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The original freeride skis

Advantages: Ease of turning, handling, style, following.
Disadvantages: None I can think of.

...always try to get the Salomon X-Screams. They are incredibly easy to turn, have a nice carving action, and are probably one of the best skis around. They have a huge free-ride following, and are used by beginners and experts alike. They are the skis by which all others are judged. The newer X-screams have the Prolink arms 'to guarantee ski/snow contact'. Wether it actually works is another matter... but it sounds and looks cool! So basically, these ...

Domhughes 11.12.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Salomon X Scream

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They have barely changed in 2 years - Wonder Why!?

Advantages: Durability, speed and control - Superb!!
Disadvantages: There's no snow!

Rossignol have kept these bad boys pretty much the same for the past 2 seasons simply because there is nothing they could do to make them better! These skis are guaranteed fun, on or off-piest. I'm going to keep them for at least 10 years. Not quite as fast as my old school Rossignol 198's but then again Bandits are like paddles in comparison. The wide structure does help them cruise nicely over powder and still leaves you with a great degree of ...
...those of an intermediate or advanced level. Very hard to fault them but I would say they need tip guards as these do tend to get a little cut up. Not really a fault, just a good idea if you want to keep them looking as slick as they did when you bought them. ...

volcom 26.07.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Rossignol Bandit B2 Skis

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Salomon SnowBlades

Advantages: great fun and easy to use
Disadvantages: binding are a bit fiddley and it takes some time to put the skis on

I have used these skis several times on hire from my local ski shop at my skislope, ski rossendale in lancashire, and i have found them to be reliable, well built, easy to use by me at an intermediate level and most of all great fun. I have used these skis several times on hire from my local ski shop at my skislope, ski rossendale in lancashire, and i have found them to be reliable, well built, easy to use by me at an intermediate level and most ...

tofer 27.05.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Salomon Buzz 99.9

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Volkl ski bases are bad!!

Advantages: Nice to ski on, effortless turning
Disadvantages: Have had bad experience with prevoius model

I have been skiing since I was 3 years old am now am 21. I have been on the world circuit most of my life and have been in the German national ski team and won German national titles at a young age. A team member and I both bought a previous model of Volkl carvers (orange ones) and although they are and excellent ski we both had problems with the bases. During training in New Zealand on a rocky face there was a small land slide with pebbles scattered ...
...as much as we could we later found that our bases had huge chunks taken out of them by the pebbles. They were huge gored out grooves and we were not impressed!. Later that season I crashed in a downhill event and snapped one of my skis. So the only problem was that they broke on me and that the bases were similar in strength to solid wax. ...

hunkaspunk 07.02.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Völkl Carver plus

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Atomic Beta Carv 9.16-Amazing

Advantages: A amazing ski to many adavntages.A perfect ski for any ability.
Disadvantages: NONE

Well I bought these ski's at Snow and Rock in Sheffield and when I first used them in the half pipe (carving,steeps,new school,race there good for all) they were really responsive and the stiffness add's to the excellent qualities. Then I took them to Val Thoren at Easter and one cruisy blue's and reds they were so responive and had such a great turn radius and on black runs and off piste they are so agile. The price is perfect I got mine for £200 ...

davidbaird2001 24.06.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Atomic Beta Carve X 42614

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