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So it's that time again....winter pasttimes?

Getting an early start, since I'm not shooting the races these days. Got it to the stage where I can decide how to tailor it. Just waiting to hear back if a specific person wants it, or if it's going to be stock for photo use.

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Ooof. Kid got gifted a snowboard and they probably need longer skiis this year. I guess it is time soon to spend more hours in the garage tuning up sliding things. Most of them come in in a bad state. Future tuneups are far faster.
 
You people are insane! It's much too hot now for that crap. Going for a dip in the pool.
 
GreyGhost said:
Ooof. Kid got gifted a snowboard and they probably need longer skiis this year. I guess it is time soon to spend more hours in the garage tuning up sliding things. Most of them come in in a bad state. Future tuneups are far faster.
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What do you do to tune them up?

I noticed last year that my skis are significantly slower then everyone around me. I didn't realize the previous couple years because I was teaching my kids to ski so slow was the goal. Prior to that they were in storage for about 10 years.
 
woot said:
What do you do to tune them up?

I noticed last year that my skis are significantly slower then everyone around me. I didn't realize the previous couple years because I was teaching my kids to ski so slow was the goal. Prior to that they were in storage for about 10 years.
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You probably need wax. Lots of people go a very long time between waxings. Base oxidizes and can't be economically revived so you just scrape/wax/scrape and live with it. You can regrind bases but it is close to $100 to get it done or more than five times that to buy stuff to do it. Unless you are racing, I don't think it makes sense.

For every sliding thing, once a year I clean up dings in the bases, file/stone the base bevel and edges, wax/hot scrape/wax/scrape/brush to clean out contaminants. During the season, clean up dings, diamond stones/deburr, wax scrape brush unless something bad happened to them and they need filed. My skiis get four levels of stone, family gets 3 normally.

Time between touchups varies. For slalom skis, every 3 hours or less as you are leaning hard on the edges and feel them going away. For skis I use with kids, every week or two. Wife and kids skiis, a few times a season. i try not to use temp specific wax as I'm not racing but my universal wax is really sticky colder than -20 so sometimes I will switch to cold temp wax.

I have a few bnib irons I could let go cheap if you want to wax yourself.
 
GreyGhost said:
You probably need wax. Lots of people go a very long time between waxings. Base oxidizes and can't be economically revived so you just scrape/wax/scrape and live with it. You can regrind bases but it is close to $100 to get it done or more than five times that to buy stuff to do it. Unless you are racing, I don't think it makes sense.

For every sliding thing, once a year I clean up dings in the bases, file/stone the base bevel and edges, wax/hot scrape/wax/scrape/brush to clean out contaminants. During the season, clean up dings, diamond stones/deburr, wax scrape brush unless something bad happened to them and they need filed. My skiis get four levels of stone, family gets 3 normally.

Time between touchups varies. For slalom skis, every 3 hours or less as you are leaning hard on the edges and feel them going away. For skis I use with kids, every week or two. Wife and kids skiis, a few times a season. i try not to use temp specific wax as I'm not racing but my universal wax is really sticky colder than -20 so sometimes I will switch to cold temp wax.

I have a few bnib irons I could let go cheap if you want to wax yourself.
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Got taught how to do that a lifetime ago, at a conservation centre, when on a field trip for cross country skiing. Very quickly realized it wa sa sport I didn't want to get tied up in :ROFLMAO:
 
Rob MacLennan said:
Got taught how to do that a lifetime ago, at a conservation centre, when on a field trip for cross country skiing. Very quickly realized it wa sa sport I didn't want to get tied up in :ROFLMAO:
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For XC skiis, I run waxless. I don't care enough to spend that much time prepping whenever I want to use them.

Downhill is easy enough to pay to get them tuned but it adds up really quickly (~$40 each time) and shops get busy so you can be without skiis for a week. Some shops also do a marginal job. Years ago before I had the stuff to do it myself I went to shop at base of blue with some Super G skiis as they weren't holding as well as I wanted. Girl working the desk said they were sharper coming in than most of the skis they send out after sharpening. Wtf. Get someone better to do it then. I suspect they were using a machine and not hand-sharpening. If you go to a store that caters to racers, you get a better job but it often costs more.
 
I’m gonna dust off the old snowboard this year, and get my wife’s skis out. Try and take the kids out skiing.

Let me know when I can drop off the gear @GreyGhost! Finally ready to take you up on that offer.
 
They charge more for race skiis and the hand tune , it’s comical most racers are pretty meticulously and the hand tune doesn’t take long . When I instructed and had 100+ days on the hill , 20mins once a week and they were fresh. I car wax the tops of skis so the wet snow slides off .


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Our winter past-time, waiting patiently in the basement... 🤪

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This might be the first winter in quite a while that we don't get a season's pass to the ski hill.
 
As for winter pastimes, hunting, camping, skiing/snowboarding (although rarely these days), travelling to warm destinations, hockey, ice fishing.

Wanting to get a snowmobile


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GreyGhost said:
I hope you like driving. Every year gets worse for snowmobiles in southern ontario. Even driving north of north bay is no guarantee of good conditions anymore.
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So true which has been one of the deterrents for me. My friends cabin in Magnetawan generally gets a lot of snow which is where I’d likely use it the most. I do agree though each year the snow moves further away. I remember as a kid in Niagara there would be snow machines ripping all winter. Not so much these days.


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SVeezy said:
So true which has been one of the deterrents for me. My friends cabin in Magnetawan generally gets a lot of snow which is where I’d likely use it the most. I do agree though each year the snow moves further away. I remember as a kid in Niagara there would be snow machines ripping all winter. Not so much these days.


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It's a short season but I sure do love sledding. Our sleds are ready to rip and when the kiddos are old enough they'll be riding also.
 
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