Sticky skin

[Twoplanker]

Not foreskin, you sicko.

My new G3 skins are great climbers, but I'm not getting much glide. I'm using Trekkers and Bandit XXXs. To get any real glide, there's got to be a pretty decent slope and I have to give a good push to get any glide out of them. Is this normal? I was envisioning sliding down some modest slopes, but it more of a bent-knee lunge with little glide.

[Pinner]

You dream, sucka.

Skins, especially fat ones, offer very little glide. I've had better luck with Ascensions than any other brand, but they still don't exactly offer the kick-n-glide of waxless x-c gear.

Rub some wax on the skins for a slight improvement. Ascension GlopStopper is a MUST in every bc pack. But in a pinch you could get by with just about any good glide wax.

[Twoplanker]

OK, that's what I thought. Just wanted to make sure I was doin it right. Thanks, pin-dude.

[Pinner]

No sweat, JONG.

And don't try telemarking with Trekkers.

[iskibc]

Astro glide worked wonders for me when I had sticky skin

[Foggy_Goggles]

Tech Talk Biotch!

There is a trade off between glide and grip. If your using a full width skin on a triple, you're not gonna get much glide. Combine that with the stripper platform lift of the Trekkers means you're prolly door hinge a fair amount on little compressions and rollers.

[Twoplanker]

Originally posted by Pinner
No sweat, JONG.

And don't try telemarking with Trekkers.

No shit! It is damn near impossible to ski down any kind of slope on those things. The best I can do is bend a knee and straightline. If they catch, and you don't have a knee bent, you go >kersplat< right on your face. Oh, by the way, when you do that with a free heel, your tips are still there, waiting to smash you in the face. Damn, this is fun!

[Twoplanker]

Originally posted by iskibc
Astro glide worked wonders for me when I had sticky skin

When you've got a big job to do, you have to think industrial.

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