May 2007
Intermediate to advanced
190 pages
7h 58m
English
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Photography by Jason Verlinde
Downhill Makers
Garage ski builders are outdoing the pros.
SOME MODES OF TRANSPORTATION WERE destined for garage builders. Think of the thousands of wooden canoes, dune buggies, and steel-framed road bikes that hobbyists have created over the years. Modern, high-performance downhill skis, on the other hand, seem to be an entirely different beast, the kind of state-of-the-art product that only a big factory production process could churn out. Who else has the ability to fuse together all those exotic materials into a sturdy package that will safely get you down icy slopes, powder runs, and even the ...