drink300
02-08-2006, 02:56 PM
Just finished a day at the World-Class Taos Ski Valley with my new Spruce 120s. Here are my thoughts:
1.) The people at Spruce WILL take great care of you. Jeff personally handled my questions and gave me detailed, timely, and courteous responses. GREAT customer service.
2.) The boards are high quality. I landed jumps, hit some steep moguls and went over some rough patches and the boards held up great.
3.) The boards are a little too dull from the factory. I'd suggest that you sharpen these before you go on any ice or hard-packed groomers. These were clearly designed for powder and sharpened accordingly.
4.) Buy the spruce lite or prime binding/riser combo. I have the most expensive package which is the prime and I am very happy with it.
5.) These things have lots of stability at speed. Definitely a couple of levels above my old SnowJam 90s for smoothness of ride. These things plow through crud, float on powder and handle bumps better than my old boards. The 120 length has great advantages. Still short enough for moguls, still long enough for serious riding.
6.) I LOVE that my skis finally fit into the standard ski holders at the ski area. It's nice to be able to set them against the metal rail and have them fit. With my old 90s, I had to stick them across the top of the ski racks.
7.) Overall, a great skiboard. I am very impressed with every aspect of these skis. Can't wait to get into some real powder with these. My feeling is that these will be better in powder than a 140-150cm twin-tip, due to the combo of 122cm length and huge width. I bet they will float great in the truly deep stuff.
8.) THIS is where the skiboard industry needs to go. If anyone is going to take us seriously, we need to be in the 105-130cm range. If we can produce more skiboards like this, many 150-170cm skiers will take notice and give us some respect.
If anyone has any questions, reply to this post and I will be happy to answer.
drink300
1.) The people at Spruce WILL take great care of you. Jeff personally handled my questions and gave me detailed, timely, and courteous responses. GREAT customer service.
2.) The boards are high quality. I landed jumps, hit some steep moguls and went over some rough patches and the boards held up great.
3.) The boards are a little too dull from the factory. I'd suggest that you sharpen these before you go on any ice or hard-packed groomers. These were clearly designed for powder and sharpened accordingly.
4.) Buy the spruce lite or prime binding/riser combo. I have the most expensive package which is the prime and I am very happy with it.
5.) These things have lots of stability at speed. Definitely a couple of levels above my old SnowJam 90s for smoothness of ride. These things plow through crud, float on powder and handle bumps better than my old boards. The 120 length has great advantages. Still short enough for moguls, still long enough for serious riding.
6.) I LOVE that my skis finally fit into the standard ski holders at the ski area. It's nice to be able to set them against the metal rail and have them fit. With my old 90s, I had to stick them across the top of the ski racks.
7.) Overall, a great skiboard. I am very impressed with every aspect of these skis. Can't wait to get into some real powder with these. My feeling is that these will be better in powder than a 140-150cm twin-tip, due to the combo of 122cm length and huge width. I bet they will float great in the truly deep stuff.
8.) THIS is where the skiboard industry needs to go. If anyone is going to take us seriously, we need to be in the 105-130cm range. If we can produce more skiboards like this, many 150-170cm skiers will take notice and give us some respect.
If anyone has any questions, reply to this post and I will be happy to answer.
drink300