 Poster: A snowHead
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Would be gutted if my skis got nicked. At least with a lock I'm lessening the risk and it would be safer re. insurance.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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There are £7 combination lock cable jobbies from B&Q. They'll do. Small Light and good enough to deter your average drive-by tea-leaf.
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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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I've a Kryptonite ski lock, had it for 5 years or so. It's small and pretty sturdy and I think they've improved it since too.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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hmm, cable ties bag of 50 for £1.00, about as good a deterrent as a lock and they won't freeze. But I guess you'll have to carry small sharp scissors to cut em off 
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Think mine's branded Abus, but it's probably exactly the same as most of the other wind-out cable locks (eg B+Q one). Cost maybe €10.
Sure it won't stop a determined thief, but might stop the clumsy idiot picking up the wrong skis, and hopefully fulfils the theft clause in the insurance that states "forcibly removed".
Might get a bike lock though.
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You pays yer money, you takes yer chance...
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Don't bother with a retractable lock from Lidl.
Comedy of errors.... I'd taken the wrong keys out with me for my sturdy lock at the weekend, but had the retractable lock in my pocket. Locked the bike up (was only for a few mins), but hadn't remembered to change the combination, so when I got back to it I didn't know the code!  I'd like to say a bit of brute force managed to get the lock open, but I literally snapped the cable out of the lock housing as if it wasn't there, no brute force required.
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should have added - small please, I dont carry a rucksack.
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I have a retractable one with a combination. It might even be from Lidl. It works for me as I too would not wish to carry a rucksack. The little retractable fits in my salopettes pocket. Obviously, it will not stop a determined thief, but it might be enough to make said thief try another pair of skis! The main advantage is that I have no trouble carrying it.
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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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I've had one of these for 8/9 years and they're excellent. Thicker than the combination ones I've seen and long enough to lock 2 sets of skis/poles together.
Just don't lose the keys 
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You know it makes sense.
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Plus 1 for the Safeman lock, and fits in the pocket well
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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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I actually have a lock just like that with a combination instead of a key. I found it on the ground, worked out the combination, and never used it.
After reading this thread I have now moved it next to my skis. I cannot imagine anyone wanting to steal my old battered skis, but then I never imagined anyone would steal a 10 year old pair of well used and smelly ski boots! (until someone did)
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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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You've obviously been lucky with the safeman locks - I tried two and one after the other they just fell apart in my hands - what was worse was when you saw them apart you realised what little substance there really was inside. I'll find my ski lock thread and post it for you in a mo - there is lots of info in it about ski locks.
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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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Megamum, you have a lcable lock that's five feet long? 
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rogg, five feet isn't so long, it rolls up nice and small and still tucks in a pocket - I can get it around several sets of skis and we tied them all up in a big heavy bundle and then tie the bundle to an immovable object if we can find one - at the very least a thief would make one hell of a clatter if he tried for them.
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