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Hire skis and tuning
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

I've been reading over on Epic how some ski manufacturers don't seem to always put the best tune on their skis when they leave the factory (e.g. edge angles which cause the skis to under-perform). People seem to favour re-tuning them themselves (or getting a reliable ski tech to do so) after they've bought them, giving something like 1 degree on the base and 3 degrees on the side. I was wondering whether ski rental shops effectively enforce a standard tune on all the skis, however they come from the factory, and if so, does anyone know what it's likely to be? I imagine it will vary according to the skill of the shop as well as whether they can be bothered or not.

A couple of years ago I skied at Red Resort in Canada and on the first day I didn't get on at all well with my new Blizzard skis I had brought over, so that evening I left them with the tech shop and they put their standard tune on them, which was 1 degree on the base and 2 or 2.5 on the side, and the following day the skis were hugely better. I'm sure they're atypical, though - Red is a place with a VERY high average level of technical ability among the skiers, and a very high number of 'regulars'. It's probably going to be rather different in your average Alpine resort where there's a constant throughput of week-a-year Brit skiers who may not know that their hire skis are not properly looked after - the lazier shops can get away with rather more.
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

AFAIK most hire place will put a couple of degrees on the edge angle as standard, esp if you take em back after a day and accuse them of being blunt! best to ask though......


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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?

J2R, was there a question?

Quote:
I was wondering whether ski rental shops effectively enforce a standard tune on all the skis, however they come from the factory, and if so, does anyone know what it's likely to be? I imagine it will vary according to the skill of the shop as well as whether they can be bothered or not.


You seem to have answered yourself.

My guess would be 1/1 but how close a shop's _claimed_ 1/1 is to a _real_ 1/1 is also subject to

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vary according to the skill of the shop as well as whether they can be bothered or not


So, you might, for all anyone can say as part of a hand-waving generalisation, be getting 2.3/1 on those nice new Head Monsters or whatever.
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I don't have any experience with the machines, but is it that easy to mess up a full auto edge angle? I'm guessing the machine is set at 1/2 and they just run all the ski's through every X weeks of rental?
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