Martyn’s Gear

Neighbour Martyn made the arduous 20 metre trek from his garage to mine to get two sets of his skis sorted and his wife’s K2 board as well.

He dropped of a pair of Atomics which gave no issues beyond the very rusty state of the side edges, which took a lot of filing to get clean, plus a wacky pair of Fischer skis that have a weird fishtail and a bizarre bulge at the tips which I think he called a snow keel or similar.

Once the bases were tidied up on both skis, they rather unusually both needed 3 degree side edges to get to spec which was easy enough. But the waxing – help ma boab. I’d already done the Fischers once before but the bizarre bulges seemed to be even more infuriating to wax than I remembered.

Anyway they finally succumbed and were ready for the mandatory radiator picture: