 Poster: A snowHead
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These are on my radar as a daily ski for European conditions . I m seeing a very good deal right now and I ve researched them a fair bit already ( I ve discounted Mantras and Line Prophet 98 - too heavy and too squirrelly - but I d change my mind if I saw them at the price I mseeinf the blizzards..).
My unanswered question is this : what are they like to ski fast on fresh "hard" piste ( 1st thing in the am - still a bit "rattley". I think I'm happy with every other aspect of performance, but happy to hear views. For completeness, I'm 200 -220 lbs (ok, 220..) 6 ft ish/185 so especially interested in reports from larger guys on the 187.
Thanks!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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How many 100mm skis have you skied on hardpack? I've only demoed indoors but I'd say they'd probably be upper 50% at least for piste performance for a ski that size. The earlier factor though is most important. You can always get a good tune of the specific ski feels a bit dodgy.
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| fatbob wrote: |
| How many 100mm skis have you skied on hardpack? I've only demoed indoors but I'd say they'd probably be upper 50% at least for piste performance for a ski that size. The earlier factor though is most important. You can always get a good tune of the specific ski feels a bit dodgy. |
Well - 1 , which I love but is away for a warranty assessment and is not my go to ski on non-soft days. Fine in warmer winter days and spring, but if you know you are confined to the piste all day, no fresh has fallen for a week , It s nt m favourite choice. Not sure what you mean by "The earlier factor though is most important" , hope that helps answer it. Anyway, think I m going to get them!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I think you are just confirming that a) I need them (the Bonafides) and b) 191 Mantras will be just a little toooo long for what I have in mind. I can step up for those days that I need to. Thanks!!
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I've got a pair of Blizzard Kabookies which are the Bonafide without the metal. They are excellent on hardpack . . . . for a 98mm ski . . . and the Bonafide should be better with the metal layer.
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Just demoed the Bonafides at Castleford today and I would say they were my favourites, just beating the Scott The Ski. They were very responsive and stable, would have loved to see how they fair on Piste. I certainly prefer these to my Whitedot Directors, mind you the new directors Rangers where nice plenty of pop out of the turns. 
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) and they're pretty good at smashing it through crud and they ski like a GS ski in anything softer than totally bullet-proof and are still manageable when it is sheet ice and a helluva lot better than the other fat skis I've tried. Not fantastic on bottomless pow but that's prob because I went a bit short (184s) so I could chuck them around in the steeps and trees, and they're too stiff and cambered to be anything but hard work in transformed 'cement' but I and have a pair of 191 Katanas for those conditions.
