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Fuckin poles!!!

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BIGairVZ
Posts: 525 - Karma: 32
I just bent the shit out of my new Scott ace of spades! I've only used them twice and i don't even know how I bent them. Why are poles so damn expensive anyway. You'd think that an $80 pole would hold up for a while
Mar 17 2006 4:58PM
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D-40
Posts: 6050 - Karma: 100
who actually buys poles anyways
Mar 17 2006 4:59PM
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lowtech
Posts: 1135 - Karma: 10
poles NEVER hold up. that's why i always buy the cheapest pair i can find
Mar 17 2006 5:00PM
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Ice-Is-Scary
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I feel ya, thats why I buy 25$ poles and just bend them back whenever I take a bad spill, I've had the same poles for two seasons now and they are the shit. My whole setup is sparkling and my poles look like something they would refuse at the dump.
Mar 17 2006 5:00PM
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B.Cox
Posts: 458 - Karma: 18
i bought some scott silencers or whatever the all black ones were called like 2 years ago and these fuckers are still straight and perfect after soooo much abuse
Mar 17 2006 5:01PM
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Ice-Is-Scary
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fuck carbon poles man, they bend and maintain their shape through quite a few crashes but once you break one in a crash and see the fuckedup jagged creature that remains, you arn't going to feel safe with them. I almost killed myself with a carbon pole afew years ago, I crashed onto it in the park and there was literraly two jagged swords sticking out of the ground after I landed. Fuck that noise
Mar 17 2006 5:03PM
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bigsoxfan
Posts: 734 - Karma: 10
lekis r solid, not to expensive eitha
Mar 17 2006 5:05PM
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BIGairVZ
Posts: 525 - Karma: 32
lmao
Mar 17 2006 5:07PM
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doubleplanks16
Posts: 300 - Karma: 10
i take rentals and then paint them to whatever design i want
Mar 17 2006 5:22PM
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Dutchie
Posts: 94 - Karma: 10
I can't believe you actually bought $80 poles. :S Why did you do that?
Mar 17 2006 5:27PM
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Ahmets_Brother
Posts: 20283 - Karma: 5,931
i donthave a problem with poles...i had a pair of scotts for 2 years then got new ones and theyve lasted all season without bending
Mar 17 2006 5:28PM
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chapz
Posts: 10182 - Karma: 66
i got some shitty atomics that have held up great
Mar 17 2006 5:29PM
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A@ron
Posts: 1320 - Karma: 86
i just broke my scotts two nights ago 2nd pair in two years that i have broke.
Mar 17 2006 5:33PM
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BIGairVZ
Posts: 525 - Karma: 32
well the pops actually bought em for me... totally didn't expect him to. I don't even know why i let him now though
Mar 17 2006 5:36PM
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jameslovesponies
Posts: 306 - Karma: 8
i use sticks i find in the woods
Mar 17 2006 5:36PM
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BIGairVZ
Posts: 525 - Karma: 32
I'll stock up on some tomorrow
Mar 17 2006 5:37PM
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UrbanRider
Posts: 265 - Karma: 10
lol cheap is the only way to go....i got mine free even better
Mar 17 2006 5:38PM
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reezyfbaby
Posts: 2308 - Karma: 13
i dunno, i think its worth it to buy really nice poles. i have some that were around 90 bucks cdn. and i cut them from like 125cm down to about 105cm and i havent bent them in three years now. i kind of bent it last week, but you cant really notice.
Mar 17 2006 5:40PM
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scratchskier170
Posts: 443 - Karma: 10
ya i got some 20$ scott poles and ya theyre bent but it doesnt matter as much since i didnt pay much. i bet u can buy some rental poles from a ski shop
Mar 17 2006 5:50PM
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waynewong
Posts: 1359 - Karma: 23
Actually it is the mark of being a hyprcritical douche...

I love it! You justify stealing from a mountain but chastise stealing from an individual.

Who the fuck do you think pays for stolen shit...we do! In our ticket and hamburger prices.

Don't be a hypcrit
Mar 17 2006 6:02PM
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eastchris
Posts: 674 - Karma: 16
ya thats what I got going on too
Mar 17 2006 6:14PM
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IcePointa
Posts: 1879 - Karma: 19
Haha, retard. Tourists are going to end up paying for 95% of the stolen shit. And who actually buys food at a resort anyway? (tourists (or people that have money to waste and would buy poles anyway)0
Mar 17 2006 6:16PM
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r.w
Posts: 3489 - Karma: 18
i have abused the shit out of my Joysticks and they are fine.
there not that expensive even though people complain about that alot
Mar 17 2006 6:17PM
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lineskier106
Posts: 538 - Karma: 11
i rent poles lol and if i break um i go to the rental shop they say sorry and give me new ones its happned twice already and i love it
Mar 17 2006 6:17PM
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waynewong
Posts: 1359 - Karma: 23
so stealing is OK if it is from some faceless company?

just asking
Mar 17 2006 6:23PM
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IcePointa
Posts: 1879 - Karma: 19
I never said that. I just wanted to point out that you were wrong to suggest that a local skier is going to end up paying more money at the resort because some of the local skiers steal $10 poles.
Mar 17 2006 6:25PM
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waynewong
Posts: 1359 - Karma: 23
^^ lets look at it this hypothetical

My roomate manages a rental shop at Moutnain "X"...he is reponsible for the gear that goes in and comes back

At the end of the season managment looks at his books and finds out three dozen pairs of poles were stolen....

