Shop review: Urban Alpine Ski Shop FAIL

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

yeah, and that chocolate is probably not ethically sourced.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

ya all take your crotchfruit skiing and expose them to the slopes and peaks
"i find i have had my reward in the repeated doing of the thing"
and the next gen of shop rats shall have theirs
same as it ever was

My wife still gets mad when I call them "fruit of my loins".

[Foggy_Goggles]

yo foggy goggy are you a ski tech or a shop owner?

Sorry, I forgot that you are the resident expert tech. Put the consultation fee on my tab. Point taken. I should have said, "find out what the techs like, get them lots of it". Not relevant but since you love to keep score...mark me down to for a decade plus of full time independent ski shop management experience and another decade of part time tune shop work.

Sometimes people know what they are talking about, sometimes they don't. It's the internet, you figure it out.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

I'd do an amazon gift card but jeff is working those poor bastards into the ground.

[Timberridge]

Squeeze out equal parts resin and hardener. I like to stir it with the free chopsticks I get at the Peking Palace.

[buttahflake]

We use popsicle sticks, easier to manipulate the goo.
And I’ll say it again, homemade cookies are the way to a techs heart.

[Vt-Freeheel]

We need a shop spreadsheet to know what each one desires.

[Timberridge]

If you keep the chopsticks attached and don't pull them apart you can almost get a popsicle stick-like action.

We need a shop spreadsheet to know what each one desires.

We can just start a list here.

Buttah -- Tate's chocolate chip cookies carefully arranged in a youth model Riddell protective cup
SFB -- Dog hair sticky roller refills and some weed.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Chocolate chip cookies were the favored tip when I was on fire and rescue. We give someone a $60,000 helo ride that's not covered by insurance and BTW you're on the hook for cookies because we got called out of a warm bed at 3am to save your ass.

[buttahflake]

I eat with a fork, motherfucker. I don’t eat with no god damn sticks.

[skifishbum]

um ya i aint kept scores or quantified since
well yeah i cant tell ya since when
and if you were slightly observant youd know im resident seasoned journeyman expertice would take too much effort and im a slacker
plenty of experts both independent and part time active reservers to fill that role here
i have an independent shop in my basement
but its dependent on my spanser allowing me to occupy that space
but its

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Buffalo Bill had an independent shop in his basement, too.

[buttahflake]

It puts the lotion on the skin

[Jong Lafitte]

It puts the lotion on the skin

The lowering down of the “supplies” gets me every time.

“Oh look here, 71 ‘cuda, guy wants 14 grand”


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[skifishbum]

the independent non beholden to dealers, agreements, insurance, regulations, certfications etc is the way to go
after i git paid in the thc
not even an expert like danno is gonna get ya any settlement of value

[yeahman]

I am only here to post in this most impotent of threads to say that I have 3 pairs of K2s currently mounted, abuse the shit out of them and they hold up just fine.

I buy them cause I like how they ski and because I can get them cheap.

+1. Never had an issue with a pair of K2s other than what I would expect when skiing scree at Big Sky. And, never seen a single hint of a delamination.

I did smash and break a K2 SideStash edge once on the rocks. Shop guy fixed it and said he could not guarantee the fix, nor that the ski was even safe to ski. So I gave them to a friend who can't afford to buy skis, disclosing the problem of course, and five years later he's still skiing the shit out of them 50+ days a year. Not claiming K2s are ultra durable by any stretch, the bases are kind of wimpy and need attention sometimes, but they aren't bad and always fun to ski IMO. My 2017/18 Pinnacle 118s are the shit on powder days, I hope to be skiing those things for many years to come.

[Bunion 2020]

^^^ Funny you should mention the Sidestash. I bought a pair cheap at a pawn shop in Bozeman. Didn't look close enough but the Marker Dukes were fuckered and they had a crushed and decently repaired edge/sidewall so I set them aside. When I started at BB I needed a pair of route skis to I pulled the Dukes off and chucked them and in spite of the Swiss cheese looking top sheets (at least 3 mounts) I was able to mount a pair of Salomons on them. 1st day I skied them I thought, damn, these are a decent ski. Patrolled on them an entire season and at the end of that year I had acquired 3 more pair and a pair of Annex 106s (which I sold to WRG). By the end of that year the pawn shop pair had died. Still skiing on 2 other pairs and 1 pair still in the plastic.

So people are free to rag on K2s, different skis for different freaks says I.

What was this thread about?

[skibrd]

^^^ Funny you should mention the Sidestash. I bought a pair cheap at a pawn shop in Bozeman. Didn't look close enough but the Marker Dukes were fuckered and they had a crushed and decently repaired edge/sidewall so I set them aside. When I started at BB I needed a pair of route skis to I pulled the Dukes off and chucked them and in spite of the Swiss cheese looking top sheets (at least 3 mounts) I was able to mount a pair of Salomons on them. 1st day I skied them I thought, damn, these are a decent ski. Patrolled on them an entire season and at the end of that year I had acquired 3 more pair and a pair of Annex 106s (which I sold to WRG). By the end of that year the pawn shop pair had died. Still skiing on 2 other pairs and 1 pair still in the plastic.

So people are free to rag on K2s, different skis for different freaks says I.

What was this thread about?

I’m considering stocking up an MB 116Cs cause they are that good for me. I totally understand hoarding skis you like. If K2 does a 193cm 108c in addition to the 108Ti I’ll stock up on those too. I think that would be an awesome ski.

Um... I think the thread is about how I’m an idiot and got called on my BS? Or a shitty shop? I forget. Maybe supporting your ski techs, keep your skis bases and edges absolutely perfect by not skiing them ever, and Jack can’t read?


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[JTG4]

I’ve skied various K2 skis, dating back to the 5500. While I detoured into Nordicas for a while, my latest ski is the K2 Marksman, which do anything and everything. I’ve never had a quality issue with K2. Different strokes.

[buttahflake]

Podunk? Not us.
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Green Machine is cutting like a champ!
From today in central Vermont

[Bunion 2020]

Schweeeeet!

[Skidog]

Green Machine is cutting like a champ!
From today in central Vermont

Nice structure

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[AmmergauerTele]

I would make the call to the cc company - tell them you got the gear but it broke after five uses and they ain't doing the warranty. See what they say.....cost you ten minutes on the phone??? Sounds like you don't like the store and you tried to remedy the situation and they are holding you over a barrel. An easy google and read...

https://www.checkbook.org/san-franci...r-superweapon/

[old goat]

I asked the bootfitter what kind of beer. He said chocolatey treats. In that shop the beer is for the customers while they wait.i suspect a fair number of ex drinkers in shops and in the ski business in general.

[JayPowHound]

Too be fair said spreadsheets were started partially because of the amount of shit his roomates (me and others) were giving him about the amount of skis that he owns and how frequently each one gets used. Any of them that get less than 5 days of use in the season will theoretically be sold off, not including any “rare” skis eg: his 203 shiros will never be sold, maybe others.

That said my main objective of having a tgr account is to give skibrd shit on here so don’t take my harassing of him too seriously, he has been getting the run around from this shop, which is pretty bullshit (as a former shop employee).