Line SFB speed limit
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shin-bang
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On groomers, they seem to handle ok at high speeds. Going Mach 9 potato, I do a get slightly nervous and get a bit of chatter.
on pretty mellow crud, they’re fun and usually bust right through. On Heavy deep crud I feel like I’m gonna get tossed, and switch to the billy goats or caylors. Depends on your style tho. I like to ski long turns really fast through crud and absorb everything, and they def don’t excel at that compared to others. If you like more of quick snappier turns at high speed in crud, they work better for that.
idk that’s my opinion and my writing probably is not coherent at all.
on pretty mellow crud, they’re fun and usually bust right through. On Heavy deep crud I feel like I’m gonna get tossed, and switch to the billy goats or caylors. Depends on your style tho. I like to ski long turns really fast through crud and absorb everything, and they def don’t excel at that compared to others. If you like more of quick snappier turns at high speed in crud, they work better for that.
idk that’s my opinion and my writing probably is not coherent at all.
DrZoidberg
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I'm very light and I've gone very fast on them on clean terrain. On super bumpy, chunky stuff they get thrown around more because they're soft, the sidecut is deep and you sit pretty close to center so there's not a ton of ski in front of you. But it's still totally doable, just not as confident as riding a ski with metal and blasting through shit. They're great skis that offer a great mix of ripping turns and feeling like a park ski, as you'd expect from a Pollard design.
For me the SFB encourages so much to do everything else than going fast that you don't want to "just go straight" with them and, instead, do a crazy new turn shape you've never done before or take a hit in a completely different way than with you would on a stiffer / straighter ski.
In my opinion, the SFB changes how you interpret the terrain in a way that you don't even think to go the fastest possible down the fall line.
In my opinion, the SFB changes how you interpret the terrain in a way that you don't even think to go the fastest possible down the fall line.