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I skied the Salomon gs ski with tail wider than tip in summer 2001. So it would have been a 2001/2 season ski. It was a weird ski. That aluminum plate salomon was using at the time was amazing though. Maybe it was called Hangl? It was basically an aluminum platform suspended front and back by pivot points. Just blasted over bumpy slush. I suppose it inspired the Salomon Pivot skis like Volkl parlayed the original Energy Rail platform, fantastic, into the Motion system,(meh+).I've alwaywanted to ski the 45 mm Elans!
There have been so many off skis, I'll toss out the circa 2005 Salomon w wider tail.
I always found it interesting that Marker with it's 'Select' system was going in the exact opposite direction as ski manufacturers. Select had 3 positions. The stiffest essentially allowed no ski flex under foot and the others gave more space. Besides being an adjustable dead spot creator, maybe half the people often had each ski on a different setting. Meanwhile everyone else was looking to create flex underfoot.