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The Official Zoom Zoom thread whats your max speed?
There's nothing like bombing down a fresh groomed run with your tips slappin all over the place and your backs compressing into the ground. Hopelessly holding on as your getting bounced around throwin some hella arcs as the patrollers are chasin you. What the fastest you've ever gone on skis or hell just in general! And whats the story behind that wild experience.
I've hit high 60s/low 70s with a radar gun a few years back for SG training. Was told to tuck straight down the steepest hill at Cannon (Avalanche for those that know it) from about 3/4 of the way up.
Scariest part wasn't the speed, it was knowing that you had to either make a huge left or huge right footed turn since there was no run out, just trees. But generally at that speed the scariest part is the fact that if your skis aren't perfectly flat and somewhat stable, crashing is super easy. There are a few reasons why racers have their boot soles planed so they can ride a flat ski, this is one.
FWIW, ski tracker apps are notoriously inaccurate when it comes to speed. Anyone that says they've hit over 65-70 MPH without being on large-ass skis (200cm+ generally) and in a speedsuit is probably bullshitting you. It's not easy to reach that speed. Not only do you need a lot of space, but aerodynamics play a huge part. Those baggy pants and coat aren't doing you any favors. And those small (sub-195cm skis) aren't doing you any favors either.
137km/h - 85mph was the max I was able to reach according to an app, so not sure about reliability but I was def going pretty darn fast as I was specifically trying to reach the highest speed possible on the stupid app, picked a perfect slope, steep, freshly groomed, empty, wide and flattening out after a bit, so I knew I'd have no issue stopping.
.MASSHOLE.We talking with an app or actual radar gun?
I've hit high 60s/low 70s with a radar gun a few years back for SG training. Was told to tuck straight down the steepest hill at Cannon (Avalanche for those that know it) from about 3/4 of the way up.
Scariest part wasn't the speed, it was knowing that you had to either make a huge left or huge right footed turn since there was no run out, just trees. But generally at that speed the scariest part is the fact that if your skis aren't perfectly flat and somewhat stable, crashing is super easy. There are a few reasons why racers have their boot soles planed so they can ride a flat ski, this is one.
FWIW, ski tracker apps are notoriously inaccurate when it comes to speed. Anyone that says they've hit over 65-70 MPH without being on large-ass skis (200cm+ generally) and in a speedsuit is probably bullshitting you. It's not easy to reach that speed. Not only do you need a lot of space, but aerodynamics play a huge part. Those baggy pants and coat aren't doing you any favors. And those small (sub-195cm skis) aren't doing you any favors either.
Everyone always says the apps are BS but I have yet to see anyone refute their accuracy with any kind of data. I’d at least like to see some kind of data on what variance the apps have. Say it tells me I’m going 70 - am I really only going 50? 60? How often does it highball your speed and by how much? Is it only inaccurate at higher speeds or is is unreliable even around 30?
I’ve tested them in a car and they gauge speed really well even when there’s a lot of variation. It’s pretty accurate.
That doesn’t take into account the slope of a run having an effect on the readout, but it seems to be super accurate on relatively flat ground. I don’t know how or why a slope would confuse it, but it seems possible that it would. If anything I would think that a slope would cause it to lowball your speed, since the GPS would think you’re moving slower across the terrain due to its ability to only measure horizontal speed. I’d guess accelerometers are also at play here as well though.
My mountain had a speed trap for a while and we moved the gate that blocks the enterance and bombed the whole hill and I hit 74 (freshly waxed race skis tho)
ButteredToast.71 but with a tracking app so who knows.
Everyone always says the apps are BS but I have yet to see anyone refute their accuracy with any kind of data. I’d at least like to see some kind of data on what variance the apps have. Say it tells me I’m going 70 - am I really only going 50? 60? How often does it highball your speed and by how much? Is it only inaccurate at higher speeds or is is unreliable even around 30?
I’ve tested them in a car and they gauge speed really well even when there’s a lot of variation. It’s pretty accurate.
