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Lib-Tech's NarrowAssSnowboards with Magne-Traction Technology!

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C_Ewart
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Lib-Tech, as you all know, is a snowboard company. They don't wanna get the rep of making skis, so they've come out with the "NarrowAssSnowboard"

supposedly you have to buy one at a time, they won't sell them in pairs.


But they will have the Magne-traction Technology, which has proved to be a very worth while edge technique on the recent snowboards.
Jan 11 2007 3:44PM
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C_Ewart
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whoa, then I found this: https://newschoolers.com/ns3/web/content/pagetemplate.php?name=siavegas2006&page=libtech



ignore me.
Jan 11 2007 3:45PM
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ijibgoremtn
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this has been around for a while dude i heard their skis are pretty heavy but ironically they are having a buy one get one free sale so you get 2 skis for the price of one oh and what happens if you break an edge with magne traction?
Jan 11 2007 3:46PM
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Ahmets_Brother
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lots of sidecut
Jan 11 2007 4:09PM
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JesseWest
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they got a pair at the boardshop here. they look pretty solid.
Jan 11 2007 6:58PM
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eLevate
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half off you say? where. after riding these, im determined to find a pair for under 7 bills
Jan 11 2007 7:15PM
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Swick825
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no way, who wouldve thought.
Jan 11 2007 7:16PM
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BMit
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yes. where.
Jan 11 2007 8:00PM
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prophet
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saw a chick on em at whistler, said she was hooked... its crazy, the curves are actually pretty big, but i guess it works.
Jan 11 2007 8:01PM
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ijibgoremtn
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im not actually sure one of my friends was tellin me about it i ask him
Jan 11 2007 9:16PM
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tjski
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where have you been for the last several months?
Jan 11 2007 9:19PM
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Sholte
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no way! no but seriously that was those still are pretty sweet even tho ive seen then like a million times
Jan 11 2007 9:39PM
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Grimace.
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summit carries them, there pretty sick, still kind of skeptical about them though
Jan 11 2007 10:16PM
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hoodratz47
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my question is .. how do you tune ???
Jan 11 2007 10:25PM
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tjski
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man i whish i had my own robot ski tuner.
Jan 11 2007 11:17PM
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wh@t
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my friend has them. the one with lots of lines on it. he loves em like puppies...which works for you unless you kill puppies.
Jan 11 2007 11:21PM
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CJHski
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that is very odd......
Jan 11 2007 11:31PM
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ski_cartel
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all I know is that anything with magna traction is a fucking bitch to tune. You cant use the ceramic disk on a machine and have to do it all by hand (unless you have this fucking robot tuning machien that nomen has) and because of the lack of space inbetween the maga traction sections you can only use a very small amount of the file to tune them. This means a fucking hour to shapen them properly.
Jan 11 2007 11:50PM
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BMit
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One thing about the magne traction is you dont need to tune them.. they act like a knife blade, contacting the snow at multiple point, cutting into the snow in a very unique manner

the website says this
http://www.lib-tech.com/subHype/nas/0607NAS_catalog_small.pdf

"The extra edgehold you get allows you to ride your narrow ass boards de-tuned for the park and rails and still get great edge-hold all over the mountain. Take a file and round your edges so they dont hang up on the rails, boxes, or ledges. The go ride everywhere!"
Jan 12 2007 2:57PM
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Fish_Sandwich.
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that seems like it wouldn't work but hey if it does, props. I'd be down to try a pair someday.
Jan 12 2007 4:22PM
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mad_540_trix
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that's fucking cool.
Jan 12 2007 4:30PM
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caylorswift
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i saw a fella at Mt Baker today with a pair of those. upon closer inspection i was shocked and appalled that someone would do that to a ski.



...then i saw him ski on em, then i was amazed, bewildered and in desperation of a pair myself. those things look fucking amazing, and i WILL have a pair.

anyone know the dimensions on those? have they/are they making FAT (95-110mm) models?
Jan 12 2007 10:22PM
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Worst.NS.Member
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2008 lineup is introducing several models into production. There is specific park model which is thin (76-83mm), an all-mountain model with moderate 90mm width, a ridiculous wide powder ski (think 100-130mm), and new ski called 'robo tech' which I think is Chinese mechanicly made ski. Not sure of what purpose of the robo tech ski is, but likely a very cheap mass produced park ski for entry level. I will post PDF of brochure from my laptop later or you can google and find probably.
Hope it helps,
May 8 2007 1:05PM
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C_Ewart
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Look who's in on it:

http://www.libtechnas.com/mikeWilson.html


Here's the lineup and sizes:

http://www.libtechnas.com/
May 8 2007 1:57PM
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Worst.NS.Member
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Ah yes, thank you. I'm at work and the .pdf was on my laptop at home. You saved me the trouble.

