Rainbow Mountain on skirun is main tune shop for the powderhouse chain, so if you go there you can speak directly with the tuner who likely be doing the work.
Their alt. tune shop is at the Pioneer road location who you can also talk to the tuner who may do the work if that is still open/staffed for tuning
If you drop off at main powderhouse location, they still will will have 1 tune knowledgable guy there, but not a tuner; that will look it over and knowledgeably write up ticket with you; but it gets trucked over to one of the tune shops; then trucked back in the morning to the location you want to pick it up.
There maybe some coupons as well either in the local flyers or online, but coupons kinda hit-or-miss.
best of my knowledge from last visig their machines are already hand operated and work are already handtuned touched up as needed. Its not a huge automatic all-in-1 blackbox machine
Theres race tune and then theres real actual race tune for competition racers.
If you're actually comp racing they are still fine the head guys i think are exrace techs. but it is not the bulk of their work that would be a 1check box on the ticket, you would want to talk it over with the tuner them know exactly what you want and your expectations.
But how did you get a core shot on your race skis would be my feedback to you. Unless your setup costs $1000+ or you're racing for $1000+, you're fine at rainbow.
Lets put it this way if you dont know off the top of your head precise requirments for your desired angles, detuning/shaping parameters, structure type, wax and overlays, and if they are off by any amount from your requested spec you can tell and reject the work/throw away the skis, they are going to be fine.
agree or smoothrides, or granite chief. For race-specific, there def more race specific shop suggestions in north lake that spring to mind; (and plenty of good non-race shops in both); but not really worth the out of the way trip, unless you really have money or medals on the line.I've heard there is a shop in Truckee called Start Haus that is top notch. You may want to check them out.
Those are integrated bindings. So any shop can set those up for you with no material difference in the result due to skill or technique.
Remember to bring your boots for the binding setup. Small clarification here that for the binding test, "experience" also has zero difference, certified/trained is more of a minimum requirement. If they are following procedures, results should be the same regardless of "experience" of the operator.
Unless you are very particular and/or have a racing background, id suggest you just save your money at first and ski your skis as they were from the factory at least at first. Save your tuning money for after a few days and have some fun on the skis.
It is the same as if you buy a new car are you the type to immediately throw out the factory tires because you very particular and want specific better tires.
There's probably some useful info for you here I wrote the original post and post #7 which covers some advice on tuning and info for a person getting their first pair of skis:Thanks very much! I'll take your advice -- will be sure to bring my boots in, look for a trained / certified tech, and will try my skis out as they came before re-setting edge angles etc. The car tires analogy resonates with me.
Cheers,
Ashok
Nice document, yes, very useful, thanks!There's probably some useful info for you here I wrote the original post and post #7 which covers some advice on tuning and info for a person getting their first pair of skis:
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Many of us here use 3 degrees on all our skis (side bevel).
Many of us here use 3 degrees on all our skis (side bevel).
That's quite a nice ski for carving up groomers. Enjoy
Its peculiar to see a 1/1 on a ski like that.- for these skis Rossignol seems to set both the base and side edges at 1 degree. For base that seems fine, for side: do many people actually want to keep 1 degree side,