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Review: Contour Guide Pure 2.0

Mohair for the Masses.

By

Spencer Dillon

Sliding along on the Contour Guide Pure 2.0ski skin.

Sliding along on the Contour Guide Pure 2.0ski skin.

Good skins are invisible on a tour. Easy on, stays on, easy off. Hopefully, you’re not thinking about them too much. But a “set it and forget it” attitude often leaves some performance on the table.  And there’s a lot of performance you can get from a skin. Can a boy have it all? I…

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  1. leonardthedog

    This review is shorter than the First Look was! I was definitely expecting another Tolstoy-length novel on mohair, so I guess I’ll have to meet my daily reading quota elsewhere…

    In all seriousness, really good to have reviews on skins. I’m a pink Pomoca boy myself and am tempted to just stick with what I know, but it sounds like the glue on these Contours is an improvement in particular. I’ll be curious to hear how it performs if one accidentally leaves their skins in a 90 degree roof box for a couple days after a spring tour.

    Anecdotally, I haven’t had the durability problems with Pomoca you mention – I get out 40 days a year or so and get 3-4 seasons out of a pair of Pomocas…enough to get sick of the skis first and sell the ski/skin package on marketplace.

    1. Spencer Dillon

      Careful there, cowboy. I thought another monograph on mohair would be poorly received. Turns out there’s no winning. But I can always shout loudly again 🙂

      As to glue, a little beading has already occurred from ~50 days, but I am super particular about keeping the skins from getting hot, so no data for you there.

      My old guide pure 1.0s (hundreds of days) survived a lot of abuse like that no problem. My girlfriend has two pairs of pomocas (yellow and blue) and I’ve had to totally reglue them after approximately 75 days. My guide pures and her yellow pomocas rode around in a hot van together for a summer. 1.0’s totally fine. Yellows got a reglue. The other point of comparison i’d make is that when the pomoca’s get beady, they stop working very well (or at all). My contours work quite well once the glue is dirty and beaded (though this may again be a symptom of the tip taper and attachment style than the glue itself.

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