Retro gear whores rejoice, meet my friend Rossi Smash

[ski_resort_observer]

Wrong thread but welcome anyway. Cute girls get away with everything. :wink: :wink:

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Wrong thread but welcome anyway. Cute girls get away with everything. :wink: :wink:

I agree..especially cute girls who can rip..:razz::beer:

 

[Trekchick]

Rossi Smash is not a cute girl, but I'll see what I can do to introduce a few of my gal pals to you in the future.

Rossi did send me a wonderful birthday present.

Can you see me, rockin these bad girls on retro day!

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Rossi Smash is not a cute girl, but I'll see what I can do to introduce a few of my gal pals to you in the future.

Rossi did send me a wonderful birthday present.

Can you see me, rockin these bad girls on retro day!

What length are they..I'm hoping for at least 3 retro days this year..

 

[drjeff]

Rossi Smash is not a cute girl, but I'll see what I can do to introduce a few of my gal pals to you in the future.

Rossi did send me a wonderful birthday present.

Can you see me, rockin these bad girls on retro day!

Does it make me old or just experienced if my first pair of skis (170cm Rossi Team II's) had essentially that same salomon heel piece (mine were salomon 222's which had a slightly more plasticized toe piece and that same basic heel) with safety straps??

 

[ski_resort_observer]

Rossi Smash is not a cute girl, but I'll see what I can do to introduce a few of my gal pals to you in the future.

Rossi did send me a wonderful birthday present.

Can you see me, rockin these bad girls on retro day!

We know that...you said that in your post. Was talking about you, the OP. Thanks for the offer tho but I'm pretty damn ugly and convinced my wife is the only gal who thinks otherwise. :wink: :lol:

 

[Trekchick]

GSS, they are 180's.
DrJeff, I'm betting that the ski comes off and beats me to death on my first run. You wanna be there to take pics?

SkiResortObserver, You're adorable!

 

[Rossi Smash]

GSS, they are 180's.
DrJeff, I'm betting that the ski comes off and beats me to death on my first run. You wanna be there to take pics?

SkiResortObserver, You're adorable!

TC....come on, those aren't MARKER bindings on them ROC's.....

I am looking forward to your gear report after you do get a few runs down that midwestern
concrete

 

[Geoff]

Rossi Smash... Hmmm...

Brings back memories of ~ 1977. I was working in a ski shop during the Christmas rush mounting skis. The Smash J was the hot kid ski that year and I had around 30 pairs sitting there needing mounting to go underneath all those Christmas trees. Put on the jig. Drill. No resistance at all. Due to a manufacturing defect, there was no mounting plate at all. I tried 10 pairs and they all had the same problem. I grabbed the shop owner and we called the Rossi rep. After an hour on the phone with the Rossi techs in Burlington, they gave me permission to mount them the way we used to mount Hexcel honeycomb aluminum skis where you used a syringe to shoot epoxy into an oversized hole. Once the binding is mounted, you have to remove it by drilling out the screws and the ski is basically trash. All the Smash J customers got a special 3 year warranty to replace the ski out of store stock if the binding needed to be moved (common on junior skis). That was almost an all-nighter getting all those bindings mounted with the skis sitting upside-down until the epoxy cured the next day.

 

[Rossi Smash]

Geoff,

Funny you would mention the Smash J ski. A pic was recently posted with that very ski in the pile!

 

[Philpug]

You can run, but you can't hide...I want those Spademan plates.

 

[Rossi Smash]

You can run, but you can't hide...I want those Spademan plates.

I've got my people on it........:smash:

 

[BeanoNYC]

Welcome Rossi.

 

[TheBEast]

TC - that avatar is hands down the best one on here....:lol:

 

[awf170]

Rossiskier?! That guy was a champ.

 

[drjeff]

GSS, they are 180's.
DrJeff, I'm betting that the ski comes off and beats me to death on my first run. You wanna be there to take pics?

SkiResortObserver, You're adorable!

Cool, I get to take pics of Trek hopefully avoiding breaking ANOTHER body part on a pair of skis that are about as long as 1/2 of her current quiver is wide!

 

[Warp Daddy]

Welcome to AZ Rossi

 

[Trekchick]

TC - that avatar is hands down the best one on here....:lol:

Really? I've been told that one of my earlier avatars was much better. You'll have to ask Dr Jeff about that

 

[Glenn]

Good timing Rossi! I just picked up 3 pairs of old skis this AM on the way to work...the town next to mine has their bulk trash pick up this week.(I felt like friggin Sanford and Son...but with nicer pants and a button up shirt) I was going to post on epic...but I'll put the pics here. A pair of old schook Kneisel's, a pair of K2's (with a Vision Street Wear sticker on em!) and a pair of Rossi 4S's.

Again, Welcome!

 

[drjeff]

Really? I've been told that one of my earlier avatars was much better. You'll have to ask Dr Jeff about that

IMHO, the current one has GREAT comic value, especially considering Trek's famous "posting from the throne" thread that she started this summer.

BUT, the "rear view of the powerfull leg extension during hot hot weather climb on the mountain bike" is still in the lead in my book(and I'm sure a few other of the guys books around here too)