Stolen Board

Hey Gang,
Someone ripped my buddy's Never Summer with Burton bindings last
weekend at Arapahoe Basin. A-Basin is an awesome place and usually
everyone is chill and there is no reason to lock up but apparently some

tool decided to ruin my friend's season. If anyone sees any NS boards

with Burton set-up anywhere on the 'net let me know. Places like eBay

or such, we want to track it down so he can make some turns before the
snow melts. And bury that jerk in the snow.
I wish all the ski areas had SkiKey racks, these things rock and it
is much nicer to carry one of their locks than those big ass ones for
normal racks. Lock your gear!

http://www.skikey.com/

Anybody that leaves a board unlocked and not constantly in their sight
shouldn't be surprised when it's stolen. I had a Burton Custom taken
at Killington, VT couple years ago. I had it locked with one of the
retractable type combo locks.

Now I use a heavy bicycle type lock. It coils up very nicely and
easily slips into a jacket pocket. And while it could still be cut
through, it unlikely anyone at a resort full of people is going to have
the tools or be willing to do it in the open. The small retractable
locks like I had previously be easily broken or just cut with a pair or
diaganol pliars concealed up the thiefs sleave.

The resorts could do a lot to prevent this. Putting up TV cameras
that cover the spots where boards are racked up would be a big
deterrent, as that way you could determine who the thief was.

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:46:45 GMT, Ed Chilada allegedly
wrote:

Yeah, crazy that isn't it. The last hotel I was in was like that and
since I'd coughed up about £500 on new board&bindings I wasn't about
to leave it a room with public access off the street. They said you
weren't allowed to take your board to your room but I always did. I
figured if they challenged me I'd tell them I was going to wax and do
the edges... every night!

That's OK as long as you don't end up putting rust scars in the carpet or
taking chunks of plaster out of the walls with the edges.

- Dave.

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Switters wrote:
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:46:45 GMT, Ed Chilada allegedly
wrote:

Yeah, crazy that isn't it. The last hotel I was in was like that and
since I'd coughed up about =A3500 on new board&bindings I wasn't about
to leave it a room with public access off the street. They said you
weren't allowed to take your board to your room but I always did. I
figured if they challenged me I'd tell them I was going to wax and do
the edges... every night!

That's OK as long as you don't end up putting rust scars in the carpet or
taking chunks of plaster out of the walls with the edges.

- Dave.

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One nice thing about staying at the Westin in Whistler and the St Regis
in Aspen, is they solved that problem. They have ski valets. You
just hand it to them at the end of the day and pick it up again in the
AM.

Ski bums are just that. Bums.. That includes seasonal help at the
resorts. Don't be surprised if it was a poor liftie that heisted your
board. It has to be frustrating for the locals seeing all the weekend
warriors with choice gear and they are riding crap. I never leave my
board alone at the resort.

My bet is on a Spring Breaker, there are tons of those losers out here
right now skiing around with their gay-ass college hoodies on. There
are leaving soon so why worry about getting caught if they heist
something, take it back to their piece of crap school and sell it to
some other loser. I am bummed because my bud has nothing to ride on
and he is a fun dude to hit the hill with. From now on my deck is not
leaving my site, I got a set-up that you can't get in stores and I
would be ****ed as hell if someone walked with it. Come on ski
areas, get the SkiKey racks.

In Christine wrote:

In Europe, I've never seen ski lock racks other than for overnight
storage of your board or ski's.

I was in Cham recently, and they had locking racks in a lot of places.
But only a few lockking racks among hundreds of none locking ones, and
no-one used them.

I used to ride Clickers, and I was never worried about anyone riding off
on my board, but I switched to Flows and I'm riding a Palmer Platinum,
which my insurance won't cover... so this year I took a little
retractable lock (£3 on eBay) with me.

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:14:40 GMT, Marcus 'Dr' Dee
allegedly wrote:

and I'm riding a Palmer Platinum,
which my insurance won't cover...

Is it really 2-3 times better than other boards?

- Dave.

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Switters wrote:
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:14:40 GMT, Marcus 'Dr' Dee
allegedly wrote:

and I'm riding a Palmer Platinum,
which my insurance won't cover...

Is it really 2-3 times better than other boards?

Don't know if it's worth it... but it made by Kessler, which you might
have heard of recently at the Olympics, so I'm sure it's a pretty darn
nice board... but for the different in money, I could have take a BOTH
a race camp with snowperformance and a freestyle camp with highcascade
and I'm pretty sure that would make me ride better.

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