 Poster: A snowHead
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The 80s were great weren't they? Well maybe not if you were a miner, or lived ooop North but for the rest of us: Audi Quatros, Pop Tarts, Bon Jovi, The Reebok Pump Trainer, Sony Walkmans, Swatches, PanAm, The Sinclair pocket TV and of course, the SX81 rear entry boot.
Now most of those things are just some landfill somewhere in China (well part from Bon Jovi maybe) but you'll be prying the SX81 out of the owners' cold dead hands. Take this pair, according to the 71 year old ski tourer on the summit of the Cime de la Jasse he's never found a better, more comfortable boot. He swears by rear entry, and so does his wife.
Which reminds me, 21 years since I first ski toured to this iconic summit in the Belledonne.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Marvellous... Not the boots though!
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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 think I saw a pair of those a the local car boot the other week. I was tempted to try and grow onions in them, but the guy wanted a tenner.
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| davidof wrote: |
| Well maybe not if you were a miner, or lived ooop North |
Getting stopped for no reason, questioned, having to prove your identity, asked where you are going, not exactly a free democracy but that was life ooop North in the mid 80's.
Last edited by You need to Login to know who's really who. on Thu 17-04-14 16:06; edited 1 time in total
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| davidof wrote: |
| according to the 71 year old ski tourer on the summit of the Cime de la Jasse he's never found a better, more comfortable boot. He swears by rear entry, and so does his wife. |
David Goldsmith has taken up touring?
http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?p=233331
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"He swears by rear entry and so does his wife"
Quote of the season!
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Still see a fair few of the 81, 91 and the 91 Equipes around. Usually a marker of ski ability - the user is either very, very good or atrociously bad (as in had them skiing in their yoof then a 30 year hiatus).
Not sure I'd be gambling on them for touring without a big roll of duct tape to tape me back to my skis when the clog eventually separates from the base.
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fatbob, i don't think I've seen anyone very very good in SX anythings since they were current 
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feef, what size?
By miles the best boots I ever had...put some ZipFits in them and.....
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rungsp, Dunno exactly, but I'm a 7 normally. I'd be tempted to use them again, along with all my other retro kit 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I can't see clearly but I think this guy is on SX91s
clearly the idiot has been following ski tracks
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davidof, sx92s. Sx91s were red...
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You know it makes sense.
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| under a new name wrote: |
| davidof, sx92s. Sx91s were red... |
<pedant>SX91 were grey. SX91 Equipe were red with a white top.</pedant> SX92 was white with a black top.
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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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I had a pair of 61's ... they were "battle ship grey" ... they let me down badly by popping open so I was left slithering down the "mother of all mogul fields" in Warth.
I had I think a pair of 91 (I think) Equipes .. They served me well and they are still serving my mate Willi.
Things aint what they used to be!
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Poster: A snowHead
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The most comfortable boots I ever had. Wore them out. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Used to have a pair of SX61 myself.
thinking about it.. first boots I can't remember what they were.. I was 10yrs old and they were grey with 3 buckles.
2nd pair were Nordica 155 or was it 115? A junior model I think. Wind up heel retention but no fore-foot adjustment iirc.
3rd were the SX61
4th pair were Dachstein V3 Pro
5th pair were Lange X-Zero-8 (Ground Zero)
and I kept them till I got my Head Vectors and Dynafit Zzeus over the last couple of seasons
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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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Golly. If you ask me what my present boots are I'd have to go and look at 'em. 
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davidof, y'know, you only need to turn that picture 90 degrees to go from Hero to Zero...
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Richard_Sideways, yeah, like you recover from that 
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feef, if we are being pedants, the words you want are "cuff" and "clog"
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DB, yep.
feef, re V3s - why sooooo many clips on the clog? Bonkers.
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My SX91's lasted me 20 years.
I only replaced them when the attendees of the 2nd EoSB (2006) were so embarrassed to be seen with me that they clubbed together to buy me a new pair!
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| under a new name wrote: |
| feef, if we are being pedants, the words you want are "cuff" and "clog" |
Because it wasn't the entire cuff that was coloured 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Do I win ?
Think we should set up a new thread of what is the naffest photo of yourself, mind you way back then I was so cool Cool
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Of course you don't win - Now if you were wearing a one piece we could have considered it.
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DB,
brilliant vid...
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You know it makes sense.
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feef, it was on the 92s
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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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| Richard_Sideways wrote: |
davidof, y'know, you only need to turn that picture 90 degrees to go from Hero to Zero...
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that looks a lot more realistic too. He's a bit in the bank seat.
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Poster: A snowHead
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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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Snow Fashionistas would recognise that jacket as O'Neil, that one was just before the famous "Snow is only frozen water" slogan, and what brand the pants ?
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| Weathercam wrote: |
| ... and what brand the pants ? |
Killy ?
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Marks & Spencers?
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Army surplus store?
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Bognor
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Weathercam, very obviously Nevica.
O'Neill? Oh, no.
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under a new name, correct !
Probably early to mid 80's when the likes of O'Neil, Quicksilver were still surf brands and not high street, also the same time as Marin brought in the first MTB's into the UK, the importer was the same company that brought in Mistral Windsurf boards and back then a small unknown brand, DaKine.
The early UK MTB scene was very much driven by the existing windsurf business (Orange / Tushingham) with importers and retailers handling both.
And then along came snow boarding and many windsurf shops jumped on that as well !
Interesting in that windsurfing in the UK has dwindled from the hey days of the mid 90's with kiting now far more popular (especially along our stretch of the coast), we use to think it was similar to snowboarding vs skiing when snowboarding looked like it may take over, now it seems less and less boards on the slopes each year ?
And who remembers Chiemsee !!
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