Abstract: A pair of skis for alpine skiing, with asymmetrically waisted skis (1, 2), each ski (1, 2) at its outside comprising a sidecut (24) of heavier curvature than at its inside; to facilitate parallel guiding of the skis when going through curves, with equally loaded skis (1, 2), the waisting at the outside of each ski (1, 2) is rearwardly offset relative to that at the inside by a distance (X) in the range of centimeters, and the beginning of the waisting (24) at the outside of each ski (1, 2), following upon the shovel region, is outwardly offset as compared to the waisting (25) at the inside, by a distance (Y) in the range of millimeters; in this manner, when going in curves, when the two skis (1, 2) are guided at a distance (D) in the range of decimeters from each other, with the outer ski (1) rearwardly offset in travel direction relative to the inner ski (2), the waistings (24; 15) of the outside of the inner ski (2) and of the inside of the outer ski (1) describe at least approximately concentric arcs (16,

Abstract: In a wheel support arrangement of a vehicle drive axle with a hollow axle housing having outer ends on which wheel hubs are rotatably supported by bearings transmitting the wheel loads directly to the axle housing and drive shafts extending through the axle housings and having at their ends outside the axle housing drive shaft flanges connected to the hubs and brake discs or drums mounted on the inner ends of the wheel hubs, the wheel hubs and the outer bearing race ring have essentially the same axial length and the drive shaft flanges and the brake disc or drum flanges have inner diameters smaller than the outer diameter of the outer bearing race ring so as to firmly engage the outer bearing race ring between the drive shaft and the brake disc or drum flanges.