Lostone
01-13-2007, 02:20 PM
I have a number of pairs of skis.
I ski a lot.
The other day, I was talking about one of my pairs, and when I mentioned it had close to a hundred days, the guy I was talking to said they were dead. Well, if they are, then the pair that has many more days, should be deader... but they still seem good, to me. Maybe if I knew how to ski, they would have been condemmed years ago.
The only skis I have decided were dead were ones that, when I brought them in for a tuning, the tech pointed out that there was nothing left to tune, as you could see where the edges were being held on the ski.
So what is dead, for a ski?
I have:
Bandit XX: 174 days.
Bandit XX: 122 days.
Vokl Vertigo G4: 66 days
Dynastar Intuitive 71: 65 days.
Now, some of those days were as little as 1 run (More than it was worth! :shock: ) but most were pretty full days.
So, when should I have considered them dead, or when should I? And how do you (I) know?
I ski a lot.
The other day, I was talking about one of my pairs, and when I mentioned it had close to a hundred days, the guy I was talking to said they were dead. Well, if they are, then the pair that has many more days, should be deader... but they still seem good, to me. Maybe if I knew how to ski, they would have been condemmed years ago.
The only skis I have decided were dead were ones that, when I brought them in for a tuning, the tech pointed out that there was nothing left to tune, as you could see where the edges were being held on the ski.
So what is dead, for a ski?
I have:
Bandit XX: 174 days.
Bandit XX: 122 days.
Vokl Vertigo G4: 66 days
Dynastar Intuitive 71: 65 days.
Now, some of those days were as little as 1 run (More than it was worth! :shock: ) but most were pretty full days.
So, when should I have considered them dead, or when should I? And how do you (I) know?