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I wonder whether there'll ever be a 'classic' ski equipment market, like classic cars.
My choices:
Skis:
The aforementioned red/gold Dynastar Course SLs with the aero tip.
Dynastar Verticals
Rossignol 4S in teal or the 7S in black or first-gen yellow
Salomon Force 9s (originals in blue/red, not the tacky Superforce range)
K2 Extremes
Volant Chubbs
Boots:
Raichle Flexon Comp boots
Salomon SX92 Equipe or Force9 boots
Bindings:
Look Z Forza bindings
Salomon 957EQ full metal monsters
Both designs were so good they're virtually unchanged in over 20 years.
Have to exclude anything from the last 10 years and no proto-carvers like the Elan SCX, Rossignol Cut or K2 Four, revolutionary though they were.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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One guy I know wears a Union Jack top hat when skiing - Really really not cool
Another wear a flatcap and Barbour jacket - Very cool!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Chalky, Sorry to disagree
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Another wear a flatcap and Barbour jacket - Very cool!
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Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!
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Chalky, saw 5 years ago a bloke telemarking in wrap around shades, nevica fluoro jacket and plus-4s.
That is either very cool - or begging for a Mental Health Act section (as Hurtle would surely agree)
No one has mentioned Monoskis yet... Ironic or post-ironic?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I just saw (last week) a chap with a modern monoski here in Greece skiing quite neatly. I forgive him his slope style gear, but must mention that the self-knitted scarf and skis were cool.
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Cool: Diesel powered drag lifts
Uncool: Eco-resorts that source their power from their guest's poo
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A Lappish four-winds hat as a skihat - cool, but only on 45 and older ski bums who have worn it since 80s.
An original Husky Harlekin ski hat with neon colours - ultra cool.
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I wonder whether there'll ever be a 'classic' ski equipment market, like classic cars
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Surly the original 1080 in yellow and black would have to go in there?
UNCOOL
Any type of Fartbag
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Ordhan, too modern for me, although I acknowledge it was the first mass-market twin-tip/park ski and as such has a place in ski history.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Genepi is lovely. 
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Sideshow_Bob, I know it is very modern in terms of a classic but with those graphics and its obvious impact on the sport I have no doubt it will be a classic
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You know it makes sense.
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Völkl Mantra : −273.15C
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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My dad got rid of a pair of these from his loft a few years back, I may never forgive him.
Volkl Mantra - Sterotypical Britisher Flailing "I'm a freerider, me" Ski 
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Poster: A snowHead
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If you really want to go retro, I could let you have a set of Fischer SC4s from the early 80's with Salomon 747 bindings. You'd be like the Steve McQueen of the piste.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I took a pair of Elan RC SLs to the dump a couple of years' ago. Given that this was the ski on which Stenmark won about 7 years' world cups perhaps I should have held onto them 
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fatbob, THE RC SL? Light grey blue topsheet?
Mine got stolen in NY in 1986, been looking for a good pair of those ever since.
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Steilhang, the roolz are that anything you (as in "the person making the post" rather than you specifically) own is by default uncool
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I can't see the picture but I assume then that that was a pretty strong bite, non? 
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| Rossignol Cut or K2 Four, revolutionary though they were. |
Meh. Rossi Cuts (except the 11.5!) and Dynastar Big Max's were just playing catchup after the french were left with their trousers down at carving's adoption.
Rossi Axiom and it's little brother, the Cut 11.5 that Bandit XXXs and B4s and Squads were bred from.
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comprex, Yep - grey topsheet with a white bit where the name was. I kick myself now for my decluttering frenzy.
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comprex, a number of racers were cleaning up back in the day on either K2 Fours or Rossi 10.4s. The Rossi 11.5s were very popular in Freeski competitions. Anyway, the 10.4 were rolled out by the thousand and were the first real mass-market carving ski aimed at rental stores.
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Sideshow_Bob, exactly.
The rental shop and the Two killed the Four in spite of the blinky LED, and killed the 10.4, and killed the SCX; the Dynastar Maxes never got any coolth until the 4x4 came out.
EDIT: Supercool: Dynastar coaches' long coats from '96-'97 season, styled after Western dusters except insulated. And purple.
Uncool: Elan puffy down coats from same approximate vintage, like a pearlescent seagreen Michelin Man.
Modestly cool: Spyder Speedwyre race suits.
Cryogenic cool: Descente ION Cocoon suit
http://www.descente.co.jp/en/company/development.html
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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For my tuppence ha'penny - Kingswood skis are 0 °R.
My neighbour makes his own Genepi, it's lovely stuff
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You know it makes sense.
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So ...... I am driving a Panda and skiing in a jacket with gaff tape patches. This appears to make me the height of uber-cool. There was me thinking it was just poverty as well - amazing. 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Lizzard, twenty three thick gold rings kinda cancel that out...
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Poster: A snowHead
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horizon, Only some of them on the fingers 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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horizon, I wear a wedding band and a 9ct signet ring which belonged to my Grandmother. 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Lizzard, LOL this is 1 in a series of 10 posts covering all your fingers right?
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Descente black one pieces with the Solar alpha heat absorption fibers around 90 were seriously cool back in the day...
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Elan stealths = Moderatly cool, gain points for having a 45 waist, lose points for being atrocious in anything but groomed piste with good snow.
GM BROs = Massivly uncool, narrowboats are for the water not for the mountains, they shouldn't cross over.
Anyone skiing skis from the 1970s / 80s = Very Cool
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milamber, GM BROs?
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milamber, I skied a pair of Predators in Tahoe last year, no problems on ice or moderately cut up snow.
Obviously, since someone on the board owns := 45mm waists are uncool.
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Atomic EBM bindings (Electronic Binding Management)....
Hotter than the sun in a very uncool way!
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| comprex wrote: |
Obviously, since someone on the board owns := 45mm waists are uncool. |
Look, we'll have to redefine that rule, otherwise pretty much all skis are uncool.
How about "any skis that admin owns are uncool"?
Or, a little wider, "any skis owned by a snowhead with over 10,000 posts are uncool"?
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Woops, I meant PM BROs, genetically modified skis aren't a bad idea though 
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