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Well you wouldn't Adam and Eve it !

We were actually considering making a table out of old skis !

And look what yours truly came across an hour or so ago, I could see that maybe they were "dumped" out of an apartment building, but as I started to load one set into the van a woman looked out from behind the window gesticulating to me, but she was in fact saying take what I wanted Smile

Classic 80's retro skis, with one set being the Iconic Rossignol 4G!

Lucky I have a huge garage here that needs filling up Laughing

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Are those FKS turntables? Still indemnified? although guess only work on skinny skis cos of the brake issue.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

If those Looks on the Rossis are the all metal ones then free = very cheap!
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I once mounted a pair of my stepdaughters "old" skis on brackets above my garage, put my old boots in the bindings and had some lovely planters. My wife and step daughter where not pleased
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It gets worse, they obviously inter breed over night Shocked

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"Poubelle skis" as they're simply known in resort, as they're normally found lurking at the side of the bins - if so inclined you could make thousands of tables, chairs, probably an entire chalet from them. Normally be picked up by someone one season 'for a laugh' and then returned to the bins the next when they realise they're just taking up space...

fatbob, for the brakes on the Looks/Rossis, you could replace the brake plate with a wide one for around 80€ but I wonder how off the DIN reading would be at this age.
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albinomountainbadger wrote:
I wonder how off the DIN reading would be at this age.

I have seen pairs with broken springs in the heel piece, worth taking them apart first if Weathercam plans to use them.
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After all it is free Go on u know u want to!

albinomountainbadger, don't quite agree with you on this - we've been having a discussion tonight with a couple of friends, who "God forbid" might know more than the average Snowhead about "things" and we sort of agreed that these were not, in your words "Poubelle skis" and that in a few years time, might not have been the best move to turn them into something like this....



When does "poubelle" transgress over to "art" / "histoire" ?

Says he who has a pair of ex rental wooden skis in his apartment Puzzled
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They are poubelle skis by virtue of the fact someone was throwing them out... Go down the dechetterie if you want more, they will most likely have an area set aside for them and be more than happy to let you take them away.

Honestly though I've seen it many times now, a friend comes home bright-eyed with some great bit of kit he's found at the bins, it's sits in the cave for a couple of years and then gets thrown back to the bins. If you've got the space what the hell, I'm not saying you shouldn't. Someone has already put up a link to a site where people make furniture from reclaimed skis, so fair play to you if you making something from them. In all honesty though I think the above chairs are a pretty hideous example. Couple of snowboards for a table and two more for benches would be more like it, make a nice picnic/BBQ bench that. Happy

It's a great way to recycle though, this system of putting things in front of the bins rather than in them. My last pair of boots disappeared within half an hour and this week alone I've put two shelving units down in front of our bins (both now gone too). We used to do the same at the tip in the UK until the guys told my dad it wasn't allowed any more and we had to throw everything in the big containers even if it was still usable. rolling eyes
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IWeathercam, i note two things.

1. The 4G was never iconic. Ever.

2. You are showing a nice 7S. The 7S was iconic. A truly splendid ski.
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Weathercam, are your "friends who know best" going to ski these skis and you post the video???
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kitenski, funny you should comment on that, another reason why we might hold off chopping them up rolling eyes

under a new name, and yes I might be getting confused with the 4S Equippe - twas a long time ago !
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Someone up at Oulees has used a load of skis like these as a fence. As has the municipal parks department at Annecy.
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 You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.

Weathercam, confused, maybe, wrong, certainly. No 4 ski was ever iconic. They may have been plentiful, but never marvellous.

The 7 s however, original turquoise 7S and gorgeous purple 7X were outstanding.
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