Message #15990

[jbotti]

Liam, for me the main thing I don't like about early rise tips is that the tips flop all over the place and when you do get on harder snow where you wantt to pressure the tips and bend the ski more, early rise and or rocker makes this much more difficult. I will say that I have been on some modest early rise tips that don't flop much and where you can get some tip pressure to help bend the ski. I do wonder what they (ski co's) are accomplishing with this other than selling more skis. I'm not sure there is much reason for it. It doesn't help float that much (again in minimal ER) and it definitely detracts from the skis performance in crud, chop and harder snow.