How bent is too bent?

**wurst** · 03-19-2007, 07:56 PM

Heading to Winter Park for a long weekend this week, and my new/used Explosivs are gently aging in a customs warehouse in Vancouver. Trying to decide what my plan B skis are, since my fatties (Anti Pistes) probably aren't the best choice for the current spring conditions and I'm not deep with good skinnier options. I do have a pair of Volant Sins I had fun with last year, but I bent them in the process (I like to think of them as rockered). Will be skiing mostly trees and bumps, trying to keep up with a Denver buddy.

So my first question: are these hosed? Bend is mostly in one ski, although both are totally decambered.

Will the bend be noticeable, annoying, or dangerous? I skied them for at least a day in this condition last year, and don't remember noticing a difference, but now that I know they're bent I might start imagining problems.

Would they be worse mounted tele? (I'm sure someone will say everything is worse mounted tele). Part of the appeal is that I could just swap bindings and ski them alpine if that worked better.

wurst

**snoboy** · 03-20-2007, 09:05 AM

Everything is worse mounted tele.

There, got that over with,

**Caucasian Asian** · 03-20-2007, 09:14 AM

They'll still ski just like a Volant always does. Bent.

**cpj.slc** · 03-20-2007, 09:20 AM

Bend them more so you have some serious rocker, then kill it in the park like Pep and Andy are doing on their rockered park skis.

**Damian Sanders** · 03-20-2007, 11:41 AM

Seriously?

See if you can bend the less bent one to match the other. Either by hand, in the basement stairs, or with clamps and wood. They should work fine (or even really well) in soft snow, but you may lose some sablity at speed.

I would take those plates off, and mount them tele, directly to the ski, at -1 or -2 cm (to compensate for the tip bend).

Let us know how it works out.

**dk_alaskan** · 03-20-2007, 11:54 AM

try to ski them and find out, if they don't work, i am SURE you can find something on the cheap as most shops right now are trying to blow out their demo's. I am pretty sure that Marshalls shop probably has something you can afford. If all else fails, demo a pair.

**wurst** · 03-20-2007, 02:31 PM

thanks for the suggestions — rentals or buying demos is the backup option that would make this worth trying. Not sure if I can reproduce the same bend in the other ski, but I can give it a try.

The skis are so thin I don't know if a screw would hold without the plates, plus I'd need to tap the topsheet, which I don't have the tools for. I think the plastic will be fine.

**hop** · 03-20-2007, 02:37 PM

So you wanted to take Exploders (120-95-113) but you don't want to take Anti Pistes (130-98-118?)? Just take the Anti Pistes. They slay spring mank just like the Exploders do.

**gh444** · 03-20-2007, 03:47 PM

Originally Posted by hop

So you wanted to take Exploders (120-95-113) but you don't want to take Anti Pistes (130-98-118?)? Just take the Anti Pistes. They slay spring mank just like the Exploders do.

seconded