 Poster: A snowHead
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Does anyone know where I can buy vices in Cham? I brought my tuning kit but forgot the vices. I also need a new edge angle guide.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Zero-G, Just drive down to Vola in Passy.
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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 don't have a car.
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Zero-G,I bought some from vices from the Sallanches hardware store next to the Carrefour Supermarche which I leave at my place. What side edge angle do you need as I am coming out on Saturday and can bring something if you need it from the UK?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Zero-G, They will do mail order.
Alternatively, buy from Ski Clinic in Cluses but ask their bootfitters to take the stuff back to Sanglard Sports in Chamonix
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Zero-G, vue campieur down in sallanches. I have some you can borrow but I'm not back in Chamonix for ten days. It's worth a trip to vue campieur toward the end of the season they have fantastic discounts. I usually go when it's bad weather, if you fancy an outing.
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geek 
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Zero-G, Where do you think??  read catalogue, choose product, place order!!
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CH2O, ooh, really? Excellent (to be said with French accent). I'll swing by.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Obviously you're beyond the assistance of the Doug Coombs Q&P tune.
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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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Zero-G, If you have lasted this much of the winter without sharpening your edges then do you really need the extra kit ?
I had a couple of days skiing in Chamonix at Planards just after the European Cup Slaloms had been there, it was amusing watching all the people on fat rockered skis hit the snow that had been water injected.
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rjs, amusing because you need to properly prepare snow to ski race or amusing because a load of people ready to ski snow au natural happened across it? Neither seem that odd.
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You know it makes sense.
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Plannards Is thé towns beginners slope, nobody that can ski skis there. Why would you come to Cham and ski at the plannards? They use it for slalom comps that's about it.
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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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| rjs wrote: |
| If you have lasted this much of the winter without sharpening your edges then do you really need the extra kit ? |
I haven't lasted, have taken my skis in to be tuned.
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| I had a couple of days skiing in Chamonix at Planards just after the European Cup Slaloms had been there, it was amusing watching all the people on fat rockered skis hit the snow that had been water injected. |
Why on earth would anyone with fat, rockered skis ski at Planards?
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Poster: A snowHead
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Zero-G, Maybe on the run out from VB?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Zero-G wrote: |
| rjs wrote: |
| I had a couple of days skiing in Chamonix at Planards just after the European Cup Slaloms had been there, it was amusing watching all the people on fat rockered skis hit the snow that had been water injected. |
Why on earth would anyone with fat, rockered skis ski at Planards? |
I presumed that they were just skiing back into town off the Aiguille du Midi, and from their reaction to the race snow that you could usually manage without really sharp edges.
Do you really need a vice ? I just lean skis against a wall. Get a good edge angle guide though.
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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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ww166no, ah that makes sense.
rjs, I did that when I first arrived, the result was, shall we say, less than optimal and I had a very interesting day's skiing the following day. I use a Skiman edge angle guide, which I'm more than happy with. I'll just buy the vices and and then sell them at the end of the season. Btw, your name isn't Jason is it? Just checking that you're not my accountant... or my mother 
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Zero-G, as a temp measure I use the benches in the locker room at my place. I clamp the binding very near to the edge and between the short side of the benches so it can't move then sit or kneel on one bench whilst waxing or edging. Not perfect but it's better than nothing, gets the ski flat, stops it shifting around and allows the binding to be open as you work. Helps if you wrap a tea towel around the binding as well as protecting it a bit.
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