Soft Snow Gymkhana - The Heritage Lab FR110

[K1mJ0ngTr1ll]

Nice tease lol. I didn't realize that topsheet would make an appearance this year.

I swear we saw it already but just in case .

The FR is so much damn fun in chopped up pow and feel I can go faster than I should ever go on a reverse ski.

[Shorty_J]

I want to elaborate a little.

I fucking love this ski (R110).

I wanted a sickle replacement, but these are not sickles, they are better.

They let me ski exactly how I want to ski.

For reasons not worth elaborating on, I have a reduced risk tolerance recently. I tend to ski smooth and not so much charge. These support my while I drift, were intuitive from the first turn, will support me when I decide to charge for a few turns, but are easy and trustworthy to shut down when I realize I'm going faster than I want to go at that moment.

They are perfection for me and unless it's full on ice, I'm going to be on these.

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[gaijin]

187 R-Dimes. Best ski in the world. Been on them everyday for the last two weeks. In fact, imma bout to drop in again in seven minutes.

Fucking ripping early JP resort snow. Soft. Dense. Cut up. Daily refreshes.

When you’re not skiing ‘em, you’re talking about ‘em.


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[gaijin]

Kinda wanna throw CAST on mine, weight be damned.

That was my OG plan. Figured I’d ski them first before going all in. But yup— it’s an absolute beast of a do-everything ski. Perfect for CAST. Now I just have to convince myself that a K2 Cascade can complete the partnership.

But if Lange is listening— tech toes in the RS would have me spending whore money. No, I don’t care about your other boots. No offense.

[sf]

CAST’ified for the win.
First day on them today, and first impressions are good.

No base really, so skied icy groomers with 10-20cm of fluff. Predictable when breaking through to the ice, surfy when on top, supportive tail and high speed limit when bases flat.

Yes, they bounce around a bit when hitting piles bases flat, but put them on edge without applying pressure and they tracks straight and cut through nicely

[Phall]

Castified here too, bringing them to morioka next week!


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[Lord Thomas]

Castified here too, bringing them to morioka next week!


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Ooooooh, share details when you get back. That area intrigues me

[Phall]

Will do! These are definitely going, but debating throwing in the FR one twenty st with the cast second ski kit. We’re doing seven days with white room tours.


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[pfluffenmeister]

Will do! These are definitely going, but debating throwing in the FR one twenty st with the cast second ski kit. We’re doing seven days with white room tours.


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Yes.
Bring both.
I have the Ronedimes and the RonedoubledimesSTs and the additional surface area of the big dogs is noticeable.

Love both.

[Phall]

Thanks, I’m six foot two fifteen, so the more surface area is always better for me, I dive tips on my one ninety wildcats mounted neg [emoji638].


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[Power_Sauce]

Thanks, I’m six foot two fifteen, so the more surface area is always better for me, I dive tips on my one ninety wildcats mounted neg [emoji638].


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Uh touring in Japan = bring the big ones! Will be doing the same in three short weeks.

[N1CK.]

In the highly unlikely event that one of you with 186 Rs would like to swap for 180s (or if someone with 186cm is looking to move them along) shoot me a message.

[Marshal Olson]

If nothing materializes before you come out here this spring, we can do the trade in program for the 187 next season.

[skt07]

I would be a taker for anyone’s 180cm R110!

Any comparisons between the V-Werks Katana and the R110? The 184 VWK with Tectons is my 50/50 ski and I’m looking for something in a similar width for full-time resort use. I think the R110 fits the bill with its heavier weight and will probably do better on chop and imperfect groomers than the VWK.

[Marshal Olson]

I’ll generally let the folks with time on both flush in more on snow feel feedback for you, but I’d really suggest sizing up to the 187 instead of sizing down to the 180 if coming from the VWK 184 (which is really 182). The extra length is coming in the form of tail taper, so up off the snow and just there if you really need it, but otherwise basically invisible.

[gaijin]

No time on the VWK, but just a data-point for an excuse to rave about the 187 R110– I’m 49, 5’7.5” (173cm) and weigh 155 (70kg.). I’m tiny and weak compared to many on this board and never feel it’s too big. I forget it’s even there. I’m too busy looking at what’s ahead and how I can hit it as fast as possible.

Thing motors, arcs, feathers, and stops on a dime.

