E-Skimo - Stoke your outrage, Prepare your gatekeeping.

We’ve seen the modular rope tow products, moon bikes, drone tows, etc - but this is first electric assist product I’ve seen that could be valuable on the skin track…

https://e-skimo.swiss/

Like it or not, something like this will likely penetrate the sport within the next decade….


Sent from my iPhone using [emoji638]][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]]][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji639][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji640]]]][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]]][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]]]][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]]][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji639][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji640]]][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji639][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji640]]][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji639][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji640]]]]TGR Forums

Added to cart!!

Sent from my SM-S711W using TGR Forums mobile app

Wow, that's dumb. But maybe some lazy fucks will buy one? It looks like it might work on a straight, grippy skintrack/groomer. No risk of those things taking over real BC skiing in the near future. 700m/hr of elevation gain is a pretty slow uphill pace, so they would really only help the terminally out of shape move a bit faster.

Should the stickers say "E-skins are snowmobiles", or something else?

It seems like they'd really only work on groomed surfaces. So if they only work inbounds, and the point is to make going uphill easier, why wouldn't you just take the chairlift?

Even if they did work for "real" touring, who wants to ski down on janky approach skis that have weird holes in them where the track goes?

an engineering exercise I can't see it ever being popular enough to make any money from

pathetic.

Setting aside the issues of “is it dumb as fuck” (yes) “will it catch on” (no) and “was capitalism a mistake” (jury out but evidence mounting), I don’t see how they can claim no compromise on the downhill when the design of the device they’re marketing will strip the wax off your bases on your first lap. Maybe you have to pair them with the teflon-coated aluminum skis from the Peak thread?

I think they’ve taken the “ski” out of it, it should just be called “E-mo” at this point. I won’t say never because I see what’s happened with mountain biking and e-bikes but it looks like it has a long ways to go.

If only there was a chair one could sit their (lazy) ass upon, and be escorted, god-like, to the top of the mountain..


Sent from my iPhone using TGR Forums

I hit 49 and retired from ski touring. No vert, no hurt. This might be the ticket to unretirement. Won't be an early adopter but once it's refined, dialed, put on real skis and knocked off by cheaper than Swiss copycats, take my money. Edit: combined with the e powered exoskeleton = winning.

As long as you stay out of the wilderness…


Sent from my iPhone using TGR Forums

Holding out for the full suspension model

Dji new skis will be 200% faster and 800w battery and 8lbs a pair i heard

Sent from my SM-S711W using TGR Forums mobile app

I imagine this would be a more elegant AT solution for the lazy dad bods out there: https://gearjunkie.com/outdoor/hikin...keleton-review

i'm really thinking the weight from the batteries will help me keep my tips up on deep days

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by swissiphic

I hit 49 and retired from ski touring. No vert, no hurt. This might be the ticket to unretirement. Won't be an early adopter but once it's refined, dialed, put on real skis and knocked off by cheaper than Swiss copycats, take my money. Edit: combined with the e powered exoskeleton = winning.

---

you just need a really big drone

Who is the realistic target audience, poser boomers?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by XXX-er

you just need a really big drone

---

This is what I'm going with. Solid state batteries are going to unlock some crazy shit. Is it still a drone if you're in control while hanging from it via a tether? Light sport aircraft, I say.

Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by grinch

Added to cart!!

Sent from my SM-S711W using TGR Forums mobile app

---

[emoji16]

Taken from the about us section

Quote:

---

Nicola is an accomplished entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience, having generated over 500 million in shareholder value through his various ventures.

---

With that kind of shareholder value created, they've caught my attention.

I’ll buy one if swissiphic engineers it entirely out of high density plastic cutting boards

I don't even see how its supposed to help...?
From the video, its only assisting when you slide your unweighted ski forwards...which I feel is a small part of the overall energy expenditure skinning up hill.

So you add a bunch of weight on each ski then enough assist to cancel out the weight you added?

On their site, I just saw a video clip with a cut every second, so you can't tell whether it's working, but as a bonus you get a seizure.

Why don't any of these geniuses invent something useful, like electro-chemically altered kick wax with an app to control the electric potential, so if the temp changes I would just have to click something on my iphone to get proper kick and glide on rolling or low-angle terrain.

So what will be the skintrack etiquette?

Sent from my Pixel 9 Pro using Tapatalk

Flings dog turds right off the skintrack! Added another back up to my cart!

Sent from my SM-S711W using TGR Forums mobile app

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by shank

I’ll buy one if swissiphic engineers it entirely out of high density plastic cutting boards

---

it would more likely be milk crates liberated form behind the 7-11 and a hot glue gun

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by coldfeet

On their site, I just saw a video clip with a cut every second, so you can't tell whether it's working, but as a bonus you get a seizure.

Why don't any of these geniuses invent something useful, like electro-chemically altered kick wax with an app to control the electric potential, so if the temp changes I would just have to click something on my iphone to get proper kick and glide on rolling or low-angle terrain.

---

I literally couldn't tell how that system works in the slightest, but yeah, good thing I don't have epilepsy.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by stealurface831

pathetic.

---

You are correct. It looks like a solution in search of a problem.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Cocximus

So what will be the skintrack etiquette?

Sent from my Pixel 9 Pro using Tapatalk

---

If these were faster and more powerful I'd mount my bindings backwards and as I overtook you all climbing, in my own track while facing you backwards, I'd take a deep drag from a cigarette and blow you the finger, and mutter something intelligible in french. That would be proper etiquette with these things.

Also going in circles a few times around people as they skin up before I head to the top seems appropriate. A bluetooth speaker blaring needs to be carabinered to my pack too I think.

Well whatever. A version of this is absolutely coming soon.

Maybe something portable with a light weight ski length treaded track skin powered by a state of the art Tesla battery in a carbon housing that can easily be stowed in an airbag pack on the downhill. Maybe a the track can be controlled by two carbon idler wheels. Esch e-skin should weigh no more than 900g with mechanics and track.

All this faffing around with strapping tracks to skis is never gonna work. Just give me an AI equipped snowmobile that can drive itself back to bottom of the run and pick me up.

Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk