Poster: A snowHead
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I feel left out I only have my 2 pairs of skis purchased in summer compared to the array of 8 from little tiger! It seems i need to get my priorities right!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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Do you want to sell me your Big Troubles, in that case, cash waiting, 1/8th of retail value?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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little tiger wrote: |
I forget what I paid for the elan gsx... but not much... |
$137 US,,, one season of light use, race stock, with race plates and bindings.
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FastMan wrote: |
$137 US,,, one season of light use, race stock, with race plates and bindings. ;-) |
Marker Piston or something else?
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comprex wrote: |
FastMan wrote: |
$137 US,,, one season of light use, race stock, with race plates and bindings. |
Marker Piston or something else? |
Elan ER. Actually a tyrolia under Elan nameplate. It's their race binding, which is supplied with sponsorship skis.
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Rossfra8, you did not tell us what you bought?
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Rossfra8 wrote: |
I feel left out I only have my 2 pairs of skis purchased in summer compared to the array of 8 from little tiger! It seems i need to get my priorities right!! |
Don't feel left out. That is a good start, and there's still time to catch up!
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little tiger wrote: |
Rossfra8, you did not tell us what you bought? |
yea, tell us what you bought..........
Also, in an attempt to answer the thread question...........
Is it different than you imagined at the end of the season?
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Nordica SM 10 boots.
NF Decagon jacket#
NF Monte Cargo Pants
Salomon Propeller CP Gloves
Barts Beanie
Smartwhool socks
Blizzard Tech Base layers
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dakine container
No wonder im skint.
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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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little tiger, Nordica Hot Rod Modifieds-Doing my ski instructor course and decided these would be stiff enough, but not too stiff, to allow me to snowplow all day! Salomon Falcon Race boots, Spyder Bormio pants, currently looking for something along the lines of K2 Seths but money is tight (I am a student taking a year out). Numerous other bits and pieces but they were my big expenses, oh and a dakine 60/40 split roller convertable thing! SnowHot, it is very very different from what I imagined as I wasn't going to buy boots, but i just could resist the shiny redness!
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Rossfra8, Sounds good...
about the same radius as my cheater GS skis from last year then... but wider waist... my friend likes Nordica skis....
Ok so that is about 280pounds with bindings versus my 385pounds for 4 pairs with bindings... Ok - I'm a big spender
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You know it makes sense.
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little tiger, they were more an impulse buy in Banff, needed something new to go with my new boots!! Plus ski stuff is so so expensive in Scotland!
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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Sorry where do you get these from? If only i had your resources!! Spyder were doing last seasons U.S team suits cheap for a while, dont know if they still are...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Rossfra8, I have Fastman shopping in the US for me (hence how he knows what I pay)... All the race skis are second hand - but are race stock and have been used as race skis....
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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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Too good, too good! I can get cheap golf clubs... haha!
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Rossfra8, yes you can
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P.S big troubles are horrible skis, really nasty on the turn, no edge hold, really heavy-thought id save you the bother of skiing them. I'll look after them if you wish?
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i'll keep that in mind haha, ill be in banff for 3 months in the winter just send them up the rockies! i think my next jaunt is Taos lol
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Got myself a pair of Scott Missions 183s for touring.
Of course, with Naxo 21s and skins. Crampons as well.
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Rossfra8, You could do worse than visit Fastman if you want to get your free skiing up to scratch for instructor certs... and especially if you want to sit a race test...
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Is this a private conversation, or can outsiders join in?
I bought a new pair of pants (or sallooppeetteesss - no idea on the spelling) - I think they are Eider. All due to my ever-expanding waistline.
...speaking of salopettes, a bit of etymology has me wondering what that word really means. I mean, it looks french, but if you break it down, the "ette" bit would imply small, or little. And the other bit... well, let's just leave it at "doubting the wedded state of someone's parents"
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I thought it was shorthand for Shropshire?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Wear The Fox Hat, salopette, fatty (as you seem to have discovered). Superficially it means dungarees or overalls.
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Got my daughter a nice new ski suit - in the hope that it will be OK for two years and save us on hire charges! Probably won't be getting anything for myself!
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You know it makes sense.
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Well, I was planning on getting my press finished, but it got too cold and I got too busy. So I broke down and bought what was close to what I was building - some K2 Freedoms. So my quiver stands at 2.
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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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RoboGeek, I was on those back in Y2K or so alongside their GT6/Patriot stablemates. Could be a decent ice and reef and igloo ski if you like to steer 'em.
Unfortunately the one full day I had on them was at Kmart during Thanksygive slush, very lifeless in that sort of thing.
Edit: yep, Y2K, found the pix.
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Poster: A snowHead
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sounds about right..
I love my $30 skis though.. I'm finding what I'm comfortable with and these have only been skied 2 seasons as demos before being mothballed. I now have new pants, poles, goggles, hat, used 2 pairs of skis, boots and other goodies all for under $140
New gear might be cool.. but I'd rather buy like this and use my money for more lift tickets!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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RoboGeek, fair enough with an ontogeny recapitulating phylogeny flavour.
Any chance of you coming out east to ski with folks?
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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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comprex, is your pretentiousness genetic, or did you study it?
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Genetic, must be, as my willpower is too weak to stand up to the army of Diana Moon Glampers clones.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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comprex, yeah.. I found I actually increase business by going on vacation!
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your big words hurt.. now I shall adjust my bindings for 'kill'
Snowhot better look out.. soon I'm going to need a large truck to go skiing too!
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Hurtle, self-evidently not sure at all: one is handicapped for having the manners not to insult the intelligence of others by re-iterating and overexplaining what everyone in the state learned, or at least have a certificate stating the learning of, at age 14. (But, from a reference work you already own, "The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears" may be cast into "The pretension that one infers is worse than the context one lacks")
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comprex, You knew what
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meant, and had read Kurt Vonnegut, by the age of 14? I congratulate whichever state is was that provided you with such an in-depth education. Evidently my school, not to mention the ancient university which I attended, left much to be desired. (Actually they did, in some respects!) What's your latest quotation from? Is it Bored of the Rings?
I fear this is turning into a late night (for me, anyway, but I'm seriously jet-lagged at the moment) thread hijack. Sorry.
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Two Towers?
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