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Skike Cross country ski/skate
 Poster: A snowHead
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Has anyone got these:- http://www.crosscountryskis.co.uk/backup/catalogue.asp?category=14&subcategory=10

If so what do you think of them? I have a good park with a tarmac perimeter road and I was thinking a pair of these with cross country poles and some pads for elbows, knees, wristguards and a skiing helmet would be ideal ski related fitness training for the summer months.
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

How much do you weigh? I'm 6'3" and 95kg, the tyres even inflated maximally bulge so much that they don't rotate without friction from the chassis. For me they have been totally useless. I bought them secondhand and they looked brand new my guess is the guy I bought them off found them unusable too.
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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?

Mrs Musher has something similar. She doesn't go out on them very often, but seems happy with them. I think they are called Start combi. They have smaller solid wheels more like a rollerblade
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If you are planning to use these, go with real roller skis, not with this shi**. They have some sort of "break" implemented there, so you need to keep your knees forward all the time, otherwise it breaks automatically. And such position is no go for xc skiing. So if you want to enjoy it, get real roller skis (Ski sket, Start, Jenex, Oneway, Proski, Marwe...), and forget about Skike.
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ok, thanks for the info. I'll get back to looking at roller skis instead.
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Primoz, blasting his opinions across Snowheads with both barrels for over a decade ! Smile

To answer the question though. There are two common wheel sizes for "off road" roller skis: 150mm and 200mm. 200mm are obviously heavier but can handle a wider choice of terrain. 150mm are really for hardpacked sand, woods etc. You have to be careful with ground clearance. They also work really well on all those city streets with small pot holes, uneven pavements, drains, gutters etc etc, places where rollerskis would have trouble.

They ski pretty much like rollerskis with 100mm wheels but a quite a lot slower. Also you can get punctures. I don't know about brakes as I don't use them but you can go down pretty steep hills if you have them. A couple of guys I skied alpe d'Huez with 2 years ago had them and they skied down whereas I took the bus. If you are in the UK and have a choice between rollerskis and "skikes" skikes are probably a better choice as they are safer and handle a bigger variety of terrain.

I was able to commute to work on them, as in this picture.

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davidof wrote:
Primoz, blasting his opinions across Snowheads with both barrels for over a decade ! Smile

Congratulations for finding more then 10 years old comment and answering to OP some 10 years late (I guess main point of your post was this what I quoted though. Just for info, these roller skates on your photo have nothing to do with Skikes OP was asking about, and about what I replied. If you have issues with me being pro xc skier once and you not even hobby skier, it's your thing, but I have no idea why you need to drag this issue out every possible or not possible way.
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