How much do rails damage skis?

PVC is not that bad on the edges, but metal dulls your edges out pretty bad ass

the good thing about edges is you can always resharpen them

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Yah but I still want to have good control for the rest of the mtn....I am not a fucking park rat. How much will the skis performance be affected?

Matt

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try to get a pair of skis for grinding....

Cause ice is fun to ski too.

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If you are a good skier who is used to performance, you will lose ALL capabilities to ski on ice.

Powder, soft and courderoy are fine, but say goodbye to ice.

I've wiped out on green runs because I hit an ice patch and there's NO edges left.

Especially if you have a racing background and you're used to riding your edges.

Drunk, hooked on crack, lying in the gutter curled around my skis in the fetal position wearing nothing but the head of a chicken suit.

Damn I hate fall.
 
it matters if your a good skier, if your good you can ski with any kind of ski and jib with any,

but if you mess you on pvc nothing should happen but metal can ripe an edge out

If your attack is going well, then it's an ambush..

 
On PVC u do more harm to the rail than ure egdes...a lot of time if u aren't flat u'll shred the plastic and wipe out (I know)

 
if your edges get rounded just sharpen them like once a week if you want performance on other parts of the mountain.

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I don't think we're talking about the same kind of ice here.

Sure 'if you're a good skier, any ski...' but seriously... If you do a LOT of rails, the damage is unrepairable, and will SERIOUSLY affect your edging abilities. ONly on ice though.

Skibum: that only works if you don't do a lot of rails.

Drunk, hooked on crack, lying in the gutter curled around my skis in the fetal position wearing nothing but the head of a chicken suit.

Damn I hate fall.
 
This is like the 10th time somebody has asked this...

it all depends how good you are and how much you jib. A little isn't bad but for street jibbing you should get a new pair of skis

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i thought when you carve, your on the fattest parts of the ski (front and back tips) on shaped skis anyway

LD CREW
 
Metal rails will make your edges nice and wavy, but it really doesn't effect your skiing, unless you plan on like racing the next day. And you can get them fixed at the end of the year or when ever if they get too bad.

 
Yeah, but if you have messed up edges, your ski won't hold as well. It might slide out on icec. But it really isn't that bad. it's not gonna totally destroy your edges or anything. Especially if you only do rails every so often. But if you are a rail'a'holic, then ya might wana be careful.

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yeah i plan on doing the pvc one in my backyard for the most part. but the ones at my hill are 4 inche steel ones. doesnt 4 inches sound really wide or am i smoking crack?

 
sides don't scratch but the metal wears down

after 2 years of rails your skis might be preety damn scratched

you can get them sharpened

 
i dont think that PVC really wears down your edges at all. i think you might actually be wearing down the PVC
 
rails dull edges like crazy. ice will be very difficult. but not only that, rails put dents/cracks/just fuck up edges which makes skiing on anything hard. just depends how much u do and what features ur hitting
 
if you live in the east and want edges and still be able to grind, your gunna need 2 pairs of skis. edges and rails aren't friends
 
i got used to dull edges. i tried skiing on my friends chronic wides that were sharp compared to mine and i could not ski. i kept catching edges. i was flying down one of the winding trails at Jay and it was all ice, i was almost fucked and off the edge
 
I'm East Cost and Southern Ontario so it's mainly rails for me. So my edges can't even cut butter.
 
22374:Mr.Bishop said:
If you are a good skier who is used to performance, you will lose ALL capabilities to ski on ice.

Powder, soft and courderoy are fine, but say goodbye to ice.

I've wiped out on green runs because I hit an ice patch and there's NO edges left
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I'm so glad I'm not the only one who has this problem. I mainly ride a pair of beat-to-shit ar6s. they still rip it all over the mountain on soft snow and courderoy, but the moment I hit ice I look like I've never skied before. I always thought it was just because I suck lol.
 
13487818:captain_whale said:
I was 10 months old when this thread was made...
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god damn. we've gotten to the point where members are joining that weren't even alive when NS was born.
 
when ever I get new sticks I ask one of my homies to de tun my edges i haven't had the problem but if you don't de tun i heard you catch your edge and die but really i don't care about my edges.
 
Im going to start searching for old threads, I found this one on the guy who made gnarshmallows page
 
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