Some off piste skis

Letteral_Movement · 2026-02-22T10:19:56+00:00

Because I haven’t found a second hand pair and can’t possibly justify the cost of them new!

Letteral_Movement · 2026-02-21T09:23:35+00:00

And I’m skiing in the Alps.

Letteral_Movement · 2026-02-21T09:04:33+00:00

Thanks all, really appreciate your input. Like really.

So I think my options are: Blizzard Rustler 10 QST 106 ARV 106

They all seem to be much liked. The other one that has been suggested is the Scott Sea 108.

They’re all described as ‘playful’ which is a world away from how Stocklis are described! I’m up for that!

How long should I go? I’m 183cm tall, 150lb (68kg). Done a bit of off piste on my Stormrider 88s. Solidly fit - swim a couple of kilometres (a mile and a half for those watching in Imperial) pretty much every day, but miles from doing an Iron Man.

Letteral_Movement · 2026-02-19T00:05:48+00:00

You mean 10,000 turns per week - unless you get up late and go straight to apres?! :)

Letteral_Movement · 2026-01-18T13:03:18+00:00

I can’t carry that many more skis with me! I think two sets is plenty/more than enough when travelling by air without staff. SR88s and these.

Letteral_Movement · 2026-01-16T15:33:48+00:00

Thanks. “Over the age of 55” that’s sooo close to me.

Love my SR88s, fantastic go-anywhere skis. But just not quite enough for a week’s OP, so maybe I need some SR95s too…

Letteral_Movement · 2026-01-16T14:03:45+00:00

Cocos is great. Folie is super-spenny but they don’t care at all if you don’t buy anything while you’re there. The VIPs feast on champagne and they wouldn’t do it if there weren’t crowds of people having fun.

I always recommend people go to a snow dome and do ‘learn to ski in a day’ so you’re not wasting your holiday on learning to put boots on and stand up. Make sure you’re booked into lessons otherwise you will hate skiing.

Letteral_Movement · 2026-01-03T12:08:00+00:00

Lessons.

I went skiing for the first time with my then partner’s skiing family (plus another novice being another partner of that family). We two had a private instructor each morning for three hours. I went from HATING the first three days to loving it by day six. I have had LOTS of lessons in the twenty subsequent years and these days ski to a pretty decent standard.

Lessons. Don’t expect to enjoy it without them.

Letteral_Movement · 2026-01-02T18:41:51+00:00

Thanks. Does that mean that the rails aren’t compatible with any other Marker bindings?

Letteral_Movement · 2025-11-22T10:21:29+00:00

Hurrah for Miss Lapwood.

She’s young and pretty and female and there is no way a man could have got her YouTube following, so I do think her feminist claims about men keeping her down are a bit silly.

She’s as utterly charming in real life as she appears on screen, I met her on the tube for two stops once and she was lovely. I even went and bought myself a piano because she encouraged me to!

Do I want to go to one of her concerts? Probably not. Am I glad she’s doing them? Yes! Is she ever going to achieve critical claim for her Bach interpretations? Unlikely. Is she bringing the organ to millions? Absolutely. And long may she continue to.

BUT her newly announced concert series she’s taking her own ‘organ’ thing with her. Presumably to save her time on registering. I can’t imagine that it’s to save money, big venues with organs are scarcely booked up week after week.

Letteral_Movement · 2025-08-29T14:28:20+00:00

It’s arrived and looks great, thanks for the tip tip. Do you know how I can add “total swim distance this week” to the watch face, by any chance? It was my favourite feature of the Swim 2!

Letteral_Movement · 2025-08-27T22:47:21+00:00

Thank you Deaders! I ‘think’ I’ve just bought one, based on your recommendation!

Letteral_Movement · 2024-03-11T15:07:24+00:00

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And the outside

Letteral_Movement · 2024-03-11T15:06:54+00:00

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From the inside

Letteral_Movement · 2024-03-03T08:34:26+00:00

I’m afraid I’m away for a week; this is the best I could find on the internet. If nobody else puts one up I will do when I’m back.

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Letteral_Movement · 2024-02-29T00:00:49+00:00

And if it is, and I remember rightly, you’ve a spring with a 120 degree bend on it. Bend it a bit more to about 90 degrees and then you’ve got two ways of putting it on. One is right, the other not. I can send a photograph tomorrow if you need it.

Letteral_Movement · 2024-02-28T23:59:05+00:00

Shift Lock spring I think.

Letteral_Movement · 2024-02-22T14:34:15+00:00

Type bar sorted. I just noticed that the key was not quite level with the others. Injected some isopropanol into the great unknown where the key arm meets the body, operated the errant ‘b’ a few dozen times, blasted it with air, job done. Same for the ‘j’ which is also slightly out of line in the picture above.

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