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Favorite pow skis..?

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NWlife.
Posts: 179 - Karma: 14
i wanna hear all your favorite pow skis. im riding on bent chetlers and on wanna know what everyone elses favorites are for like pillows, kickers, powturns, etc..
Jan 10 2012 6:38PM
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RudyGarmisch
Posts: 25443 - Karma: 13,844
Trees - Billy Goats
Open Bowls/Charging - Wrenegades
Jibbing - Caylors
Its too deep - Pillowfights
Jan 10 2012 6:45PM
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thegouda
Posts: 196 - Karma: 57
ive been really happy with my volkl chopsticks
Jan 10 2012 6:47PM
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Chasing-Storms
Posts: 390 - Karma: 174
Trees - 183cm Benny Chetlers
Alpine - 192cm Benny Chetlers
Jan 10 2012 6:55PM
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pbandj
Posts: 5610 - Karma: 28
trees - 193 bentchetlers (i know they're long but they still turn on a dime)
big mountain - bentchetlers
bc booter - bentchetlers.

mine are mounted at -1.5 which i found to work really well for everything. even the odd park lap.
Jan 10 2012 7:16PM
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Woodhouse
Posts: 390 - Karma: 160
Bents, Bents, Bents, Bents. Mounted at -2.5 from center.
Jan 10 2012 7:40PM
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cobra_commander
Posts: 16909 - Karma: 4,686
Life- 191 Billy Goats, everything else is like receiving a blow job from a 14 year old in Alabama. The teeth all stick in at odd angles, it's awkward and should probably be illegal (age of consent is 14 in bama).
Jan 10 2012 8:23PM
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N.Skinner
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Trees - Caylors
Open Bowls/Charging - Caylors
Jibbing - Caylors
Its too deep - Caylors
Jan 10 2012 8:40PM
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division.bell
Posts: 2762 - Karma: 1,905
All time favorite: 191 Caylor
New favorite: 191 Billy Goat
Future favorite: 196 Pillowfight? (currently lacking the snow to get on them for the first time this season)
Jan 10 2012 8:48PM
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RudyGarmisch
Posts: 25443 - Karma: 13,844
Take those out! They're built to handle it. The 191cm proto's were out skiing last weekend, and the weekend before that. They apparently did a park lap at Stevens that included a 5 off waterfall...
Jan 10 2012 9:01PM
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Balto
Posts: 25985 - Karma: 4,404
it was scary, but oh so fun, sure was easier then spinning a 3 on my C&D

anyway....

trees: C&D
open: C&D
deeeeeep: C&D

i like my C&D a lot if you can't tell...
Jan 10 2012 9:23PM
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pigglywiggly
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MAAHHHH MAA FUCKIN BENTCHETLERS
Jan 10 2012 9:26PM
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division.bell
Posts: 2762 - Karma: 1,905
Wow, I want to see that shit.

Next time it snows, I'll be reaching for the Pillowfights, gotta break them in sometime.
Jan 10 2012 9:51PM
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Jo_n
Posts: 77 - Karma: 50

I love the JJ!

super fun and pretty light!

Jan 11 2012 10:41AM
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nagelthebagel
Posts: 205 - Karma: 36
Hellbents are defiantly best for pillows and the real deep stuff, like reallllll deeeep
Jan 11 2012 11:14AM
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SFBv420.0
Posts: 2539 - Karma: 3,124
[img]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums y195/skifishbum/ski/IMG_8028.jpg[/img]
splatulas and lhasa pows
Jan 11 2012 11:17AM
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SFBv420.0
Posts: 2539 - Karma: 3,124
fuck me i forget there is no editting here
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Jan 11 2012 11:20AM
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PappaG
Posts: 931 - Karma: 797
Moment Bibby Special (called The Governor in 2012/2013).

