Mandela effect - first K2 twin tip

skiermanMandela effect = Shitty memory

SlowbroK2 poacher was k2s first iirc, came out in 96 but they didn’t seem to catch on.

1080s came out the next year

Way*MoHot take, damn bruh. Even you're trolling here is getting weak. The fact that all of the Pinkbike comment sections know your schtick and no longer engage must really be getting to you.

Way*Mono longer engage

Way*MoPoachers were black with gray stars originally, and then turned to a red fade. These were before that.

BarfyDeeK2 contends that their original poacher beat the yellow tens to commercial availability, and they also claim that they won the race to twintips intended for park use in the process. I think they’re reaching, but maybe that’s the ski you’re thinking of. That was 1997. The enemy was released to the public for the ‘98/‘99 season and only underwent yearly cosmetic changes until the public enemy was released for ‘03/‘04.

Way*MoFrom Ryan Schmies (graphics for the whole Hell Bent line, Public Enemy, Seth's, etc) in another thread:

"Poacher was shown at SIA in 1997 and first sold in the fall of 1997. It had the 'retro' graphics just like the El Camino. Year two it was black and red and then it became the Pipeline. All white surfboard looking ski."

I was thinking of the Pipeline, here is a photo

SofaKingSickso fuckin pitted dude

Way*MoThanks to you and @Casey . It must be the poacher then. Now to track down some photos.

CaseyIt’s all good I even just learned about the pipeline from this thread just guessing maybe that’s like a modified mogul ski? The first poacher was like a concept it was so soft it was barely rideable by all accounts that I’ve heard. At about the same time you had Moseley and freestyle skiing going that direction too he won the Nagano games on the k2 winter heat, and I think they started making those with a small twin but maybe just prototype.

its crazy how little documentation there is of the ski industry pre internet/youtube. If the NS search bar actually worked it’d be like the national archive of freeskiing

WezI won a pair of these original K2 Enemy skis from 1999, on an insta comp.

Busted them out the other day for Treble Cones closing day and they honestly skied algood.

skiermanYou're a fucking idiot for mounting those up.

Way*MoI have a memory from ~1999. At the same time or just prior to the original 1080, K2 had a twin tip with ‘pipe’ in the name, something like ‘pipe cleaner’ (I know, that’s an Armada but it was something similar). The ski was mostly white with a green streak.

I cannot find details of it anywhere. Is this my own Mandela effect? It was briefly mentioned in an Iberg podcast recently, but now I can’t find that again either.

Can someone help me find this ski and confirm I am not losing it.