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Fischer RX Hotfire (Flow Flex)
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Well, I don't know how I'll explain this when I get home... but I've just bought (another) nice, new pair of skis.
Okay, I broke every rule I've ever made about buying skis - this boils down to one rule: demo. I didn't.
I needed something slalom'y' for the CSCF course I'm on as my
Volkl
's have a radius of 14.8m - too large for what I needed (as I found on the first two days). The hire skis were in awful shape (I know, I tried) so I took the plunge and bought a pair this evening with a 10m radius (nice and tight!).
The course conductor is on a pair of Fischer's and recommends them highly, and was quite impressed when I showed him my new babies as I passed through the saloon. He also put my mind at ease that they will complement my Volkls, working nicely alongside, as opposed to over-lapping with the uses of my Volkls (they having only been bought in December anyway).
So, expect a ski review after tomorrow's session.
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isn't a real person
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
Sod the demo, do they match ya boots?
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?
I think I'm going to have to buy some garish lime green boots now!
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Two words: Quick Edge.
Boy are these things fun! So quick to really start turning on the edge. The difference between the 10m radius of these and the 14.8m radius of my Tigersharks is amazing. The Tigersharks are awesome on edge, but after inclining and they roll onto the edge you have to wait, wait, wait and then they really grip and start turning. The Hotfires though were literally on edge and turning almost instantaneously.
Great fun and awesome grip, but you've got to know how to handle them or they'll eat you alive (I reckon).
I have no idea how they would handle in anything other than great hard-pack or slightly softened snow ontop of a firm base (the two conditions I skied today). But then you wouldn't buy what is (essentially) a slalom ski to head off-piste with...
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
That's the one with 123mm tip isnt it and 160 cm ?
That was a full blown WC SC retail slalom ski some seasons back before FIS introduced new regs (altho stiffer than the current Hotfire I blve). Great fun carver they are indeed. WC SC is phenomenal on ice too.
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