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Urban Triplets...prettttyyy much demolished

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mathers
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so bassically, i bought these skis at the end of last season, used them for about 3 days before the edges started cracking, used them for a bit in the summer and thats when the cap seperated from the edge and little bits of foam were falling out everywhere. and then about 2 weeks ago..well..i finally was completely unable to ski them when i peeled the edge back over itself. anyways im posting these for the benifit of those who didn't believe me when i commented on the condition of them in another thread.

p.s. im still skiing the other two wich are almost as bad.

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Jan 31 2006 4:19PM
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seward
Posts: 5233 - Karma: 2,174
cough atomic cough sucks.

i heard those things were industructable too
Feb 1 2006 2:05PM
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holyDINOSAURS
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youre an idiot.
Feb 1 2006 2:43PM
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-+Siver+-
Posts: 1902 - Karma: 12
unless you suck a lot!
Feb 1 2006 2:51PM
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l337
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cool
Feb 1 2006 3:04PM
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mathers
Posts: 1865 - Karma: 490
look, i don't suck at rails, im not skiing over rocks, i probobly had a defective pair, im just showing what happened to my skis in response to another thread, I haven't been purposefully beating the shit out of my skis, like why would i, they cost money. Maybe it was the rails at my club being hit by the cat, i don't know, but to blame it on me being a bad skier with absolutely no evidence on how i ski is pretty rediculous.
Feb 2 2006 6:54PM
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mathers
Posts: 1865 - Karma: 490
and just to add to that, i haven't had this kindof problem with my Heads from this year either that i've been using for the same amount of time, there isn't even a single cracked edge
Feb 2 2006 6:56PM
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Ryno
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heads are fucking BOMBER
Feb 2 2006 7:06PM
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ShortBusSkiTeam
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If they're made for rails, then they shouldn't break when you take them on rails. Atomic sucks.
Feb 2 2006 8:20PM
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brizz
Posts: 1051 - Karma: 74
Yeah i've seen those edges on the inside of the base break on some Atomic and Elans. Seems like a nice concept, but not so sure about the preformance. Nice job on the damage though, dremel that shit off and they'll be fine.
Feb 3 2006 6:08AM
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hollygrove
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Thats why they give you third. Because they suck.
Feb 3 2006 6:12AM
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skirodeo7
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i still think its funny they give you three cuz they know you'll break them
Feb 3 2006 7:36AM
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CooksCorner
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exactly
Feb 3 2006 8:22AM
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hendrik.
Posts: 6715 - Karma: 267
there is no fucking way in hell you bent the edge back like that doing rails, unless your going straight over boxes and happened to catch on something...which still seems unlikely
Feb 3 2006 8:27AM
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Dallan!
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Race skis with twintips? have you even seen a race ski?
Feb 3 2006 8:33AM
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hartig
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wait.. so theres 2 edges on the bases (like an outer one on each side and an inner set)???
Feb 3 2006 10:51AM
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Edward.
Posts: 9366 - Karma: 445
so does this mean that all triplets are bad? or just these skis got beat up bad?
Feb 3 2006 10:57AM
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Davevinc1080
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you probly spend every run on every rail, and athts hard on them, if you dont sorr, but if you do tahst y
Feb 3 2006 11:01AM
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head686
Posts: 402 - Karma: 14
i just bought some ar5'd cause my atomics edge cracked in 2 places and blew you but it took 2 years...it was pretty reliable ski
Feb 3 2006 11:23AM
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poncho
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no kidding.
Feb 3 2006 11:34AM
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t-man152
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call Atomic and get it warrentied. im sure thil do it even though it s obvious that damage was on purpouse.

youll be the first to Warrenty triplettes
Feb 3 2006 11:54AM
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foodisfun
Posts: 5427 - Karma: 287
i'll take that ski for like 20 bucks shipped. or i'll trade you razors
Feb 3 2006 1:02PM
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Petecanski
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word.
Feb 3 2006 1:07PM
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skiierman
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No ski company would ever insurance rail damage.
Feb 3 2006 1:17PM
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SalomonSkier1330
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wow
Feb 3 2006 1:47PM
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seward
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no..... youre an idiot.
Feb 3 2006 2:35PM
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shootr
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Wow.. there are sure a lot of tools posting in this thread.

Yes your ski is severly damaged, and like others on here I have a very very very hard time believing that this damage was done simply by sliding rails clean and well.

I say this because I have a pair of these, the prototypes, early with the tweak topsheet. They were thoroughly abused by myself and others before me.
They have been used on park rails, urban rails, wood, concrete, and every thing else we could find to slide.
They have seen this abuse now for about three years.
Summers as well.
Granted there are some cracks in the edges now, but there are no delam problems and all of the edges are still complete and continuous without gaps.

The level of damage you have on your ski did not possibly happen in a single impact, meaning that when you already had some severe damage you still continued to abuse this ski.
Just because a ski is designed with sliding rails in mind does not mean that it will take unlimited rail sliding abuse.
Feb 3 2006 3:32PM
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tBenz
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dude...i think you should probably do something about those massive missing chunks in your skis. i heard they do better that way
Feb 3 2006 4:26PM
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quebecfreestyler
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I rided a bunch of urban and a lot of park with the same skis and believe me i wasnt kind on them at all and they never got that bad. I higly suggest you show them to your local shop or something and see what they say. please let me know what is up by pm me. thanks
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Feb 3 2006 6:32PM
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GotamaBCshredder
Posts: 5062 - Karma: 424
yeah dude, and this guy SHREDS rails, listen to him
Feb 3 2006 7:00PM
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DaveHumphrey
Posts: 1758 - Karma: 82
wow. how does this happen. even tho they are called the urban triplet they probably dont warrenty if u used them for urbans.
Feb 4 2006 5:49AM
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Dallan!
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Guys when are you going to realize, skis brake even thought theyre called urban triplets and have a reinforced edge and are made for parkskiing.

When you buy a skateboard and brake it in the middle after like 3 weeks you dont start a thread on it on some forum and whine.
Thats how it is, shure some skis may hold up better then others but still, at some point the fuckers will break, specially if your abusing them pretty hard with with no thought.
Feb 4 2006 5:56AM
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mathers
Posts: 1865 - Karma: 490
honestly im not sure how the edge got that bad, im pretty sure it was cracked allready and then i hit a rail funny on a 270 and it got ripped out and bent, i think i have a sequence shot of it somewhere...
Feb 4 2006 11:43AM
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Mr.O
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your skis got owned
Feb 4 2006 12:06PM
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watchmefall15
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rex is probably freakin out now
Feb 4 2006 1:29PM
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PembyLoc
Posts: 418 - Karma: 10
defective pair or something cause Dolezel, Myself and others skied those skis for 100+ days last year and nothing like that happened! call the rep it'll get taken care of!
Feb 4 2006 2:39PM
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