@GregK - You were right about the best mount point(s) on the 110 M Free Sender/192. And it makes a big difference.
Thanks.
Last week I took out this ski in what was predicted to be a 3" day, and instead it was 1" on top of hard re-freeze.
So I was focused on the right mount point for hard carving, which this ski was up to, happily.
I got in a lot of mount point experimenting, since I have Schizos on these skis.
I'd already arrived at tentatively moving back from anything forward to a mount on the rec. line, for 2-6" of powder.
But carving last week in crust conditions it was obvious I was too far forward, at least for those conditions,
so I moved first to -1.0 (better), then to -1.5 (even better),
then to -2.0 (maybe best, at least for me on crust carving conditions).
This is what you'd predicted: to start back at least -1.5, and try -2.0 also. You had it right, for me also, from the start
- at least in such conditions, but I suspect in conditions at least up to 3-4".
Yes, I really like these skis better moved back, so far, as you predicted.
From now on, I like two settings until I experience otherwise:
-1.5, which for me is a balance of some of the turny effect of the Black Ops 118, with
a really good carving feel in dust on crust. I will try this next in powder/crud;
and
-2.0, a second great mount point, for me - again predicted as likely by you.
-2.0 was what I settled on last week.
This is a looser dialed in carve, as opposed to a tighter, turnier feel of -1.5. The -2.0 is less bossy, and more neutral, for now,
and as the ice softened and the dust was skied off, the -2.0 felt more open-ended for creativity, albeit in slightly easier conditions.
It was more freeride-like, and I could ski faster with it in a good way than with -1.5 (in slightly more challenging snow conditions).
Up to last week, I felt the Salomon Blank 194 and the Rossignol 110 M Free/192 were neck and neck, a tie.
(But I also found myself reaching for the Blanks more often than the Rossis.)
Now I still feel it's pretty much a tie, both great.
(But I suspect that at least for now, I'll be reaching for the Rossi 110s more often than the Blanks.)
