I love the UPS man...

[madskier6]

New Volkl AC3s

Greg: I hesitate to bring this to your attention because I know you're excited about your new purchase but is there anyway you can return those skis in order to save $200 by buying the same skis and bindings from one of these sellers:

http://search.ebay.com/search/searc...s/&fkr=1&from=R8&satitle=Volkl+AC3&category0=

In particular, the first seller on the list (1-866-ski-deals) gets rave reviews from many people over at EpicSki. Even if you don't win the auction, you can call Jason up (the guy who runs ski-deals) and if he has the inventory, you can buy direct from him. Just thought you might want to try to save some cash.

 

[riverc0il]

Dropping from a 182 cm to a 170 cm. Should be interesting.

holy smokes! what size did you demo the exp's on?

 

[riverc0il]

somehow, i am doubting greg payed the price listed... :lol:

 

[Greg]

Dropping from a 182 cm to a 170 cm. Should be interesting.

holy smokes! what size did you demo the exp's on?

I demoed the EXPs in 177. I'm only 165 lbs soaking wet. so I think I'll be fine. Shorter is cooler, dude.

somehow, i am doubting greg payed the price listed... :lol:

Hardly. Perks, baby, perks...

 

[BeanoNYC]

somehow, i am doubting greg payed the price listed... :lol:

Hardly. Perks, baby, perks...

Well deserved perks at that.....enjoy them, Greg.

 

[riverc0il]

Shorter is cooler, dude.

not in the deep powder man yea, that sizing doesn't sound too bad. i forget how much of a light weight you are despite your height

 

[salida]

Shorter is cooler, dude.

not in the deep powder man yea, that sizing doesn't sound too bad. i forget how much of a light weight you are despite your height

ahem longer is cooler

 

[Marc]

Shorter is cooler, dude.

not in the deep powder man yea, that sizing doesn't sound too bad. i forget how much of a light weight you are despite your height

ahem longer is cooler

I thought it was actually girth that wa..




Ah nevermind. Who am I to take this thread in that direciton.


Congrats on the new boards, Greg. We'll see em at the So. AZ outing I'm sure. Whenever that'll be.

 

[BeanoNYC]

I demoed the AC3's this Saturday. I had been dying to try them. My wife forgot her hat so we stopped in at Joe's at the base of the access road.

What a great ski! It handled everything much better than I expected. Turned real well on the hardpack, great float in the mush. Going from a 68-mm waist to a 74 was no problem what so ever. Turns were real easy, it was no problem getting this ski on edge. Nice flex and real forgiving. What really got my attention was how well it handled the ice and boilerplate at the end of the day, I couldn't believe it. I had so much fun on them, it was incredible. Great all mountain ski!!

I demoed the 5 star earler in the season and loved them as well. Now the decision was whether to replace my K2's with the 5 star or add a second ski to my quiver with the AC3's

The shop had them on an end of season sale for 600. Minus my demo fee and plus the tax, it came out to $598.90 ...... MOUNT EM UP BOYS, I'll be back in an hour to pick em up!!!!

I skied my brand new AC3's at 8:00 this morning in 3" of freshies. I had a great time with them. Definitely a good decision.

Now Greg and I have something else in common other than our good looks and charming personalities.

 

[Greg]

The AC3s sure able rock solid on the hard pack. I've had a few chances to try them there....

Glad you like them Beano! Definitely a ski that will make you ski them hard - or you'll get thrown around a bit....

 

[BeanoNYC]

The AC3s sure able rock solid on the hard pack. I've had a few chances to try them there....

Glad you like them Beano! Definitely a ski that will make you ski them hard - or you'll get thrown around a bit....

True, but that's part of the reason I liked them. I found myself needing to turn a bit more aggressive. On my other skis I can get away with lazy GS turns.

 

[Greg]

Follow up after skiing some natural snow with them this weekend. These skis were a real confidence builder for me on terrain like this:

And this:

The never missed a beat. Of course, even gnarley looking glare ice like the above pic is still somewhat carveable when it's 40 degrees this time of year, but I still felt really confident on them. They were also perfect on good natural snow like this:

I haven't had a problem with them in the bumps at all. They flex a bit more than my K2s and being shorter and having a slightly turned up tail, they don't hook on the backsides of the bumps like my K2s wanted to do. They still don't like to be layed on edge for long though and will bounce you around a bit if you get lazy. At 170 cm, short radius turns are key which is fine by me... Great ski and I'll say it again that I think it's a good compromise for those looking for a single East-coast all mountain ski. The waist on the 06-07 is a bit wider at 76mm however, but I'm sure they're just as good, if not better.

 

[ALLSKIING]

I skied them in heavy crud and thought they did real well with that also. As did the AC4. My favorite was the K2 recon but one problem with the recons is that they don't do well on ice...Hardpack they are great though. This is also compared to the K2 axis that I think are great on ice.

 

[Greg]

The AC3s handle ice far better than my Axis's did.

 

[ALLSKIING]

The AC3s handle ice far better than my Axis's did.

You had the pro's though...I had the Axis all mountain. I remember reading there was a difference in the two skis.