The camber and flex of my Åsnes USGI surplus skis feels just like that of Woodserson's MT51 skis, which is no surprise given the MT65 and the MT51 are in the same family. Double camber, very stiff in the middle of the ski, with decent flex in the front 1/4 of the ski. Tails are fairly stiff, too. Th...

Oh man! I have syringes! You should have let me know I would've driven them over. I don't know how liquid the glue you are using is though, maybe too thick. Are you going to try to the put the old plastic tip back on? The glue is quite gooey, and fairly easy to smear around with the paperclip. Not ...

With the snow on Mt Washington, I could not wait any longer. I just had to fix the broken tip on those rescue E99 skis. I used a bent paperclip to jam polyurethane wood glue as far into the cracks as I could. PXL_20211001_170005306.jpg Then I had the ski tip clamped for a while. First with paper tow...

I can get a pair of the E99 waxless skis, or whatever the new version is called, but have seen good reviews of the Traverse 78s on here, so am interested in those too - have to go a bit shorter as it seems the new version top out at 196. I could also use the skins I got for my E99s with those as we...

Everyone has different methods, but I personally would recommend never putting any glide wax on skis that you will be grip waxing. I suggest using only Polar for glide. In my limited and humble experience, glide wax can really cause headaches. The glide wax will make it almost impossible rub the gr...

Well I know peeps on this site tend to like there skis on the long side, maybe they would climb better if they were sized down and still have acceptable glide. It sounds like more of a problem than just in specific situations. I find it hard to believe Asnes doesn't have this right. I remember read...

I've been finding out that any pattern beyond my heel is pretty much useless. It's, as you say, a high wear area, and gets a lot of drag while gliding but has no real appreciable grip when kicking. I, anecdotal as it is, have found that filling the pattern behind my heel does not affect grip at all...

You said the trails are too narrow to sidestep but when I'm in the situation you describe I find that I will sidestep with my skis at a 15 or 20 degrees from the direction of travel. Just enough to lessen the angle and enable you to get more of the weighted part of the ski on the snow. Your ideas w...

So it would appear that you accept that manufacturers produce, per your post, bad skis and somehow consumers should accept this as part of the game even if it is at our expense. I disagree. Particularly when paying 30% more for the ski. You say, regarding irregularities in the shovels "this happens...

One thing I forgot to make a drawing of last night is why I would really like fishscales that extend further forward: a lot of the trails around here have bumps in them that you have to go straight up, because they're too narrow to sidestep. WIth short fishscales, the forward ski might not have any ...