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UPDATE on the Pray for Kevo Thread. Oh, and Volkl is freaking awesome.

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Kevo
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Well, update to this thread-
https://www.newschoolers.com/ns3/web/forums/readthread.php?thread_id=183940&

Short overview- A few weeks ago I snapped one of my Mantras on a cartwheel fall. I broke an seeming indestructible ski, and nobody could believe it.

Anyway, today I finally heard back about my Mantras. Volkl is warrantying my skis for me! Volkl is pretty bomber, argueably the second most bomb proof skis (second to Head of course) and Volkl also does right by their customers by replacing skis that break in extreme circumstances (ie my 50-60 mph cartwheel fall). So mucho praises for Volkl, and thanks for praying for Kevo! I should have my skis back next week, but for now, after an odd turn of events, my Grandma is paying for me to demo some scratch BCs. She lives in PA and saw a news story about all the snow in Colorado, and decided that I shouldn't go without skis for another weekend and so she decided to pay for me to demo some skis for the next 3 days. Crazy, but it is pretty cool to have a grandma who is uber supportive of my skiing habbits. And yes, I would use the money to buy some cheap skis if 1- it wasn't eppic powder out here right now and I could afford some more pow skis 2- if I had a few days to get skis mounted. Now it is 11:15pm mountain time and I am going to drive through the storm to get from Boulder to Breck tonight and ski some pow in the morning.
Jan 20 2006 1:13AM
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t3shellvenom
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i guess my non praying for your skis payed off
Jan 20 2006 1:14AM
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Kevo
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^haha yeah dude. the praying thing was pretty much a joke, as I described in the first thread.
Jan 20 2006 1:16AM
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t3shellvenom
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i sorta figured
Jan 20 2006 1:17AM
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iggyskier
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volkl is pretty durable....but...

:cough cough: igneous capital kingswood :cough cough:

kind of crush them.

glad they warrantied them. no reason they shouldn't have.

now don't break them again, next years are fucking ugly.
Jan 20 2006 1:37AM
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freezed
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as far as durability, he is probably referring to the "mainstream brands"

that being said...MMMMMM, kingswood.
Jan 20 2006 1:43AM
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KapitolPhoto
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so it's funny that you're praising volkl for being such an understanding company...

"Quoting Kevo* from Jan 20 2006 12:57:20:
I've never liked Line. I guess this is what happens when you spend all your money developing some terrible binding that fail and then have to warranty a few thousand pairs of invaders due to delam/shitty construction/worst quality ever. It does suck that there will be less competition in the ski industry if they go under. Maybe somebody should buy them out. (Armada/4Frnt perhaps?) But then again, who wants to buy all the problems that they have?"

ha. i skied on the p30, p40 and p50 for 4 years when i was racing, and each time i had to send my ski back to get warranted after a half of a season through stress fractures...and even in your case, a full break through the ski. each time i had to jump through hoops to be reimbursed or hooked up with another pair of skis. and yet when i switched to freestyle and had a small problem with LINE, it was no questions asked...they always backed up their product.

sure, line skis might have a few problems here and there at times, but their customer service is unparalleled.
Jan 20 2006 1:44AM
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iggyskier
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yeah, that is why i didn't give him too hard of a time....

kingswood is dope. Flynn just ordered a pair of Fats. They are gonna be ridiculous.
Jan 20 2006 2:01AM
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Kevo
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Yeah I was definitely referring to main stream companies so to speak. I've never had warranty issues with any company before, and Volkl could have claimed that it was impact that caused the damage and it wasn't a defect.

On the subject of my Line quote, I didn't say that they didn't back thier skis, but the point was more that if Line is in financial trouble it is probably because of shotty construction and then having to replace the skis that have problems.
Jan 20 2006 8:07PM
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Flynn
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Yes, those fats will be delicious.
Jan 20 2006 8:18PM
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freezed
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you are a lucky man.
Jan 20 2006 9:02PM
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