 Poster: A snowHead
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What are they like? I saw a pair in resort and thought they looked the business! Have any of you had a positive feedback from them?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Mr Eng has them and loves them. But that's immaterial - if the last doesn't fit your foot, they'll be no good to you. Go to a shop and try some on 
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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've only tried them on. They feel a lot like a stiffer version of the original Nordica Beast. They have the same last as the Beasts & the Nordica Grand Prix boots in the late 90s. (I've been skiing in Nordica Grand Prix and Beast boots since the mid-90s because of the fit.) I think the Speedmachine 12 would be a better choice for most people because it has a saner flex for most people.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Rio, No, the last is not the same as either the Beast or the Grand Prix and the Beast and the Grand Prix are not the same, however the boots are fantastic by all other accounts. 
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Smallzookeeper -
I disagree. Around 95/96 Nordica changed the last of the Grand Prixs. They made the forefoot wider. This pissed off all my racing friends who had used Nordica racing boots for decades and believed a true racing boot needed to cut off all circulation to the toes to be good. They all switched to Rossi boots.
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Rio, The Grand Prix is one shape, the Beast another and the Speed Machine another!. Completley differenet lasts, designers and plastics. No question, sorry mate.
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| Rio wrote: |
| I've only tried them on. They feel a lot like a stiffer version of the original Nordica Beast. They have the same last as the Beasts & the Nordica Grand Prix boots in the late 90s. (I've been skiing in Nordica Grand Prix and Beast boots since the mid-90s because of the fit.) I think the Speedmachine 12 would be a better choice for most people because it has a saner flex for most people. |
Did you Write this? It's wrong. 
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parlor, isn't he buried near Hampstead Heath?
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Highgate cemetery I believe
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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eng_ch, there was something in the back of my mind about Arsenal, but I couldn't remember what - you're right.
(and aren't there a couple of other famous people buried there too?)
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Yes. Don't ask me who, though But not Jim Morrisson - he's in Paris IIRC
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eng_ch...
I resorted to google, and found the Highgate Cemetary website
"There are known to be at least 850 notable people buried at Highgate, about two thirds of whom appear in the Dictionary of National Biography and most of the others in either Modern English Biography, Who Was Who, in the obituary notices in the Press, or in Graves "Dictionary of Exhibitors at the Royal Academy 1796-1906". Amongst these are 18 Royal Academicians, 6 Lord Mayors of London, 48 Fellows of the Royal Society, the founders of London businesses including Maples, Foyles, Negretti-Zambra, John Lobb, P&O, and Quaritch, and familiar names such as Faraday, Karl Marx, George Eliot, Radclyffe Hall, Carl Rosa and Sir Ralph Richardson."
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You know it makes sense.
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I decided it was too sad to resort to Google and that ignorance was bliss 
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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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eng_ch, it wasn't sad at all, in fact I was glad I did, because I'm not buried there, so it's just possible that I'm still alive...
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Wear The Fox Hat wrote: |
| eng_ch, it wasn't sad at all, in fact I was glad I did, because I'm not buried there, so it's just possible that I'm still alive... |
Good point, well made. They don't have a full list of "residents" though, so are you sure?!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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eng_ch, I don't wear a watch, so I can't even quote misquote Karl - either I'm dead or my watch has stopped...
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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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Wear The Fox Hat, have you hijacked this thread by chance with your nonsensical witterings!? soon you shall need to be renamed "Where The Fox Shat" 
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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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eng_ch, close, he said it when taking Harpo's pulse: Either he is dead or my watch has stopped"
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Hook, line, sinker, copy of the Angling Times... [need head-banging smiley]
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eng_ch, no, I'd be lying if I said I had tried the Nordica Speedmachine 14 boots.
(and all of a sudden, with one masterful stroke, he brings the thread back to the topic... )
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Smallzookeeper -
We need to settle this like gentlemen. I'll meet you tomorrow at the top of Liberty Bowl at Big Sky. First one to the bottom wins. We can have Ursula judge the duel......you can ask WTFH who Ursula is if you're not familiar with her. I'll be in the red Nordica Beast boots.
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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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Rio, afraid to say the SZK is correct, there may well be some similarities between a few of the models but they are most definately different. i have not looked very closely at the new speedmachine, but from what i can remember being told by their tech guy in the UK they have squared and raised the toe box slightly from that of the Beast, and narrowed the heel (i may be thinking of a different boot, but the heel is meant to be that of the dobermann 130), bound to be some more tweaks but sufice to say they are different.
back to the original post ...are they any good? well if they fit your feet and ability then yes
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You know it makes sense.
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SZK -
This is interesting. A couple shop owners I know claimed the foot molds used in the lower boot (e.g. the last) were kept the same between the three models. I didn't notice much difference in fit when moving from my Grand Prix to the Beasts. Personally, I wouldn't mind the change mentioned by CEM since I have a narrow heel.
As for the challenge, its a lesson I learned from my president. If you are wrong or questioned create a sideshow (preferably a macho one).
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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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Rio, I love the logic. Your bloke says the last is the same, the footmen say it isn't, solution: invade Iran.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Thanks everyone for the erudition on both Nordica and Marx! I suppose if you want to link the two we could always have a discourse on that famous Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci who, in his prison notebooks, wrote somewhat euphemistically on the nature of bourgeois hegemony.
I'm gonna try those boots on by the way and then go clubbin' to see if I'm a big hit with the girls......
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Thanks everyone for the erudition on both Nordica and Marx! |
I skied both Lenin and Marx while in my Nordica Beast boots yesterday. Due to the poor light we didn't bother with Castro's Elbow, 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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Boringly returning to the original thread temporarily - I had a pair of Nordica Grand Prix in lime and lemon (?) which I wore 'til the sole wore through (6 seasons - full seasons mind) and then bit the bullet and bought a pair of Speedmachine 14 off the internet from Backcountryoutlet.com for $500 inc shipping which seemed good value. I bought the same size as my GPs and they fitted like a glove from the off and I love them. Stiff as a board - in fact normally undone until it gets insane or through gates - and with a natty lace affair to assist the fit of the inner boot. Love 'em...
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Powderhound, nooooooo! I don't believe it!!! 
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Well played! I'm not worthy! 
