Babies or beaters??

[Marc]

you can sharpen ski edges?

I put ptex in when needed thats about it, aren't the bottoms supposed to be grey?

qft.

 

[kingdom-tele]

marc - pardon the ignorance, what is qft?

and I was kidding, kind of, I will hot iron once they get grey

have never sharpened edges though, have superglued a few to try and hold the breaks together, never really understood sharpening unless you were a racer

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

ski 'em....thats why the make PTEX....fix em later.....

 

[Rossi Smash]

Babies here.....

I'm VERY easy on my equipment... and if it does need attention, it gets it right away.

 

[gmcunni]

a notch above beater. if i break them i get to buy new ones :-D

 

[Philpug]

I have taken a brand new ski out at MRG and as the saying goes..you either arrive at Mad River with rock skis or you leave with them.

 

[Marc]

marc - pardon the ignorance, what is qft?

and I was kidding, kind of, I will hot iron once they get grey

have never sharpened edges though, have superglued a few to try and hold the breaks together, never really understood sharpening unless you were a racer

Quoted for truth.

 

[Beetlenut]

Just like I don't baby my bowling ball or golf clubs in order to participate in the sport. I don't baby my skis either. The woods would be no fun if I had to constantly worry about what I was skiing over! Sharpe edges come in handy skiing on the EC, and the right wax makes skiing spring slush fun instead of a chore. Other than that, grab em and go!

 

[kingslug]

I prefer not to ski on rocks...but hey..shyt happens.

 

[Greg]

All skis are rock skis. Beaters. Not that I seek out rocks or thin cover, but I don't worry too much about hitting stuff.

 

[2knees]

Babies. all the way. you have to respect your equiptment. thin cover signs are fine and all but personally, i think resorts should be more liberal in closing trails that have some obstacles on them.

 

[Greg]

Babies. all the way. you have to respect your equiptment. thin cover signs are fine and all but personally, i think resorts should be more liberal in closing trails that have some obstacles on them.

You're hilarious.























not.

 

[prisnah]

I beat the snot outta my equipment, sometimes I ski over rocks on purpose, I tuned and waxed my skis once or twice last year in 90+ days on snow and it took being at Reggae Fest and the whole hill being iced up for me to do it.

Just threw em in a closet when the season ended, no storage wax or anything and just skied em last week without doing any maintenance.

I'll probably get them tuned up in the next week, then ski em till mid January, then probably just buy some new sticks.

Yet, I never seem to get coreshots or any major damage....kinda wierd.

 

[jack97]

def a beater. After a run where i hit something or thought I did, I check the base just to see the damage, bascially to give me a heads up on the repair. I have been known to switch legs to spread out the damage if the trail was worth repeating.

 

[2knees]

I have been known to switch legs .

you have removable limbs?

 

[4aprice]

I don't know if I'm a beater or baby as I try to take care of my equipment but scratches are par for the course. That being said I just bought new equipment last year and it wasn't cheap. This will be the first year I will be skiing on two different pairs of skis. The determining factor will be amount of natural base available.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[cbcbd]

I beat the hell out of my skis... sure, I'm not a fan of coreshots but it happens. To me, scratches are a good sign that I'm using the skis and using them hard and stupid... hopefully improving in the process.

So all the folks out there ok with beating up your skis... how would you react if some out of control skier accidentally skis over your skis and scratches the top sheet? do you blow your sheet?

 

[bvibert]

I skied on a few inches of snow over no base in the woods mid way through last season. Got some nice gouges down to the core. I just plopped some p-tex in there for the hell of it last week. Yeah, I baby my equipment... :roll: Typically my skis see the tune shop once every two years or so. Now that I have an iron and some wax they'll probably never see a professional tune again.

I just ski em, if a rock or something is in the way I'll put a minimal amount of effort into avoiding it. I don't worry about damaging my skis when skis and I certainly would never take one off just to check for damage, unless the edge was hanging off or something....

 

[Beetlenut]

... how would you react if some out of control skier accidentally skis over your skis and scratches the top sheet? do you blow your sheet?

I wouldn't be upset over the damage to my skis. Skiing like an A-hole on the other hand, with the possibility of doing me physical harm, would definitly get my attention!

 

[Glenn]

I take care of my skis. Even my old ones that were 10 years old were taken care of. I just can't drop hundreds on something and then beat the crap out of them. That's just how I roll though. I know we all have different takes on things.