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ELAN SLX Word Cup FIS 157 - Any Experiences?
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Gaza Jr will move up to U18 next month. Although we don't plan on doing much, if any, FIS snow racing, he will be doing the dry slope race circuit. The BACR rules are much more relaxed than FIS, so he doesn't have to use a minimum of 157cm FIS approved in year 1. However, as he is now 6' 3" (and still growing) and around 85 kg, his
Dynastar
150 pre-FIS skis are becoming too soft for him.
Aside from the issue of getting hold of 157cm FIS SL at the moment, the cost of two pairs is eye watering. I've been doing a bit of digging around and have found a couple of pairs of ELAN SLX WORLD CUP 157s at less than half the cost of
Dynastar
or Rossi. I think they are old stock as they don't have the "ACE" branding but my experience of race skis suggests that year on year change is little more than colours or branding.
No-one in his club uses Elan and they aren't a common sight in the dryslope race world so I have noting to go on.
Does anyone have experience of these and can offer a view on how they compare to the usual suspects of Rossi, Dyanastar, Fischer and Head?
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They were popular a few years back. I seem to remember them being a little softer than the competition, but as you say year-on-year FIS skis don't change that much.
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In my experience there is not that much to choose between the FIS skis from different brands. For sure a World Cup racer will be more picky, but I doubt it makes much difference to club racers. What seems to happen is brands come in and out of fashion, one year it is all Fischer and the next Atomic etc.
If they are a good match in terms of length I would go for them.
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Thanks all for the responses so far.
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