Simmons ski Q's

[dfroster]

I have the regular Simmon skis on my RX Warrior. The carbides are the angled "cutting" ones from Simmons. Q1: Are other carbides available for these skis? The angled cutting ones seem to cause the sled to drift from side to side really bad on ice covered roads. It's not darting. I'm wondering if my alignment is off. Speaking of, I can't remember if Simmons ski alignment needs to be perfectly straigh with 0 toe. Q2: Can anyone confirm this?
Many thanks!

 

[kinger]

Bergstrom skegs makes replacements that is what I run. I run 0 toe mine. I get a slight amount of darting on a extermely hard packed road and in parking lots, nothing on the trails though wierd.

Currently I am running stock simmons carbides on the inside and 6" bergstrom tripple points on the outside. Love the set up.

 

[dfroster]

Kinger,
The stock Simmons carbides don't have the angled bottoms right?
Thanks,
dfroster

 

[kinger]

Not sure what you mean by that, they look just like a normal carbide to me.

 

[dfroster]

Tapered bottom would have been a better way to describe but if yours look normal then that's what I need to know. Stud boy makes shaper bars for simmons skis too so I'm going to try those as well as make sure the toe setting is zero. Thanks for the info!

 

[BETHEVIPER]

put the better carbide on the inside, it is the one that does all the work,

the reason the skis get a little funk at slow to medium speeds on icy plowed roads is that you are feeling the drag of the carbide change from lh to rh carbide on the ski as the curve of the road changes.
if you have both lh carbides only touching, the sled will want to turn left, it then hits another curve or rut and both rh carbides touch and it wants to go left.

i used skidoo carbides on mine and modified the fronts a little so the carbides went up inside the ski.

toe with any dual carbide ski can be set to 0

my stock carbides that came on them are now on my daughters snow scoot.

they put the carbide too far behind the pivot and it makes the ski turn way harder than it should.

if you like how they track but dont like the hard steering, you will love the arrow skis.

 

[kinger]

Sorry I screwed up I had the bergstrom triple's on the inside not the outside and the crappy simmons ones on the outside. My bad.

I may try arrow skis someday.