Bottom line, I have never been on a single powder ski that excels in ALL soft snow conditions (trees, deep, chopped up) like this one. Ski does it all and charges harder than anything I've been on before.
Jan 11 2012 1:17PM
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cobra_commander
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Get on a 12.13 191 Billy Goat...
Jan 11 2012 2:02PM
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PappaG
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Don't need to. It's the perfect pow ski. I'll take something stiffer, with a much flatter tail, with 27mm of taper over the Billy Goat any day.
Jan 11 2012 2:22PM
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cobra_commander
Posts: 16909 - Karma: 4,686
Your post is confusing. You want lee than 3cm of tip taper? Why not just call it a regular tip then and leave out the word taper. The Bibby Special, has more than that, and is not stiffer than a 191 BG, IIRC. Could have just been the one I saw.
Jan 11 2012 2:58PM
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PappaG
Posts: 931 - Karma: 797
Tip to tail on the Special is 27mm, on the Billy Goat it's only 15 - I prefer a more pintail shape. Also, the sidecut on the Special from the waist to the tail is a lot straighter than the Billy Goat which is helpful for maching in variable conditions. However, the most important feature is the flat tail allowing you to send it bigger more comfortably than on a rockered tail.
Jan 11 2012 3:05PM
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cobra_commander
Posts: 16909 - Karma: 4,686
Check out the BBR... Sounds like your ticket, salomon will have a 100mm wide version next year...
:)
Jan 11 2012 3:08PM
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Balto
Posts: 25985 - Karma: 4,404
maybe if you are a pussy...
Jan 11 2012 3:13PM
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tomPietrowski
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Its 109mm, its actually a fun ski.
Jan 11 2012 3:36PM
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cobra_commander
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It is like getting a blow job from a transvestite, lots of fun untill you realize what is going on...

I have skied it, had some fun, but did not think it was spectacular.
Jan 11 2012 3:38PM
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tomPietrowski
Posts: 7147 - Karma: 17,460
^ if were honest its not a ski many will buy here, but to older skiers and skiers who want one ski to do it all, its great. There selling so fast too, so allthough its not a new schoolers ski, its still a great ski.
Jan 11 2012 3:43PM
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Crocodile
Posts: 281 - Karma: 11

Charging - Bibbys

Jibbing - Bibbys

Trees - Bibbys

I like Bibbys

Jan 11 2012 5:56PM
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Pool.
Posts: 2820 - Karma: 662
i love my unity saucers a lot
Jan 11 2012 7:45PM
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MothaHucker
Posts: 4678 - Karma: 2,591

charging/directional/fat cliffs - pontoons

pillows/jibbing - icey gypsys

Jan 11 2012 7:57PM
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Mt_Baker_Man
Posts: 2012 - Karma: 105
Almost everyday: 186 Movement Trust

When its "All time": Reverse/Reverse all the way.
Jan 11 2012 8:44PM
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peace.love.pow
Posts: 50 - Karma: 16

blower pow: ep pros

trees/ BC: bentchets

Jan 12 2012 9:35PM
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ISellMeth
Posts: 1440 - Karma: 673
No question, but seeing cobras love for the Billy Goat makes me want to try it.
Jan 12 2012 11:02PM
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division.bell
Posts: 2762 - Karma: 1,905
Just sold my 191 GrizzlyCorn Caylor's because I love my 191 Billy Goats that much...that and I have 196 Pillowfights...but yeah, the Billy Goats fucking rule.
Jan 12 2012 11:27PM
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ISellMeth
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Maybe when the guys come up for demos ill try em out.
Jan 12 2012 11:48PM
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cobra_commander
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What is your BSL? I'm at Stevens pretty often.
Jan 12 2012 11:57PM
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division.bell
Posts: 2762 - Karma: 1,905
Change that "maybe" to a definitely will try them out.
Jan 12 2012 11:57PM
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skithesprings
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New Lifes every god damn day I'm not in the park.

My idea of the perfect do everything ski, mounted dead center of course.
Jan 13 2012 12:00AM
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ISellMeth
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If i remember correctly it is around 326.
Jan 13 2012 1:00AM
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ISellMeth
Posts: 1440 - Karma: 673
Scratch that I just checked it is 334.
Jan 13 2012 1:04AM
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cobra_commander
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big boy boots!
Jan 13 2012 1:09AM
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ISellMeth
Posts: 1440 - Karma: 673
Skiing: One of few sports were being tall sucks some times. Oh well atleast the demo day got moved. BG's and C & D will be mine.
Jan 13 2012 1:13AM
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travman39
Posts: 1060 - Karma: 28
park ski 2009 ep pros
powder ski 20011 ep pros
tree ski 20011 bacons
urban 2010 line elizebeths
Jan 13 2012 2:16AM
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cobra_commander
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I can't wait to ski the 20011 Bacons
Jan 13 2012 2:29AM
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travman39
Posts: 1060 - Karma: 28
eps are funner hahaha then again eps are just the funnest ski on the face of the earth
Jan 13 2012 2:55AM
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Jibbidy
Posts: 787 - Karma: 19
I think this is stupid and that you should have less similar skis. Seriously 9cm really night&day? NO, it's not, I know from experience. Especially with a rocketed ski that turns so easily anyways. Stick with the 192s all-time and grow a pair, work those legs.
Jan 13 2012 3:39AM
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