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Atomic Freezone 9.10 -- What are these things?



 
 
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Old February 2nd 05, 02:37 PM
Giles
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Default Atomic Freezone 9.10 -- What are these things?

I've been renting demos while on trips, but wanted a pair of skis for
local days out and bought a pair of used Atomic Freezone 9.10 skis in a
swap last fall. The strange thing is that there is almost no reference
to their existence that I can find anywhere on the net. They're not
twin tips or those funny little skiboard things -- just relatively
normal skis with a pretty small turning radius.

It turns out that I quite like them, but am wondering what their
designed purpose was. Anybody know anything about these skis?
Thanks,
Giles

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Old February 2nd 05, 07:33 PM
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Wow, you need to work on your Googling skills. I turned up lots of
hits with:
http://www.google.com/search?query=Atomic%20Freezone%209.10&num=10

Looks like it was an "Extreme Carver" with dimensions of 111-65-96.
That's a pretty deep sidecut of 19.25mm. Several of the sites I turned
up used the label of "Trench Carver" for them.

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Old February 2nd 05, 09:19 PM
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TexasSkiNut wrote:

Wow, you need to work on your Googling skills. I turned up lots of
hits with:
http://www.google.com/search?query=Atomic%20Freezone%209.10&num=10

Looks like it was an "Extreme Carver" with dimensions of 111-65-96.
That's a pretty deep sidecut of 19.25mm. Several of the sites I turned
up used the label of "Trench Carver" for them.



Not surprising. Atomic's numbering system was of the form m.n
where
m == intended skier level (4=beginner to 11=expert)
n == nominal turn radius in meters.

so a 9.10 would be for advanced skiers with a nominal turn radius of 10
meters. i.e. a moderately agressive ski with a very short turn radius.
Trench carver sounds about right.

They've gotten away from this numbering system, but that's what it was a
couple years ago.

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