That doesn’t take into account the slope of a run having an effect on the readout, but it seems to be super accurate on relatively flat ground. I don’t know how or why a slope would confuse it, but it seems possible that it would. If anything I would think that a slope would cause it to lowball your speed, since the GPS would think you’re moving slower across the terrain due to its ability to only measure horizontal speed. I’d guess accelerometers are also at play here as well though.
I think it has more to do with signal interference. I'm no engineer but my understanding is that GPS signals can get distorted (not sure what the correct word is) because of the trees, mountain, etc.
55 is my top and I frequently think about the fact that Delorme and Tim McChesney had to go 10mph faster than that to hit that chairlift jump in Less (or partly cloudy, cant remember which)....
.MASSHOLE.We talking with an app or actual radar gun?
I've hit high 60s/low 70s with a radar gun a few years back for SG training. Was told to tuck straight down the steepest hill at Cannon (Avalanche for those that know it) from about 3/4 of the way up.
Scariest part wasn't the speed, it was knowing that you had to either make a huge left or huge right footed turn since there was no run out, just trees. But generally at that speed the scariest part is the fact that if your skis aren't perfectly flat and somewhat stable, crashing is super easy. There are a few reasons why racers have their boot soles planed so they can ride a flat ski, this is one.
FWIW, ski tracker apps are notoriously inaccurate when it comes to speed. Anyone that says they've hit over 65-70 MPH without being on large-ass skis (200cm+ generally) and in a speedsuit is probably bullshitting you. It's not easy to reach that speed. Not only do you need a lot of space, but aerodynamics play a huge part. Those baggy pants and coat aren't doing you any favors. And those small (sub-195cm skis) aren't doing you any favors either.
I have clocked 57 on a GPS and have since gone faster but with no recording. It is amazing though all the things that become a parachute at that speed. My helmet visor literally tries to rip my helmet off my head and you can feel the wind fill your jacket and create drag.
SuspiciousFishI have clocked 57 on a GPS and have since gone faster but with no recording. It is amazing though all the things that become a parachute at that speed. My helmet visor literally tries to rip my helmet off my head and you can feel the wind fill your jacket and create drag.
Yeah once you start creeping up on 60 it gets pretty scary.
the run where I clocked myself at 71 was the sketchiest I’ve ever felt on skis. It’s possible I was only doing 60 but the amount of drag you feel is outrageous.
I hit the brakes pretty quick after getting up to my max speed. Felt ludicrously dangerous going that fast - one tiny edge catch would be all it takes to end a season.
ButteredToast.71 but with a tracking app so who knows.
Everyone always says the apps are BS but I have yet to see anyone refute their accuracy with any kind of data. I’d at least like to see some kind of data on what variance the apps have. Say it tells me I’m going 70 - am I really only going 50? 60? How often does it highball your speed and by how much? Is it only inaccurate at higher speeds or is is unreliable even around 30?
I’ve tested them in a car and they gauge speed really well even when there’s a lot of variation. It’s pretty accurate.
That doesn’t take into account the slope of a run having an effect on the readout, but it seems to be super accurate on relatively flat ground. I don’t know how or why a slope would confuse it, but it seems possible that it would. If anything I would think that a slope would cause it to lowball your speed, since the GPS would think you’re moving slower across the terrain due to its ability to only measure horizontal speed. I’d guess accelerometers are also at play here as well though.
I once went on a small slope and went definitely no more than like 30 mph (didn’t bomb it, didn’t go that fast, was just sort of playing around on the side shit) but it was counted as >50 mph, so I was like shit what can I hit? So I went to the biggest slope on the mountain freshly groomed, and I was freshly waxed and bombed it (just tuck straight down, got yelled at by patrol cause I looked like a straight gaper) and it said I didn’t beat my old speed which was def BS, then the next run I carved and went fast but didn’t straight bomb and it said mid 70s.
So yea I haven’t trusted ski tracks since then, would love to see what I could hit on a fresh groomed slope with a radar gun haha
That was on my super lightweight all-mountain skis... They were all over the place so it felt sketchy as fuck.
Could have easily done 120+ on some race skis.
That was on my super lightweight all-mountain skis... They were all over the place so it felt sketchy as fuck.
Could have easily done 120+ on some race skis.
