 Poster: A snowHead
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Has anyone noticed that the "recreational race carvers" are vanishing (have vanished?) from UK shops/ lists? In Austrian or German shops there are racks of RC4 or Volkl Racetiger variants from full FIS race machines to general use types in slalom, GS and intermediate radius. Fischer alone have 5 RC4 variants which are NOT FIS race skis.
Snow and rock boast "the largest selection in the UK" but have precisely one race based ski on their website and that is a mid radius derivative not a slalom or GS style ski. At a demo last year there was nothing less than 75mm underfoot and no "race rep" skis at all
There seems to be an assumption that everyone who progresses beyond gentle cruising wants to ski off piste or do freestyle. What about people who like slalom or GS style skis
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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They buy them from a proper ski shop like Bartletts not Slush & Rubble?
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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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Have a look in shops that proper skiers go to. 
Bartlett's, Edge n Wax, Glide n Slide and a few others I can't remember off the top of my head.
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I rent to get latest. (FIS Spec is too much tho)
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Makes sense - understandably the standard of skiers and their knowledge of skis is much higher than the UK. UK mkt is much more about marketing
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Col the Yeti, slush and crap haven't stocked raceskis, let alone faux race skis in years. no mass market for them in the uk. whereas in alpine sountries, every bug and his mother does super Gs before sunday lunch.
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Rossignol WC GS skis (FIS spec) in Decathlon Coventry today. And one of the variants of the Fischer RC4 too, Probably because they're not primarily a UK company so they get some of the range which is stocked in the continental shops.
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Yep didn't check the models but Giltbrook Decathlon had some Rossi race skis in yesterday as well
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Col the Yeti, Well considering most UK suppliers are no longer doing the standard shop version race skis that is why, Salomon and Atomic both do a race ski with a varying radus based on the length you purchase. Supply and demand I guess.
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Fashun innit 
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