 Poster: A snowHead
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Anyone come across Black Powder skis? I was stroking some in the shop yesterday, very light and very black.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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ww166no, that is the "official distributor" for Chamonix and where I got my skis. Excellent service and they have 112s to demo.
I don't think they've got 99s in, but it's worth asking.
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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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FlyingStantoni, what are their prices like for the pure skis? Couldn't find it on their website...
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clarky999, 980 euros collected from the chalet. I thought that was reasonable as DPS quote $160 shipping to the UK on top of their price. It also meant that I didn't have to mess around with customs. Asa ordered them in and it took about a week for them to be ready for collection. She didn't wait until I'd paid until she ordered them in, which is good.
The only downside is that Asa wanted paying by bank transfer to a Norweigan bank account, which was fine but a bit a faff. All worked fine though.
MrsFS collected them for me and took them to David in Sanglard Sports to have the bindings mounted. When MrsFS picked up the skis from Sanglard they waived the 12 euro fee on the basis that they liked the skis!
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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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FlyingStantoni, thanks - I've sent them a mail, name-checking snowheads . . . wasn't too sure they'd know who FlyingStantoni was! 
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FlyingStantoni,
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- yellow ski pants
- blue jacket
- lime(ish) yellow boots (that absolutely do not go with the trousers)
- green helmet
- orange poles
- fushia Buff
- red skis
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My eyes are hurting just thinking about this, but next time I'm contemplating skiing in poor visibility, please will you be my guide? 
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ww166no, They have no 99 in stock , been looking for a while 
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The 99 was only a very limited release this season
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Arno, When does the 2012 release begin?? Am thinking of a summer trip to chile and would like to get fixed up for that
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Well, I've finally gotten around to tuning my DPS skis - which, of course, I should have done about 5 weeks ago.
As with all skis, don't believe the tech sheet. Whatever the skis were set to, they certainly didn't have the advertised 1 degree base bevel.
I've now set the tuning at 1 degree base and 3 degrees edge angle. All the grabbiness has now gone and they hold an absolutely ferocious edge.
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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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Hi Snow Heads
Im the UK/Swiss/Austrian Sales manager and DPS Demo man. just looking trough all this and will try to give some responses regarding comments and questions. fell free to shoot any questions at me in this thred and i will try to give you as much info as i can.
im not hear to do the hard sell just answer questions and talk deep powder 
My back ground with DPS go's back about 8 years or so from skiing with Stephan Drake in switzerland and then joining his on a trip to alaska. iv beena fan and watch the skis develop over the past years and after last ISPO came on to the DPS Team to develop and service are UK and European markets.
Mike
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Got a little more fresh last weekend on my 112s. Only about 12cm new snow on top of tracked crud and it's clear they need a tune, as per FylingStantoni above.
As an experiment, I spent half a day on a pair of K2 somethingorothers, 86cm underfoot, billed as all mountain, just to try and assess the Wailer edge hold in comparison to something slimmer - my conclusion: I'd rather ski the Wailers, even in manly bumps at 4pm than the vile K2 things!
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You know it makes sense.
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Well, I've finally gotten around to tuning my DPS skis - which, of course, I should have done about 5 weeks ago.
As with all skis, don't believe the tech sheet. Whatever the skis were set to, they certainly didn't have the advertised 1 degree base bevel.
I've now set the tuning at 1 degree base and 3 degrees edge angle. All the grabbiness has now gone and they hold an absolutely ferocious edge. |
Good to hear, I Assume this makes a huge difference to their on piste behaviour??
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Welcome to  s DPS.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Huge improvement kitenski. Well worth the time / effort.
I must admit that I could / will be spending more time on the bases as I only had 15 minutes to do them and was using a portable bench that is great for edging and waxing, but absolutely rubbish for doing base bevels.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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DPS, Just bought the new wailer 99 hybrid , setting them up with baron's for a all mountain / day touring ski, can't wait to get on them  , what are folk saying about the 99 ?? , any advice re tune/ detune ??
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FAQ
not the skis fault my own fault in new boots.