This has happened five eyars in a row and every year he is told to find ways to reduce theft...yet it still happens

My roomate is fired, can't afford rent and has to live on the streets
Mar 17 2006 6:29PM
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LDuggan420
Posts: 1611 - Karma: 13
that sucks i bought nice ones that were like 80 bucks and they seem unbreakable
Mar 17 2006 6:30PM
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IcePointa
Posts: 1879 - Karma: 19
Haha, nice try.

Lets try this hypothetical...

No poles are stolen from a rental shop for 5 years. The owner makes more money and finds he has excess to spend. He experiments with drugs and is eventually addicted to heroin and dies in an argument with his supplier.

You can make a retarded scenerio for anything...
Mar 17 2006 6:33PM
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thejackal1177
Posts: 3434 - Karma: 2,724
^ thast as farfetched as saying then he gets a better job after being fired and it ultimatly makes his life better
Mar 17 2006 6:37PM
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IcePointa
Posts: 1879 - Karma: 19
thats why i call this a retarded scenerio...
Mar 17 2006 6:39PM
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Powdahound
Posts: 522 - Karma: 9
youd think that anyone who buys 80 dollar poles is retarded
Mar 17 2006 7:32PM
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Petey.
Posts: 5736 - Karma: 4,885
heh heh heh...ur better off just to gather up a bunch of old shitty poles and keep them so that when one pair brakes u have fifty others
Mar 17 2006 8:51PM
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e.will
Posts: 1981 - Karma: 967
thats why i think joysticks are a good idea, but a bad investment...

i have two pairs of poles, and i didnt buy either, so i didnt know where they came from
Mar 17 2006 8:56PM
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seemeski
Posts: 4210 - Karma: 124
I have scott poles, they're about 20ish years old. They haven't broken. Go to a garage sale and buy a pair for cheap.
Mar 17 2006 9:01PM
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TrouBle_MaK3r
Posts: 54 - Karma: 10
Ya I've already gone through three pairs this year. I just go a huge sports center store and get poles, cuz all the people there in the ski department dont know crap and I get them for ten bucks because they don't have baskets and they are sick poles
Mar 17 2006 9:02PM
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ThaHater
Posts: 673 - Karma: 303
sorry, but rental shops are in the black on the cost of rental poles after they are rented two times.
Mar 17 2006 11:35PM
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wdbo.
Posts: 4935 - Karma: 173
i hac some nice adjustable ones but the got stoled and the next day stupid chailift stopped suddently, swung back and bent the fuck out of my other pair
Mar 17 2006 11:43PM
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Antoine.
Posts: 1269 - Karma: 6
yeah man just buy some real cheapos... i got mine for $20 and have had them foe 4 years i just bend them back when they feel like bening on me... and this weekend i jsut found some ill scott poles super old they're sick
Mar 17 2006 11:44PM
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Tmeels
Posts: 1009 - Karma: 77
I bent my brand new scott nightsticks first ride
Mar 17 2006 11:59PM
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stayclassy
Posts: 126 - Karma: 10
my poles rock
Mar 18 2006 12:50AM
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lanks
Posts: 12544 - Karma: 73
buy brandname poles, straight up. biggest compliment to steeze out right now.
Mar 18 2006 12:56AM
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zemke
Posts: 842 - Karma: 70
very agreed
Mar 18 2006 12:59AM
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C_Ewart
Posts: 627 - Karma: 43
I havn't bought poles in a few seasons.. Just take 'em from the mountain's Lost and Found.
Mar 18 2006 2:25AM
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BIGairVZ
Posts: 525 - Karma: 32
You make me laugh!!! you think we pay $7 a hamburger and $50 a lift ticket because of 10-30 pairs of rental poles being stolen in a year (at most)..... Nope it's to give the Executives that extra fireplace in their houses and helicopter transportation everywhere. It's like taking a bag full of hot sauce from Taco Bell... everyone does it!
Mar 18 2006 5:40AM
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Djphantom
Posts: 124 - Karma: 10
Steal a pair from the mountain and paint them pink or like green!
Mar 18 2006 7:48AM
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Luc.
Posts: 7540 - Karma: 59
i have a pair of two odd poles that i got from ski rentals last season(last day) for two bucks, they have been bent everyway like 100 times but they never old so they are sick, i figure they are from the 80s and have bright pink baskets, 1 pink griopm, 1 lime green grip
Mar 18 2006 11:19AM
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andy_boy
Posts: 4434 - Karma: 107
If my Joysticks were anything else, I would have broken them at least three times already. The extra strength is definitely worth the 80$.
Mar 18 2006 4:50PM
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mnjib
Posts: 5592 - Karma: 362
its all about the carbon fiber poles. they cost a shit ton but last forever.
Mar 18 2006 4:58PM
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