Question on new Fischer skis for elite racers

I just read the article in fasterskier.com about the Atomic racers using the new Worldcup skis during the Olympics. I didn’t see any of the Fischer skiers on their new skis with the carbon tips and tails. Do any of you know if the elite racers are using those new Fischers?

I just read the article in fasterskier.com about the Atomic racers using the new Worldcup skis during the Olympics. I didn’t see any of the Fischer skiers on their new skis with the carbon tips and tails. Do any of you know if the elite racers are using those new Fischers?
Thanks for any help.

In fact in the Men's Classic race the new Fischer ski took 10 of the
top 11 places if I am not mistaken. Maybe someone associated with
Fischer reads this and could jump on and comment??

It is tough to identify skis on TV from the graphics. Most times the
prototypes will run the current year's graphics, not next year's. There is a
very small sticker on top of the ski that identifies what mold the ski came
out of.
My understanding is there was a very limited number (maybe 10?) of the
CarbonLites in the US for elite athletes to use and test this year.
Kate Whitcomb road a pair of the CarbonLites to a 5th place finish at the
Birkie. Her first race over 30k. On Thursday before the Birkie, her
CarbonLite skis were brought down to the Manufacturers Expo on snow demo
area for the public to try. I heard the public was told "don't run over any
rocks..."
I skied on them a little Thursday morning. They are very nice.

Paul Haltvick
Bay Design and Build - LLC
Engineering, Construction and Information Technology Services
FSx - Fischer / Swix Racing
Ashland, WI.
54806


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In fact in the Men's Classic race the new Fischer ski took 10 of the
top 11 places if I am not mistaken. Maybe someone associated with
Fischer reads this and could jump on and comment??

Hi Gang - The Carbonlites have been well received - but it's not as
though they've caused a wholesale rejection of all old skis. The 15K at
the Olympics was a great day for Fischer, but certainly not all on
Carbonlites. I think Veerpalu was on a very old pair of skis. Kate
actually didn't use the Carbonlites in the Birkie. She chose a pair of
her own skis with a better grind, and that we'd had time to harden-off
a little more. But it was a close decision.

I shipped most of those carbonlites up here to JOs in Houghton MI from
the Birkie with my skis just to save on space. However, I got here a
couple of days before Peter Ashley and Chris Hall, so I put one of our
New England girls on the only pair of carbonlite classic skis in the
country (without asking for permission). Parker Tyler won sprint
qualifying on them, and then skied impressively through the heats. It
seems as if she hit some clump of klister or something, because they
went from being the fastest skis in the race to being really slow in
the final, and she finished fourth. But she's pretty fired up to ski
them again in tomorrow's mass start classic race.

Because I've been doing some waxing work with the Fischer crew I've
probably spent more time working and skiing on these things than most
folks. What I've seen so far is a really light Fischer ski. They have
made good skis for a long time, and this is not a revolutionary product
with respect to design. It's not as though they've just figured out
that there is a better shape for a wheel than "round". What they've
done is made it really light, and really light in all the right places.
It's also got some added torsional rigidity which doesn't hurt its
performance. It will be widely accepted on the World Cup very quickly.
Zach

AH HA !!
Klister AGAIN !!
More hats !!

JK

Enjoying the great white north of da UP Zach??
Be sure to hit the Hilltop in L'anse on your way south for a nice cinammon
roll. Worth the stop.
Are you driving all the way back to New Hampshire??


"Zach Caldwell" wrote in message
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Hi Gang - The Carbonlites have been well received - but it's not as
though they've caused a wholesale rejection of all old skis. The 15K at
the Olympics was a great day for Fischer, but certainly not all on
Carbonlites. I think Veerpalu was on a very old pair of skis. Kate
actually didn't use the Carbonlites in the Birkie. She chose a pair of
her own skis with a better grind, and that we'd had time to harden-off
a little more. But it was a close decision.

I shipped most of those carbonlites up here to JOs in Houghton MI from
the Birkie with my skis just to save on space. However, I got here a
couple of days before Peter Ashley and Chris Hall, so I put one of our
New England girls on the only pair of carbonlite classic skis in the
country (without asking for permission). Parker Tyler won sprint
qualifying on them, and then skied impressively through the heats. It
seems as if she hit some clump of klister or something, because they
went from being the fastest skis in the race to being really slow in
the final, and she finished fourth. But she's pretty fired up to ski
them again in tomorrow's mass start classic race.

Because I've been doing some waxing work with the Fischer crew I've
probably spent more time working and skiing on these things than most
folks. What I've seen so far is a really light Fischer ski. They have
made good skis for a long time, and this is not a revolutionary product
with respect to design. It's not as though they've just figured out
that there is a better shape for a wheel than "round". What they've
done is made it really light, and really light in all the right places.
It's also got some added torsional rigidity which doesn't hurt its
performance. It will be widely accepted on the World Cup very quickly.
Zach

Klister again indeed! I brought an old-fashioned eastern spring out to
JOs in my suitcase. Unfortunately I didn't have time to get the rain
unpacked, but everything else was good!

I'm back in the shop now, and really bummed that I missed your cinammon
roll tip. I flew back with the rest of the team. That is a drive I
didn't need!
Z

Thats a drive YOU DO NEED ----- ITS GODS COUNTRY.
Well, you're from New Hampshire so its pretty much the same minus the bigger
mountains.
But, its the CULTURE you missed. Good old UP culture. Saunas, bars,
cinammon rolls, poor boy restaurant... ahhhhhh.
JK


"Zach Caldwell" wrote in message
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Klister again indeed! I brought an old-fashioned eastern spring out to
JOs in my suitcase. Unfortunately I didn't have time to get the rain
unpacked, but everything else was good!

I'm back in the shop now, and really bummed that I missed your cinammon
roll tip. I flew back with the rest of the team. That is a drive I
didn't need!
Z

OK - I've got set the record straight here. I'm from VERMONT! Saying
I'm from New Hampshire is probably like saying you're from minnesota.
Actually, the closest thing would be saying a Swede is from Norway.
Anyway, my wife is from Duluth, so I've made the drive across the UP
more times than I can count. So I've got some idea what you're saying!

Z

I have to laugh. Being from New England originally myself (CT born and
MA raised) when I read Jeff's comment about Zach being from New
Hampshire I said to myself, "ooh... Zach's not gonna like that!!!"