J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by mfc

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

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

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

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:

Tony_H wrote:

caron-a wrote:good idea :thumbup:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=688026673&v=feed&story_fbid=61889964537#/group.php?gid=26868931708

"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: