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Which skis are rail friendly?

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Weed.Is.Toasty
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title says it all, which skis would you recommend that can support mass railage?

I recently got a good deal for a pair of line stepups, what can you tell me of their durability? Would they be a good choice?

Ideally I would like a ski that is not to pricey

I pretty much ski 80% rails and 20% kicks

thanks for your time.




Jul 26 2011 12:10PM
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openmindportrait
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Any armada park ski will be practically bombproof after a season of heavy use on everything including rails they have absolutely no edge cracks or noticable flaws and the bases only have minor scratches that would happen even if i was not riding rails
Jul 26 2011 12:18PM
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DUKES
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next years step ups will be due to having a blend of skate deck and abs called deckwall, make the ski more forgiving underfoot when landing and hitting rails. liberty and armada are really good for durability when handling rails, but of course when you hit alot of rails you are getting closer and closer to damaging your skis. from liberty there is the lte and antigen, they have really good construction, super light and poppy, the antigen is more a price point ski with an extruded base to take abuse in the park
Jul 26 2011 12:33PM
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Thick.Black.Gurl
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Nithwards, but were all hating on them right now sooo.....
Jul 26 2011 1:11PM
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Thick.Black.Gurl
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Wow, im a newb! NINTHWARD
Jul 26 2011 1:12PM
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jca
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oxymoron
Jul 26 2011 1:23PM
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terrible_skier
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this
Jul 26 2011 1:29PM
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HamFaceGirl
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All the Salomon park skis are sick on rails!
Jul 26 2011 3:25PM
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RudyGarmisch
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The most rail friendly skis are in Sell/Trade. Get a beater set for cheap, break them more. No ski is going to hold up forever on rails.
Jul 26 2011 3:35PM
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AJizzle
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Couldn't agree more, don't understand why people ever buy new skis to go smash em up on rails. Go to bst and get some old chronics or ar5s or 6s and if u break them who gives a shit
Jul 26 2011 3:59PM
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Weed.Is.Toasty
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i see your point, but i just would like a ski that i can rely on once going on rails
Jul 27 2011 3:56AM
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NoCoastSkier
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armadas will be beastly on rails.just detune underfoot and you can beat the shit out of them and the edges will still be in tact w/o cracks
Jul 27 2011 3:59AM
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EASYZ
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line afterbangs great on rails enough said
Jul 27 2011 4:29PM
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mnfreeskier
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this. although they do have problems with topsheet chipping, they are super solid on rails.
Jul 27 2011 10:55PM
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49566738265
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If you feel the need to buy a new ski, Armada and ON3P have been extremely durable in my experience. My AR5's went FIVE SEASONS before I got enough edge crack to finally pull an edge.
Jul 27 2011 10:59PM
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xnick11
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I rode my AR7's for almost 20 days, they have almost 8 edge cracks on every edge underfoot. Also one piece of the edge underfoot is bent into the base.
Jul 28 2011 1:45AM
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Weed.Is.Toasty
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thanks everyone!
Jul 28 2011 4:57AM
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