Skis Faction La Machine 2 Mini (2024)

Lightweight carbon touring ski for off-piste skiing, with soft flex and durable construction

The Faction La Machine Mini is a carbon touring ski specially designed for off-piste skiing. It features a lightweight paulownia wood core and carbon layers, offering lightness and flexibility, ideal for long tours. Its unique shape is ideal for skiers who like to vary their movements in all weather conditions. It is sustainably manufactured in Austria and powered entirely by renewable energy.

Features:

• Unique, progressive design especially for off-piste skiing, making skiing more fun and adventurous.
• Combination of lightweight paulownia wood core and carbon layers for a lightweight ski with a soft flex, ensuring comfort and endurance.
• High-quality, durable Austrian construction, made with 100% renewable energy, guaranteeing an environmentally-friendly product.

Technical features:

• Extended tip and tail rocker: refers to the inverted camber in the tip and tail of the ski. This feature, combined with width at the base, is essential to ensure excellent lift in fresh snow. The extended rocker also facilitates ski maneuverability, enabling easier turns while reducing the risk of unwanted hang-ups.
• Paulownia core: a hard, stable wood, is combined with poplar, a softer wood, to improve the ski's flexibility and bounce. This combination of two types of wood creates an ultra-light core while retaining maximum responsiveness and dynamics.
• Carbon fiber: Between 8 and 12 strips of carbon fiber are arranged unidirectionally on each side of the core to enhance stability without increasing weight. Each carbon strip is carefully woven with the fiberglass to provide optimum strength and stiffness in all directions.
• Surf zones : technology developed to harmonize the rocker and the tapered shape of the tips, guaranteeing perfect interaction between these two key features. The rocker offers exceptional lift and enhanced maneuverability, while the tapered tips move the widest part of the ski towards the center, reducing the risk of unwanted edge grip. This technology provides excellent lift and a smooth feel, whatever the conditions.
• Full Strength Sidewall construction : consists of adding layers of protective material along the edges of the sidewall, between the edge of the ski and the topsheet. This technique ensures optimum stability and grip when the ski is negotiating a turn, while protecting the wood core, edges and outer surface from impact and potential damage.
• CAP construction in tip and tail : reinforcement of the central part of the ski with extremely robust sidewalls, while the topsheet is wrapped. This technique protects the ski from impact, improving durability while reducing overall weight for freestyle or touring use.
• Pair weight: 2.9 kg

Eco-friendly :

• 1% for the planet: Faction donates 1% of ski sales to environmental protection associations.
• Eco-sourced wood cores: wood from forests close to Faction European factories, eliminating a large proportion of CO2 emissions.
• Bio-resin: more environmentally-friendly resin with 35% plant-based molecules
• Local raw materials: raw materials are purchased from European companies located near our plants Faction
• Recycled materials: working with production partners to reduce waste. To date, sole, edge and topsheet scraps are recycled for reuse in production.