Poster: A snowHead
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Has anyone ever snapped their ski?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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dk100, Why, have you?
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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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dk100, Once snapped an Hire ski many moons ago. Guess it was on its way out before I gave it its final flex and crack.
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have seen it happen a few times, not to myself personally though.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Yup.
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yup twice but not in the last 20 years!
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I have bent pretty badly one of my atomic sl11@s
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I've delaminated a couple of pairs, but never snapped them outright. What does it take to snap a decent pair of skis?
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thought I killed an old Romanian ski but my Dad repaired it with a tin can
Tried hard to kill my Kneissl Tankers but they held up when I landed straight on a rock.
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Hmm. "Decent"? I guess that means 'without other cause you could possibly blame, like glueless mounting into poplar cores causing rot, too many holes drilled in steel topsheets, edge blowouts focusing the flex into a specific point" etc?
I cracked a pair of 10.22s and a jawbone against a tree in Mott Canyon once. Tails crossed
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Broke a Scott ski and a K2 ski, 2 and 3 winters ago. Both broke just in front of the toe binding. Whoops.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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A ski in good nick would be very hard to break, IMV. I could see an knackered pair breaking..happended to a friend once, the tail gave out.
I rammed a pr of pilots 18 inches into a rock and it took 20 minutes to dig out and still looked ok. I didn't trust it afterwards but it didn't break there and then.
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Megamum, Yeah I snapped one of mine completely recently skiing at Kaprun or I should say falling. It surprised me a little bit as I thought skis would be more flexible this day and age
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You know it makes sense.
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JT, My atomics were 9 months old and in top condition. The crack was 20 cms from the tip. I must have been unlucky either that or i,m a total fat b*****d
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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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On a similar vein, does anyone believe getting ski insurance at a hire shop is a worthwhile expenditure? Sometimes I pay up, sometimes I don't. When I do I always get the uncomfortable feeling I'm being fleeced
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Poster: A snowHead
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noggy,
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does anyone believe getting ski insurance
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It is !
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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noggy, you're hardly being fleeced - take the insurance and walk away when you lose/break equipment, or don't bother and pay for what you break. Fairly straightforward, I'd think.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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dk100, broke Rossi 9XKs ramming into a rosk I mistook for a bump. I parked & flew. Didn't actually notice that the skis had snapped just in front of the toe until saw it flapping around. Brother broke (my) Dynastar Course in 1987).
Not generally easy things to break...
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One of the funniest things I ever saw on a slope was a guy following one of his mate off the piste into some woods. His mate made it and so the guy decided to go through the piled up snow on the edge of the piste. Unfortunately for him it was frozen solid! He stopped dead and both his skiis snapped about 30 cm's in front of his boots and he just ended up standing there with both the broken bits flapping around at 90 degrees in front of him. His mates were rolling around in hysterics (and, to fair, so was he). Very very funny...no idea if he skiied down or not
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Yeah, snapped one of my hire ski's behind the foot last year.
It wasn't noticed when i left the ski's back.
I have took the insurance any time since.
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I fell on a pair of hire skis and on getting up discovered that one was bent upwards from half way gently curling like a turkish slipper. Probably not very good quality hire skis as the next run on a new pair the binding broke in another fall.
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I hadn't thought of gear damage - with my nice new shiny acquisitions I might check my policy next year to make sure damage to my gear as well as possible theft is covered.
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avoid rock hopping-I smashed a shiny new pair of hire skis about 14 years ago in les Houches going down a closed piste. It was closed for a good reason. Nice at the top tho
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