Your Questions, Our Buyer’s Guide, & Luke’s Cry for Help

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Snow, Snowboarding, Arts, Skiing, Gear, Outdoors, Design, Bike, Sports, Technology

4.9 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Luke Koppa and Jonathan Ellsworth answer listener gear questions; share some info about our new winter buyer’s guide; and Luke shares with us some good news, but also presents new reasons for us to worry about him.

TOPICS & TIMES:

Info on our new Buyers guide (3:14)
Q: What’s your favorite ski ever? (10:24)
Q: Best way to communicate with a boot fitter? (15:27)
Q: More accessible skis vs. more demanding skis (22:45)
Q: Impact of ski mass relative to width? (33:18)
Q: Big ski brands & sustainability (41:08)
Q: Favorite ski graphics? (48:06)
Luke’s cry for help (51:10)
What We’re Celebrating (56:31)

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.
0:09.0	I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and I am here in Blister headquarters with Luke Capa, sexy Luke.
0:16.0	And you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at, what's the name of our website again?
0:21.5	Blisterreview.com.
0:23.3	Speaking of which, what's been going on at Blister?
0:26.5	This week, we published our third conversation in our Mountain Town Economics series.
0:34.6	It is another very good conversation.
0:36.8	People should check that out. Today, which is
0:39.4	Tuesday, August 31st, we launched a new monthly series on our Off the Couch podcast called Running
0:49.2	Through the News, very clever series title, if I do say so myself, where we're going to be kind of recapping
0:57.5	what's been going on in the world of running with one of the smartest people I know and
1:03.1	someone who I would definitely vote for president for Sanjay Rawal so that's out what else
1:09.2	Luke our bike editor David Gley, he's been having
1:12.7	some, well, not only some good conversations on the Bikes and Big Ideas podcast, but also he's
1:17.9	been doing every Sunday, either a random topic of the week, would you rather type post where
1:25.7	he asks us some weird hypothetical question and and we add our
1:29.9	thoughts and then a lot of people are commenting on those he recently made his case for why
1:35.5	bikes should not have internal cable routing which I don't necessarily agree with but it's uh
1:42.5	there were some strong opinions on both sides there and I know I've been in touch with, but there were some strong opinions on both sides there.
1:45.9	And I know I've been in touch with them and there are some interesting ones coming up.
1:49.8	I think next weeks, when this airs, next weeks will be, would you rather have a bike with 10-year-old geometry and modern components or a bike with modern geometry and 10-year-old
2:04.9	components. So we'll have some thoughts from our reviewers and everyone else should chime in
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