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K2 Silencers

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FLSkier
Posts: 101 - Karma: 18

I have K2 Silencers that are mounted at recommended. Will these be good for park? Jumps? Rails/boxes?

+karma for help+

Dec 27 2009 8:55PM
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mason-
Posts: 955 - Karma: 45

yes yes and yes. They are a park specific ski. You should be good.

Dec 27 2009 9:18PM
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FLSkier
Posts: 101 - Karma: 18

would it make much of a difference if i mounted the bindings at core center?

Dec 27 2009 9:42PM
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FLSkier
Posts: 101 - Karma: 18

bump

Dec 29 2009 11:35AM
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Candy
Posts: 1051 - Karma: 176
Huge ginourmous difference mounted dead center. It's like night and day.
Dec 29 2009 11:53AM
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Clownz
Posts: 116 - Karma: 68

Center = More balance on rail, better for switch, playfulness... it's more freestyle.

Behind center = More polyvalent, better all mountain performance.... That's if you ride everything

My bindings are in the center and i love it. I ride Park most of the time but it does well for a little bit of all mountain condition.

The question is: Do you ride more park or more all mountain. And anyway, behind center bindings can endure parks and center bindings can endure all mountain.

Dec 29 2009 12:17PM
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Thenowhereman42
Posts: 5682 - Karma: 65
I mounted my skis up from -4 to center this season and I don't regret it at all.
Dec 29 2009 3:00PM
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cultrara
Posts: 5147 - Karma: 46,850

the silencers are all mountains

Dec 29 2009 3:30PM
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superpoluha
Posts: 1986 - Karma: 10
yea, as i remebmer from the 08 models, they are uber stiff
Dec 29 2009 3:35PM
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Candy
Posts: 1051 - Karma: 176
at 80 in the waist, I cannot see that actually being all-mountain. It's just a stiffer park ski and retarded marketing.
Dec 29 2009 3:37PM
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Justo8484
Posts: 3905 - Karma: 205
thank you for using polyvalent in your reply. your mastery of the english language far supersedes the average NSer.

candy, all mountain is a very general term. for someone who lives on the east coast, the silencer is definitely an all mountain ski. i know, i have a pair, and skied them for everything from park to bumps to trees to groomers. we don't get multiple feet of snow in one dumping, so 80mm in the waist is plenty wide for most everything here.

OP, i have mine mounted at core center, which works pretty well for everything, but if i were using them for strictly park, i'd probably go -2 from true center. core center on that ski, if i remember correctly, is about 4.5cm back from true center, because k2 likes to confuse the consumer like that.
Dec 29 2009 3:47PM
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Candy
Posts: 1051 - Karma: 176
Yeah I can see what your saying for the East Coast, its a totally different story out west, my bad. I have just seen a lot of naive people (in Utah) that go to the shop and buy em cause they're cheap and twin-tip, and say all-mountain on them. Then they end up sucking in pow and they wonder what's going on.
Dec 29 2009 3:54PM
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Justo8484
Posts: 3905 - Karma: 205
totally understand what you're saying. i have a pair of seths that are my trip ski, which i occasionally ski here in PA, but it's not my primary all mountain ski. if i lived in utah, it would be my everyday ski, whereas i'd have a set of hellbents as my pow ski and kung fujas' for my park ski. its all relative to the conditions you encounter on a daily basis.
Dec 29 2009 4:02PM
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AndrewNZ
Posts: 477 - Karma: 13
^+1
I will lean as far forward as my DIN will allow and my bindings will object before they flex and my Dins are low but not stupidily low.
Dec 29 2009 4:09PM
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xxMdahlxx
Posts: 552 - Karma: 15
I skied 'em last year. They seem to pretty much just slay everywhere
Dec 29 2009 4:58PM
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superpoluha
Posts: 1986 - Karma: 10
yes, you see they are just as stiff as they used to be... hmmnn... ill go over my friends house (as he just bought the same skis, i have not seen them yet) and see whats up
Dec 29 2009 5:00PM
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LMPJibbin
Posts: 1607 - Karma: 17

behind centers are great in park they dont just "endure" of course center mount makes a difference but its not that immense. though i do think center mount bindings arent as well suited for trail riding as behind center mounts are for park.

i hope some of that made sense.

Dec 29 2009 6:45PM
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Clownz
Posts: 116 - Karma: 68

That's true i had behind center mounts and they were great for park anyway. Now i have center mounts and i don't see much difference for all mountain. And if you want to do big backcountry stuff, it is not the position of your bindings that you gotta change. It's your skis.

I'd go for something like -2 for the creator of this thread because that is the most polyvalent. Experience that and you'll probably be fixed for next year.

Dec 29 2009 7:19PM
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Mike.Steezze
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the silencers will be just fine in the park, even if they are said to be an all mountain ski.
Dec 29 2009 8:47PM
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