Skis - What is the worst pair you have ever had.

[smootharc]

.....to circa 1974 when my parents bestowed my big sister and I with brand spanking new pairs of K3 (yes K3) skis. Don't know which marketing firm thought those up, or which foreign sweatshop assembled them, but them boards simply sucked....aesthetically, functionally, and beyond. Ick, yuk, phhewwwy.....

The next year brought parental redemption as I found a pair if Fischer C4 Comps under the tree at X-mas. Thus began a 4 year love affair. Those boards just simply rocked....

[Geoff]

Originally Posted by Lostone

My first pair were Yamahas. No they weren't a bike or an organ. They were skis.. sorta.

They had a paragragh on them about how they were great in any condition. I remember lying on the ground, reading that paragraph. You pressured them for a turn and they waved bye bye to you.

I skied a season on the Yamaha Paramount Custom SR back in the mid-1980's. I thought it was a pretty good ski and I paid next to nothing for them.

My worst ski was the Spaulding Sideral. I broke 3 pairs in the course of 5 weekends. They were fragile. They were completely dead with no quickness edge-to-edge. Minimal edge hold. The shop ended up handing me a pair of Dynastar S-730's so I'd go away. It was like going from a Buick to a Porsche.

The worst pair of skis I ever demo'd was the Olin Mark 4 Comp at the Stratton Trade Fair back around 1980. Unstable at any speed. Absolutely no edge hold. Worthless in any terrain or condition.

[loafer89]

I guess that for me it would be the pair of ski's that my instructor broke at Keystone. I was learning how to ski on Checkerboard flats about 1983 or so, and the instructor noticed a hairline crack in one ski.

I took off the ski and he flexed it back and forth before it suddenly snapped in half They WHERE a pair of Rossignol ski's.

[Dr Sechsfinger]

Dynastar Visas. Man, those skis were hamp.

[Starter Jackets Rule!]

never own a bad pair...bad tunes?
yes then i started do'in them my self....imo todays k2 skis(except thier race skis) are "Old School....come on k2 add some side cut to your skis.
that is all.

[ALLSKIING]

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[Greg]

The first pair that I bought were crappy Elans. They were the cheapest skis I could find.

[hardline]

i was to young to remember skis but snowboards.
burton woody: useless but it is like model number 150
burton elite: was not a board for the eastcoast.
burton performer: was a little better than the elite
sims Kidwell: we called it the skidwell
crazy banana: rode a bunch of their boards. local sponsership
Kemper Freestlye: neon green things started to get better sidecut was comming into play.
Apocolypse: i liked there boards alot but they had major problems with cutting there ptex sheets where they would leave a gap between the sheet and the edge and when i would carve hard the edge would start to pull out. finally traded it in at the b side and forgot what they gave me.
by the end of that season i was a burton boy

this is just freestyle boards, race boards are a whole other list.

[Warp Daddy]

After skiing traditional skis for years went to Rossi Cuts 10.4 's 184 cms MY first "parabolics "

They were OK But SLOOOW on easy cruisers and squirelly when pushed BUT the damn things were crap on steeps couldn't hold an edge at all

[wa-loaf]

A few of the hand me downs/used stuff my dad picked up when I was a kid. My first really good skis were a pair of Fischer RC4 comps I got in the mid 80's.

I had a pair of the extremes as well. They lasted longer than they did for the rest of you, but the did get bent after a couple seasons. Didn't notice at first and I wondered why they got so sucky all of a sudden.