"Steve Parry" wrote:

This is the thing though, bike gear I can say "yes that lasted me x years of
fairly daily use" but skiing stuff is really only a couple of weeks per year
so your 8 year usage in real terms is what, only 4 months or so of constant
use?

Depends how much you go. My local ski area is an hour and a half
away, so I could conceivable ski every weekend from early october to
mid-may *and* whatever weekdays I want to take off.

I skiied more times last year than I rode my gixxer.