The Prime 1.0 is the ultimate all mountain lightweight tool that excels on all days and feels just as good on the way up as on the way down. At 90mm underfoot and weighing a mere 1440g at a 178cm length, this featherweight setup is constructed with a Hybrid Core combined with TeXtreme carbon to make sure you have premium levels of torsional rigidity and stability so there’s no need to hold back on the descent. A Titanal binding plate underfoot as well as Full Strength sidewalls promise reliability and durability in a ski that wasn’t built to compromise.
- Hybrid Core: Balsa/ Flax/ Poplar
- Flex: 7/10
- TeXtreme Carbon
- Full Strength Sidewall construction
- Multi-Dimension Sidecut
- Anti-chip Micro-cap
- Titanal binding plate
- Gloss high resistence top sheet
- Die-cut Ptex 3000
- Progressive Flat Tail
- Tip and Tail Rocker, Traditional Camber
Faction Prime 1.0 18/19
Product description
The Prime 1.0 is the ultimate all mountain lightweight tool that excels on all days and feels just as good on the way up as on the way down. At 90mm underfoot and weighing a mere 1440g at a 178cm length, this featherweight setup is constructed with a Hybrid Core combined with TeXtreme carbon to make sure you have premium levels of torsional rigidity and stability so there’s no need to hold back on the descent. A Titanal binding plate underfoot as well as Full Strength sidewalls promise reliability and durability in a ski that wasn’t built to compromise.
- Hybrid Core: Balsa/ Flax/ Poplar
- Flex: 7/10
- TeXtreme Carbon
- Full Strength Sidewall construction
- Multi-Dimension Sidecut
- Anti-chip Micro-cap
- Titanal binding plate
- Gloss high resistence top sheet
- Die-cut Ptex 3000
- Progressive Flat Tail
- Tip and Tail Rocker, Traditional Camber
Details
| Lenght (cm) | Radius (m) | Sidecut (mm) | Weight/ pair |
| 154 | 11 | - | |
| 158 | 13 | - | |
| 166 | 15 | - | |
| 172 | 17 | - | |
| 178 | 18 | 118 - 90 - 104 | 2880g |
| 184 | 20 | - |
Hybrid Core: Balsa, Flax, Poplar
Balsa is a sandy-coloured softwood with exceptional strength for its light weight. Reinforce the super lightweight Balsa with earthy-coloured, robust Flax fibre plus Poplar strips and you have a durable wood core that holds an edge like other skis twice its weight. During the drying process, cells of water in the Balsa wood are driven off, leaving behind a strong core with no excess weight.
Multi-Dimension Sidecut
Meticulously designed, the Multi-Dimension sidecut blends multiple arcs to create a sidecut geometry that changes along the length of the ski. This manoeuvrable shape consists of a shorter radius underfoot, keeping the ski nimble on those steep and narrow entries, and longer radii blended out to the tip and tail that ensure a stable and surfy feel when you’re flying out the bottom.
TeXtreme Carbon
Used in state of the art aeronautical engineering and deployed as a full layer of laminate in our skis, the spread-tow structure weaves at varying angles and axes, spreading stability and stiffness across the whole ski. The weave is made up of thin strips that are resistant to even the smallest cracks and fissures, so your skis defy expectations for longer - thinner, lighter and stronger than regular carbon.
Titanial Reinforcement
When you’re on a day-long touring trip in the backcountry, you need to be able to rely on your gear. Titanal reinforcement plates are laid up on top of our Hybrid cores ensuring that your binding screws hold like nothing else. This one-piece design fits alpine and touring bindings, adding trustworthy durability to these lightweight cores, so there’s nothing holding you back on your next backcountry adventure.
Progressive Flat Tail
Innovative design, which blends the turn stability and speed of a traditional flat tail shape with a generous amount of perfectly calculated tail rocker, engineered to reward pivots and slashes. Stable to ski at high speeds, playful and easy to initiate turns at lower speeds – this shape exceeds expectations.
Micro-Cap
Micro-cap construction is a hybrid of two construction techniques: a premium, sandwich sidewall construction fused with a lightweight, durable cap construction. With micro-cap, the sandwich construction provides awesome edge hold and torsional stability while the ski’s topsheet wraps around and meets the sidewall, protecting the fragile join that can be prone to chipping.
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