 Poster: A snowHead
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I had my skis serviced at the shop behind the hotel on the gnarbug bash, it was a full base repair & skim job.
Skiing on them the next day, I noticed that they were very twitchy and when I came to a stop near the other guys I did a manoeuvre that I have done countless times before, doing a hockey stop then slowly sliding backwards to the edge of the piste. This time the skis locked into a backwards snowplogh, forcing my legs further apart, wrenching both of my lateral knee ligaments. Although still sore 18 days later, I was lucky enough to be able to carry on skiing.
After the fall, I checked the edges and borrowed a grit stone to dull 150mm of the edges at tip & tail which reduced the twitchyness a bit but I am thinking about the base edge angle and whether the shop set this correctly or at all, does this happen?
I doubt that it's possible to see a 1' angle over a 2mm edge to check it and the only way to be sure is to grind the edge to a known 1" angle.
Any thoughts?
I'm taking the skis to the eosb to loan to a friend but obviously don't want to loan out a psir of skis that could hurt someone, is there a reliable service shop near the eosb accommodation to get them checked?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@tangowaggon, sounds more like they left a hanging burr...
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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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@tangowaggon, - @spyderjon is yer man.
@spyderjon so the insufficient base angle leads to the tips and tailsl hooking? Yep, I could see that would be most unpleasant. Not being a chap with rocker (much) not something I've experienced. Thankfully. Hanging burrs are quite nasty enough.
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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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It's a pair of Head iRallys so negligible rocker
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@spyderjon, beer on it's way 😁😁😁
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@tangowaggon, the vast majority of ski service machines put a flat base edge on. I only know of one Wintersteiger machine that is laser guided that can put a one degree angle like most factory settings. They're not common (but there is one in La Tania  ).
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I experienced a hanging burr for the first time today. Second day on holiday and since first day was fresh snow i didn’t notice but today it was rock hard and compressed and my skis were all over the place. Going slowly down a hard packed blue and I couldn’t keep my ski straight and it was impossible to control the skis until it got softer.
Never experienced anything like it (as limited as that is) and it was totally my fault. I’d hurriedly tuned my new skis before coming away and hadn’t removed the burr. Checked the skis at lunchtime and could catch a nail all the way down. I had brought some files and gummy with me so went over them and what a difference. Same run in the afternoon and all was well.
Just had to share. Didn’t believe it could make such a difference but wow it was crazy how twitchy they were before.
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