I’m testing it this week on groomers to see how narrow my future groomer-zoomer will be. I’m imagining an AM100 (same build, but a touch of suspension/camber) would be ideal.


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[asmvolatile]

So got my 187 R110s mounted at -8 from center and took them to Colorado for the holidays.

I was taking everything y’all said about the R110 with a big TGR grain of salt, figuring u all were drinking the kool-aid hard, but after about 6 days in a row skiing the R110 I have to say that my mind is fkn blown. Maybe it’s the fact I’ve never spent more than a few hours on a non-cambered ski, but I feel like I just lost my virginity or something.

Seriously.

The first few days on the skis, I liked them for sure, but didn’t feel like I really clicked with them, and they didn’t really stand out in any big way. Was skiing it back to back with both the 192 M-Free 108s and 184 Rossi Sender 104 Tis, and while I loved how damp and composed the R110s felt in comparison, it would always take me a bit to adjust to it and my skiing after putting them on, and trying to charge down the steep runs I know by heart just felt a bit off.

Then after day 4 I started to get a bit tired, my form started to break down just a bit, and I stopped driving the downhill ski as much and started ankle skiing.

Holy shit, the ski just came alive.

What??? Da Fuq? why would the ski be performing better when I’m tired and sloppy? This doesn’t make sense.

All you folks who swear by skis like the Rens must be smirking right now reading this, but it was my first real exposure.

It snowed like 6” the next day. First chair, armed with the knowledge that I might need to ski these boards differently, I set out with an open mind. 50/50 weight balance, steer with the hips, crouching down a little lower, toes off the boot board, pressure the heels… every turn is a drift, every bump is a lip, airplane turns for days… God damn I don’t know how I’m going to be able to go back to skiing normal skis.

On my last run today, on a steep bump face, I literally just dumped the skis sideways at full speed and just exploded through huge piles of soft chop without even a hint of being bumped off line. Obliterating entire moguls. I swear it felt like I could drift as long as I wanted. But yet when I bring the skis back down the fall line, the bumps become mini golf again. I think this ski’s spirit animal might be a dolphin. But like, maybe an obese one. Idk.

Watching Hoji ski used to be so confusing. How does he move that way? Now I got a little taste of how it could be possible.

There is something magic going on with this ski but it took me multiple days to figure it out. So happy I pulled the trigger on these, and didn’t give up on them after a few days of not clicking with them. Never hated them, but just wasn’t in love.

Turns out it was me that just needed to change.

[gaijin]

So got my 187 R110s mounted…

All you folks who swear by skis like the Rens must be smirking right now reading this…

God damn I don’t know how I’m going to be able to go back to skiing normal skis.

Smirking in a good way. R110s and Rens feel very similar in how intuitive they are. I don’t have to think or do anything. I just go straight, drop my hip, then drop my other hip, and then twist my feet, flex my heels, or shift my balance when I wanna surf.

You drive the ski from underneath your foot. For me, the drive fluctuates from arch (for arcs), to toe (for shutting down), to heel (for opening it up again (from tail to tip.)

All the sensations happen right under my foot. It’s a delicate and precise type of controller, but it requires very little leg power. It’s finesse. And then all my leg power can be reserved for just hanging on at insane speeds. You know… doing squats when going straight through chunder. But then when it gets hectic, you just throw them sideways and shut everything down. And that’s where the “That was nuts.” moments come go through my head because I didn’t have to do anything. It was so easy

The R110 skis damper, but more energetic than my 2013 HALS Owl Ren. But they’re like second cousins.

But switching over to my Nordica Jet Fuels (186, 126-84-112, r20) with two sheets of metal, zero rocker anywhere, and heaps of camber always took a few runs to relearn. But what I really noticed about learning how to surf reverse camber, is that I could apply that footwork to my cambered skis. This turned my wide GS skis into surfable carvers, that I could drive from only my underfoot— instead of all that shin-tip-flex-the-boot, mechanical drivel that all the downhill racers used to try to preach to me to forget. Forget the PSIA guys.

They were trying to say this— “Pretend camber doesn’t exist. There is no tip. There is no tail. You’re standing in the middle of a directional saucer.” Coaches and high level racers spent a good ten years trying to say that to me. Their nomenclature was insufficient. They just kept saying “Drive your base, stop driving your edges.” I didn’t know what that meant.

