any word on the cochise line? that zgtp shank gonna transfer over?
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any word on the cochise line? that zgtp shank gonna transfer over?
Man, I feel this is the year of the ugly ski
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Considering the shape is pretty similar to my beloved Lhasa’s, it has me a little excited. If they ski similarly I’d be stoked. This is more of how a ski actually skis than looks for me. On paper they seem similar, just skinnier. TETO..
None of you pow skis have tapered tips? Hell the only ski I own that doesn’t have a tapered tip is my Monster 82’s.
Curious to learn more about this ski - apparently Aymar Navarro has gotten his own version of the Backland 117. I wonder if it has a different construction or not - the standard version seems a bit undergunned for FTW, even if he is a smaller if sturdy guy on a giant ski.
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Oh yeah (as declarative as my post was) taper's all good in pow skis for me. The old 138 and Renegade are the only two pow skis I've loved over the past decade. It's daily driver skis (roughly a 112 waist and below in my eyes) where I can't stand big tapered tips.
And really, those Armada's could be a sick ski. It's just the graphic highlighting the taper that makes the whole ski look a little silly to me. Like a not subtle reminder that the only "real" part of the ski is before the graphic ends. The rest is useless (probably floppy) tips. But, of course, that's just me, and clearly, I have unresolved issues with my few runs on the 112RP and sound like an old man yelling at clouds :biggrin:
I see that the double-sidewall tech is now on the new QST106, too. Would love to know if the tail rocker profile was tweaked at all. I always felt that it's off-trail performance would improve is it had a touch more rocker. Might be worth another look.
Also, for all those people who were worried about the STH2 bindings going away...the 16 remains, but the 13 appears to be gone. I suppose my hoarding wasn't in vain after all.
Wtf is a strive and why do we need it?
Good thing I haven’t committed to getting any LS Skorpiuseses yet. Think if those FT XTs turn out to be reliable and decent flex, that’ll finally be the TLT6 replacement.
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