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BTW - if anyone has any info on the Cheyenne it'd be great! Some people seem to think it's soft, some people seem to think it's stiff... anyone have any experience with similar skis?
And yes - I did search!!
Thanks
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B.Mulligan wrote:I had to laugh when I saw this thread title knowing the technical tastes preceded here, you might as well said you liked the Head titan while your at it.
B.Mulligan wrote:My buddies wife skis the Cheyenne, she's a 15 day a year frontside intermediate skid turner, she wants to twist quickly and comfortably through the falline and slam on the big toe edge for the bottom third of the turn. It's perfect for her, and to be honest, probably perfect for the 95% of resort skiers.
jbotti wrote:Here is a good thread on the subject if anyone wants to go further:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3452&hilit=float+velocity
jbotti wrote:Essentially yes.
skiffie wrote:Well that makes me feel a lot better about giving up my 107 slightly rockered powder skis, which felt amazing in powder but did a number on my knees when I did PMTS movements on them!
theorist wrote:skiffie wrote:Well that makes me feel a lot better about giving up my 107 slightly rockered powder skis, which felt amazing in powder but did a number on my knees when I did PMTS movements on them!
I suspect that's more the waist width than the rocker. When you tip a wide ski up on edge on hard snow, you put much more lateral stress on your knee (and ankle) than with a narrow ski, because the edge on which you are balancing is, with the wider ski, more offset from the ski's midline. This is not an issue in (sufficiently deep) powder, since there you're not balancing on the edge, you're balancing on the entire base.
Studies of the effect, on skiers’ bodies, of skiing hard snow on wide skis are current preliminary (e.g., https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4541126/), but more of the them are slowly coming out, and the ones released thus far all point in the same direction: the wider the ski, the more stress you’re placing on your joints. Mostly the issue has been reported to evidence itself above 80 mm, but I suspect the actual effect is continuous with increasing width.
DougD wrote:My 81mm Atomic Blackeye Ti''s never caused me knee pain, even on hard Eastern snow.
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