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Sweden based Ridea Skis have recently released their new high-performance ski models built using Composite Reinforcements. The newly developed touring skis are the lightest high-performance skis in the world.
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The main challenges for Ridea Skis was to maintain the mechanical properties of the carbon fibre wood core based skis while reducing the weight by more than 50%, ensuring safe fastening of bindings for various fastening patterns and to maintain tensile strength.<\/p>\n

The skis are reinforced with TeXtreme carbon UD tapes from Oxeon, braided in 45 degree orientation for extreme torsional stiffness. The fabric of choice is a hybrid combining a high modulus HS40-fiber in the width direction of the ski, with an aramid fiber in length direction, to enable the skis\u2019 hybrid wood\/foam core to withstand the compression forces.<\/p>\n

Tobias Bj\u00f6rnhov, Founder and Manager at Ridea Skis, says;
\nThe combination of R-Idea\u2019s patented composite manufacturing process and the TeXtremereinforcements used give us possibilities to significantly reduce weight and still meet the stiffness requirements that has previously not been possible to obtain from the use of any other carbon reinforcement. This is a result of the extremely high fiber volume fraction that is achievable through the process combined with the use of TeXtreme<\/p>\n

The construction that finally provided the solution included features such as: TeXtreme carbon spread tow tape filament wound braiding, DIAB H-foam\/wood\/aluminium hybrid core, pre-moulded carbon\/aramid spread tow fabric, large size steel edges for durability.<\/p>\n

The results give a weight reduction of over 50% resulting in the worlds lightest freeride touring ski.<\/p>\n

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