The super Speeds were indeed fast and felt very stable through crud. I had a hard time truly carving a clean small to medium radius turn without imparting a lot of extra lower leg rotation or expending a large amount of energy to really load up the skis in a turn. Though I found the Super Speeds to be too stiff for me. I own last years Rossignol RPM 100 and generally like skis on the stiffer side….

I demo’d 168cm Super Speeds for 3 days on snow ranging form hard pack groomed to a slushy mix with crud later in the days. I’m a all mountain advanced skier, 6’2” 195 lbs., on the verge of expert. I’m trying the Rossi B1 and the 6 star today. Me: 42 yo, 6’, 185, expert, aggressive type III, if there is a choice of bumps or not, I’ll choosed the bumps. I’ve got really stong and conditioned legs though. My legs weren’t sore or burning at the end of the day (like another poster stated), and I skied them really hard. You’ll need to be pretty strong to stay with them. Get in the back seat and they turn on the turbo. I did find myself getting behind them at first on big bumps, but if you just drive them hard and stay forward they will shred. But I was surprised at how good they were in the bumps. I believe their forte is GS turns at speed, cuz they just rocketed down the slopes and held like a car on the Matterhorn at Disneyland.

Well, I ended up skiing these all day….mostly in the bumps. The tech said I would probably hate them, and they would be horrible in the bumps, but I could take them and ski over to the Main Lodge and trade them out. The only thing they had left was the Superspeed. I wanted something for the bumps, but the tech said they were out of just about everything in my size that would be an expert ski, good for the bumps. Just demoed the Superspeeds yesterday after a ski rack “malfunction” on the way up to Mammoth.

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