Sorry that got long-winded. But the Ren changed my life. A guy who grew up racing. But I’ve only skied my Ren one day this season. I have like 14 days on my R110 so far. Just saving my Ren for the blizzard in the forest.

Just buckle up— this isn’t kool-aid. The R110 is the best (caveat-- JP) resort ski ever.

Just 20 minutes ago there was one final strip of new snow on the side of a frontside run, about 200m long, one meter wide. Ankle deep. I zippered it like a mogul run. Hilarious how easy that was. I literally laughed at the bottom.

My M102s never could have done that so loosely. Yet, my R110s are carving groomers almost as well as my M102s. Have I mentioned yet how glad I am to have sold my M102 before it depreciated too far?

I mean— I bought this thing to slot between my M102 and my Ren, and instead it replaced half my quiver. It pushed both of those further to the extreme.

Why would I have an M102 for a groomer-zoomer?

This ski has been quite the shake up in how well it daily drives.

[waxoff]

I managed to get a couple of runs on the BC110 yesterday, Shift binders and beefed up Cosmos 3 boots. I have yet skied them too little for a review, but enough for first impressions.

To be honest, I was a bit concerned to take them out, because of limited snow conditions and mostly frontside skiing prior to yesterday. Three days on Solly Stance 102 which were great for said conditions in St. Anton. But during the night it filled up with about ten inches of fresh so I couldn't resist any longer.

Now I haven't been on any fully rockered skis before, save for og cochise and og bodes, let alone fully rockered touring skis, and had concerns they'd be unruly on hardpack with the full rocker and pretty lightweight. Turned out i was dead wrong. They tracked beautifully even when skied flat, on piste, cat tracks, and traverses. Got just a few turns in untouched snow, but many more in cut up and tracked out. First runs of the season in touring boots, but the skis behaved very well. No quirks or surprises whatsoever . Very neutral. Could ski them as I wanted from the first turns. A pleasant experience, they will serve me well I'm sure.

The edge engagement is super dialled with that shape, No excessive pull from the tips. They track really well both in the snow and on hardpack. However, I seemed not to be able to vary carved turn shapes much. No rebound to speak of when I tried to push them a bit. It might boil down to lacking technique and in touring boots early season, but maybe that also contributes to their neutral behavior in other situations.

Well done Marshal, I'm happy I jumped on these.

But yeah, got very, very curious about the heavier R's and FR's now...

For science, and a but of fun, I removed the shims from under the toes. Have them installed with inserts, so an easy move. Got a couple of runs on them yesterday, and the skis really came alive. So much more agile. Did not detect any drawbacks as of yet. So my initial assessment when setting these up was apparently flawed. Humbled but happy!

[skt07]

Thanks all for the feedback on length. I’m about the same size as Gaijin and a few years younger, but as I age and charge less have been thinking of going shorter with any new skis I buy. But it probably doesn’t make sense with these specifically.

I’m now thinking a 187 R or FR 110 plus a 180 AM100 combo would complement each other nicely and handle most days at Whistler.

[NuclearNachos21]

how do the 186 and 180 r110s compare to each other? normally ski 180ish (5 9 155) but saw that gaijin is a little shorter and doesn't think they're too big, any difference between the lengths like mfree108s have?


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[Marshal Olson]

how do the 186 and 180 r110s compare to each other? normally ski 180ish (5 9 155) but saw that gaijin is a little shorter and doesn't think they're too big, any difference between the lengths like mfree108s have?

if you are on the 182 mfree 108 and happy with its sizing overall, I’d suggest the 180 r110 for sure. With the fr110, you could totally go either way, since those are next level maneuverable, and I don’t think there would be much downside sizing up…

[K1mJ0ngTr1ll]

I ski the R and FR in the 186/187 and haven’t wanted more ski. Although have thought about the 193 FR.

6’1 225ish

[NuclearNachos21]

trying to quote marshal but keeps giving errors, i'm not on 108s i just mentioned since they ski different 182/192. upsizing might be the way to go then


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[MagnificentUnicorn]

The one ninety three R one ten just disappears under foot. Six five, two forty five. Just trucks through chop if you’re willing to drive. Scary fast but composed. Like gaijin said, meter wide foot over groomer edge, just zipper line down the edge, effortlessly.

Neutral stance pivoty magic in trees and bumps.

I did round out and polish the edges thirty cm from tips and twenty cm from the tails.


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