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Yep, got them from Larry Adler's, I was living in Avalon at the time. Haven't skied since moving to SA 25 years ago, still got a pair of 210 cm Dynasters in the shed, they look long and skinny compared to modern tackle, bit like Laverdas.
Spent big money on boots  because the old saying was that a good skier could ski with good boots and crap skis but not the other way round. Used to take my skiing seriously.
Wonder if anybody has noticed the similarity between motorcycling and skiing.
 
minus 41 Celsius overnight, warmed all the way up to minus 28 C today. Western Canada is supposed to warm up dramatically within two days as all our really cold air gets pushed east to hang over central and eastern Canada. Have been dreading having to deal with a house move at minus 30 C, fingers crossed that the weather actually warms up for our move Tuesday and Wednesday this coming week.

reading all the skiing posts made me smile. I am also a skier, just slower these days. Youngest son during his teens was a champion ship winning competitive snowboarder, I used to be able to keep up to him, not any more......... Falling down hard skiing is almost as bad as falling down hard on a motorcycle race track, I find I just do not bounce back as well or as quickly as I used to, and it seems to hurt more now, bloody hell.......

Paul LeClair
 
mauricejota7604 said:
Very wet and humid but a pleasant 24 degrees on the west coast of the north Island in N Z
No bikes no damm bikes I am going crazy☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️
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We had your song playing for ya in Yogi's shed New Years Eve if that helps
 
FUCK Jean Killey's endorsment of the LOOK Nevada Heel piece and Head Ski's  (It's JUNK).

- LOOK's won't release under you tension adjustment when iced -
  Breaks kness and ankles.

- And the killer is the LOOK clip that holds the heel  piece "SPRINGS and WARPS - Then Disappears" dislogdess your heel from the Ski.

Marker Rotor Mats where the BEST.

Never trusted Salmons bindings either.

GO ROTAMAT and save broken bones and hospital time.
 
mauricejota7604 said:
Very wet and humid but a pleasant 24 degrees on the west coast of the north Island in N Z
No bikes no damm bikes I am going crazy☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️
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Well further south it's bloody hot....But friday is practise day for the NZGP meeting here - and it looks like being wet.

Yes, down here we need the rain, but with the run of wet meetings lately, the country's gonna run out of wet race rubber soon.

Practise day is the only day I usually go to that meeting. I don't have much running at Nationals now - only a couple of sidecar motors - so it's just catching up with people I haven't seen since last year. Much less pressure on practise day.
 
We are heading towards a 45c weekend here in Sydney, bit cloudy with storms about today. Warmish at 25c. The bloody rear tyre I need still isn't around, supposed to happen Tuesday, not holding my breath.
 
Either side of no temperature at all here, plus a few - 0 - minus a few. Snow, slush, ice, snow, rain, ice....Bloody pox. If it is going to be winter it is best it makes it?s bloody mind up. Weather gods, not what they used to be.
 
I live in Tallahassee, Florida.  Its snowing...everyone is outside taking pictures.  Most have never seen snow.  Bizarre.

Had planned to fire up the Velocette today...20/50 oil...perhaps not.

Heard on public radio (usually reliable news source) that Ontario, Canada was colder than the surface of Mars over the weekend.  Impressive.
 
Weather here in the US midwest is bonkers. Record low temps, icy road conditions, water pipes bursting and a colossal amount of salt and some other chloride crap all over the roads to the point everyone is kicking up clouds of salt on the expressways. On our way back from Colorado we couldn't continue in Iowa as the defrost couldn't keep up with the icy rain, rendering only half of the windshield worth looking through. As it was getting dark we pulled off and spent the night. Next morning we counted 35 cars and semis in the ditches, some rollovers, many others already towed out but the evidence was still there in the snowpack. Worse yet, you cant wash the crap off due to the low temps, the rinse water at the self service wash bays freezes up within seconds. Not that I didn't do it anyway. Clean ice is better than salty ice I say. Times like this I wish I had a heated garage tho.
 

