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Oh dear feef, that might have been me.
I always lock my skis, and last year in Tignes did lock mine to another's by mistake.
Was relaxing in restaurant in town when waiter came up and asked we had locked our skis . . . . 
I lock my car, i lock my bike, i lock my skis.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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We have only recently bought a cable/combination type lock which is very small and light - he carries it - and have now on the odd occasion locked the skis to a rack if we are somewhere at village/road level where it would be easy to get away. Outside restaurants we sometimes just swap them so that it stops someone taking a pair away by mistake.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| a.j. wrote: |
| we just do swapsies, mid end rental gear though so nothing special... |
But if they get taken you still have a day of inconvenience reporting to the police, which in our case was an hours drive away, either paying the shop €300ish and sorting out replacements, then if your insurance company decide you'd left them unattended which we all do when in a mountain hut, they may not pay you anyway, and if they do you still have the excess to pay. Worth a few seconds of locking them methinks! 
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Whenever I'm out of sight of them, I normally lock my skis to my brothers board...he's had one stolen in the past. I know it's not quite the same thing but I'm a bit more careful since my motorbike got nicked 3 years ago.
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nope, never been anywhere where I felt there was a risk of them being snatched if honest. If it is a busier day or sitting away from them then we've mixed them up and put in separate racks but nothing more
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Nope, never locked and they spent a week in the boot room unlocked at the main hotel in Mayerhofen (close to the Penkenbahn) and didn't disappear. However its very unlikely anyone is going to clip into my skis by accident as:
1) I've not seen many pairs of Movement skis on the piste in europe
2) I've seen even less people with teleboots
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Always; would you leave a £ 500 bike unlocked outside a restaurant? Safeman locks are reasonably small, but with a quite solid wire; the thin wire ski shop Chinese ones are pretty fragile and break easily.
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Never have and have never been skiing with anybody that has. Maybe a different mind set between countries I think.
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My burton one did fail once in Avoriaz and we had to get a skier within our gang to take off his boot to smash it off
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I got a cable that I thought I'd use to lock my skis a couple of years ago... but then when I looked at the skis and bindings, I couldn't work out how to do it? The only possible method that I could see was to tie the cable REALLY tightly around the centre of the binding so that the ski couldn't be slipped out of the loop...
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Have never locked skis in the past 35+ years of skiing and never had a problem.
But never have had the 'best ski's on the rack'. Haven't noticed ski's being locked either.
However, in Les Arcs recently we felt a need to swap and stack,
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Never used - but do now. Also have had children accidentally borrow my children's hired skis in the morning which was a complete pain - so lock is just gentle deterrent from mistaken identity on the ski front.
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You know it makes sense.
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| jamescollings wrote: |
| I got a cable that I thought I'd use to lock my skis a couple of years ago... but then when I looked at the skis and bindings, I couldn't work out how to do it? The only possible method that I could see was to tie the cable REALLY tightly around the centre of the binding so that the ski couldn't be slipped out of the loop... |
Isn't putting it through the ski brake the accepted method?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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The question Id always want to know the answer to. When skis have been stolen, do you really think they've been stolen or taken by mistake?
It would look really guilty, especially up the mountain, to see someone skiing down with a pair under their arm.
Yes, I know they could take a pair up and leave their old pair behind.
Obviously down in the village, its easier to walk past somewhere and just take them if thats what the thief wants to do
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Obviously down in the village, its easier to walk past somewhere and just take them if thats what the thief wants to do
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Or pull up in a van with some toerag mates and pile all the better skis inside from outside a/many restaurants. It's been done...
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We've been using these Burton locks for a few years now and Saturday I secured my skis at the base station while I grabbed a coffee. Very irritatingly, the lock jammed itself. It's see through plastic and the mechanism was just not working. Borrowed a set of wire cutters from the lifty and off we go. No-one seemed to pay attention...
Need to buy a new lock tomorrow.
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Borrowed a set of wire cutters from the lifty and off we go. No-one seemed to pay attention...
