 Poster: A snowHead
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Any tips for good online shops at home or in Europe to buy GS skis? I've found a couple of good sites from the States with some great prices, but the P&P needs to go on that.
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Sun 6-04-08 17:46; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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duty will need to be added as well.
BTW, I thought the thread title was an announcement, not a question.....
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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skisimon, ski-bilek in germany and telemark-pyrenees are a good start.
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holidayloverxx, thanks for the feedback, I've changed the title. 
Yes, duty to add on top, but £300 for Fischer WC GS is a pretty good deal (this season's too), even after adding more for bindings and our tax man's cut.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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botteroski are good
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carroz, yup, that's the other crowd - couldn't remember their name when I posted!
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Axsman, Oi! you've already had a bid for those . . . and they're not GS skis.
skisimon, FIS standards? I could say you're taking the Eosb race a bit seriously . . . but I can't talk 
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Masque, hmmm... preferably (I would possibly go for women's standards, but don't want to drop below 21-23m radius, it defeats the objective otherwise).
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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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Masque, One bid does not an auction make  (and I don't know what they are - Sport Conrad don't seem to list them any more).
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You know it makes sense.
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Wear The Fox Hat, 
Masque, I probably wouldn't do the EoSB race on them anyway (even if I manage to get some by then), I need to get some practice in on them first. Slalom skis this time round, if I stop carving at any point of the race I'll buy a few jugs of beer to go round (that'll do about three snowHeads then...).
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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skisimon, I've bought a pair from Ski Bilek in the past for a very good price, and recently bought a pair of Vist GS skis from kiwi1 at half price when they were shifting some stock from the last couple of seasons. Might be worth sending a PM to him to ask what he has available.
Alternatively I'm going to sell a pair of Rossignol 9X Word Cup skis. They are race department skis, 175cm with R21, and only been used for three weeks or so. Skis and Rossi race plates only, no bindings. Looking for £100. If you're interested send me a PM.
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Poster: A snowHead
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skisimon, now you've got me worried, should I bring the SXs which I know I can rock on (if brain and toes are in a rare bout of communication) or the Fischers? The race, a GS or tight slalom?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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skisimon, I still have some Nordica GSR W/C with 21m radius.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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SMALLZOOKEEPER, we're trying to slow t'booger down 
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DIdn;t Kiwi1 have some VIST GS Skis? And he's going to the EOSB too...
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Masque, slalom will be the weapon of choice rather than a GS ski. The course will be much tighter and slower than a FIS regulation GS, so too much like hard work to get a R27m ski to carve that tight a run.
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nbt, yes, I even added the thread to my favourites, but it's not there now. 
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rob@rar, Glalom then! A new discipline we skied at the start of last week.
Not that I'm taking it seriously...  But are last year's results available?
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For recreational racing and piste skiing people are a lot better off with either a women's GS ski (181) or the non-FIS regulation skis. The FIS-homologated skis have set minimum radii and lengths, making them more difficult to ski easy GS courses on. A lot of masters-level racers in the US avoid skiing the race stock skis as the courses that are set are tighter, slower and flatter than normal FIS GS. I'd imagine races like the EoSB and resort races would be similar.
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rob@rar, hmmmm weapon of choice time then the 14m SX10s or the 21m RC4s . . . or steal summat from Kiwi1's quiver . . . wonder what's going to be the pick of the bunch?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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nbt, Oooooo pretty precious 
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| Masque wrote: |
| rob@rar, hmmmm weapon of choice time then the 14m SX10s or the 21m RC4s . . . or steal summat from Kiwi1's quiver . . . wonder what's going to be the pick of the bunch? |
I wouldn't use the RC4s as the course will be too tight. I'm taking my GS skis but won't use them for the race, just for a bit of blasting around the piste.
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You know it makes sense.
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skisimon, i could be wrong on this but i seem to remember that FIS are going to be changing the regulations for GS skis next year and current models will be illegal for races. Unless you are competing it wont be a problem and you may find some very very good deals going on older model skis as the competive racers wont want them and race stock skis can be pricey for just rec skiers
might try pming RSJ as he is up to speed on this stuff..
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skimottaret, I think one of the changes is the ski's radius going up to at least 27m. The Vist skis I bought earlier this season are R>27m - wonderful in a straight line, but they're not so keen on turning!
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Poster: A snowHead
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rob@rar, have you had a go on the VIST GS skis yet? how long did you go with ? 191 sounds pretty long to me
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skimottaret, yes, radiuses of 27m for men and 23m for women. At least that's how Chris Hillier understood it.
I have to decide whether to try any serious racing, if not then I'd probably go for a women's ski.
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| skimottaret wrote: |
| rob@rar, have you had a go on the VIST GS skis yet? how long did you go with ? 191 sounds pretty long to me |
Just for a couple of hours, so not really enough time to get a feel for them but I hope to address that in the next couple of weeks. Went for the 185.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I'll be bringing VIST GS, SL and race carve (skierX) skis to the EoSB.
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kiwi1, what are the specs for the old VIST GS skis?
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skisimon,
180cm =104/67/89.3 R23m
185cm =104/67/89.3 R27+
191cm =105/67/86 R27+
Sandwich Titanal, wood core, phenol/melamin sidewalls, ISO nano high speed bases.
They come with Speedlock 19mm race plates and 614 or 816 bindings.
current season and infact next seasons skis are the same with different graphics.
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| kiwi1 wrote: |
| I'll be bringing VIST GS, SL and race carve (skierX) skis to the EoSB. |
 tissue please!
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skisimon,
They come with Speedlock 19mm race plates and 614 or 816 bindings.
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Speedlock allows you to easily fit Tele Bindings on those.
Now if they also had AT-bindings to fit on that (hint!)
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I'll bring a couple of pairs of tele interfaces just in case.
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