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Foldable Ski? Elan Voyager

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Eightsails
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https://elanskis.com/eu/voyager

Newschoolers' thought on these bad boys? I Lol'd. Can't wait to see people trying to set these up at the bottom of the gondola. But maybe I wont have to, seems like a Europe thing.

I love how there aren't any good photos of the connection on the base side. Seems like that would be important...

Only $1550 USD baby.
Feb 4 2021 11:48AM
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SWRTOFFICIAL
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this is like on of those shitty "innovative" designs from the 80s that never took off
Feb 4 2021 11:49AM
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SofaKingSick
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it's a bold strategy Cotton, let's see if it pays off for them
Feb 4 2021 11:54AM
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gilbertressel
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Seems like they're trying to fix what isn't broken. But hey, impressionable rich tourists will probably buy them. That's clearly the demographic they're targeting since they're pricing their special ski bag for these at nearly €200.
Feb 4 2021 12:47PM
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anders_a
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n00b buddy called me up, stoked on theese, I lolled, and we went buying skis today, he did not get the voyager :p
Feb 4 2021 4:48PM
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DrZoidberg
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That's interesting. People have done it with surfboards in the past and it works, typically on longboards so you might not notice the loss of performance as bad as on a little shortboard, but the boards work and they do undergo a lot of stress when in use.

Rich Euro gapers will be all over this, maybe. Except for I'm pretty sure half of them just work remote and moved near the mountains already at this point?
Feb 4 2021 5:32PM
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poofartpee
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I am pretty sure this is what surface tried to do back in the day, ended up branding it as "rocker"

Feb 5 2021 1:49PM
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CatdickBojangles
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poofartpeeI am pretty sure this is what surface tried to do back in the day, ended up branding it as "rocker"



Nah they just put the skis in the press upside down and said fuck it we will do it live.
Feb 5 2021 2:48PM
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Session
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Elan gonna Elan. At least they know their audience is Euro-gapes with money to burn.
Feb 5 2021 2:51PM
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GayWolf420
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ski's are just too hard to carry, ya know.
Feb 5 2021 3:37PM
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CTD
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the real question is why not just rent? like for real this seems like a non problem, also, people who buy this, can they really figure out how to set all that up? this demographic struggles to step into skis at all let alone transformer skis. interesting to see i guess lol
Feb 7 2021 9:34PM
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Chunderface
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LOL at that fuckin video.
Feb 8 2021 1:05AM
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FaunaSkis
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EightsailsI love how there aren't any good photos of the connection on the base side. Seems like that would be important...


I was asked by another ski buidling friend, who was looking to take on building his own pair of folding skis, to have a look and send some pictures from them at ISPO a few years ago. Here's the photos I took of their touring version which has been about for a while (originally developed for the army). It's less...elegant than I had imagined.








Whether they've refined this system since then, I dont know.
The same year I saw a ski from an upstart company that came in two parts and clipped together with some interlocking core internals, for the same extreme touring market, that seemed more elegant. How the performance compared, who knows.
Feb 8 2021 8:38AM
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