The Basking Shark

[BraceMaker]

http://www.uwphotographyguide.com/images/basking_shark4.jpg

 

"The basking shark is the second largest living fish"

 

http://www.reflexworld.com/2010SITE/web/images/carbon-slalom/13Flow1000.jpg

[DanE]

So, the shark ate that ski ? Was the ski left in the sun too long ? Was the ski all that was found after a crash,skier missing ?

[MattP]

It's the new 2013 Hybrid by Reflex. Check ou the the shape of that whole ski, tip, fore body, mid, and tail, very different. They are made in left and right specific shapes, not just layups as well as a standard. The new 2013 Flow also has these shape options as well. I assume to balance the off and onside turns.

http://reflexworld.com/2010SITE/web/images/shop/13flow.jpg

http://reflexworld.com/2010SITE/web/images/shop/13Flowright.jpg

http://reflexworld.com/2010SITE/web/images/shop/13hybrid_front.jpg

[MrB]

It looks like the 'FLOW'.

 

[DanE]

Usually when ski manufacturers put out there latest and greatest stick with claims they've changed this and that you cannot see the changes even if compared to last years ski side by side, well, this is different

[Ed_Johnson]

This is what they did with jets to go supersonic...Called the "Hour Glass" effect.

 

May be the first supersonic ski !!!

[thager]

@Ed Johnson. Cool if water was compressable. Maybe they should call it the F-106. I am all for innovation if it works. Wonder when someone is going to bring the Venturi tunnel back?

 

[Horton]

@BraceMaker why the holy heck did you title this thread "The Basking Shark".

 

I really need a badge for off the wall thread titles.

[Horton]

Here is the link to the ski

http://reflexworld.com/carbon-slalom_FLOW_13.html

 

[BraceMaker]

Ha,

 

I was just flicking through websites last night, and was looking at reflex binding stuff. And they always have interesting skis, so I clicked and was scrolling.

 

And I was CERTAIN that my screen had distorted the ski, it looked bent and wavy. But I looked back and lo - it was correct.

 

For some reason what it looked like to me was a basking shark with its mouth open.

 

Pictured is the Flow.

 

I hadn't seen a discussion on it, so I figured that would attention - seems to have no?

[Ham_Wallace]

Looks like the O'Brien G-3 !

[Wish]

@Ham Wallace I rode that ski for a time. More brutal OTF on that ski... Hour glass figure was up front. This one is the most radically shaped ski I've ever seen.

[Horton]

@BraceMaker

maybe the worst thread description ever

 

http://media.tumblr.com/fe497dd337d9af8479bb6398b9565d16/tumblr_inline_mg6n5ltl6X1rxe4lt.gif

[BraceMaker]

@horton - Finally, my life is fulfilled.

 

Admit it though, it looks like a lumpy fischer.

[Horton]

more like an @eleeski

 

who cares what it looks like- I want to try it

[FrankS]

It would be funny if you told your ski buddies about how great your new ski was and then you pull it out of the bag and start freaking out like it broke.

[Brady]

@Horton "who cares what it looks like-I want to try it"

That's exactly what I was thinking with my first wife.......didn't end up for me too well, but I want to try it too!!

[thager]

I haven't warmed up to it yet. Maybe a few more beers.

[Wish]

I thought it was the beers I already had that made it that shape.

[Ed_Obermeier]

"Looks like the O'Brien G-3 !"

 

"I rode that ski for a time. More brutal OTF on that ski... Hour glass figure was up front. This one is the most radically shaped ski I've ever seen."

 

First ski I ever felt like I was making progress on. But as @Wish said, the OTF's were henious.

[BraceMaker]

This threads got teeth! Like the basking shark which has rows of small teeth, approximately a hundred per row - according to wikipedia.

 

 

[Brady]

@BraceMaker This thread may have teeth, but you, my friend, got the awesome panda.....which, btw, has teeth as well. :)

[BraceMaker]

I like how @Mattp marked my response in regards to sharks as being "off topic" - when it was fully about sharks!

[MattP]

@BraceMaker it had everything to do about sharks...

[KM]

Does Reflex still make the symmetrical Hybrid?

[BraceMaker]

@KM - it is still listed on their website:

 

I would not know about stockists.

[Steven_Haines]

That looks interesting! I wanna try that goofy looking thing!

[BraceMaker]

I think I wouldn't mind a crack at one either. I wonder how it tracks/hunts.

[Steven_Haines]

The hunting wouldn't bother me as it's only temporary at either end of the lake.

[bogboy]

If I start talking about this ski with mrs. Bog boy, it's going to cost me.

[KcSwerver]

Ski ski ski ski lurk turn bite lurk lurk creep attack.

 

(A brief product characteristics description)

[ThePantsManCan]

Has anyone even taken a ride on this one yet???

[ForrestGump]

I don't know anyone that's actually seen a real one. Only computer generated pictures of it.

[ThePantsManCan]

Must be the new Obrien Quattro. Instead of it being the Great White Unicorn, we can call it the Great Black Carbon.... Corn...

[ForrestGump]

Yeah, but there were Quattro's out there that were seen.

[ThePantsManCan]

We should ask Reflex to send Horton one for review!!!