Me and my friend went to the nearest open resort (Trysil) for some serious testing of the new boards.
unfortunatly there was not enough snow to go in the backcoutry but the slopes were in exelent contition!
I must say im really surprised how well they worked!
really stable at speed, exelent grip. (im not used to sharp edges...) and a overall good feel!!
All good untill I hit the BIG kicker, not enough speed and I landed on the flat... Huge impact but still on my feet. When my intestines found their right positions again i looked down on the board and tha tip had delamed and the edge was loose....
Small delams had occured before the big hit but this was to much for it..
posible reasons for the delams:
-Oxidated edges, i didnt clean the edges after i heated them up for bending.
-wrong epoxy, I used epoxy from a small swedish company with no history in skibuilding.
-no vds rubber in tip/tail
-tipspacers were base material, anyone had problems with this?
I think the edges is the main reason and I have found a good price on west system epoxy for my next board.
Any thouhgts?
test weekend in norway
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If that was your first pair of skis, that is pretty good that they survived that well. One thing you might do in the future, if you are going to be jumping where the landings are harder, is to put rivets through the tip. I have found that a few rivets in the tip will really helps reduce delamination when from jumping. Too bad there isn't much snow yet anywhere here. But, I am heading home for the holidays, and hopefully some good Baker Powder.
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