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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?
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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. |
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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?? |
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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 wrote in message oups.com... 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?? |
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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 |
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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 oups.com... 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 |
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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 |
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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 oups.com... 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 |
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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 |
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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!!!" |
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