The Great North American ASNES FEVER!

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Johnny
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Re: The Great North American ASNES FEVER!

Post by Johnny » Fri Oct 25, 2019 8:06 am

Cannatonic wrote:
Thu Oct 24, 2019 11:59 am
Am I the only one with the black stickers from the underside plastered all over my refridgerator?
Ahahahahaha! I think you were... But not anymore... :lol:

For those interested, Asnes will be touring the US for some in-store demos, clinics and promotion. They will stop in Denver, Boulder, Seattle and Anchorage. Your chance to see and flex all those beauties... November 2-9... 8-)
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Re: The Great North American ASNES FEVER!

Post by Nitram Tocrut » Tue Oct 29, 2019 7:47 am

Johnny wrote:
Thu Oct 24, 2019 8:11 am
I know some of you guys ordered some gems as well... Please post pictures of your own fever here... :o )



(Hi Christophe!!! How are you?!)

When I was a child, I had a fever... ♪ ♫
(And it never really went away...)
Just got my special order from La Cordée... think something went wrong :P

Seriously, I will restore those oldies and will try them for sure. It feels like they will be pretty fast skis.
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Re: The Great North American ASNES FEVER!

Post by lowangle al » Tue Oct 29, 2019 8:59 am

Nice skis Nitram. Did you see if your boots will fit in the binding yet? you may need a xc ski boot for them to work.



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Re: The Great North American ASNES FEVER!

Post by bgregoire » Tue Oct 29, 2019 12:15 pm

lowangle al wrote:
Tue Oct 29, 2019 8:59 am
Nice skis Nitram. Did you see if your boots will fit in the binding yet? you may need a xc ski boot for them to work.

Yeah, the best are the old school canadian made Alfa vulcs. In some conditions, nothing beats a nice pair of norwegian woodies. Among others, I have a beautiful oiled pair in my living room. I cannot get myself to take them for a run, that is how pretty they are.
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Re: The Great North American ASNES FEVER!

Post by Nitram Tocrut » Tue Oct 29, 2019 10:39 pm

bgregoire wrote:
Tue Oct 29, 2019 12:15 pm
lowangle al wrote:
Tue Oct 29, 2019 8:59 am
Nice skis Nitram. Did you see if your boots will fit in the binding yet? you may need a xc ski boot for them to work.

Yeah, the best are the old school canadian made Alfa vulcs. In some conditions, nothing beats a nice pair of norwegian woodies. Among others, I have a beautiful oiled pair in my living room. I cannot get myself to take them for a run, that is how pretty they are.
I used to have a pair of Alfa vulcs that I thoroughly used for years... hopefully I did not gave them away. My Alaskas would be overkill for them but I still have an old pair of Garmont Tour that kind of fit between the Alfa and the Alaskas. I could also install SNS but that would kind of kill the feeling of skiing vintage skis... but would be fun to try as they seem to want to go fast in the tracks... gotta wait for the snow to find out ;)



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Re: The Great North American ASNES FEVER!

Post by Woodserson » Wed Oct 30, 2019 10:11 am

bgregoire wrote:
Tue Oct 29, 2019 12:15 pm


Yeah, the best are the old school canadian made Alfa vulcs. In some conditions, nothing beats a nice pair of norwegian woodies. Among others, I have a beautiful oiled pair in my living room. I cannot get myself to take them for a run, that is how pretty they are.
Those skis deserve to be let loose and allowed to run free! Free the skis from the indignity of being wall art! Freedom!



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Re: The Great North American ASNES FEVER!

Post by Johnny » Wed Oct 30, 2019 1:48 pm

Hey Martin,

I have a pair of Langrenns too... Awesome skis... Please take them for a ride...!

That is the cool thing about the Alaska 75's: They will fit in any 3pin rat traps made in the last 90 years... They are they only backcountry boots with a duckbill thin enough to fit everything oldschool...
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Re: The Great North American ASNES FEVER!

Post by lilcliffy » Sun Nov 03, 2019 11:19 am

We have the fever here at Snow Glade Farm!
New Asnes skis with bindings on and snow flurries here today in the hills!
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Cross-country AND down-hill skiing in the backcountry.
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Re: The Great North American ASNES FEVER!

Post by Woodserson » Mon Nov 04, 2019 5:02 pm

Gareth, is that another pair of Gammes or your first? Can you compare the flex with with The Green Man (the one, the only)?



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Re: The Great North American ASNES FEVER!

Post by lilcliffy » Mon Nov 04, 2019 7:03 pm

Hey Woods-

I have the one pair of new Gammes.
My intial impressions are posted in the Asnes thread:
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Cross-country AND down-hill skiing in the backcountry.
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