Equipment to avoid

bandit wrote:

ise wrote:
split boards are snowboards, there's no such thing as "two skis you can join together" it's a snowboard that can be split to allow climbing skins to be used.

Hmmm, then again, there are these on sale right now....... :D

http://www.boardski.biz/bulldog.htm

BTW I'm not advocating that anyone should buy a pair, but I hear they have been tested on snow at Milton Keynes :D

:) :) :) OK, we're unanimous on that one then, they most certainly look like something to avoid :D

Do blades usually cost over £320!!! I can get two very good boards for that price!

Ise,
Thanks for pictures since it clears the issue about those front brakes. What I am referring to are two shanks very much like screwdrivers which also go under front binding area. At end they have a slight bend with plastic piece.
They are 3mm from ski edge!
They are not for "off-piste" skiing but rather sold as "extra stopping protection" in ski resorts.
A waste of money!

Great pictures! What kind of camera do you have?

Pavel

oopalley wrote:Do blades usually cost over £320!!! I can get two very good boards for that price!

I know!

Why not just buy a set of blades and a board?

Pavel I think that somewhere in my basement I have a pair of 180 cm skis with a pair of Burt plates mounted to them. The skis are from the first GLM short era and the plates worked fine until the cables broke and couldn't be replaced.

I used to ski a one-piece shell boot called a HANSON and the ridiculous idea for a ski boot that had no ankle flexation and bees wax as a fitting material and a neoprene liner. You had to use silicone spray to get these things on and you skied in bare feet. Egad I feel old.[/Users/jamesp/Desktop/hanson_73b.jpg]

http://s234.photobucket.com/albums/ee60/jamesay/?action=view¤t=hanson_73b-1.jpg

Hanson Boots here

quite possibly the oddest looking pair of boots I've ever seen, and you say you've skied in these :?:

I must have a strange attraction to lights. I like # 8 and # 11.

"8. Ski lights ( really) Just screw the, on tips!
11. Poles with batteries so you can have blinking poles"

But then what sold me on the roller blades I bought last year were the toe and heal lights (LEDs). And you can set them to flash at different rates and patterns! Are the ski lights "programmable" as well Pavel? Will the tail light brighten when you put on the brakes ? A starin guage could be used to sense a braking action and trigger the brake light. It would be great for night skiing...


Just too cool !!!

Mike