 Poster: A snowHead
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at long last, after only 25 years of skiing, I've finally bitten the bullet in St Anton last week and bought myself a pair of skis. They're a pair of Rossignol Bandit B2s 176cm with Salomon 912ti bindings, and Scott composite poles. Although I've been skiing on B2s for the last season, I demoed them back to back with some K2 Apache Recons (although the only size that they had available were 163s0, which I had heard were good, but didn't like as much as the Bandits. So anyway I gritted my teeth and handed over 750 euros (£525) for the lot, including one free service at the end of the week.
On the down side, it's an awful lot of money (although looking around, I think that the price was competitive), on the plus side it does mean the quality of the skis that I'm using are a lot better. Also the Saturday evening/ Sunday morning hire shop scrum is a thing of the past for 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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... and you can take them out and look at them from time to time..........
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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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Ian Hopkinson, I thought that he only had five pairs now. 
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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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U may scoff... but have U bought a ski-lock yet? 
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Kramer, I'm a simple chap - for skis my counting goes 1, 2, 6 (where 6 equals any number bigger than 2) 
Thanks for the report on St Anton, I will add it to my index.
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u brain, I have bought one, and I'm also slowly getting used to the feeling of apres ski, lunchtime, and baggage carousel paranoia.
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Interesting. The clear price advantage over the UK seems to have [url=http://www.ellis-brigham.com/cgi-bin/psProdDet.cgi/700311||@cSkis@bRossignol|0|user||6|]gone[/url] then. Different bindings in the link, and no poles, of course. I thought they were about £500 (inc bindings) at the Castleford EB. From what I could tell at Castleford, a really good ski. Am hoping to hire them next week
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Decathlon still have them (limited choice of length) for £379 (Axium 300 bindings)
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They had trouble finding some 176s for me. They had the other three lengths in stock in all their shops, they had to go looking for the 176s.
Nick Zotov, they are a nice ski, great over the majority of terrain. If you get the chance, demo them back to back with K2 Apache recons, see what you think.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I'd agree that they're a good ski .. I've skiied on them for the last two hols and they're the only piece of sports equipment that I've ever bought that has ever improved my performance / confidence in a sport .. pity I can't bring myself to buy a pair. Good luck on them.
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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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Kramer, I'm trying not to get back into buying skis again. Because: the domestic Ways and Means Committee is notoriously sceptical, what may be new next year, transport hassle, worry re theft, not using them because it's rocky when I arrive at resort. But I do hanker. Anyway, pig ignorant about bindings these days. So what's the difference between Salomon 912ti and Axium 300. Not that I am buying.. not even thinking of it...quite sane.... really..........................
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I've no idea what the differences between the 300s and the 912tis are, I just went with what the guy in the shop told me. As I ski with a DIN of about 8-9 at the moment, he suggested that having something with a higher DIN range would suit me better and that I would be less likely to run into problems with them.
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You know it makes sense.
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Kramer, thanks.
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