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Walkie Talkies - again!
Started by User in Ski Chatter, 65 Replies
Just got my replacement w/ talkies. Being charged up at the moment. Will take them into work tomorrow night and test them :D ....Over!

Will let you all know how they get on as I know ya all really interested.... Out
Advice on these please
Started by User in Ski Hardware, 27 Replies
Trencher wrote:
mfc wrote:
Trencher wrote:
rossyhead wrote: and boring with no life at all.


That's what two sheets of titenal will do to a ski. As the manufacturer describes it as primarily a carving ski, this is not a bad thing. It's a trade off, sacrificing the pop for edge hold.

Trencher


What do you mean?


Think about a wooden ruler being flicked on a school desk top and the Booooooiiiing noise you used to make. That wooden ruler is like the wood core of your skis. Now think what would happen if you glued a thin strip of very hard and brittle metal to the ruler. It would no longer be much fun to flick as the vibration would die out very quickly. This is the effect of titenal layers in skis and snowboards.

Why do you need it ? When a ski is carving, unless you have found a groomed billiard table, the ski is going to get bumped around and will try to carve several different arcs at once as the ski's decambering is increased and decreased (a bit like the wooden ruler). The titenal layers help to dampen out these sudden changes in how much the skis is flexed, and help the ski to carve a smoother arc.

If you want see this how much unwanted flexing can go on, look at this video at about the 2.00 minute mark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIFNdO94xRs

The down side of metal, is that it make a ski feel a bit dead. It won't spring the energy back to you in the same way that a non metal ski might.

Trencher



Cheers! Can you now explain how crop rotation worked in the 18th Century?
AllyG wrote:mfc,
That's a bit of a coincidence, I've just spent about an hour cleaning the glue off our 3 new velux windows, with some extra powerful glass cleaning solvent plus the special metal scraper designed for cleaning glass cooker tops.

Velux have a horrible habit of glueing the A4 sized guarantee to the underneath of the windows with 6 blobs of impossibly well stuck on glue. If you look when you're driving around you often see the glue blobs still stuck on people's veluxes.

Ally



Just used washing up liquid meself.
Advice on these please
Started by User in Ski Hardware, 27 Replies
Trencher wrote:
rossyhead wrote: and boring with no life at all.


That's what two sheets of titenal will do to a ski. As the manufacturer describes it as primarily a carving ski, this is not a bad thing. It's a trade off, sacrificing the pop for edge hold.

Trencher


What do you mean?
Advice on these please
Started by User in Ski Hardware, 27 Replies
Brucie wrote:''With two sheets of titanium in the extended Titan Metal Laminates, vibration-reducing Marker Piston M1 12.0 binding system, and SQUIRRELY MOD dampening technology, the K2 Apache Crossfire Skis deliver accurate SQUIRRELY transmission and precise control, cross-mountain. So go ahead: get caught in the Crossfire. ''


Come on!!! Would you buy a ski after reading that Sloblock???? :shock:



Probably not but if they used the word "SQUIRRELY" Id be at the shop now buying them :mrgreen:
facebook group bump
Started by User in Ski Chatter, 50 Replies
Tony_H wrote:
"Do you want to add Caron Aylott as a friend?
Not the Caron Aylott you were looking for?"

No. I was looking for the J2ski facebook group..... :roll:



Thats what I got!!! Thought it was J2ski we wanted?
Booking Selva!
Started by User in Ski Chatter, 3 Replies
Have a think about it, but your more than welcome to join us.
facebook group bump
Started by User in Ski Chatter, 50 Replies
cant find it, can u put a link on here