For most of the 1970’s, 80’s and into the 90’s, Rossignol was king of the roost, the most recognized trademark in a market crammed with brands that did not survive this epoch. It built a race department that was the envy of all, with stars like Alberto Tomba and what...
While the Soul 7 once out-sold every other model, not just in its own series, but in the entire market, the steady heartbeat of Rossi’s collection has been the Experience 88, in a series of iterations that spans a generation of skiers. The latest E88 is in several...
Salomon was riding a string of ridiculously successful product introductions when the brand introduced its first ski in 1989. The monocoque shell was the big story, creating such a groundswell of demand that all the ski brands that came before had to re-tool to some...
Any doubt that C/FX3 would be Salomon’s foundational technology for years to come has been eradicated with the 2019 collection. Crosshatching the original longitudinal, carbon-and-flax fibers supercharges edge grip and stability to such a degree that skis can be made...
The Mantra has a small army of adherents, many of whom have been waiting for this moment: the fifth-generation Mantra M5 signals a return to its roots as a cambered ski with a mid-90mm’s waist that loves to be loaded and released. Equal in importance to the changes in...
Our spider sense tingles when we hear the term “handmade” applied to skis, as the implication is that such slats will receive extraordinary care in manufacture no mass-produced ski can hope to receive. One reason we look sideways at the “handmade” qualifier is that...
