Busted Blends

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n00bsauce

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I am kinda choked right now. I went out skiing last weekend and started my shreddin, when all of a sudden i look down and what do i see? This!

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Apparently on my last run, when i landed a seven, the tip just split... I landed it next to perfect. The video is posted too. There's core on both side and the split goes down to the flat part of the ski... Maybe a 4 inch split down from the tip to the end of the break. Has this happened to anyone else?
 
Yah man, total bummer. Same thing just happened to my T-halls last weekend and it is my first season riding them :( I'm thinkin I will use some epoxy to glue them together again...
 
Holy fuck dude, that same thing happened to my blends. I'm in the process of warrantying them, but it looks like this is a serious problem if other people had the same thing happen. I might just get my money back and save it for next years, because they're redesigned and look sick.

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^ keep in mind that every ski made will have this issue, it's just a fact of mass production, once in a while a few pairs won't be up to par, get on the phone with line and i'm sure they'll hook it up, you won't get your money back though, but you may get a pair of 08/09's or you could do the right thing and not try to rip off a company and get some epoxy and some vice clamps and put it back together, it will hold, and you will have skis for the next 6 months unlike if you warantee them
 
epoxy and rivets. any decent shop should fix that for like 20 max. atleasts that what i would charge you if you brought that in. if you warranty it, it will be like 2 weeks min to get them back, and you have to pay for shipping which sucks on skis.
 
Word up... but Line is owned by K2...

and corporations that manufacture in china sometimes deserved to be ripped off...

try to get next years blends anyway.. they loook SOOO SICK.
 
I have other skis so it's not that big of a deal, and I'd like to try and get my money back because they're my all mountain skis, but are a little narrow. It's worth a try atleast
 
same thing happend to my LINE mavricks.they were fairly old but not that beat up. the split was the same but on my tail. I just glued it back and still useing them as rock skis.
 
Actually, K2 Inc owns about 1/3 of the ski industry, soooo..... but anyways, on the lines, Ive seen 2 other people, one with 07 invaders, and one with 07 prophets that this exact thing happened to. I know this was their first year manufacturing in the K2 plant, so yea. All my previous lines have been 100% bombproof.
 
ahahaha you need to diversify your little mind to outside of the ski industry, which compared to other industries is TINY, the entire ski industry takes in a meager percentage of what MICROSOFT takes in alone, you really shouldn't try to rip off these companies, it's so beat, and really a ski delaminating in the tips is a really easy fix, if it was underfoot, i'd understand but people are really just being cheap fucking bastards about this, support companies that support your sport, don't fuck em over by warantying your skis because of a $20 fix, that shit is fucked up
 
If by tiny you mean not really that tiny at all, I’d agree. K2 is a multi-million dollar company; in 2004 they were pushing 862 million dollars worth in sales in only 9 months. You are not ripping of a company by getting a warrantee on a pair of skis. If the company can't afford to do it, they won't accept your skis. $20 out of my pocket percentage wise costs more than it does for K2 to send me new skis. Again you're not fucking K2 over with a warneteeing deal. By having a warrantee program it helps to ensures that customers will continue to promote their product, continues to use their product, and overall benefits the company.

if you love your skis, and want to keep skiing day after day with out taking the time to send skis in and deal with the whole ordeal, consider yourself lucky that it is something relatively easy to fix.

I guess the moral of the story is; if you're truly concerned, bring your skis to Microsoft. If not it really doesn’t matter what you do, just keep skiing.
 
Line is not k2.

k2 does not own line.

Line is a small company, owned by a huge holding company: Jardin.

850mil may have been the number for jardin, not k2
 
oh stop getting so technical.

we're talking about the ski industry, not anything else.

K2 is a big company in the ski industry, it is still a decent size company everywhere else.

bah
 
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