Author Topic: Reverse Camber Skis  (Read 2435 times)

jim-ratliff

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Re: Reverse Camber Skis
« on: October 21, 2006, 10:45:43 pm »
Thanks.  Very interesting.  Did RadRab wind up buying DP as well?

I was glad to see he was back posting this year.  He had a couple of pretty rough times on the PMTS forum as well as on the Epic forum.  I wasn't sure whether they permanently banned him or not.

Of course, I don't know what I am really talking about, but just from an engineering point of view, I don't agree with your statement that "Still if you pressure the tips because the camber is the opposite of a regular ski, the ski will attempt to turn the other way (which does not sound like fun). "  The reverse camber of a normal ski is just to help distribute more pressure to the tip and tail of the ski when it is decambered.  It would seem like tipping a "pre-decambered" ski would still turn the same direction but with not as much bite?  Now if the ski is decambered and narrower at the tip, I can't figure out what it would do when tipped.

Can't wait for your review.
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