 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Yes indeed - I recal the lifties on Cairngorm using them ages ago.
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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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They have been in use here in the Pyrenees for years. You can actually hire them at Peyragudes.
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What I can't understand is this bit of the article:
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| New ways of sliding downhill seem to be invented each year; some catch on, some don't. Ski biking – where your bicycle has skis rather than wheels and you just balance rather than pedal – is one of the former more successful ideas. |
Patrick Thorne, the author, is a hugely experienced ski writer. He seems to imply in those words that ski-bobbing is a novelty, but sort of half-contradicts that. The headline writer clearly interpreted that it was a novelty.
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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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I have seen some people on ski-bikes in les arcs. They actually look fun, in a kinda pick-up and play (no learning) kinda way.
Can you hire them in france? (preferably on an hourly basis, as I cant quite see the novelty lasting more than 2 hours)
Tux
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tuxpoo,
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They actually look fun, in a kinda pick-up and play (no learning) kinda way.
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In austria you have to have lessons or they won't let you on the lift!
I really don't think that they are pick-up and play. They aren't like sledges (although that is an art form when done properly) you can even carve on snowbikes.
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On our first skitrip 11 years ago to Verbier we used those on a fun evening, you know , the fondue up in the mountain come down drunk on a skibike by torchlight kind
- so definately not new. fond memories though...
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They had a few available for free try-outs in Oz (ADH) last season, definitely not pick up and play in my experience even on the bunny hill, quite counter-intuitive to ride and very easy to high side as illustrated by a young lad who got it very wrong going at a good clip and ended up in a heap with a bloody nose! These were actually full suspension mountain bikes with footpegs in place of the bottombracket and skis instead of wheels.
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tuxpoo, you can hire them in La Rosiere.
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In fact, you've been able to hire them in La Rosiere since 1892
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I had a shot in Les Aarcs a few years ago, they've been offering free shots on them in Maryhofen the last couple of years.
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