counts! It is not the result but the spirit! Not what - but how. Not what has been attained - but at what price.
- A. Solzhenitsyn
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09-05-2006, 12:08 PM #20Registered User
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Originally Posted by lemon boy"I dont hike.... my legs are too heavy"
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09-05-2006, 01:55 PM #21indentured servant
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"Mid to late 70's"
really? we were selling them new or used 87-91 from CMH i didn't realize they went back that far....
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09-05-2006, 02:02 PM #22
pretty small production range but Evoloution Wide Glides were out in the mid 90s.
They wer 110ish under foot and short, 167 and 181 only I think.
Heavy as hell but were seen around a lot in UT when everyone else said they were too short and too fat
(me too at the time, i had to get Evoloution's Uinta in a 203. testosterone poisoning I tell ya. then when I bent the shit outa those I "warrantied "down" to a 198 U2)
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09-05-2006, 02:28 PM #23Originally Posted by Keoni
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09-05-2006, 02:38 PM #24Originally Posted by upallnight
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09-05-2006, 02:39 PM #25Registered User
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Oh dont forget Hart Phatbacks, very few pair around but I think 1997-1998?
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