I have spent my entire season on them as a daily driver. I seldom grab other skis in my quiver now, including my LP105. It’s a great ski.
Woody, any affiliation with Dynastar? It’s odd that someone not affiliated with a brand has the time or want to post same sentiment almost everywhere that ski is reviewed or sold.
Just a fan boy. I have only posted that short excerpt on here and a slightly longer review on dynastar’s website, and a somewhat in depth review on TGR? I guess that counts as mindless posting everywhere on the internet.
It may be that when you post on one site it auto populates another. I seem to have read the “picking it over my 105” a few times is all.
And I too would like to know about metal. From page 12 of the dstar catalogue under both the 106 and 96: “Featuring the new Powerdrive technology combined with a palownia + titanal sandwich structure…”
All good till you get to the middle of page and it referecnes the Legend X series and states, “The titanal layer runs the length of the ski keeping it damp and predictable…”
Honestly, Dynastar (I know you’re not reading), but how hard is this.
Does the topsheet have a bit size rec (4.1 or 3.6) on it? That would at least tell me if there is a laminate that way,
Dynastar states that there is no metal laminate in the ski. Can you double check?
Andrew, I have an email reply from Dynastar that just pointed me to their powerdrive free construction chart (no metal). I picked up a pair because price was too silly to say no to and just drilled them with a 3.5 as stated on top sheet: no metal there. I know these are not the race build so no vertical ti laminate “stringers” as in that construction, so lots of misinformation on the net: I am 99.9% sure not metal.
This is interesting and frustrating.
The x106 requires a 3.5 bit and def no metal when drilled. The x96 is marked as needing a 4.1 and the w96 a 4.1. I’ve drilled neither of those.
If one looks at pages 31 thru 33, there it a “Ti” column. For the w96 it is marked that it has ti. The x96 no and the 106 no.
…mercy.
It doesn’t really matter because how they ski trumps the build but this should not be so difficult.
Hey you guys get some more time on this ski yet? Excited to hear more about it.
Hey, are you guys ever going to finish this review? There is quite a discrepancy between this pre-review breakdown and the blurb you gave this ski in the gear guide – clearly this ski wasn’t what you thought it was, and I’m quite curious as to why.
I’m shopping for a big mountain ski to replace my dying K2 Obseths. Today, I rode a pair of Legend X106 188s in a warm, coastal storm at Alyeska in AK. 12″ new, wind affected, variable conditions on the upper mountain…wet ice on the bottom…crud in between. I loved the ski. They handled everything well. They like going fast…very stable at speed on the run-outs, but they really shined in the untracked stuff. I’ll test drive some comparable skis before I buy, but it’s going to have to be a pretty remarkable ski to dissuade me from snagging a pair of Legend X106’s.
Loving the x106 as a touring set up in 182, had one day of lift served to get used to them, firm smooth and fast day, they ripped but were shorter than I’d buy for lift served. I’m 5’9″ & 170lbs. I got them last year and have skied a lot of pow, some corn and they handled some firm to bone rattling descents as well as i could expect. For background i had a lot of time on the green CHAM 107 so was already a fan of the shape. Cheers, Jim
I just bought these Dynastar Legend X106, 188 cm because of a recommendation…. and will ski them this weekend and come back for a review, if i remember and have a strong like or dislike.
With the amount of options on the market – i’m sure it’s hard for a reviewer to have enough ski days to test in multiple conditions, and still find the time to review.
I picked up a pair of Dynastar legend 106 from 2019 last month in 182cm and had a great time skiing them in resorts all kinds of conditions in SLC and elsewhere, and touring a few days with them. I mounted a set of Marker Kingpin M-werks on them and used Contour hybrid skins. I’m a heavy skier 200+ Comfortable at speeds (my watch says around 30ish mph) stable on corduroy, ice and chop. The ‘playful’ can get sort of squirrly at low speed on flats, but easy to turn on moguls, poppy even. They surf on powdery crud and tracked out lines with relative ease. Easy to turn on steeper non-ideal conditions, I think due to the tail taper, releasing the following edge. I’m not the best skier, but I liked them for challenging DBL Black resort terrain, and deep variable snow in Utah’s canyons in the Back country. If I could tour more than a few days a year, I would go with a lighter ski, but they work great as a part time quiver killer
I have spent my entire season on them as a daily driver. I seldom grab other skis in my quiver now, including my LP105. It’s a great ski.
