Then we are up and running again here in Vemdalen with the second day of the ski test.
Olle you would love to say something. What was it?
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First ride here today and you rode a ski from K2, a brand new series of called "Mindbender" 99mm. What length did you get?
184 centimeters
We were lucky, so we did had first tracks down piste "Hovdebacken" and
could press some speed properly here in the morning. So awesome! All three
ran the ski model. The conditions were perfect.
How did the ski feel, what type of ski and what is it for
character on it?
It can be one of the most allround I`ve rode so far in the test of 2020´s skis.
It's hard. You get good press it but is still soft
and playful both front and back.
Soft and felt good at it time.
Is there a rocker in the tail?
Yes, both front and back rocker on this one. And that gives the ski playful feeling,
even though it´s quite hard and solid.
The classic opposites here, one playful skiing can be a little more
unstable at high speed. How felt you that it answered when you
leave a little more speed and press the? I took Emma back
first ride down for Hovdebacken and drove right at full speed
down but it was super stable so it has not lost it
stability even though they made it very playful.
And in a little looser snow. How did it go?
I didn't run that much there with the ski but I think that
because it has playfulness and rocker so i think it
Can be run on good off piste as well.
It sounds like you are pretty satisfied. What does it get for grades?
As a total rating I give ski four and a half.
Thanks so much.
New day and new test. Emma you rode K2:s
new series Mindbender 99 in 184 cm length. What did you like about this ski?
Great fun! It was good print in it and it really answered.
You could go really fast it and it really kept it toghether.
This is not a ski you go out and slide around with loosely...
it suits skiers that appreciates something that responds back. And like
challenges a little while. At the same time it was not quite as hard as some other skis we´ve tested here.
And then you a relatively long ski 184 cm, what length do you normally prefer?
I usually ski on 179-ish cm, so this is a bit longer, 184 cm. But not too long.
So it's no super big difference really?
Yes exactly.
What do you think about it in a little softer snow?
It feels like it would be solid on a heavy freeride mission.
I think it will be great wherever you go with it.
What does it get for grades?
Four and a half.
New day and new ski tests Max, also you have rode K2 Mindbender 99mm.
What is your impression?
It was some fantastic runs we had! The ski was great, very much
camber under foot and some tip and tailrocker. I think it does everything
as a allmountain ski should do. It was great fun going on
the piste, really good ski.
How did you experience it at high speed? Olle said he could go as fast as he wanted,
did you feel that too?
I think it answers, I saw that Olle went off little bit
faster than I did, so he might have a little better
feeling on how it handled really high speeds... but for med I did not feel that
it was unstable or anything. It was rock solid in the the snow, a stable ski.
Do yout think it will be fun also in powder and a little looser snow?
Yes, I think so. We played around a little rollers in the piste.
Due to it´s rocker in tail and front it´s playfull, with 100 mm under foot.
This is a really fun ski, and I think it would be great also in deeper snow in the off piste.
Lovely. What does it get in grades?
I give it a four.
Now we are here with Henrik Einarsson from
K2 and we have a newcomer in front of us.
It's great fun, because the old Pinnacle-series is in the trash can...
now it is Mindbender instead!
What happened then, have you changed graphics only?
Yes. NO! We have changed construction completely, and if you look
a little closer here there is a titanal
beam. Looking at the structure then it lies along the edges
just like Pinnacle stuck in the tail has gone out and laid
the one in the middle instead so is this property makes you get
a fucking serious front though a playful tail, so it means
actually
to have a hard charging in the front and P-A-R-T-Y in the back about
if one should be a little funny.....
So you are serious, you sit down far in the bus and want to
having party puts you back there.
And here you can get both and. We usually compare it with saying
that this is groomers in front of the ski and party in tail, it's more free riding
and easier to handle, more playfull.
The ski comes in slightly different widths but just in the 99th, what would
You say it is suitable for?
99 mm is the most versatile the ski and it is also the one who is
most solid, it is more enjoyable than the others in high speeds. Going up in
the width then comes be softer, still the same
properties but a bit more playful. goes one goes down it will be
a little more swinging and then doing you also like it a little softer, so
is the feeling in the titanal-beam as a you can vary in thickness to get
different properties. So the whole line are different, you can imagine
that you have a series where it only varies in width
skis, but here it really is so that different widths differ
properties, but the same think. The also comes with carbon in
instead of titanal. It is especially on the wider ones
skis. There it is more flow, more playfulness, where you think
more off-piste.
They become very much more expensive with carbon fiber?
There are slightly different price levels on
those who do not have the carbon metal itself becomes a little cheaper.
But it depends on which one width you have on the skis.
What other materials are there in the 99 mm version? except
Titanal, what is it for other materials in the construction?
It is a wooden construction with sidewalls, so it's really
just created to get stability in Titanal stored, so it is
really a pure wood core.
What lengths come
99th in?
It comes in 184 cm, 191 cm, and then 172 cm, a little uncertain about it.
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