TEST: Rossignol Bandit SC 80 - The Handyman!

With this new Bandit, the house Alps has hit the mark, identifying the precise calibration of skiing for the audience being addressed: off-piste skiers who do not want to end but a means to enjoy in all track conditions. Skiing, as the acronym says, is 80 mm wide at the center: this is no longer an excessive width and allows you to maneuver well in both the track and in a moderate off-piste.

ski slope makes it really nice all those days when you are angry with the visibility, snow or own skis: everything seems complicated and laborious. With the Rossignol Bandit SC 80 instead go down with a smile: the ski is light and floats well on the snow remained on track after a snowfall, but it is also quite responsive to permit rapid reversal edge, adapting to a vast skiing number of people.

has a half-timbered structure that makes it just reactive but not too stiff, allowing even those with less strength or power to shoot it with calmness and tranquility in carvare. Obviously the harder you can not ask for the moon in a ski center with split ends and wide, but in any case allows you to ski safely, what is lacking is the precision in setting the curve and the wickedness of other models but not what you ask.

The radius of curve preferred is the mean-broad, following the curve radius static, in the short rays tends to break down if not always on both skis and if they are too narrows the support base. Off The Beaten Track this

SC 80 could give more. Their best offers with the new-fallen snow, where floats and makes easy inversions, at this juncture seems almost ski run!

But when you meet the snow that has already been crossed by some icy tracks (for example off the track a few days after a snowfall) becomes less manageable and loses stability, so that they led him always to be at ' steep. But even in this case is the usual speech: it is perfect for off-piste or simply for the snow, it is advisable to go beyond another tool.

The ideal conditions to make the most of the backcountry are therefore exaggerated, and even the park with developments worthy of a video game, but the track, in all those days when the lodge attracts more than yet another descent .

The snow damaged, the humps, the snow very soft with these skis do not hear ... Indeed, it is going to try! Under the conditions of everyday life so it's a fun ski that allows skiers to a huge number of recreation than the more conventional tools: from garista who is tired of pulling all the tourist track calmer than ever will look for Off-piste, but want an easy and fun to ski.

The advice is to not choose it as the only ski if you worship the snow hard and firm and that of 8 in the morning, but keep it as a valuable ally in the days when you can not pull off the race carver or skiing aggressive, or even when you have very tired legs from the mileage on the day before. If you do not have the ability to have two skis in the rack personnel, advice though: do not excel in almost any situation, but it frees the mind and lets you ski for hours and hours without fatigue and with a lot of fun, allowing you to do everything from jumping off the track in the woods!
Technical Notes:
Sidecut: 122/80/109 Length
skis: 175cm
Test duration: 2 days
Snow and ruined the first fresh, frozen the second