Matt Duffy <[log in to unmask]> writes:

        [delerious joyful review of new Igneous toys deleted]

>My skis tore through everything like a buzzsaw, complete with that piercing,
>high pitched whine [snip]

Do they really sing a bit for you?  I had some Blizzards of the '80s that
had a ~400hz ring to them when you knocked them together that was also
audible at speed on hard snow with the edge set. (Not enough high frequency
dampening in that case- fun though they were! :-)

>The feel to those things are totally different.

OK I'm interested- different from what?  How do they stack up next to
say, the X-Scream Series, K2 Seth Morrison, or other mid-to-fat cruiser
skis?

By your review they sound damper than I'd have expected, which may be a
good thing!

>In the windpucked moguls, it was a little tougher to stay right on top of
>them at first, but after a couple of runs I was doing so comfortably.

I'm curious was this a "banana peel" effect, like the skis seemed to want
to accellerate for the fall-line ahead of your anticipation, or was it more
like they'd cut the fall line if you didn't consciously steer for it? (First
impressions are important!) You can learn to ski bumps on most anything, but
some are just more natural-born-bump skis, ususally skis with a lot less
sidecut than the Igneous line.  Did you feel like you were getting air-
mailed on them at all?

>I am REALLY looking forward to using them in GOOD snow conditions...

All snow is good snow...  Here in southern New England us spore-tourons
are suffering looking at all that brown in this ungodly heat with no
snow of any kind in sight.  We don't even have decent _mud_ at the moment!

Tell us more as you run them through their paces, where they're fun, where
they're not, try to be objective & specific (yeah, right- as if any boy on
his new joy-toys could pull _that_ off! :-)

And send some of your crummy left-over snow our way if you can!

dana

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