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Have you ever BENT a ski?
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I noticed yesterday that the tail on my K2 Fujis is bent. I remember screwing around tailpressing stuff but I can't imagine how it's possible to permanently bend a ski (without snapping it).
Is there anything I can do about it? If someone's got a leftover unbent 179 Fujative laying around let me know!
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that sucks my friends 4frnts did that..... bend it back!
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i kinda snapped and bent it. the top layer snaped and the bottom layer just bent kinda funny cause they were shit skis
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Fujatives are known to lose their camber, so this isn't too far fetched...
But that sucks, I would just bend it back?
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i wonder if bent skis are covered under warranty haa. how bent is it? a few degrees or really noticeable?
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few degrees noticeable when I put my skis in the holder on the gondola (the tips are about an inch apart which isn't that much over 179 centimeters), but not really noticeable when skiing.
I don't think warranty would go since these are still the red ones. I broke my arm last december so I didn't even ski these properly until this year
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i bent some volkl slalom skis a while ago
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one time i cracked the tip of my atomics while skiing crud/moguls
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My friend bent his twin bothers ski while climbing across metal scaffolding on the ground, fucking idiot.
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all skis lose their camber.
DO NOT try to bend it back.. .they will break.
just ride em till they snap. if they do at all.
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id like to see a bent ski. do you mean like a negative camber?
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When you saw bent I think you mean you broke the core with breaking the outside lamination of the ski
happened to the tip of my fujatives.
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you can't see any damage to the outside of the ski. top coat is fine, so is the base and the edges...it's just a little bent...weird
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I also did it to a pair of those fujatives
and two pairs of stl's
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lets see some pics of this bent ski
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Classic k2 problem, send them back they should replace them,
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im not sure then, I had a big bubble across my ski on the top sheet and a reallllly sweet butterzone on the last 5 inches of my tip.
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i bent a pair of x-screams a while back. just kind of broke the core behind the heelpiece. warranty that sheeat.
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hooray for reverse camber fujis!
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typically ski that bend have titanium in them. Or something to help with stiffness, but most pure wood cores just snap.
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my friends TM's bent in the tail.
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yea. when i hit that wall one of my skis got a lil bent
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my fugatives the first one that came out are permantly bend slightly in the nose, but thats after 2 years on em so they are fine u ask me. it will happen he u butter em a lot. whatever they are still fine by me.
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oops ^ cant type and funny stuff spong ha. how bent we looking at? haha
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i saw a guy in the lift line with a massivle bent up ski..like from a little in front of the binding was bent up like a foot. it was nuts
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I bent my volkl 6 stars a few years back just behind the tip. I was skiing during a low light snowstorm and I skied into a drift without realizing and submarined. They're decently bent but still skiable.
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one of my friends bent a pair of volkl race skis a few yeards ago.
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get rid of the fujis and get some trouble makers.
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I had a pair of Cabrawlers (mogul skis) that bent pretty much exactly the way you describe it, right behind the heelpiece. Warranty covered it though, so now I've got a nice new pair in my closet waiting for some bumps.
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the same thing happened to me a couple days ago with my fischer big stix 8.0.
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haha this shit was so funny when it happend haha then u rode the lil plastic snowboard rest of the day and died haha that was so funny..
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yeah i bent my ninthwards last year, might sound a little scary but just bent it back the other way and hold it for about a minute then it will stay back where it should for a while
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