Woody, any affiliation with Dynastar? It’s odd that someone not affiliated with a brand has the time or want to post same sentiment almost everywhere that ski is reviewed or sold.
Just a fan boy. I have only posted that short excerpt on here and a slightly longer review on dynastar’s website, and a somewhat in depth review on TGR? I guess that counts as mindless posting everywhere on the internet.
It may be that when you post on one site it auto populates another. I seem to have read the “picking it over my 105” a few times is all.
And I too would like to know about metal. From page 12 of the dstar catalogue under both the 106 and 96: “Featuring the new Powerdrive technology combined with a palownia + titanal sandwich structure…”
All good till you get to the middle of page and it referecnes the Legend X series and states, “The titanal layer runs the length of the ski keeping it damp and predictable…”
Honestly, Dynastar (I know you’re not reading), but how hard is this.
Does the topsheet have a bit size rec (4.1 or 3.6) on it? That would at least tell me if there is a laminate that way,
Dynastar states that there is no metal laminate in the ski. Can you double check?
Andrew, I have an email reply from Dynastar that just pointed me to their powerdrive free construction chart (no metal). I picked up a pair because price was too silly to say no to and just drilled them with a 3.5 as stated on top sheet: no metal there. I know these are not the race build so no vertical ti laminate “stringers” as in that construction, so lots of misinformation on the net: I am 99.9% sure not metal.
This is interesting and frustrating.
The x106 requires a 3.5 bit and def no metal when drilled. The x96 is marked as needing a 4.1 and the w96 a 4.1. I’ve drilled neither of those.
If one looks at pages 31 thru 33, there it a “Ti” column. For the w96 it is marked that it has ti. The x96 no and the 106 no.
…mercy.
It doesn’t really matter because how they ski trumps the build but this should not be so difficult.
Hey you guys get some more time on this ski yet? Excited to hear more about it.
Hey, are you guys ever going to finish this review? There is quite a discrepancy between this pre-review breakdown and the blurb you gave this ski in the gear guide – clearly this ski wasn’t what you thought it was, and I’m quite curious as to why.
I’m shopping for a big mountain ski to replace my dying K2 Obseths. Today, I rode a pair of Legend X106 188s in a warm, coastal storm at Alyeska in AK. 12″ new, wind affected, variable conditions on the upper mountain…wet ice on the bottom…crud in between. I loved the ski. They handled everything well. They like going fast…very stable at speed on the run-outs, but they really shined in the untracked stuff. I’ll test drive some comparable skis before I buy, but it’s going to have to be a pretty remarkable ski to dissuade me from snagging a pair of Legend X106’s.
Loving the x106 as a touring set up in 182, had one day of lift served to get used to them, firm smooth and fast day, they ripped but were shorter than I’d buy for lift served. I’m 5’9″ & 170lbs. I got them last year and have skied a lot of pow, some corn and they handled some firm to bone rattling descents as well as i could expect. For background i had a lot of time on the green CHAM 107 so was already a fan of the shape. Cheers, Jim
I just bought these Dynastar Legend X106, 188 cm because of a recommendation…. and will ski them this weekend and come back for a review, if i remember and have a strong like or dislike.
With the amount of options on the market – i’m sure it’s hard for a reviewer to have enough ski days to test in multiple conditions, and still find the time to review.
I picked up a pair of Dynastar legend 106 from 2019 last month in 182cm and had a great time skiing them in resorts all kinds of conditions in SLC and elsewhere, and touring a few days with them. I mounted a set of Marker Kingpin M-werks on them and used Contour hybrid skins. I’m a heavy skier 200+ Comfortable at speeds (my watch says around 30ish mph) stable on corduroy, ice and chop. The ‘playful’ can get sort of squirrly at low speed on flats, but easy to turn on moguls, poppy even. They surf on powdery crud and tracked out lines with relative ease. Easy to turn on steeper non-ideal conditions, I think due to the tail taper, releasing the following edge. I’m not the best skier, but I liked them for challenging DBL Black resort terrain, and deep variable snow in Utah’s canyons in the Back country. If I could tour more than a few days a year, I would go with a lighter ski, but they work great as a part time quiver killer