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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Nevermind the colours feel the radically straight shapes and the deeply profiled cuffs.
Have a Volkl alpine board with that throwback Renntiger graphic though ( probably old enough itself to be throwback squared).
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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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@Dave of the Marmottes, it's those K2 boots that get me 
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You can imagine the boss of Koflach: "Guys, I don't care how you do it but I want 6 clips on our boots for next season!"
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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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@davidof, although, for heel retention, not terrible!
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I trust this is not too risqué for this site, but Lange a decade or more ago epitomised “them were the days”…
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Ah '74, when women were vestless, edges were sharp and men were as straight and unturnable as their Rrrrossignol skis...
Also year I was born. Huzzah!
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@Richard_Sideways, 
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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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and...
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Lange have been at it ever since ...
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You know it makes sense.
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Omg got all excited thinking this was the Nz 24 catalogue but clearly a decade too soon
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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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| ulmerhutte wrote: |
I trust this is not too risqué for this site, but Lange a decade or more ago epitomised “them were the days”…
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Not risqué, just outdated.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Used to ski on Rossignol Stratos, around that time. I was only a teenager and they were way longer then me...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I worked for Hexcel (4th ski in from the bottom in the initial post) in the 90's after a merger with Ciba, I had no idea that they used to make skis in the 70's, but it appears they had the first commercial composite skis.
https://www.hexcel.com/Markets/WinterSports
I only started skiing in the late 80's, and I still have some Snow&Rock and Eliis-Brigham winter catologues from that era, and the skis hadn't really changed that much from the 1974 ones, the bindings were much better though.
Last edited by Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person on Sat 20-05-23 17:48; edited 1 time in total
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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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@PowderAdict, yeah, I think bindings step changed forwards with the Salomon 727 (arguably the tyrolia Diagonal but not convinced). Although the Look Nevada deserves a mention
Last edited by Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see? on Sun 21-05-23 6:35; edited 1 time in total
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AHhhhhhhhhh
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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74/75. Pretty much the golden age of skiing expansion in Europe. Lots of Baby boomers and their children coming into the sport. Pre climate change, still reliable natural snow cover across the alps (and Uk hills). Package holidays in full swing by then and dry slopes being developed everywhere. Scottish centres looking forward to a bright future and dozens of active ski clubs across the country. Portable ski tows cropping up on every skiable slope across northern England when it snows. Probably the period just before the high point of UK participation in snowsports?
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@Peter S, haha - yes!! - Vielhaber anyone?
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Now we are talking exclusivity @under a new name,
Skied on a good few pairs but never owned any.
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@Rogerdodger, at least you got my reference! I was a mere bairn then so I never even skied any. I recall a BBC piece on the ones with the gold leaf top surfaces ... too long ago to even find anything on the internet I suspect 
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too long ago to even find anything on the internet I suspect
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Was up in Scotland a couple of weeks ago and we were discussing Vielhaber then... found this online... Scottish Mountain Heritage
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@geoffers, nice one! DEary me, reading that, I now recall lusting after the "Black Fusion" with the gold leaf ...
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@geoffers, I bought my first pair of skis from Mr Vielhaber himself at the London Ski Show (can't remember if it was at Olympia or Earls Court).
I had to return them, as the first time they were used the top sheet 'cracked' in the toe area. First 'Compact' ski ??
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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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I had a pair of the Microfusion MTB (multi torsion box) with segmented edges for more flexibility…. Don’t recall that idea spreading to any other manufacturers
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@albob, not convinced they invented the "compact" (dumb idea) - @dode, totally sure that's been used elsewhere! K2 perhaps comes to mind?
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You know it makes sense.
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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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| dode wrote: |
| I had a pair of the Microfusion MTB (multi torsion box) with segmented edges for more flexibility…. Don’t recall that idea spreading to any other manufacturers |
My IDone mogul skis have cracked edges
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Peter S wrote: |
| 74/75. Pretty much the golden age of skiing expansion in Europe. Lots of Baby boomers and their children coming into the sport. Pre climate change, still reliable natural snow cover across the alps |
funny you say that, in 1975 I was skiing at le Mont Dore and the locals were reminiscing about how you used to be able to ski back to the town from the ski slopes at the end of the day. So it seems moaning about snow cover has a long history. (it does seem like it is possible to do this every winter as a cross country ski slope is prepared from the alpine area to town).
I must have had some wacky boots like the ones above although they'd have been from a hire shop so probably nothing as fancy. We seemed to be able to ski everywhere on the gear back then though, rather than needing a Kwiva, or whatever it is called.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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