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ragadytrees
Posts: 551 - Karma: 27
dose it matter if buy a realy good pair or just a $10 pair i understand the difernace betwene the compsit one and alumon ones
Feb 5 2007 9:03PM
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K2skipunk
Posts: 2837 - Karma: 111
i just use shitty cheap ones. go for it.
Feb 5 2007 9:04PM
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ShadyHillGroup
Posts: 2881 - Karma: 213
your gunna break alot of poles skiing park...well i do but i bail alot...and thats an understatment
Feb 5 2007 9:25PM
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ShadyHillGroup
Posts: 2881 - Karma: 213
i meant to say get the cheap ones for the reason that....^
Feb 5 2007 9:26PM
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WeK
Posts: 1894 - Karma: 11
I have no idea how much mine were, but I have some pretty short masters which were prolly cheap as dirt, but every other pole I ever touch seems heavier, and I can't imagine using anything else.

Theyre starting to bend though, wish I knew were to get the same ones
Feb 5 2007 9:27PM
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king_pin
Posts: 120 - Karma: 9
i picked up a pair of joysticks for like $25 canadian, brand new
Feb 5 2007 9:51PM
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Crock360
Posts: 2100 - Karma: 23
just go to a ski swap, or something similar and pick up some cheap composite poles. They wont break nearly as easily as aluminum, and are usually very light. Or if you're real cheap, cruise the ski racks at your locak hill after the lifts stop turning, and snag a pair of forgotten ones. if they're too long, you can always cut them down.
Feb 5 2007 10:11PM
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ijibgoremtn
Posts: 4221 - Karma: 13
just keep taking them from ski mountains lost and found pers lose them all the time sometimes you will get nice ones sometimes you get but they free so who cares, and i got nice ones that ive used for about 1.5 seasons and they arent bent or anything and i fall on them all the time
Feb 6 2007 1:46PM
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LC.
Posts: 5952 - Karma: 2,423
Dynastar sent me pretty expensive carbon ones last year. I normally snap a pair every 20 days but this pair lasted over 100, skiing harder and falling harder than I ever have before. Plus they're light and easier to paint than metal. I'm converted.
Feb 6 2007 3:54PM
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DopeSauce
Posts: 1677 - Karma: 26
Thats weird... I've only ever broken one, and that was going up the lift
Feb 6 2007 3:55PM
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Carrphotography
Posts: 590 - Karma: 95
 anyone know if the grip comes off the 4frnt crossfade poles in order to cut them down?
Feb 6 2007 4:02PM
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Canuker
Posts: 4730 - Karma: 165
where??
Feb 6 2007 6:06PM
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ShadyHillGroup
Posts: 2881 - Karma: 213
what, really, idk i end up going through 2-3 sets a season, i moved to shorter poles for park and dont wear my wrist straps, but i still somehow fall and go to get up and i have 3 poles instead of 2
Feb 6 2007 10:47PM
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LC.
Posts: 5952 - Karma: 2,423
Pretty sure. Just heat them up with a heat gun, hair dryer or in boiling water then cut with a pipe cutter or hacksaw. Or take some beer to your ski shop and have them do it.
Feb 7 2007 4:33PM
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ragadytrees
Posts: 551 - Karma: 27
ski shops have a little machine that dose it you clap the poles and thane have a foot pedal that rips the handle of
Feb 7 2007 5:19PM
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LC.
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That machine just makes it quicker and easier. My shop just now doesn't have one and we just use a heat gun and pull them off - easier with 2 people/
Feb 7 2007 5:20PM
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