 Poster: A snowHead
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If you had asked me three days ago, I'd have said "tune? bah, just ski the damn ski, no tune will make a good ski bad".
Wrong. Very, very wrong.
I recently bought a pair of new skis which turned out to be virtually unskiable on piste. Ok, I got down without falling (just), but I struggled badly on blue runs.
Gave them to the shop for a retune and suddenly they're turning out to be quite good...they're not piste skis so not expecting miracles, but the difference is huge.
Interesting to think that, had I had them for a test run, I would have run a mile.
Makes me wonder how much can test runs tell you, if skis are tuned in different ways...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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horizon, do you know what was different, edge angle, base angle, wax vs no wax 
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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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horizon, I will argue this one with you . . . later . . . in a piece for Benzebollicks
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Naaaaah
You just hadnt warmed up on the first run, and your boots were still on their loose settings from the chair lift
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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 thought you were going to be all like:
"I tried skiing them whilst listening to Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' and the Red Hot Chili Peppers stunningly overrated 'Blood Sugar Sex Magic', but the combination of middle class prog bollocks and homoerotic frat-boy funk pap was just far too offputting and I kept falling over. Then I put on Teenage Fanclub's seminal Bandwagonesque LP and by the time I got to the album's arguable highlight 'Star Sign' I was skiing like Didier Cuche".
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You'll need to Register first of course.
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Mr Piehole, so did I. (Mutatis mutandis.)
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| Mr Piehole wrote: |
I thought you were going to be all like:
"I tried skiing them whilst listening to Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' and the Red Hot Chili Peppers stunningly overrated 'Blood Sugar Sex Magic', but the combination of middle class prog bollocks and homoerotic frat-boy funk pap was just far too offputting and I kept falling over. Then I put on Teenage Fanclub's seminal Bandwagonesque LP and by the time I got to the album's arguable highlight 'Star Sign' I was skiing like Didier Cuche". |
Are you a 1-D fan then ...
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Pedantica, 1 more post before 7000!
sev112, ummm??
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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| Mr Piehole wrote: |
I thought you were going to be all like:
"I tried skiing them whilst listening to Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' and the Red Hot Chili Peppers stunningly overrated 'Blood Sugar Sex Magic', but the combination of middle class prog bollocks and homoerotic frat-boy funk pap was just far too offputting and I kept falling over. Then I put on Teenage Fanclub's seminal Bandwagonesque LP and by the time I got to the album's arguable highlight 'Star Sign' I was skiing like Didier Cuche". |
I thought it would be about Romanian folk music
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Erm... cough... I can confirm that a bad tune can have interesting consequences. I packed everything for the season except the clamps I use when servicing my skis. Did my edges a couple of nights ago (on the floor of my apartment, with nothing to stabilise the skis) and subsequently spent two days skiing like a second-week beginner. It was not pretty.
Took the skis into a local shop for a re-tune and all is back to normal again. As I said to the shop owner, it was not one of my finer moments 
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