I love reading the arguments about paneling out and the washout.
The current Doo does BOTH, if you are not experiencing it then you are either not riding in the right conditions or you are not riding hard enough. Come ride here in McCall, I will take you out and demonstrate both problems within 8 miles of the parking lot.
After riding with a lot of different folks from around the country this year, I have realized that everyone thinks that they are riding the current sleds to their potential, but very few actually are. (Including me.) If you don't push the current Doo's performance limitations, you do not know that they have them.
That being said, the G4 is better in every way. Paneling out, washout, both. I rode the 165 and it felt like it was much much shorter.
I locked out my 154 T3 T-motion last week, it was interesting. It held a sidehill better without washing, it didn't do that crazy Doo, brodie slide thing on the gas, yet it randomly flopped down like the XP used to do. I liked it in some situations, disliked it in others. I took the lock off last ride, and disliked the wishy wash. Both took getting used to. I think if it wasn't a cheesy Skinz lockout washer that I used, I would have left it locked and learned to ride it.
The current Doo does BOTH, if you are not experiencing it then you are either not riding in the right conditions or you are not riding hard enough. Come ride here in McCall, I will take you out and demonstrate both problems within 8 miles of the parking lot.
After riding with a lot of different folks from around the country this year, I have realized that everyone thinks that they are riding the current sleds to their potential, but very few actually are. (Including me.) If you don't push the current Doo's performance limitations, you do not know that they have them.
That being said, the G4 is better in every way. Paneling out, washout, both. I rode the 165 and it felt like it was much much shorter.
I locked out my 154 T3 T-motion last week, it was interesting. It held a sidehill better without washing, it didn't do that crazy Doo, brodie slide thing on the gas, yet it randomly flopped down like the XP used to do. I liked it in some situations, disliked it in others. I took the lock off last ride, and disliked the wishy wash. Both took getting used to. I think if it wasn't a cheesy Skinz lockout washer that I used, I would have left it locked and learned to ride it.