 Poster: A snowHead
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That might be useful to know should any of us ever find ourselves short of someone to ski with!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| greengriff wrote: |
| lower wrote: |
| greengriff wrote: |
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| greengriff wrote: |
| Any opinions on the Enforcer 88? |
My new Nordica Enforcer 88's are arriving today just in time for the end of the season. I'll let you know how i get on with them.......in about a year's time  |
I'll wait with baited breath! I'm in Leicestershire too so if you end up hating them drop me a line. |
Closest thing i'll get to using them will be when the indoor slope at milton keynes reopens, but at least i got them for a decent price! |
May I ask where you got them from? |
Ellis Brigham. £412 inc Tyrolia Attack 11 GW bindings.
The price was slightly cheaper than the old EU routes like Glisshop etc and no extra shipping costs or risk of duty from the EU routes that will ship to the UK.
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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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| lower wrote: |
Ellis Brigham. £412 inc Tyrolia Attack 11 GW bindings.
The price was slightly cheaper than the old EU routes like Glisshop etc and no extra shipping costs or risk of duty from the EU routes that will ship to the UK. |
Cheers. Did they fit the bindings? I can see both products on their site separately, but not as a unit.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| greengriff wrote: |
| lower wrote: |
Ellis Brigham. £412 inc Tyrolia Attack 11 GW bindings.
The price was slightly cheaper than the old EU routes like Glisshop etc and no extra shipping costs or risk of duty from the EU routes that will ship to the UK. |
Cheers. Did they fit the bindings? I can see both products on their site separately, but not as a unit. |
Yes, they fit the bindings. You buy the skis and bindings separately and they then contact you to find out your boot sole size and other info so they can mount your bindings. They'll probably still need adjusting to set the forward pressure properly, but that's a 2 minute job in a ski shop in resort if you can't do it yourself (and its not hard).
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Well, decision finally made: I've ordered a set of i-Titans (not the new e-Titan as it's quite a different ski).
My logic is as follows: The Titans are capable in all piste conditions, playing at the side of the piste, and up to a couple of inches of powder. This is what I'll be skiing most of the time with my wife and kids. My wife and daughter ski at moderate speeds, my middle son is a maniac (I clocked him at 48mph down the Mont Blanc blue in Les Arcs when he was 7 years old), so I need to be able to enjoy (rather than force) moderate paced, moderate sized turns, plus also bomb to try and keep up with him, and do a bit myself at the end of the afternoon after they've gone in.
That leaves me the option of hiring a more suitable ski should proper powder conditions appear, or reading the weather report the day before I set off and taking the Mantras if it suggests conditions more suitable for them.
What finally sold me on the Titans was the comments from buyers at the bottom of this page:
https://www.skiessentials.com/2020-ski-test/skis/2020-head-supershape-titan/
Also every review I read remarked on their predictability and their forgiving nature, both of which I view as serious positives. Having been flipped on my head countless times when snowboarding and accumulated various injuries in the other sports I participate in, I no longer want to push my luck. A ski that always responds as I expect and tolerates the inevitable small errors I make, whilst still being blisteringly fast, sounds absolutely lovely
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| greengriff wrote: |
Well, decision finally made: I've ordered a set of i-Titans (not the new e-Titan as it's quite a different ski).
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Given your fundamental reality: ie. You are light and spend a lot of time On Piste, but want a little extra width for flexibility....and want something stable, yet comfortably manageable - I think you have made a very wise choice.
What size did you get? I think you could handle the 170, which would give extra surface area.
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Yep, I went for the 170. I was torn between the 163 and the 170, but settled for the 170 in the end, thinking that I don't mind trading a little more effort in turns for a little extra stability.
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| greengriff wrote: |
| Yep, I went for the 170. I was torn between the 163 and the 170, but settled for the 170 in the end, thinking that I don't mind trading a little more effort in turns for a little extra stability. |
I think the Head iShape range are beautifully judged, when it comes to combining ease of use, reactiveness and stability - they are a great ski for a lighter person. That wide tip engages well and pulls you into the turn. I don't see the 170 being too much work - especially so as you like to ski more aggressively. 14.1m is a very versatile radius.