That seems reassuring........NOT
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| feefee wrote: |
| a.j. wrote: |
| we just do swapsies, mid end rental gear though so nothing special... |
But if they get taken you still have a day of inconvenience reporting to the police, which in our case was an hours drive away, either paying the shop €300ish and sorting out replacements, then if your insurance company decide you'd left them unattended which we all do when in a mountain hut, they may not pay you anyway, and if they do you still have the excess to pay. Worth a few seconds of locking them methinks! |
Exactly this experience in val disere after forgetting one of the kids snowboards at village level. It cost about 100 euroes plus loss of half a day skiing. I lock them or worry about them.
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Always use a lock - small retractable cable lock that fits in the waist strap pocket of my backpack. Will never stop a determined thief but hopefully deter the opportunist. When I leave my skis to go into a mountain restaurant or bar it's always at the back of my mind that some toe-rag is looking at my skis thinking 'I fancy a pair of those' or 'those are better than mine' etc.
If my skis were stolen when I'd left them unattended and unlocked I'd anticipate the insurance company might be awkward. Also, getting off the mountain, getting a police report and getting replacement skis is going to be a pain and will eat up valuable ski/apres time - if using a simple lock can reduce the risk it's a no brainer to me.
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AB Ski, exactly this. But there comes a point, when a new pair of skis is on the wish list, that I sometimes hope some passing thief will relieve me of my old ones!
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| cstreat wrote: |
| Always; would you leave a £ 500 bike unlocked outside a restaurant? Safeman locks are reasonably small, but with a quite solid wire; the thin wire ski shop Chinese ones are pretty fragile and break easily. |
Yes. After the Sunday morning cycling club ride, there's normally about 30 or 40 bikes parked outside Nero, I think mine's one of the cheapest at about a grand. None are locked.
There's always folk around, there's always someone who can see them and I suspect it's the same for skis. I never lock mine but even when they are split, I'm aware if where they are and keep them pretty much in sight if I can. You don't need to see the ski, just see if anyone is in the immediate vicinity.
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I always lock my skis. As mentioned on this thread skis are often taken in error. I worked as a ski guide in La Plagne and the amount of times my guests came out from a restaurant and picked up the wrong skis was staggering. I even had people come out and walk in a totally different direction to where they left their skis.
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Always lock mine since about 6 years ago in Alpe D'Huez when some ***** took mine by mistake & managed to use them all day before returning them late afternoon after I had spent 2 hours in the police station 
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Always lock mine now I own a pair.
Heard too many reports from people who've lost theirs, probably to accidental, mistaken identity, possibly to theft.
A lock will prevent the former and may deter the latter.
Net effect? More relaxation in the bar 
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Poster: A snowHead
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I always lock mine, but I always feel like a bit of an idiot whilst I'm doing it 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Yep
Had to scrap an afternoons ski a while back when someone took sons skis, sure by accident as the ones left were similar, from same hire place, but slightly different size.
Is a cheap cable lock, but run it through bindings on one of each our skis. Won't deter theft but stops accidental removal
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Yes. Like others, it's a cheap cable lock, but it means that someone doesn't walk off with my skis by mistake.
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Mind you they're always hired skis.
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would still mess up your afternoon if they were stolen though, especially if you were somewhere you couldn't get down in a lift.
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Yep. It's very compact (Google "pebble ski lock")
I think you'd get through it with a pair of nail clippers if you wanted but it'll stop someone picking them up by mistake, and if they are nicking, nick the unlocked ones next to them instead (Which is all car steering locks do)
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| jafa wrote: |
| The question Id always want to know the answer to. When skis have been stolen, do you really think they've been stolen or taken by mistake? |
I think this is a bigger problem. Just come back from a trip where my eight-year-old nephew's skis were taken from outside a restaurant. After half an hour of looking we gave it up, and his dad piggy-backed him down the mountain, hired a new pair and came back up.
By the time he'd come back up, whoever it was had come back, left my nephew's skis and (presumably) taken the right pair.
Just one of those things, I guess; a lock would have helped, as would mix and matching the skis.
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| holidayloverxx wrote: |
| Shimmy Alcott, yes, I have a cable combination lock. |
+1 works for about three pairs 
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