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Them were the days

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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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@Dave of the Marmottes, it's those K2 boots that get me Shocked
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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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@davidof, although, for heel retention, not terrible!
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Wow! The cut of those cuffs, FFS! Shocked Did any one on here try them? And what was the thinking behind the design? Puzzled

That was 10 years before we learned to ski.
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davidof wrote:
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!"


Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Toofy Grin
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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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and...

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Lange have been at it ever since ...
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You know it makes sense.
Omg got all excited thinking this was the Nz 24 catalogue but clearly a decade too soon
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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”…

Not risqué, just outdated.
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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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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.


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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


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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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After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
@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 Sad
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too long ago to even find anything on the internet I suspect

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 ... Shocked
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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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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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Peter S wrote:
74/75. Pretty much the golden age of skiing ... dry slopes being developed everywhere... Portable ski tows cropping up on every skiable slope ...

@Peter S, you're missing this.. snowHead



IMO one of the best things that happened to my skiing: having learnt on plastic at Pontypool, I was able to then ski 2 - 3 days a week at the Usk grass-ski centre all through the summer months, plus racing in the British Nationals (with our local heroes Nigel Young/Jonathan Paley, plus the likes of Lesley Beck; Nigel Smith; Graeme Mcguire etc)

Them really were the days.... Toofy Grin


http://youtube.com/v/ffkB_l2FjFc&t=8s

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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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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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davidof wrote:
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!"


Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Toofy Grin


"Yes but these ones go to six!"
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