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Field Test - START Grip Tape
"Terje Henriksen" wrote in message ...
I donīt want to make a "you didnīt cleanīand abrade well enough or press the air out properly"-argument, I did. I had no doubt you did:-) That is the first explanation that is usually given for such a lack of durability - and for new users with no great familiarity or interest with waxing skis it is probably often the right one. Maybe I have to put the tape on more than 50 cm of the ski? Certainly not longer than youīd put a klister on a particular pair of skis. If youīve had a grip in the same conditions with the same pair of skis with a klister, but you donīt get a grip with the tape - well, Iīm clueless, but I wonīt say it isnīt so. Course and glassy ice, and dangerous downhills where you have to plough to come down alive. It was probably there most of the tape-wax disappeared. The rest of the wax was sticking very hard to the skis when I was removing it. Now I can see: as long as I stayed in the glassy, but smooth, icy tracks, there was no particular wear - but after a circuit (on Tue) where I had to plough to slow or to do a plough turn, the tape wax was visibly worn off along the outer edges. Another hour and a half of the same in still wetter conditions - puddles of water on top of the ice in places - practically all of the ruby red staff is gone leaving just a dark surface. A bit wondrously perhaps, there was still enough grip at the end. That makes it more than 150 km in a variety of conditions - with 6/7ths of the tape in the box: I cannot complain, really. (One more note: after a big group of skaters had worked the frozen snow on the (normally skiable) hills over and left a layer of loose residue on them, I could no longer diagonal all the way up, it was like skiing on marbles.) Now it is 3 degrees C outside and 2 cm of newfallen snow on top of the ice and all the klister has to be removed again. Thatīs the beauty of the grip tape: no more cleaning and rewaxing to meet changing conditions! Maybe the fact that it doesnīt really work well or wears off in one particular (and hopefully rare) condition is not a bad price to pay for that luxury?:-) Anders |
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Field Test - START Grip Tape
"Anders Lustig" skrev i melding om... Certainly not longer than youīd put a klister on a particular pair of skis. If youīve had a grip in the same conditions with the same pair of skis with a klister, but you donīt get a grip with the tape - well, Iīm clueless, but I wonīt say it isnīt so. The user guide says put 30 to 50 cm of the tape under the skis and I did, but it was too short. When putting klister or wax under the ski I add another 20 to the 50 cm, except when it's newfallen wet snow. Thatīs the beauty of the grip tape: no more cleaning and rewaxing to meet changing conditions! Maybe the fact that it doesnīt really work well or wears off in one particular (and hopefully rare) condition is not a bad price to pay for that luxury?:-) The tape has been tested by top skiers and they say it's alright for training but not good enough for competition. -- Terje Henriksen Kirkenes |
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