This years vs. Last years Lines

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When Line announced last year that they would be maving production from canada to china, I was part of the group that was severely shitstormed for saying that the skis would be less quality.

However, the amount of Lines I have seen this year that have simply blown up with very little to very moderate use is definitly more than what I saw in pretty much all of last years.

I have last years chronics, and I have beat the living shit out of them, and they are definitly at the end of their lives. Two years is a long time for a park and pipe ski for me but they have held up well. However, I have seen Chronic wides and Invaders with very minimal use delam or have their edges blow out. In two years of whacking my lines of things, the edges are still mostly intact. However, these Chron Wides lost the edge in the front after only a day of use.

I really think that the quality has suffered this year. Whos with me?
 
the invaders did have a problem, i think you just got unlucky with your chronic wides, and i haven't heard anything about chronic wides till a couple of weeks ago, while peple have been having problems all year with invaders, it is just people blowing a couple delams out of proportion, and this years chronic is just as durable as last years.
 
Anybody heard ANYTHING about a pair of Elizabeths or Prophets delaming? I haven't.
 
i thin kthat they were rushed into completeing this years line up at their new factory in china so they didn't really get to work out all the quarks. i don't know thats just what i think
 
i think they went down in quality this year. i didnt own them last year but they were realy durable then from some people i know that has them. and J lev posted a post on newschoolers a while back in an invader thread that was saying that they completely remade the molds and for the invaders but they are basicaly the same and they are going to be using a different type of ink so that the top clear stuff doesnt come off again. hopefully this is true. my invaders are great. the only thing is that the clear stuff ontop is pealng off
 
Ive been riding my elizabeths a couple times a week since november pretty hard on the snow and in the park. I dont think they will ever delam
 
invaders just plain fall apart. its not just "minor delam" as some ignorant bitches say. the edges rip out at the tip and th ebase falls apart. the only ones that ussually dont fall apart are the very very early made ones ar if u are very lucky then youll might get a pair that dont fall apart
 
although its gya not skiing while your warrantied skis are being sent.... i always love peeling off the plastic wrapper to a brand new pair of skis:)
 
yeah production has gone down really only with the invaders i dont like it how line dropped their team thus dropping skogen, his ski last year was the best, my favorite ski ive ever ridden, but i hear this years chronic wide is the same thing so oh well, the graphic on last years skogen was amazing tho
 
but arent those the skis that they still produce in north america? i thought that they produced all their skis except prophets and elizabeths in china and those two were still made here
 
wrong...everything is in china now there isn't a canadian production facility that they use any more
 
i think the reason why the invaders are so undurable, is becasue they are like a noodle and it just cant handle some of the beating people put them thru, and the chronic wides are stiffer and hold up better becasue they are an all mountain ski...
 
I almost bought mothership flites other day and had two friends that work at ski shops insisted that I change my mind. I had heard good things about the chron wides and shipflites but it seems to be universal that Lines are no longer bomber and it hurts.
 
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