TEST: Salomon BBR 8.9

should be noted, as we had already made during the presentation of the product, that skiing is available in two different versions: a lame and extreme (the BBR 8.9) and a narrower and lighter (the BBR 7.9).
Obviously the subject of our test was the first version, the BBR 186cm in length with a spatula of 147 mm and a center of 88mm and the tail pintail V, all with a radius of 13 m

The BBR is initially designed as a ski to float in deep snow but also to be appreciated pista.E took to the track you feel lost at first: the two spatolone wobble a bit 'and slamming each other are so large .
narrow beam does not agree with the view of those spatulas: one prepares for a long curve and actually ends right away.
After a track instead socca love.
soul entirely of wood ensures high stability (after accepting the spatulas for almost 15 cm) worthy of any racecarver, the sensations are good and can beat you ski like any other ski.
increasing the pace and by restricting the range you can even do some slalom curve, without edge-edge, but it could be bent to very tight radii, Salomon sbalordendosi what the engineers have managed to create.
On the track the only thing that differentiates the BBR from other ski is the default start curve, which is not penalized because of the difficulty of managing large spatula, or by any feeling of slight instability given by union-rocker spatula extreme.
lightweight backcountry can please everyone, making it easy to ski even those with no basis in sicata snow: up to 30-40 cm of fresh is going great without a lot of difference with track thanks to the buoyancy provided by the sidecut.
The aspect that we wish to stress however, is the pleasure of skiing on the slopes of the management extremely damaged and destroyed, like the classic days of super crowded, in days snow on the track, or even in bordopista frozen after a few days since the last nevicata.In those situations where 90% of the other ski is in crisis and can not enjoy the day, BBR takes you to the runway end with a smile on the lips.
The promise was fulfilled to astonish everyone.