Any skiers on here?

[PpPete]

So who are the equivalents of Wiggle, Chain Reaction, Ribble, Rose in the ski-ing world ?

Picked up a new pair of very nice (but unfashionably narrow) skis on fleabay the other day, for an absolute killer price, but buggered if I can find anyone who has some suitable bindings in stock. Seems everyone has gone "wide" since we last went skiing, and although all the manufacturers claim to make bindings for 70-80 mm width, in practice no-one I can find actually stocks anything with a brake width less than 90mm (and most of them from 110 mm and up)

 

[Dave Davenport]

Cable ties and gaffa tape?

 

[Globalti]

What are the skis? I used to have some Salomon Force 9s, which were considered the mutt's nuts when I got them (and they were superb) but are now unfashionably long and narrow. They held a super line in the schuss and were excellent at cutting across hillsides but the Rossignol Bandits I have now are the opposite: turns happen on a whim especially in crud but they are frighteningly unstable in the schuss.

Try Au Vieux Campeur in France, they sell online and their prices are much cheaper than in the UK. Also try phoning Mountain Feet in Standedge.

 

[PpPete]

What are the skis?

Lacroix LXR
If you've never skied a handmade laminated ski like the Lacroix, just don't !
Nothing else is quite the same, fast and stable in all conditions, but still manoeuvrable, however the damage to your pocket is up there with full carbon bikes...

 

[Aperitif]

Lacroix?

These, you mean, Pete? I have some old rugby boot laces (unused) if it helps. Don't do 'a Zorb' though...and, 'Happy Sliding'

 

[biggs682]

only on way in this morning was i skiing due to ice

 

[Archie_tect]

So who are the equivalents of Wiggle, Chain Reaction, Ribble, Rose in the ski-ing world ?

Picked up a new pair of very nice (but unfashionably narrow) skis on fleabay the other day, for an absolute killer price, but buggered if I can find anyone who has some suitable bindings in stock. Seems everyone has gone "wide" since we last went skiing, and although all the manufacturers claim to make bindings for 70-80 mm width, in practice no-one I can find actually stocks anything with a brake width less than 90mm (and most of them from 110 mm and up)

Perhaps that's why the narrow skis were so cheap PpP?