Last edited by Ski the Net with snowHeads  on Fri 26-03-21 13:46; edited 1 time in total
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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| greengriff wrote: |
| Yep, I went for the 170. I was torn between the 163 and the 170, but settled for the 170 in the end, thinking that I don't mind trading a little more effort in turns for a little extra stability. |
I have a that ski in that length (2 seasons old now), I love it. It is stable in turns and straight and really punches through chopped up snow.
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You know it makes sense.
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I'll hold you to that! @oldfartbag I mean.
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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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| pieman666 wrote: |
I have a that ski in that length (2 seasons old now), I love it. It is stable in turns and straight and really punches through chopped up snow. |
That is very good to hear, thank you!
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Poster: A snowHead
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| I'll hold you to that! @oldfartbag I mean. |
Absolutely.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Don't doubt you enjoy them - great piste ski. Not sure why I'd expect them to be that much more stable straightlining than Mantras though. I'd be buying them to enjoy relative quickness edge to edge and getting some gs from tight turns at high edge angles
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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 expect them to be more stable as they are camber and the Mantras are full rocker. Anyway it's all gone tits up, as despite them advertising them all over the web, and happily taking my money, I've just been told they are out of stock and the distributor has no more. Ho hum!
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They are just fooling you. If you order them you will get an email the day after saying they are out of stock!!!
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@greengriff, Isn't 170 a little short?
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| under a new name wrote: |
| @greengriff, Isn't 170 a little short? |
This is one back from the longest length, which is 177. At 65kg, it certainly isn't short for him.
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@Old Fartbag, huh. Shortish skis then. Does make me wonder how "stable" they'll be, re original question...
"rock solid in a straight line" vs. “likes to turn—not a glider.”
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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| @Old Fartbag, huh. Shortish skis then. Does make me wonder how "stable" they'll be, re original question... |
They are stable - maybe not quite as stable as the Dynastar Speed Zone 12/14. This is as reported by some of the Instructors on here, who changed from the Titans, to the SZ.
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@Old Fartbag, you are not going to convince me that that shape will happily run straight at speed while completely flat. Not a chance.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| @Old Fartbag, you are not going to convince me that that shape will happily run straight at speed while completely flat. Not a chance. |
I wasn't arguing that it was rock solid in a straight line - only that it was stable to ski.
This thread has moved on somewhat from the title, as information about the OP and what he wants emerged and became clearer.
If spending most of your time on Piste - then a slightly oversized Piste Ski is sensible - pretty much all Piste Skis, that aren't GS types, will have a turn radius of between 13 and 16m....so won't feel as stable in a straight line due to their more pronounced sidecut.
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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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@Old Fartbag, not getting argumentative, but it's not a turn radius, it's a sidecut radius and only has a very loose relationship with actual turn sizes ....
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| @Old Fartbag, not getting argumentative, but it's not a turn radius, it's a sidecut radius and only has a very loose relationship with actual turn sizes .... |
The sidecut radius has a big impact on turn radius....and the more pronounced the sidecut, the less stable the ski will be in a straight line.
When I said Turn Radius, what I meant, was the radius of the sidecut, as quoted in the specs of the ski.....sorry if I wasn't clear.
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You know it makes sense.
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agree with some above ... I had a pair of Blizzard Cochise which were pretty good at straight lining off piste !
So much so that one detached from my boot and is still on the mountain somewhere ....
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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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@under a new name, it might seem odd but I always found straight lining my Titans was dead easy, they are very stable and forgiving.
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Poster: A snowHead
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My Titans seem pretty stable up to around 100 km/h. I'm not aerodynamic enough to go much beyond that, and to be honest I like turning too much to try it more than once or twice a week.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Valkyrie, do you mean on a nicely iced, smooth piste, straight down the fall line? Think of the physics. Unless a ski with that sort of shape is perfectly flat on a perfectly flat surface, the tips and tails are going to catch, to a certain degree.
Anyway, seeems like OP has gone off his original idea anyway.
And in real life, that's probably sensible. 
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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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@under a new name, my experience in that straight down the fall line situation is that the edges don’t catch unless you look round to see where your wife is. Then they really catch.
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@Valkyrie, too, too funny. Must confess that (pre Mrs U), my best ever wipeouts were when there was a pretty girl in the audience, and I was trying to show off. Every. Single. Time.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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