PSA: Don't Store Your Touring Skis Voile Strapped Together

[galibier_numero_un]

ETA: In olden days, skis were stored with a block placed between the bases at the apex of the camber.

That, along with pine tar and lignostone edges on x-c skis ;-)

... Thom

[MagnificentUnicorn]

Camber is overrated .

Amen brother

[Peruvian]

That, along with pine tar and lignostone bases on x-c skis ;-)

... Thom

I mean, his name is GeezerSteve, after all.

[auvgeek]

This [duh]. Maybe it's my Nordic ski background*, but why I can't imagine why the fuck anyone would store skis strapped at the waist. [/rant]

Must be cuz I'm stoopid.

I'm willing to take everyone making fun of me if it helps someone else realize they shouldn't store their skis this way. I'm not above admitting my idiocy for everyone to see and learn from. I'll prolly go back to not posting again soon anyway.

[mall walker]

you skiing on them will impart, literally, orders of magnitude of more force than strapping them together for a few weeks/months...

It's like stretching an elastic band quickly and letting it go vs leaving it stretched out for the summer... they will have different effects right

[GeezerSteve]

^^^ that

That, along with pine tar and lignostone bases on x-c skis ;-)

I mean, his name is GeezerSteve, after all.

eh, sonny?

[galibier_numero_un]

^^^ that

eh, sonny?

Oops! Lignostone edges.

[summit]

you skiing on them will impart, literally, orders of magnitude of more force than strapping them together for a few weeks/months...

Yep. Back about 15 years ago some mags would TRY to decamber their skis by leaving them heavily weighted for weeks and it wouldn't have the desired effect.

[detrusor]

I strap my skis together at the contact points, hang by tips from below the strap. No undo forces.

However, I’m in the total bullshit camp on decambering a burly alpine ski.


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[Meadow Skipper]

And it's nowhere close to the dumbest thing I've done.

I’d like to hear more about this.

[jondrums]

Fiberglass/Carbon laminate structures will creep (take a permanent set) when stored under stress. This is a function of time and temperature. So, yeah if you deflect a ski and store it for half the year in a warm/hot place this makes sense.

I'd expect this to be most pronounced on foam core skis where the core is not really participating in the structure of the ski.

Skis with a metal layer will probably have a lot lot less creep behavior, but still may have some depending on how much fiberglass is used.

[telepariah]

Strapping alpine skis together doesn't de-camber them. Skiing de-cambers them. If strapping them together worked, I would have a whole quiver of flat skis. But the only skis I have that have lost camber are the oldest ones that I have beat up the greatest number of days.

And I agree, camber is overrated. I wish I could speed up the process of de-cambering my newest boards but they have been strapped together for more than a year and they still have the same camber as when I bought them. I have about 50 ski days on them so far and that just isn't enough. Maybe I'll block the contact points and strap them tight in the middle over the hot summer and see what happens. I don't expect any change.

[skifishbum]

As a ski tech I feel the need to tell youse all
You're skis will last longer if you never take them out of the plastic ,mount or ski them

[Micol]

fake news !
fake news ?
fake
f
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;(
i am a scientist i seek to understand me
left sum bg’s strapped by the door tonight
cant sleep, making cobwebs
camber betters b there today, got pow to slay
or spiders

[HukuTa_KydecHuk]

100% fake news
Last year I forgot to unstrap my touring skis after a trip, put my ski bag into the closet and never used this pair until this winter. I was afraid they de-cambered being strapped for more than 6 months, but after I removed straps they were just fine.

[coldfeet]

What about the straps? Doesn't anyone think of the straps?



(I tried to put early rise into skis by strapping them with a 2x4" wood block under the tips and leaving them all year in a shed that gets hot in the summer. It might have had a very small effect.)

[XXX-er]

Back when the Bro's were taking volume out of WW play boats they would just park a car on the end of the boat AKA " the Honda method "

You probably need to try the " Toyota method " where you put a sandbag on the ski shovels tips &drive over it with yer pu truck

[AKbruin]

This [duh]. Maybe it's my Nordic ski background*, but why I can't imagine why the fuck anyone would store skis strapped at the waist. [/rant]

For the same reason that I perennially find coal-black banana carcasses in my skiing/climbing/hiking packs--a combination of laziness and forgetfulness.

[AK47bp]

In the event of a ski emergency, having your skis tightly strapped and ready to go can save precious seconds.


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[GoSlowGoFar]

What about the straps? Doesn't anyone think of the straps?

I know, right? I've tried hanging my straps weighted to get the kinks out of where they bend but no matter what they're still bent. I was thinking of maybe taking a hot blow drier to warm the strap a bit while hanging next.

[billyhoyle]

For the same reason that I perennially find coal-black banana carcasses in my skiing/climbing/hiking packs--a combination of laziness and forgetfulness.

This fall I found a Babybel cheese wheel in my bag from a spring trip...I may have tasted it. And regretted it.

[Boissal]

This fall I found a Babybel cheese wheel in my bag from a spring trip...I may have tasted it. And regretted it.

Ballsy move!
I went for a cheese stick that had gone through a few dozen freeze thaw cycles in the top of my pack last spring and I most definitely regretted it. Less so than the guy who was following me on the skinner though.

[HHTELE]

Back when the Bro's were taking volume out of WW play boats they would just park a car on the end of the boat AKA " the Honda method "

You probably need to try the " Toyota method " where you put a sandbag on the ski shovels tips &drive over it with yer pu truck

But that also took some heat if you wanted it to stick.

[XXX-er]

i think if you want to bend skis you also need heat also

[swissiphic]

I store 'em in an overlapping X pattern...kinda the same way I carry 'em but the ski carry orientation has the neck at the tails with tips forward, kinda like a 'flying V' shape of a guitar. Call it the Judas Priest/KK Downing carry method.



Camber maintained (if u want it maintained), stands up nicely balanced and stacks easier with the other bros and sistas in the quiva. I purposely reduce camber in all my mostly backcountry dedicated skis, so, having previously stored em strapped at the waist only had positive, intended effects on the ones that had been modified...it maintained the 'less camber' profile.