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Volkl Mantra

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dirtybryan
Posts: 270 - Karma: 10
Alright, some of you might recall me looking at pow skis for next year. I stumbled across the Volkl Mantra and its dimensions and description sounds right. Anyone here have experience with them?
Jan 6 2006 11:40PM
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Vicious
Posts: 3862 - Karma: 140
Not a pow ski per se, but a great do-it-all ski nontheless.
Jan 6 2006 11:40PM
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dirtybryan
Posts: 270 - Karma: 10
Yea, I'm looking for a fat ski that isn't a one trick pony.
Jan 6 2006 11:42PM
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Vicious
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Then the Mantra is a good choice.
Jan 6 2006 11:44PM
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dirtybryan
Posts: 270 - Karma: 10
Can you give me some description of it if you've ridden it? Poppy, stiff, stable, etc?..
Jan 6 2006 11:49PM
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Vicious
Posts: 3862 - Karma: 140
It's fairly stiff and definitely stable.
Jan 6 2006 11:51PM
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Kevo
Posts: 2374 - Karma: 136
I ride them everyday. Great ski in pretty much all conditions. They float really nice in powder but they are stiff enough to make some really nice GS turns on hardpack. Since they are pretty stiff you do have to really power em through the tight spots, but it isn't much of an issue. I love mine.
Jan 7 2006 1:16AM
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LC.
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It's the replacement for the Explosive. Search tetongravity.com or powdermag.com message boards to read hundreds of good reviews.
Jan 7 2006 1:58AM
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smithxi
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use that stuff surfers use... sex wax
Jan 7 2006 2:12AM
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KeegLove
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my friend has them and she loves them.
Jan 7 2006 2:13AM
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couloir
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wicked ski... kinda stiff but alright if ur a good skier, awesome in the pow. i love mine.
Jan 7 2006 2:25PM
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SquawMan
Posts: 214 - Karma: 14
make sure to mount it back 1.5mm behind the factory line if you get a pair for better powder performance

once you do that, this ski slays everything

no speed limit whatsoever, blasts crud and chopped up snow, floats powder much better than even I thought for such a stiff ski, rails like a GS ski on hardpack

a true everyday out west ski

and fyi, I'm 6'1, 205 and went with the 184 over the 191cm for Tahoe and never felt any reason to question my decision - no tip dive even in thigh deep powder, no lack of stability at any speed, including straightlines

the stiffness allowed me to go shorter than usual and still not give up any speed limit (and by the way, the 184 Mantra is stiffer, and has a longer running length than the 190 Gotama)
Jan 7 2006 7:31PM
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NWFlow
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is it twinned
Jan 7 2006 9:22PM
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WONTON
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i dont remember it being very twinned
Jan 7 2006 9:31PM
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wolfmansbro
Posts: 2155 - Karma: 137
ive been thinking about getting a pair and putting a pair of touring bindings on them. I figured a 94mm waist is a good wide ski but still easy to tour with, and i dont really need a tail because i wont be riding switch with tour bindigns
Jan 15 2006 3:03AM
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Kevo
Posts: 2374 - Karma: 136
Hopefully I get mine warrantied. I miss them so much! So far it has cost me 8 days of skiing since "the incident" happened.

https://www.newschoolers.com/ns3/web/forums/readthread.php?thread_id=183940&
Jan 15 2006 3:53AM
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strode
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it's like barely twinned. like maybe a cm. and curves up just at the very end. you could ride switch on groomers just fine with it but on anything else no way.
Jan 15 2006 6:17AM
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