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"Simon Brown" wrote in message ... "Steve Haigh" wrote in message ... Rob White wrote: There's no way to predict if or how skis will be stolen, the only way to stop it is to lock them up if you leave them. Do those littel cable locks really work? I can only imagine that they are pretty easy to cut through witha pair of wire cutters. A friend of mine was in Courchevel a few years ago at a pit-stop by a piste, when a skier came past and simply swiped a pair of skis stood up in the snow, without even stopping. My son and a mate had three pairs nicked from their apartment balcony in Val d-Isere 13 months ago - it seems the thief climbed up the drain pipe to reach them! Not at all unusual, I've heard of this happening a few times. I write my name on my skis with a big thick indelible marker. That's not likely to stop them being stolen (certainly not in a ski by theft) and the thief is hardly likely to bring them back if he sees that they are no good to him. |
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"Nick Hounsome" wrote in message
. .. That's not likely to stop them being stolen (certainly not in a ski by theft) and the thief is hardly likely to bring them back if he sees that they are no good to him. The reason is that this was recommended to me by my local ski shop. Here it's mainly expensive snowboards which get stolen, happens quite frequently or so I hear. -- Simon Brown www.sysgem.com www.hb9drv.ch www.laax.ch +-+ England: Jan 26-Jan 28, 2005 Germany: Jan 31-Feb 2, 2005 +-+ |
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"Simon Brown" wrote in message ... | "PG" wrote in message | ... | | "Simon Brown" wrote in message | ... | | "Steve Haigh" wrote in message | | ... | | | I write my name on my skis with a big thick indelible marker. | | -- | | Acetone, alcohol, lemon juice, are effective erasers - or so I hear.... | | Never tried that cocktail - sounds more snowboarder-ish than grumpy old | skier-ish but I'll give it a go next time I visit the local DIT centre. LOL - yep, I'm sure it would be an effective method of ensuring memories of the night before are erased... Pete - SNOWeSCAPE http://bsm.alpesprovence.net |
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"DMG" wrote in message ... Just come back from Les Gets where my skis and poles were stolen from outside a restaurant near the top of a mountain while I was having lunch. I waited around for 2 hrs to see if they had been taken by accident but they didn't re-appear. (My poles were fairly unique carbon composite ones so not easy to take by mistake.) Two points: How do they do it? I mean, how did the thief get up there (crappy old skis maybe) and why bother? Wouldn't it be easier to steal them lower down or in the resort? A wee tip for you. If skiing with someone, swap one of their skis over so that you stack both pairs with an odd one. Then you should place your skis apart, opposite ends of the restaurant area etc.. A thief will not bother if he finds two odd skis stacked and certainly wont spend time looking for the other one amongst the dozens usually found outside restaurants. Kevin. |
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A wee tip for you. If skiing with someone, swap one of their skis over so that you stack both pairs with an odd one. Then you should place your skis apart, opposite ends of the restaurant area etc.. A thief will not bother if he finds two odd skis stacked and certainly wont spend time looking for the other one amongst the dozens usually found outside restaurants. Kevin. This has the added bonus that if a dumb theif does take your odd set of skiis anyway you can always ski on one ski back down the mountain, hard work but its better than walking!!!!! Paul |
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"Paul ( Skiing8 )" wrote in message ... | | A wee tip for you. If skiing with someone, swap one of their skis over so | that you stack both pairs with an odd one. Then you should place your skis | apart, opposite ends of the restaurant area etc.. | | A thief will not bother if he finds two odd skis stacked and certainly | wont | spend time looking for the other one amongst the dozens usually found | outside restaurants. | | This has the added bonus that if a dumb theif does take your odd set of | skiis anyway you can always ski on one ski back down the mountain, hard work | but its better than walking!!!!! | Except that most thieves aren't stupid and are actually watching you arrive at the restaurant, and see precisely where split skis have been put (given how obvious most people make it). Proven by the recent experience of the SnowHeads forum admin in the restaurant top of the Sauliuire, who thus lost his much-loved Pocket Rockets. Pete - SNOWeSCAPE http://bsm.alpesprovence.net |
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"Steve Haigh" wrote in message ... Rob White wrote: Do those littel cable locks really work? I can only imagine that they are pretty easy to cut through witha pair of wire cutters. Its a deterent really.. doesn't have to work.. the thief will automatically take the next pair rather than bother about ones with a cable lock.. its pretty sad though that its come to the point where you have to lock up your ski's on the top of a 3000m mountain.. |
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"PG" wrote in message ... "Paul ( Skiing8 )" wrote in message ... | | A wee tip for you. If skiing with someone, swap one of their skis over so | that you stack both pairs with an odd one. Then you should place your skis | apart, opposite ends of the restaurant area etc.. | | A thief will not bother if he finds two odd skis stacked and certainly | wont | spend time looking for the other one amongst the dozens usually found | outside restaurants. | | This has the added bonus that if a dumb theif does take your odd set of | skiis anyway you can always ski on one ski back down the mountain, hard work | but its better than walking!!!!! | Except that most thieves aren't stupid and are actually watching you arrive at the restaurant, and see precisely where split skis have been put (given how obvious most people make it). Proven by the recent experience of the SnowHeads forum admin in the restaurant top of the Sauliuire, who thus lost his much-loved Pocket Rockets. I don't think they put quite this much effort into it.. and if they were watching when you split your ski's up, I'm sure they'd just think "Too hard, next sucker".. |
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FWIW we got about 6cms new snow so far - not much good really. Still need
another 50cms although the forecast is very good for a major dump today. You been going heavy on the dumplings and ale again then? Sorry... all this snow is making me giddy enough to resort to scatological humour... ) |
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"Paul ( Skiing8 )" wrote in message ... A wee tip for you. If skiing with someone, swap one of their skis over so that you stack both pairs with an odd one. Then you should place your skis apart, opposite ends of the restaurant area etc.. A thief will not bother if he finds two odd skis stacked and certainly wont spend time looking for the other one amongst the dozens usually found outside restaurants. Kevin. This has the added bonus that if a dumb theif does take your odd set of skiis anyway you can always ski on one ski back down the mountain, hard work but its better than walking!!!!! Should be easy to spot the thieves then |
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