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More reports on Start Grip Tape?
I saw the post on the new Grip AND Glide treatments, which reminded me
that I have some Start Grip tape, but I've never used it. I'm getting closer to giving it a try. I just love optimal skis. At the same time, I find myself very often in TWO situations where my fuss-factor is a bit high. So maybe the tape could cure this. The first situation is when I ski on my local trails, especially my yard trail. I have an idea what the wax will be and I go out and I'm wrong---I suppose a fix there is to be sure to check the temp just before I go out rather than 2 hours before...(doh!) Yesterday I went for a quick half-hour ski---and changed wax 3 times---so I spent about half of my time coming and going as I didn't carry any wax with me. Anyway, maybe the tape could just nuke all that wasteage. Or maybe I should try just being smarter as way to save that time! : ) The second situation is when I go on multi-hour tours on ungroomed trails. We start in the a.m. and I find that I quite often stop and start about 6 times in a long outing. It takes a couple stops until I get my first morning wax dialed in. Then during the day as the temps warm up I rewax two or three more times. But my skis almost always have very tasty nice performance! ...Which is a great thing. Maybe I should just accept the time-wasteage in quality waxing. (But I note that this is where a study showed that a no-wax ski is faster for day- touring than waxable due to the starts/stops of rewaxing.) Generally I find that my nowax skis are lame---good kick, half-good glide---but I use them in slushy/fresh conditions just to have some fun. But I find that my waxies can usually be made to work about TWICE as good as my nowaxies. Is this tape going to feel too close to nowax lameness for comfort? I value all my ski outings and my time. I don't really want to fuss with this tape then screw up even one outing or put in one useless shop session. So do I stick with my tried'n'true methods that give great skis but often have built-in time wasteage or try this new "simple" method that might cut out all that wasteage and fooling around... Ha! --JP |
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