skidude

No, cause its far from the edge of the trail...

I was just looking at the other picture, thinking how much that is going to hurt when someone hits it. The metal posts behind it don't look like there moving. But my money is on a wallride too

The factory will put on a small coat of wax. I would never ski my skis right after they came from the factory (or even the shop if they got stone ground)...I would make sure to wax mine many times before I put them on snow. Then again, I race, so little things like that make me happy. The edges are almost always done (with the exception of some race stock skis) but I would question how accuritly they come beveled. Zaldon a hot box just keeps them warm enough to keep the wax so it can be absorbed into the base...It doesn't get hot enough to do anything bad to the ski (or it shouldn't)

Why don't you want to build them out of all metal? Too heavy/expensive?

And uhh welcome dude (sorry, Im not much help on the rail topic)

I'm working on it...I had some plans somewhere...Need some $$ for parts...Dad may not be a big fan of it. Anyway, I am willing to build one

Ski999 One thing I read somewhere. Its better to let your skis cool for awhile inside before you put them outside too cool more. If its too cold out, and the wax is still warm it can harden before it is able to go all the way into the base (or something like that)

They will open with like 2 runs from the top and a few mid mountain runs if it is a Friday. If its not, theywill probably keep blasting and trying to make as much as they can and open with whatever is covered.

They are re-starting snowmaking tomorrow!

Golf clubs...not shoes

ALLL ski areas should have a tree to send bribes to the snow gods

Bode has over 100 pairs of race skis. 25 for each disipline...Each tuned a little differently. In the time inbetween runs, there on hill techs will get about 5 different pairs ready to go, just so they are ready incase anything changes...

You want to do that once or twice to get all the crap out of the bottoms of your skis. Then you want to leave one coat on overnight, and scrape it in the morning. Some people just ski the wax off the next day insted of scraping it off, but thats not very good for your bases, especailly if you are using cold wax. Then again, if you are hitting rails it probably doesn't matter much. And your scraper would be plasitc or in some cases metal, not rubber. I will try to get a more detailed post on tuning up sometime, but no promises.

Its sometimes done, but if the ex. will let you set up a table at NR, thats probably a good thing to do. Sometimes the coaches don't like parents hanging around in the room...But sometimes they don't care...

Yeah from a race up at Elk last season.

I have a set up at our house, but sometimes I bring my stuff down to CB and use there table. Its nicer than mine.

Link the Bode's inteview (video) mms://vipeurosport.yacast.net/eurosport/2005/10/24/millerdrugs_21989_4_48_0_384x288.wmv

Its not shorter anymore

If your talking about my last post, that part was sarcastic. If your talkin in general, its cause people don't know/care

Well I'm sure if the picture didn't look like you, or the pass looked like it was fake, then they would be able to pull that info up real quick (if they went into scanning passes)

that freaking stinks

I know a normal glue gun won't melt it. A butane (sp?) filled one will, and a candal will most of the time. If it works, let us know. Ski999 might know the melting temp of PTex...

I know a few times I went in there a few people tried to start selling me skis, even though I told them a few times I was just looking, and I didn't have any questions. But what was really ammusing, is it must have been a boarder trying to sell me some skis...cause didn't know much at all

She means this kind (i think) Look like there about $50-70 I wonder if they last longer...

Yeah I would think so...