Good day!
May 8 2007 2:03PM
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Fintendo
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Father Time welcomes you to the past.
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May 8 2007 2:04PM
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C_Ewart
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They're also great on tele according to review. I might get a pair for my tele setup next year!

http://www.telemarktalk.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=22872&

May 8 2007 2:12PM
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Alex_G
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i was talking to a guy at squaw who was sponsored by lib-tech (skis) and he said that they sucked. this guy was even sponsored by them and said that he hated them. after all, theyre not even real skis, theyre just narrow ass snowboards.
May 8 2007 2:26PM
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Bennettc14
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Here's the 2008 stuff:

http://www.akibasports.com/comm/xoops/html/modules/tinyd6/index.php?id=6
May 8 2007 5:46PM
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Bennettc14
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However I wish I spoke gook...but they have graphics and specs, they look $
May 8 2007 5:48PM
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C_Ewart
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They're making BINDINGS now too!?!?
May 9 2007 1:58AM
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Worst.NS.Member
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I spoke with mervin not long ago, old friends. They are re-badging solomon scratch model binding with lib-tech name and probably a few small adjustment.
Regards,
May 9 2007 2:15AM
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C_Ewart
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Salomon Scratch bindings?

May 9 2007 2:26AM
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Worst.NS.Member
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Ah! Haha, my mistake. I mean to say Rossi, all these scratch brand names, confusing~
Sorry for that
Regards,
May 9 2007 2:29AM
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shitski
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they r just cashing in. trying to make some money off freeskiing.
May 9 2007 2:33AM
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Worst.NS.Member
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Yes I think, a long time ago skiing was not 'cool'. So it was cool for snowboard company like libtech to act that way. But now you see ski on X-Games and similar, and skiers who are shredding hardcore, and now it is becoming 'cool'. So we will probably see many snowboard company like libtech try to profit!
But, lib/gnu/mervin has very good product and always is on the front of technology. So, I forgive them.

I think with the binding maybe they are just adding some heelpad and possible more adjustment or flex. But maybe they might just re-badge, which is weak!
Regards,
May 9 2007 2:39AM
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Sharko
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You are disgusting. I speak Japanese. I won't help you.
May 9 2007 3:00AM
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Worst.NS.Member
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Oh boy, no need to be angry! I too speak it, and I would translate but the page is blocked by proxy here >
May 9 2007 3:17AM
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PacificRimJob
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About tuning the magnatraction. If you have them, and you NEED to have them tuned, take them to your local tech shop. Dont try by hand. I had at least 3 people come into my shop last season with fucked up libtech boards because they tried to go by hand, and you really cant do it without the right touch and the right tools.

Take it to a shop that has either the crazy laser guided, heat seeking, nuclear powered machine that Steven's shop has, or at least any shop with a good winterstieger machine.

I reccomend a shop with at least a Grindrite 21 hundred... Thats what we have and it worked brilliantly this year in fixing up those suckers.
May 9 2007 5:00AM
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schmies
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i think they are lame.
May 9 2007 4:48PM
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soradrightnow
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K2 thinks Lib Tech is lame? Really? Why?

May 9 2007 4:56PM
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schmies
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I do not speak for K2 as a whole, I speak for myself as an individual on this subject. I think they are lame for two reasons.

1.) I was at a local snowboard pipe event Lib Tech puts on two seasons ago and wanted to session the superpipe in between heats..just like a ton of other riders who were not in said event. After two runs one worker at the mountain approached me as I was hiking and said, "Hey man, I have to ask you to stop. No skiers. It is Lib Tech's call." That was lame. Half of those kids riding in between heats were just lazily strolling through, scraping the walls and I couldn't hit it because I was on skis. Awesome.

2.) Next they start to make skis...I mean narrow ass snowboards. Too cool to even call out what they are making, yet they want in on the growing buisiness.

What I DO like about Lib Tech is the art they put on their boards and the directions they take on new technologies and constructions.
May 9 2007 7:06PM
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snowbird4life
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god i almost threw up all over myself reading the "so k2 thinks libtech is lame why?"

are you serious? poor schmies.
May 9 2007 7:32PM
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PacificRimJob
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I totally agree.

Libtech is very innovative and all that, but they seriously do not understand skiing and that skiers can shred just as hard as snowboarders...

In their defense, according to the rep at Icer Air they call their skis 'narrow ass snowboards' because they just shorten the ratio on their snowboard making machines so they come out with skis, but thats still pretty retarded...
May 10 2007 7:05AM
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zylstra
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The dddddddddddslkjafslkdfslk
^cat.
May 10 2007 7:21AM
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gregor
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Lib tech sound a bit queer to me.

Whats this "Magne-traction" bullshit? One of my pet hates is gimmicky skis.
May 10 2007 8:13AM
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Pwn.Mode
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magne-traction is a gimmic i rode their snowboards and noticed no difference and the size runs on their skis suck and graphics are lame.
May 10 2007 10:36AM
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STACKS
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there really sick skis
May 10 2007 10:55AM
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