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Best racing wood ski brands/models to look for?
A list, anyone?
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Best racing wood ski brands/models to look for?
"Jeff Potter" wrote in message .. . A list, anyone? -- Jeff Potter I thought that I did a post on this topic, but I must have neglected to send it. A friend of mine went through several pairs of Jarvinens. With a balsa core, they were fragile. He broke a number of them, usually while sprinting to the finish. Good skis when intact, however--he loved them and had numerous top 20 and some top 10 finishes in Colorado races in the '70s. I had a pair of Rossignols which I bought for $9.95(!) at a spring sale. They were not good skis--very soft, but they were light. Try for the Jarvinens. -- Leland Yee Having fun (way) back in the pack. |
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Best racing wood ski brands/models to look for?
"Leland Yee" wrote in message ...
A friend of mine went through several pairs of Jarvinens. With a balsa core, they were fragile. He broke a number of them, usually while sprinting to the finish. Wooden skis (with the exception of forest/touring skis) were fragile, and storing them indoors made them even more fragile. It was a common sight to see broken skis fixed with a piece of sheet metal. We had a large bunch of old racing skis of all sizes still lying around when I was an adventurous young boy, and since they were considered worthless, we broke, smashed and splintered most of them in daring "Up that hill and down! One, two, two-and-a-half, go!"-races... Try for the Jarvinens. Lampinen was probably ab even better brand. However, it died a sudden death - at least as far as the all-important juvenile customer market was concerned - when someone somewhere began to call the skis "Lima-Lampinens", "lima" being a graphic word for "slime". There was nothing wrong with the skis, and the only thing that could be the least bit "slimy" about them was the yellow colow in the stencils (whereas Järvinen fetaured a burgundy red). Anyway, the derogatory word spread like like the rumour that a tooth will dissolve overnight in a glass of Coke, the kids who had lampinens developed an acute aversion to skiing and the rest were pleading "Daddy, please, let´s buy Järvinens instead!":-) (Anecdote told by my oldest borther, and corroborated by several of his age-peers.) Anders |
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