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Elizabeth's shape and its relation to center mounting
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These skis are perfectly symmetrical right? So shouldn't true center be the only reasonable mounting point? I am very interested in these because i heard tehy perform a lot like snowboards.. i just don't want my bindings in the wrong place.
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i don't think i'd center mount. maybe like 2 or 3 cm back. i've skied them and they're ok at recommended. shouldnt' stray too far from that.
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they are not symetrical. they are eliptical sidecut, which is basically a sidecut based off an elipse instead of a circle, aka more sidecut toward the tips. almost all line's recommended points are at core center (middle of sidecut), so just look at the line site.
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they are like a symetrical ski in the shape, but its like they took a symetrical ski and chopped 2cm off the tail. so reccomended is 2 back from true and thats where you should mount them. thats where mine are mounted and they feel just like a true center mounted ski.
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they didn't chop off anything, they just created the sidecut to be a little back, and symetrical skis have same width tip and tail, and same length tip and tail, though the width is pretty close.
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that's where all skis are recommended to be mounted.
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thats what i mean, so the sidecut is further back, so its kinda like a symetrical sidecut put further back, i just explained it bad
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lol, well when you think about it every ski is like that. i mean almost every skis sidecut is a parabola, and it is just shifted on the ski.
but as people said, it is elliptical, not symmetrical in any way.
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