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Volkl ski bases are bad!!

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3 Feb 7th, 2004 

6 Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful

Advantages:
Nice to ski on, effortless turning

Disadvantages:
Have had bad experience with prevoius model

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hunkaspunk

hunkaspunk

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Member since:07.02.2004

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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 across the slope.
After skiing through this trying to aviod 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. 

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Comments about this review »

newb00ts 07.02.2004 12:23

You need to add a lot more detail to this review. Let me know if you rewrite

hunkaspunk 07.02.2004 05:25

I am reviewing a previous model of the Carver plus, but since they don't sell previous models this is the closest model to the one which I have skiied on but maybe since then they have fixed the obvious problem. Every season they improve on the previous model, it could even be improving the look and leaving the body as is. As to the quality of the previous version, shit basically but nontheless a comfortable ski to use but I am just letting people know to be wary if the buy this model and to ask about the durability of the base berofe buying it.

jfredrickson 07.02.2004 05:00

I am sorry, I didn't quite understand. Are you reviewing the Carver Plus, or another version that you have skiied on? It would be great if you could give us some more specific information about the quality of this ski, but I guess that isn't really possible if you haven't actually used it. ~John

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