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As racers, coaches and service technicians, we've worked at every level of the sport from local high school races to Olympics and World Championships.  When we launched BNS, one of the first things we did was start publishing wax reports that included multiple brands.  We figured that the while typical wax reports from each company were useful, most racers want to know what wax is fastest - period - not just what is running best from each brand.

These wax reports are our best effort at providing objective, useful information for racers. We import several wax brands including Holmenkol, SkiGo, Guru, Magnar and Gallium, and we sell Swix, Toko, Rex, Rode and Start, among others. We try our best to test as many waxes as possible, but it is just not possible to test everything, and no test is infallible.  With this in mind, we seek full transparency in every one of our recommendations by discussing how we test, what the results are and what we recommend, so you can trust our work and decide for yourself how valuable our recommendations are.  We hope that these reports will be useful to you and help you make fast skis!
  

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Eldora Nighthawks Wax Recommendation

Categories: Announcements, Event Reports, Shop Blog, Wax Reports | Author: SuperUser Account | Posted: 2/14/2012 | Views: 952
February 15, 2012

BNS Wax Recommendation

Eldora Nighthawks

Wednesday, February 15, Eldora Mountain Resort, CO

Event Information

Nighthawks is a weekday race series with races every Wednesday at 6PM Jan-March

Weather 

From NOAA.gov – for the latest forecast click here

Tuesday Night: A 50 percent chance of snow showers. Cloudy, with a low around 16. West wind around 8 mph. Total nighttime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Wednesday: A 40 percent chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 25. West wind around 9 mph. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Wednesday Night: A 20 percent chance of snow before 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 15. West northwest wind between 3 and 9 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph.

 

Recommendation

Base Layer: Ski*Go LF Graphite

Race Paraffin: Ski*Go: HF Blue, LF Blue (less expensive) or XC Blue (least expensive)
                           Holmenkol: Matrix Blue or Ultramix Blue (least expensive)
                           Swix: HF6, LF6 (less expensive), CH6 (least expensive)
                           Toko: HF Blue, LF Blue (less expensive) or Blue (least expensive)

Fluoro Powder:  Ski*Go C105 Powder or Holmenkol Mid-08 or Mid powder

Topcoat: SkiGo C105 solid or Holmenkol Speedblock Mid-08 or Speedblock Mid

Kick: Are you crazy?  Nobody skis these classical.  If you are crazy, try SkiGo HF Violet, Rode Multigrade Violet, Rode Super Blue, Swix Extra Blue.  Check the conditions when you arrive and figure out what is working best.

CONCLUSIONARY NOTES

The snow was cold and new Tuesday morning, but quite fast as there is a lot of humidity in the air and snow.  Expect race conditions to be fast and maybe wax a grade warmer than you would normally for Nighthawks.

note: BNS imports Holmenkol and SkiGo waxes, and also sells waxes from Swix, Toko, Rode, Solda, Rex, Guru, Innovax, Magnar and others. We search for the fastest waxes for our customers and our testing is professional, objective and transparent. We make our best effort to test what we think is the best from each brand.  However, given that we are testing more options from Holmenkol and SkiGo, there is a bias toward those brands.  With this full disclosure, you can assess the legitimacy of our testing yourself. Visit Swix and Toko for their official recommendations. If you have any questions please contact us.



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