Our next stop at the SIA Snow Show was at Swix USA, where we got a look at new features on next year’s carbon-composite poles, new formulations in Swix’s klister line, and tried on their new gloves.
Audrey Mangan
Audrey Mangan (@audreymangan) is an Associate Editor at FasterSkier and lives in Colorado. She learned to love skiing at home in Western New York.
2 comments
John Forrest Tomlinson
February 15, 2012 at 8:24 pm
Is that basket “system” as light as a glued on basket of the same size?
andycanniff
February 16, 2012 at 11:28 am
Good Question,
With no glue requirements to hold the basket on the system is about 9 grams per pair less then a glued system. This is more significant then it would seem because it is weight reduction in the critical tip area of the pole where the greatest swing weight improvements are noticed.