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My Gawd. Look at these skis!

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hollygrove
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http://www.skipass.com/guide-matos/ski/2007/lacroix/LX-Powder.html

and no, this is not a picture link. Look at the dimensions! Crazy huh?
Jun 18 2006 7:38PM
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tcross.au
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it would carve well on the groomers
Jun 18 2006 7:40PM
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BFINO13
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there was a thread wit bigger ones i think they were tip200 waist 170 tail190
Jun 18 2006 7:42PM
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hollygrove
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Yeah, it's nuts! Blows me out my socks just thinking what it would be like to ski those. I want to try.
Jun 18 2006 7:47PM
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LC.
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Am I the only one who thinks they would ski absolutely horribly?
Jun 18 2006 8:06PM
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Poormansvault
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No.
Jun 18 2006 8:10PM
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Tinga
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well i know theyd work great in the midwest...
Jun 18 2006 8:16PM
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TWoods
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I would agree...
Jun 18 2006 8:39PM
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shrEddie
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i dont get what sidecut means. i guess you guys can pwn me if you want
Jun 18 2006 9:01PM
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CTD
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yup. its pretty much the most basic and influential part of how a ski rides. its the arc in the edge, and it measures the radius of a turn the ski will make unflexed. the more the ski flexes, the shaper it will turn
Jun 18 2006 9:07PM
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invader7
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there was some bigger ones but i dont remember were i saw them
Jun 19 2006 12:27AM
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PTY
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the dude who was talking about the japanese ones
Jun 19 2006 12:37AM
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jmason
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i don't think it can do 11. a full race stock slalom ski turns 11m. maybe, if a machine bends the ski to its full potential, and the somehow measure the circle it would make, then its eleven meters, but nobody could make it do it. but either way those r still sick skis
Jun 19 2006 1:08AM
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steezin4areason
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i wouldnt be sure until i rode them but i actually think it would rip big mountain pretty well. its wide enough in the middle still to float on pow and you would turn (not turning your skis to check your speed while still traveling the same line, but actually making powder s turns) with way less effort... its crazy either way.
Jun 19 2006 1:53AM
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J.D.
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Same sort of concept as the Phantom Crystal Ships... www.phantomskis.com
Jun 19 2006 10:14AM
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J.D.
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My bad, http://www.skiphantom.com/
Jun 19 2006 10:16AM
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Aenigma
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I would be afraid to ever point those things straight down the hill, that would have BAD results. Sidecut=no good.
Jun 19 2006 10:19AM
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Matty_C
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yeah good call. might be fun to try this type of ski for tight stuff in the trees but apart from that i can't see them being justifiable, unless your one of those old school skiers that does like a million turns down a face.
not for me though...
Jun 19 2006 10:25AM
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doubleplanks16
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weird.....they could probly suck
Jun 19 2006 11:13AM
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Poormansvault
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That is because the FIS has legal limits on every ski dimension, and that includes turn radius. Just about every dimension on a ski has to meet some guideline.
Jun 19 2006 12:53PM
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Poormansvault
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I also meant to say: these skis are basically "carving powder" skis, which isn't practical. Most of the time you are skiing powder, you are smearing your turns, and if you are actually carving them, you are going too fast to drop turns that tight. Also, if you were holding an edge on anything steep with these, it would be alot like a springboard, because part of the tip and part of the tail would be holding you, and in the middle would have no support, so it would just flex. Bottom line: it's a bad idea. If you want to buy them, be my guest, but I know it wouldn't work for me.
Jun 19 2006 12:56PM
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[lineskier]820
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those were featured in skiing mag, under an article name "fat ski inovations"
Jun 19 2006 1:05PM
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h2opolo
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that ski is really bad,at th begining it's a skall, but lacroix wants a fat for will be mor "fun", you just sking with two skall :(. We have a duret who do the same fake, they sold two monoski http://www.skipass.com/guide-matos/ski/2007/duret/legende-series.html
Jun 19 2006 2:32PM
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jS.torgeRseN
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no
Jun 19 2006 2:55PM
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invader7
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http://www.skipass.com/guide-matos/ski/2007/duret/legende-series.html


there 200 tips the other ones were 165
Jun 19 2006 4:06PM
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K2-fujative
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nO.:.
Jun 19 2006 4:11PM
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Albrecht.
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why?
Jun 19 2006 9:26PM
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