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Full Trucker

Full Trucker

Frikkin newb!!!
Feb 26, 2003
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I’m an adjustable pole guy. I had a pair for ten plus years that I can count on one hand how many times they slipped under load, and that’s skiing with them every time I skied—inbounds and out. They still function perfectly fine, the only reason I stopped using them is because I won a new pair of adjustable poles in a raffle at a fundraiser for the Colorado avalanche forecasting folks.
 
Toshi

Toshi

butthole powerwashing evangelist
Oct 23, 2001
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I've got to tighten kid 1's adjustable poles (same blue-trim Black Diamonds I have coming). She's lost the bottom half of it--like the whole shaft + basket and all--twice now. Once in a lift line, easily recovered, once on a slope, which required much searching by her Devo coach and another run down it to eventually find. They feel normal in closing force, if you will, but apparently need more beans.
 
Full Trucker

Full Trucker

Frikkin newb!!!
Feb 26, 2003
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Exit, CO
Is it the foam that’s the problem, or the length of the grip?

My new poles have long grips, but they’re rubber (or something like it) vs. foam.

Generally I agree with Woo about the always too long pole just with long grips as being the Fanny pack of the ski world. And that is to say I see how they’re useful, but kooky AF.
 
Toshi

Toshi

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what about adjustable poles that also have the long grips

where do they stand on the Woo-hate-o-meter

Toshi said:
The skinny 3rd section on the double jointed poles weirded me out so I picked this one:



I figure poles are poles pretty much. Some colors are prettier than others :D
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kidwoo

kidwoo

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Toshi said:
what about adjustable poles that also have the long grips

where do they stand on the Woo-hate-o-meter
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Like a saddlebag on a 20k electric crAbon enduro bike (which is just as capable as a dh bike they say), full face enduro helmet, fanny pack, pit vipers, and a vacation reservation in morzine all in one.


That is to say, you totally need those bro, they're perfect for you. Probably can't even ski without them.
 
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Toshi said:
That'd be one weird video. Either bouncing around centered on the dude's face or bouncing around facing downhill. Unless one does not actually use poles, I guess
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You see where he's holding the thing, halfway down the pole? That is not a skiing stick it's a clout chasing stick.........with the camera flopped over on the mount filming his arm.

Because he's an idiot.

Which that mustache already told you.


........if the fuckin teton gravity branded goggles didn't


I hope everyone understands now the harms to society caused by foam grip poles that are way too long. They're like teslas. They scream "I'm that fool and his money you heard about!"
 
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Jm_

Jm_

sled dog's bollocks
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I find these are great from keeping resort skiers away from me. I call it the "blood circle".
 
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Toshi said:
no long grips, foam or rubber alike

0/7
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that's the 1990s predecessor/equivalent

no one can take pictures of the foam pole dorks because they run into the photographer, kill them, and usually destroy the camera in the process

That photo I posted above was recovered from the corpse of a well known adventure photographer who was getting bored shooting lions at close range. He wanted more danger.
 
Nick

Nick

My name is Nick
Sep 21, 2001
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where the trails are
kidwoo said:
pit vipers
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so I volunteered at some ski event fundraiser or whatnot last Fall, and Pit Viper was there. They were handing out tiny Pit Viper stickers of their glasses to put on your drivers license photo. I was carding people at the beer tent, and have to say it was marketing dollars well spent. :rofl:
 
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Nick said:
so I volunteered at some ski event fundraiser or whatnot last Fall, and Pit Viper was there. They were handing out tiny Pit Viper stickers of their glasses to put on your drivers license photo. I was carding people at the beer tent, and have to say it was marketing dollars well spent. :rofl:
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doncha hate it when cheese dick companies do very likeable things like that?

all you have to do is look at how much those things cost now, if you need to be snapped back into reality
 
Westy

Westy

the teste
Nov 22, 2002
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@kidwoo should start an athleasure fashion consulting business and monetize all the great advice he gives us. 20% off freeride belts on your first consultation.
 
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Westy said:
@kidwoo should start an athleasure fashion consulting business and monetize all the great advice he gives us. 20% off freeride belts on your first consultation.
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You know I could easily kill it on this front. I know the formulas. It's like how I'm about to start a right wing libertarian podcast to actually fund something of a retirement. It's real fucking easy to separate idiots and their money.

My biggest problem is that at some point I'd have to talk to my customers. I know I couldn't keep the act up.

The ski industry 'invented' under jacket sleeve gloves a few years ago as opposed to gloves with gauntlets that were long overdue and obviously a better system.

Gimme a year or two and I'll invent mono-skis. It's the same idiots as the bike industry....every 10 years a gullible new generation who never looks anything up. Since hiking is the new hawtness in skiing because no one would ever let another ski area be built, I'll make it a backcountry version and call them enduro boards. You know, from the french region of enduro. An authentic alpine product to help you, the extreme radiologist, get the most out of your mountain town home purchase.
 
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kidwoo

kidwoo

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Toshi said:
a problem with your business model is that the colorways that you curate (tee hee @jstuhlman ) will only appeal to me. And @Sandwich . And maybe @Jm_ judging by those pants

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my bike commuting/construction worker side gig pants
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You have no idea what I'm capable of. You don't build up this level of cynicism without a very well developed library.


You're fucked.
Your wallet is fucked.
 
Toshi

Toshi

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SkaredShtles said:
Come on. Those ritahhhded looking things can NOT be more than $19.95.
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Mah slippy slidey poles inbound from France are $88.44 thanks to Euro to USD favorability, apparently. Definitely paid more in straight USD for the same set for my eldest kid at Bentgate a month ago.
 
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