welcome jalp!

I am a long time skier of all flavors also a late comer to the freeheel flavor which I like best of all! have fun

I believe that skis are similar for alpine or tele. Therefore ski reviews will generally apply similarly to one's tele experience. I read reviews of volkl kendos for ice skiing and they tele ski ice very very well. I love Line's skis and so does my wife. I have skied Karhu Jak 90s (great on soft sno...

wow, spectacular

Do they have Line skis in a ~100 waist? (98 to 108)

Look up what Johnny Love has done on Voile boards with Alpina NNN boots for deep snow fun hogging. I think he may have found the upper limit of NNN for wide skis.

But you are a large skier, so why not jump to 75mm for this?

Bob, last year I got the blue Madshus that I think are called 55s today. Mine have a name on them - GLITTERTIND ! I love it when the mind functions properly after the warmup period. I willingly chose the crowns and I love them. I've screwed around with wax and will do so again, but for clip in and g...

That snowgun dance really worked! We are skiing Caberfae on Saturday!!

Wow, now I see what is AFOOT (haaaa...)
You are sticking a liner into a boot (a double boot) which was manufactured as a single boot (integrated liner).

Wow this is DIY innovation! Cool man

High speed indicates these skis will be for riding chairlifts - is that correct?

East coast / ice coast?
Midwest where powder / packed powder on the trail report means shined up ice?
Bushwackin' the meadows?

Where are you dropping knees?

I too ski a pair of BC1550's among others. One loves me, one hates me. It's not the toes it's the heel cup. One cuts me to pieces due to some exposed plastic. The other boot feels GREAT!