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8 years 11 months ago #229201
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I got to flog a pair of Zero G 95 demos pretty hard at kicking horse last spring, and I have similar feedback to the others who have posted. I found the skis to have amazing edge hold at high speed on anything I tried, and I thought they were easy to ski as long as I wanted to make the same radius turn as the skis. In steep cut up chutes they were a bit of a handful when I needed to force them to make shorter radius turns in crud, but their low swing weight made them easy to throw around when they were unweighted. Those skis really wanted to run...
I think they would be a great ski for ripping corn, especially at speed! They would definitely be biased towards providing a better ride on the ice/corn at the top of the mountain than on the isothermal schmoo at the bottom of the mountain (where they will probably suck). I think a competent 200 lb skier who has a decent amount of on piste experience would have no problem skiing a pair of zero G's as long as said skier kept their weight forward and stayed away from tight chutes and crud.
FWIW, if I was standing at the top of a long, icy volcano contemplating the slide-for-life potential of a chute that failed to warm up sufficiently for perfect corn, I would happily trade out any of the G3's and Dynafits I have tried for a pair of zero Gs....
At the risk of initiating thread drift I should note that it has been much easier for me to keep my weight forward on touring skis every since I got rid of the ubiquitous 16mm dynafit heel delta.
Good luck in your ski search!
I think they would be a great ski for ripping corn, especially at speed! They would definitely be biased towards providing a better ride on the ice/corn at the top of the mountain than on the isothermal schmoo at the bottom of the mountain (where they will probably suck). I think a competent 200 lb skier who has a decent amount of on piste experience would have no problem skiing a pair of zero G's as long as said skier kept their weight forward and stayed away from tight chutes and crud.
FWIW, if I was standing at the top of a long, icy volcano contemplating the slide-for-life potential of a chute that failed to warm up sufficiently for perfect corn, I would happily trade out any of the G3's and Dynafits I have tried for a pair of zero Gs....
At the risk of initiating thread drift I should note that it has been much easier for me to keep my weight forward on touring skis every since I got rid of the ubiquitous 16mm dynafit heel delta.
Good luck in your ski search!
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8 years 11 months ago #229202
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Helio 95 or Wayback 96 would be contenders. So would Salomon MTN Explore 95 and Dynafit Dhaulagiri.
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So, with an eye toward "looking elsewhere," which of the skis on rover's original list tip the scales toward the "ski themselves" side of the spectrum
Helio 95 or Wayback 96 would be contenders. So would Salomon MTN Explore 95 and Dynafit Dhaulagiri.
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8 years 11 months ago #229205
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Or G3 FINDr 94 or Volkl V-Werks BMT 94 . . .
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