Poster: A snowHead
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Hi all,
First post on here, but have enjoyed reading a few threads, seems like a great community.
I have a dilemma....
For the past 10 years I've been enjoying my Rossi Bandit XX (178cm), been great skis and have seen a lot of action over the years. I wasn't particularly thinking about changing, until I bought boots last year and then loaned me some Elan Magfire 8 skis (160cm) to go off to Kicking Horse for the day.
They were awesome, had a great day on them, some great powder and chutes, but also a lot of fun on the bumps and then ripping down the bottom slopes back to the gondola.
It was only the next day when I went back onto the Bandits they seemed old, slow and very cumbersome.
So, I've been trying to figure out what to replace the Bandits with as I am off to Tignes on the 16th. Clearly after an all mountain ski, as while I love the powder it is a bit hard to come across in places esp Europe, but I love bumps, and finding little bits to play in off the sides of the slopes, or finding the powder when I can. Fast groomed blues etc are great, but really a way of getting to the next fun bit to play in.
The Elan Magfires were so great, I had initially been trying to find them (very difficult to get in UK, and France it seems), but had settled on the idea of something like a Waveflex 76 Ti, probably at 168cm.
Since they don't seem available in many places though, I've also been recommended the following:
Rossignol Z76
Salomon XW Tornado Ti
While getting them in resort makes the most sense, a lot of people are talking very highly of the Tornados, and they could be a bit cheaper in the UK than France.
I'm about 78kg and 168cm, and fairly aggressive skier.
What do you all think? Tornados FTW?
Cheers
Jamie
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Jamester, I can't comment on the skis, but there is a good chance that Skee tex could get you a waveflex - it will hardly cost anything to try a phone call - see their website http://www.skee-tex.co.uk/ They had the Waveflex 82 Ti on the shelf the last time I was in there.
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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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Try the Dynastar Sultan 85 (or 80) beforeyou buy too...
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clarky999 wrote: |
Try the Dynastar Sultan 85 (or 80) beforeyou buy too... |
Agree.
Having tried in the last year (some in the wild, some in the fridge):
~ Tornado
~ Tornado Ti
~ K2 Xplorer
~ Bandit 80
~ Watea 78
~ Watea 84
~ Sultan 80
~ Sultan 85
I've come to a number of conclusions:
1) If I didn't have kids (and spend 51% of my ski time pootling around with the kids), I'd buy the Sultan 85
2) My current Nordica HotRods are fine for what I do - there are better skis out there but not that much better
3) If my Nordicas weren't good enough, I'd snap up a pair of Sultan 80s - fine for pootling about but well capable of tearing it up all over the mountain.
Of the ones the OP asked about I spent three days on hired Tornado Ti in mixed conditions in Alpe d'Huez with good skiers, mainly on or between pistes. I really enjoyed those three days and didn't once think about the skis for good or bad - I'd think of them as a Ford Mondeo. [/list]
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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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Skiwear4less have Waveflex 8s on the web, might be worth giving them a ring as I've often seen more stuff in their shops than on the website, love my Elan Speedwaves!
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