I just want to add here having spent 20 years on skis prior to seeing the light, it is nonsense to assume all skis ski powder ok. Most of them dont! They are too skinny and the flex is all wrong. Nightmare difficult. The tips twist all over the place. Scary.
At 175 lbs, the first skiboard that worked really well for me in pow was the 105 Revolt. The 110 ALP is better still, and the 120 better again. This season I will be trying Condors, but will miss being led into deep pow by Jjue, so will have to find some in Europe.
All the tips you have been given are sound, but the greatest help of all is the 'set back' everyone is talking about. I needed set-back on the 105s, but not on the 110s or 120s. I think it would have helped on the 110s, not so much on the 120s. I wont be using set-back on the Condor.
If you wanted to take the risk, I guess you could mount your Riser with two screws only, front screw holes on the Riser into back screw holes on the board. That would give you the 40mm set back that seems about right. I have never tried this, but early skiboards only had two inserts to start with, and they seemed ok. Release bindings dont load the inserts like fixies do anyway as when load builds up, they ....release!
Having pulled a few R8 boards apart, they are well constructed with sound wooden cores and decent quality inserts.
If you have shop skills, making an adapter to allow set-back is a simple matter though. Good luck.
At 175 lbs, the first skiboard that worked really well for me in pow was the 105 Revolt. The 110 ALP is better still, and the 120 better again. This season I will be trying Condors, but will miss being led into deep pow by Jjue, so will have to find some in Europe.
All the tips you have been given are sound, but the greatest help of all is the 'set back' everyone is talking about. I needed set-back on the 105s, but not on the 110s or 120s. I think it would have helped on the 110s, not so much on the 120s. I wont be using set-back on the Condor.
If you wanted to take the risk, I guess you could mount your Riser with two screws only, front screw holes on the Riser into back screw holes on the board. That would give you the 40mm set back that seems about right. I have never tried this, but early skiboards only had two inserts to start with, and they seemed ok. Release bindings dont load the inserts like fixies do anyway as when load builds up, they ....release!
Having pulled a few R8 boards apart, they are well constructed with sound wooden cores and decent quality inserts.
If you have shop skills, making an adapter to allow set-back is a simple matter though. Good luck.
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