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Shit, I missed the whole skiing rant.

My first big mountain ski trip was to Steamboat Colorado at 14yo. I had a pair of Hexcel honeycomb skis and they would rattle on the groomed stuff, really too stiff and I paid the price by wiping out a lot. I then discovered Olins, PRE and finally K2 skis, all with Marker RR bindings as while in college at Colorado State I spent most of my time skiing Colorado and Utah. I also had a pucker run at Solitude, it was on one of the boundary chutes and I should have never been there on my 215 K2 810s (I loved the Mahre brothers so I skied what they skied.) I still have those K2s. Boots were always an issue as I have wide feet. I went through Salomon, Dachstein (bought when I skied the Ski Circus in Austria) and Lange. I still think Lange and Rossignol fit me the best but there is always some modification needed. Fast forward to last week we were in Breckenridge and not much of the mountain was open, but I got my wife and two kids up a green lift for their first time and it was a thrill for me that they didn't quit, and want to go for more this season. Now I just rent demo skis and snowboards and use my Lang/Burton boots.

Whistler is on my bucket list. I got to hurry up because I'm also wearing out, I have another knee surgery coming up this month.
 
Think J.C. Killy used VR 17s, got away with the two diagonal bar branding at the 68 Olympics but Karl Schrantz got scrubbed by Avery Brundage for illegal advertising.
Best place I skied was Val d'Isere, two weeks of 'ski total' bliss. Three weeks in Davos wasn't too shabby either :D.
 
19753C(E) said:
Heard on public radio (usually reliable news source) that Ontario, Canada was colder than the surface of Mars over the weekend.  Impressive.
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I wonder which reporter they sent to Mars to collect that little report... :o :o :D
 
I've never seen the attraction of skiing. I only ever used skis out of necessity, not for sport or entertainment. If you can't get your hands on a suitable vehicle in Antarctica, your only other option is cross country skis. Pain in the arse things they are. Marginally better than snow shoes.
 
Never tried cross country, looks fantastic when they do that Telemark turn but far from easy. I think the later types hold the rear of the foot down so Parallel turns are easier with that type of Nordic Ski.I loved to get out on The main Range between Perisher and Gathaga Resorts on the trails, even on Down Hills skis it was so Beautifull out there. Even in Blizzards being out there beyond the resorts was the best part of the NSW sking thing.
 
Used to go up to Mt Buller to the Navy ski lodge when I was based at HMAS Cerberus; downhill on Saturday and cross country on Sunday, the queues were just too long.
 
Downhill skiing is a bit like riding a motorbike Cam; getting that perfect balance on a fast sweeper or carved turn.
 
Cross country skiing is absolutely fantastic if you like to get away from the madding crowds and enjoy the wonder winter can be. I agree with Cam, that as a mode of transport forced on you it could be hard, but as a pastime, especially in a place like here in Norway it is bloody fantastic. Easy it is not, unless like the locals here, you are born with skis on. Turning, braking, and high speed are the hardest bits, but over the decades it gradually gets easier. Telemarking and such won?t be happening for me this lifetime, and you don?t see much of it here anymore. Randonee, a cross between downhill and XC is the latest fad. They attach grip skins and unlatch the heel for uplill, then clip in the heel and blast off down. Almost no limits. Normal XC here is becoming more skating, and "staving" which is just using the sticks for forward motion, not the usual diagonal walking. For me diagonal traditional is just fine, great exercise too, no jarring impacts like running etc. We still use wax, and if it isn?t cold enough for blue wax, it isn?t skiiable is the saying. New trend is waxless skis with some hairlike synthetic underlay instead of wax.
 
Skating is a nack you need to pick up fast, once you can its fun to get as efficient as possible at it. I really miss it, not so much my knees though.
 
There was me thinking Skiing was a couple of planks of wood and some boots and away you go!
I have been skiing as a young lad in France, I remember it was harder than it looked.

Weather here is blowing a hooley, pissing down and mild, just for a change.
Nice to have no frost though.
 
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