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When skiing on rock skis, the following things don't bother you:
1) skiing on sanded/salted roads 2) crossing bare pavement 3) lightly snow-covered concrete sidewalks I skied to work today, it was quite nice. Cheers, Brian |
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When skiing on rock skis, the following things don't bother you:
1) skiing on sanded/salted roads 2) crossing bare pavement 3) lightly snow-covered concrete sidewalks I skied to work today, it was quite nice. Cheers, Brian Last amost snowless season, a few buddies and I skied some partially covered trails. The method was to ski a hundred meters or so, then when arriving at bare ground, break into a full sprint, running over to the next section of snow. It's heck on skis, but we had a blast ! John Wilke Milwaukee |
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In article , Ben Kaufman wrote:
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 18:54:39 +0000 (UTC), wrote: Those are beyond rock skis. Rock skis have scars but the base is not totally ruined. You sir, have summer skis. g. Really, the skiing is pretty good on the city streets right now. 99% of my ski to work is on well snow-covered side-streets. Even though they've been plowed, there is still good snow coverage. Only the major roads have sand/salt/asphalt and I only have 5 crossings like that on my 2-mile route. It is surprisingly good skiing - and a lot of fun! Cheers, Brian |
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Hey, don't take your rock skis for granite :-)
Actually, today my good skis met some granite. Coming down a little hill with what looked like good snow cover, it turned out that a little bump in the snow was a granite rock. There was a sickening sound and a sickening feeling. Later I returned to the rock and noticed curled plastic shavings. Ouch, that's not very gneiss :-) -- David Dermott , Wolfville Ridge, Nova Scotia, Canada email: WWW pages: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/dermott/ |
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The worst abuse of rock skis I have ever seen was when the local ski club
decided to put a float in the summer parade for our regatta. We even managed to get "snow" for the float from an scraping from an arena that has a summer hockey camp. Most of the junior team skied the parade on roller skis (doing circles around the neighbouring floats), but a couple of dedicated masters ran the whole parade in their old rock skis. I didn't ask what wax they used, but it didn't seem to give very good glide on asphalt although the kick was phenominal. Scott Elliot http://www3.telus.net/selliot/ |
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Awesome; went to a basketball game the other night; sat quartzite. Couldn't
see schist. -- Raider Rick "Mine augens have seen the glory..." "David Dermott" wrote in message ... Hey, don't take your rock skis for granite :-) Actually, today my good skis met some granite. Coming down a little hill with what looked like good snow cover, it turned out that a little bump in the snow was a granite rock. There was a sickening sound and a sickening feeling. Later I returned to the rock and noticed curled plastic shavings. Ouch, that's not very gneiss :-) -- David Dermott , Wolfville Ridge, Nova Scotia, Canada email: WWW pages: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/dermott/ |
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Scott,
If we want to compare rock ski stories... I don't think many stories will beat the fact that a group of friends and I (one year it was 43 of us) did the Bay to Breakers footrace (12 km. distance) in San Francisco on skis - 3 years in a row back in the mid-80's. Asphalt does not glide well, but if you find a road with LOTS of oil leakage from cars down the middle, you can actually kick and glide. Participating in a race with 80,000+ other "competitors" is a unique experience, especially when you are the only ones skiing it. AND, I'm still using a couple of pair of those skis as rock skis early in the season. They work great. Mark "Scott Elliot" wrote in message news:MVZTb.114$213.84@edtnps89... The worst abuse of rock skis I have ever seen was when the local ski club decided to put a float in the summer parade for our regatta. We even managed to get "snow" for the float from an scraping from an arena that has a summer hockey camp. Most of the junior team skied the parade on roller skis (doing circles around the neighbouring floats), but a couple of dedicated masters ran the whole parade in their old rock skis. I didn't ask what wax they used, but it didn't seem to give very good glide on asphalt although the kick was phenominal. Scott Elliot http://www3.telus.net/selliot/ |
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