Bad driving on soft snow condions

[Nordik]

On my two days trip, my 2024 SRX went very well on hard pack trails. The second day, we had snow falls. On the soft snow, I was unable to keep the sled straight. The feeling is one ski bites-digs more in the snow, than the other does the same making the rear of the sled go right and left. Alignment is ok I think.

I never experienced that on my 2017 LTX, 2019 and 2020 SRX. I experienced the same situation with my 2022 and 2023. I had snow trackers. This year, I kept the stock carbides to see if it would resolve that problem, but seems to be worse.

I will buff the shim to make it flat, but I do not think that on the 2022 it came with shims. So shims would not be the cause?

What is the cause? Stryke skis? Anybody experienced same situation?

Thanks

 

[earthling]

I think the 24 SRX comes with rear 5.0mm shims. This would force the back of the ski down for more bite. The EPS allows you to not 'feel' that pressure when you are on hardpack. The stock carbides are meh in my opinion but that probably isn't your issue. With the rear forced down and in soft snow conditions the ski will try to ride up on the snow and you will have less keel active at any given time, you want as much keel in the snow as possible. Running the ski flatter may help (Pulling the rear shim). I think the rear shim in the EPS models allows the sled to dart less and run more pressure in hardpack conditions. If the newer sleds come with the same carbide which I think is a 4", then running a longer carbide and no shim may allow you to have a more consistent bite in a wider variety of conditions. I was speaking to qualipieces about this yesterday and they were recommending a 6" carbide or even 8" on the EPS models.

 

[Pstn head]

I put 3mm of thickness of conveyor belt in the front as a shim, left the stock 5mm shim in the rear, suprisingly that helped a lot. Made the skis feel a lot more consistent in all conditions.

 

[GR8BBQ]

May want to double check toe in/out to be sure it's set optimally.

 

[Nordik]

Thank you for your advices. My sled is in my friend garage and he just checked ski alignment. It was 1/2 inch open, before the trip, it was 1/8 inch! That's strange because nothing special happened to my knowledge.
He will bring it back to 1/8 inch so it should solve the problem. I will also try the 3mm front shim, seems interesting