From the moment you step into the bindings and make your first turns on the freshly groomed slope, the Salomon Addikt wants to hook you and make you race down the slope again and again as you please, from the first ray of sunlight in the early morning until the last lift ride.
Salomon Addikt: A Highly Potent Mixture
For the Addikt series skis, Salomon combines various known technologies with new innovations to create something entirely new and highly addictive.
The foundation of the Addikt skis is a proven combination of a poplar wood core and a double titanal layer. These elements ensure stability and optimal snow contact in every position while providing responsiveness and maximum precision.
With the Blade technology, Salomon incorporates another component from its racing segment. These flexible polymer inserts integrated into the titanal layer allow the Addikt series skis to flex effortlessly without compromising torsional rigidity and smooth running. On the contrary, the Addikt models offer the perfect combination of stiffness needed for secure edge hold during fast carving and liveliness required for quick edge changes.
The crowning touch is a technology developed specifically for the Addikt skis, namely the Motion Tail. This striking cutout in the tail of the skis, reminiscent of a swallowtail, not only looks exciting but also gives them exciting riding characteristics. The increased flexibility in the tail allows the ski to drift more easily when needed without compromising full edge grip during carved turns. This makes the skis both more forgiving and more responsive.
Sustainability and Eye-Catching Design
You can tell at first glance that the Addikt skis from Salomon are something special. This is not only due to the striking Motion Tail swallowtail but also to the extraordinary color scheme.
The top sheet plays with its iconic Salomon racing flag design, alluding to Salomon's rich racing history. Even more striking are the numerous colorful dots in the sidewalls of the skis. This element not only makes each ski a unique piece but is also sustainable: Normally, 40 to 50% of the material used when milling ski flanks ends up as shavings in the trash. For the Addikt and Addikt Pro skis, these shavings are collected, remelted, and transformed into a new sidewall. The result: The performance characteristics remain unchanged, waste is reduced by almost half, and the sidewall of each ski receives a unique colorful pattern. Additionally, oil-based plastics can be avoided.
Salomon Addikt on the slope
That's enough about the technical details. Of course, we also tested whether the skis deliver on their promises. The result: No matter which model of the Addikt series we strapped on, we didn't want to stop carving down the slopes.
Pure fun with the Salomon Addikt Pro
The most agile ski in the series is the Salomon Addikt Pro. With its narrow and playful mid-width of 66mm, it ensures quick transitions from edge to edge.
When you want it to be, it's dynamic and responsive, but it can also be easily and comfortably ridden at low speeds. Above all, it shows what it can do as soon as you challenge it a bit more. The balanced, smooth flex provides a secure riding feel, the shovel willingly pulls into the turn without tending to overcut, and the edge grip provides more security as the speed increases. The forgiving motion tail ensures that minor riding errors or unevenness in the slope don't lead to bigger problems. Even on hard and icy slopes, the Addikt Pro remains calm. In short, an intoxicating mixture of accessible and intuitive riding behavior, energy, solid edge grip, feedback, and pure skiing fun.
Who is the Salomon Addikt Pro suitable for?
All in all, the Salomon Addikt Pro is neither a ski for beginners nor for riders who have nothing else in mind than breaking speed records, but for everyone in between. It can provide the feeling that skiing at race speed might not be so difficult after all.
Smooth Running with Salomon Addikt Pro 76
The slightly wider built Salomon Addikt Pro 76 rides similarly intuitively and powerfully. With its mid-width of 76mm, it shifts the riding characteristics a bit away from agility and towards stability and smooth running. At the same time, the slight rocker facilitates turn initiation in slush and on worn-out slopes. With its dimensions almost like an all-mountain ski, with a slalom radius in the shovel and the medium radius under the binding, the Salomon Addict Pro 76 can effortlessly vary between short and medium carving turns and thus has just as much addiction potential as the slimmer Addikt Pro.
Salomon Addikt: The little brother of the Addikt Pro
As a more affordable model in the Addikt world, the Salomon Addikt may not have the blade technology, but it has all the other riding characteristics that define the Addikt series. With a mid-width of 72 mm and a radius of 14 meters and 15 percent rocker, it is extremely versatile and equally suitable for freshly groomed slopes and worn-out slush.