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09-26-2021, 09:53 AM #151Registered User
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yeah same here ^^ and the more dominant ski store that people trusted was keeping the trend down by telling people they don't need those ski and selling them the same old shit
Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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09-26-2021, 09:54 AM #152
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09-26-2021, 09:59 AM #153
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09-26-2021, 10:19 AM #154Banned
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The days of >110 underfoot pow skis are gone...
I brought this up a few months ago..I’m hoping it becomes a folk tale through ski history, told by wise elders to youngsters. I saw it with my own eyes.
When I lived in JH, there was a being who would wear a Hawaiian shirt over it’s jacket, and seemingly daily drove ARGs. I’d see it on them no matter the conditions, and I saw it like 10 times over 2 seasons, always on days with no new snow.
I’m sure on snow days the demi god would climb the powder stairway to the snow god realm, pleading for them to pardon us mere mortals for our outright sacrilege, disregarding the gift of powder ski design they put in our little minds. Many have turned their back on
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09-26-2021, 10:20 AM #155
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09-26-2021, 10:32 AM #156
Broke two pairs of those teal Rossis. Both un-fixable.
During the rise of snowboarding, I picked up used skis for a song. People were practically giving them away. 4 and 7Gs, K2 Comps, Volkl P9s, Atomic ARCs...
IIRC K2's QC was slipping in those years, but the original red white and blue four was a good game changer ski. I bought a pair for my girlfriend, and she finally found her edges. "What does the red light do?" "Nothing, don't look at it"
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09-26-2021, 10:49 AM #157
Yeah, saw quite a few broken ones too. Dynastar as well.
I once repaired a broken ski, altho it was was broken.
Picked these up for a song207 KVC, one of my first tele skis.
My first pair of really well built skis were Kastle 5.0's. Fuck Kastles were sweet before Benneton ruined them!
That ski emporium is badass!
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09-26-2021, 11:40 AM #158
It would be so much better if it were the front of an old school ski shop, but it's just a fence. It's still there per the (10 year old) streetview.
Powder story
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09-26-2021, 11:52 AM #159
I think my hart Freestyles and K2 233 mids are the ONLY ski that I didn't crack the topsheets at the tips like that grabbing air and landing on flats hard.
Extra unqualified for the current "it's gotta have kevlar" era. I probably only skied 7-8 days in all of the 1990s. They were great days but few and far between and on 80s skis. I skied my 80s K2 710FO and 812s through the 90s.. I didn't ski at all between 1999 and 2007 and then started buying used early 00s skis.Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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09-26-2021, 12:13 PM #160
Those broke on an airline conveyor belt
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09-26-2021, 12:33 PM #161Registered User
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09-26-2021, 12:36 PM #162
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09-26-2021, 12:48 PM #163Registered User
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ya but do you tell people they don't need something because you don't have it in stock ?
Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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09-26-2021, 01:23 PM #164Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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09-26-2021, 01:41 PM #165Registered User
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same retailer who told people they don't need fat skis sold a friend a pair of tele boots that were 2 full sizes too BIG and they were high volume boot for a skinny foot, i couldn't believe it
he would offr to sell you any thing even if it was wrong and he was pretty successful at doing itLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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09-26-2021, 03:53 PM #166indentured servant
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what's orange and looks good on hippies?
fire
rails are for trains
If I had a dollar for every time capitalism was blamed for problems caused by the government I'd be a rich fat film maker in a baseball hat.
www.theguideshut.ca
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09-26-2021, 04:12 PM #167
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09-26-2021, 04:12 PM #168Registered User
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I eventualy gave her my scarpa T-3 in about a 24 cuz she liked them, she takes a 24 or possibly less
if Buddy had done a proper fitting how could he have sold her a size 26 garmont which is a boot 2 sizes too big and also the wrong type of volume for her foot ?
i've seen him do this other times he gets it on the foot asks how about that and sells it even tho its wrong
it pushs product out the door but its very lame,
he wasn't on commission but he owned the storeLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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09-26-2021, 04:16 PM #169Registered User
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09-26-2021, 04:43 PM #170
Not even dope can make I'll fitting boots fun
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09-26-2021, 04:46 PM #171
I know I often get spun up about injustice in the world, but I wish these kinds of people would die in a fire. (Or fall in into a brush chipper...feet first.)
[And yeah, I totally get how that kind of response isn't congruent with wanting the world to be caring and kind. But even I have my limits. LOL]
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09-26-2021, 05:06 PM #172
I should clarify my position. I love huge fatties for dust on crust. Current favorites for these conditions are OG bodacious or QST 118. Legit powder days are reserved for renegades. Upside down pow I break or powder boards or protests, which turn upside down pow into a pure joy while everyone else is complaining.
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09-26-2021, 06:31 PM #173Registered User
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Protesteses rule. That is all.
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09-26-2021, 06:48 PM #174
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09-26-2021, 06:50 PM #175
Powderboards are even better once you figure out how to survive on flat groomers. They’re fine on groomers with a pitch but if it’s flat weird things happen. Thankfully that’s not what they’re for nor does one encounter that train often.
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