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EP Pros in public ?

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fLyInG-liNeS
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Ok so i was riding my ep pros to day with about 2in of fresh, mostly on groomers some of trail, and i was riding with a friend and he said that while i was skiing that tons of people pointed at my skis, i know people ask me about the almost ever run, so my question is does any one else with ep pros or any other fat rockered ski get this kind of attention, or is my mountain to dumb to get the concept?
Jan 25 2009 5:52PM
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WONTON
Posts: 6951 - Karma: 55
happens everywhere
Jan 25 2009 5:54PM
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Piste.Off
Posts: 11586 - Karma: 1,860
every lift im on with my sfbs some gaper talks about them, pretty good conversation starter though
Jan 25 2009 5:56PM
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Gnarshred
Posts: 5670 - Karma: 18

My friend had some people point at his Scratch Ghettos...

Someone at the hotel I work in thought skis with sidecut looked "weird."

People can barely comprehend sidecut let alone rocker

Jan 25 2009 5:56PM
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freezed
Posts: 12973 - Karma: 500
people get pretty confused about my ON3Ps
Jan 25 2009 5:57PM
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Upgrayedd
Posts: 620 - Karma: 25
I still get this is in Oregon, of all places, on my four year old Prophet 130s.
Jan 25 2009 5:59PM
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TWoods
Posts: 10014 - Karma: 8,386
Whenever I ride my Hellbents or my ON3Ps, i get lots of people asking about them. Not so much anymore, but sitll plenty.
Jan 25 2009 6:03PM
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Yung_Gnarley
Posts: 9092 - Karma: 3,022
haha they must be like. "Those aren't real skis cuz it's not a real ski brand." It must feel good to be like "Actually, it is a real ski company. I own it. So, yeah." hahaha




i'll shut up
Jan 25 2009 6:04PM
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powninja
Posts: 1053 - Karma: 242
All the time. EP pros are a mystery ski to many.
Jan 25 2009 6:05PM
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OAK_TREE
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I got some odd stares and a lot of funny comments while waiting in line when I was skiing my buddies Silva's at my hill in the midwest. it was fun to hear all the gaypers gawk about them.
Jan 25 2009 6:07PM
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MitchPee
Posts: 8871 - Karma: 1,509
I have chopsticks and I constantly get questions about them and people always ask if they can try them out.
Jan 25 2009 6:08PM
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Klick_2_klaim
Posts: 3396 - Karma: 25
FUCK!!!
Where do all you people live?
Jan 25 2009 6:09PM
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Balto
Posts: 25985 - Karma: 4,404
happens to me every day
Jan 25 2009 6:13PM
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eheath
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Not very much, but some rando forgien gapper asked my buddy vinny if his motherships were skiblades for powder.
Jan 25 2009 6:20PM
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Elijah.
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Doesn't really happen at Baker because everyone and their mom has either Hellbents or EP Pro's... And the occasional Caylor pops up.
Jan 25 2009 6:22PM
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J.D.
Posts: 21362 - Karma: 5,142
Pretty much everyone who has seen my Caylors (even when I'm not actually skiing on them) has asked in a surprised tone "What are THOSE?"
Jan 25 2009 6:26PM
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BKlein
Posts: 1031 - Karma: 81
I don't have any but sometimes when I'm going up a lift or something like that I'll ask how someone likes likes their skis, not in a gaper way but in a conversation starter way
Don't know if this answers your question at all
Jan 25 2009 6:46PM
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no_steeze
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happens every time i go skiing, i rocked my bents at stratton the other weekend and i got a comment like every 5 seconds. i just fuck with people who ask me about them. I told someone that i made them, i told another person that the tips and tails broke so that's why they stuck up, and i told someone else that i ran them over in my car so that's why they were so fat in the tips....they didn't buy that one
Jan 25 2009 7:08PM
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ReedSkis~
Posts: 2122 - Karma: 98
I got a couple glances and some pointing at my purple VCTs up at Jackson but every other person there has fat skis (i'd never seen factions, icelantics, ignaeous or karhus in person before this trip)
Jan 25 2009 8:37PM
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Jorgen.
Posts: 1361 - Karma: 35
Ever time I stop I'll have someone asking about my JJs but then again they arn't exactly looking much like your traditional ski.
Jan 25 2009 8:44PM
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Caveman.
Posts: 9067 - Karma: 330
People are always asking me questions about my ON3P Caylors.
Jan 25 2009 8:54PM
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fragglemuffin
Posts: 3312 - Karma: 444
the people at my hill in new york shit bricks when i rock my elizabeths
Jan 25 2009 9:21PM
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B-runge
Posts: 16558 - Karma: 361
no one says anything about my bacons

i guess they're just not cool enough. that 2 in was so fun tho
Jan 25 2009 9:24PM
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fLyInG-liNeS
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^ im sorry
Jan 25 2009 9:28PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
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People point at my skis in lift lines and i only have disorderly's, they don't really look abnormal, maybe a little wide to some old people. I generally hear people saying stuff like "hey he's got some of those new trick skis" or stuff like that.
Jan 25 2009 9:28PM
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B-runge
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thanks
Jan 25 2009 9:34PM
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fouldsys
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people would stare at my hellbents when i skied them in onterrible. i saw someone with live life 2s which are probably one of the wierdest looking rockered skis out there and a bunch of people were staring at those including myself.
Jan 25 2009 9:40PM
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Balto
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first time i saw LL2s i really thought they were broken just cuz the rockers is so strangw
Jan 25 2009 9:44PM
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the-big-lepowski
Posts: 1212 - Karma: 541
How do they ski?  As stiff as everyone is saying?  And a symmetrical pow ski?  Regardless, the graphic is my favorite.  Ever.
Jan 25 2009 9:52PM
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K2skipunk
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Everyone asks me about my hellbents. People stare as well, one guy asked me today, "how do you ski those fucking canoes on this ice?" I told him cuz i got mad skill yo. But, yea, it still happens alot.
Jan 25 2009 11:40PM
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Quinn
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hahah i have LL2's and i rock them on the east coast. i probably had 20-30 people as me about them in lift lines this weekend. i dont really mind haha, kinda funny seeing the reactions
Jan 26 2009 12:45AM
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crzyskier311xxx
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You wanna talk about gawking gapers?  I live in Vegas and bought EP pros for when I go up to SLC or Tahoe.....You have to understand people here think that Volkl AC 50s are ridiculously wide...
Jan 26 2009 1:57PM
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theteo
Posts: 210 - Karma: 18
"Are those waterskis?"


I ride Bibby's.
Jan 26 2009 2:56PM
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IanAvery-Leaf
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Haha I can imagine!
Jan 26 2009 3:14PM
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Casey
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I gave a guy on EP Pro's a weird look the other day cuz its was icy as hell.
Jan 26 2009 6:09PM
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martin.
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k2 seths

i get them occasionally. but then again i ski at a mountain where the majority of people are still rocking straight skis.
Jan 26 2009 6:40PM
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the-big-lepowski
Posts: 1212 - Karma: 541
I get funny questions about my bacons- "THose look like 2 snowboards, except with, like, one attachment on each."  I am always amused on lift rides.
Jan 26 2009 6:50PM
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Ben.
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my bibbys have gotten some funny looks and comments
Jan 26 2009 7:01PM
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