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Rollerski poles & protective gear
I've just acquired some used classic ProSki rollerskis, and am wondering if
I really need so-called rollerski poles or if I can just use my regular training poles. Also wondering what's recommended for protection from the inevitable asphalt face-plants, other than helmet. [FYI, if I'm not comfortable on these, I'll be looking to resell.] Thanks! |
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Rollerski poles & protective gear
Well, you MUST have the proper roller ski tips if you roll on
pavement, because your normal tips will wear out in a single session. Other than that, the poles are the same ones I use on snow. For protective gear, I wear knee pads and elbow pads when it's cool, and I risk it by 'going bare' once the temps reach about 70. I do always wear a helmet tho, and I've used it. I've tried the roller skate wrist guards with ski poles, and they interfere, so I use cycling gloves. HTH, Erik Brooks Seattle ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Snyder" To: "Multiple recipients of list NORDIC-SKI" Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 10:16 PM Subject: Rollerski poles & protective gear I've just acquired some used classic ProSki rollerskis, and am wondering if I really need so-called rollerski poles or if I can just use my regular training poles. Also wondering what's recommended for protection from the inevitable asphalt face-plants, other than helmet. [FYI, if I'm not comfortable on these, I'll be looking to resell.] Thanks! |
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David:
I owned a pair of aluminum roller skiing poles and did not like them. Too much vibration was passed along to my elbows/wrists. For this reason, I would recommend using your regular ski poles. Definitely replace the tips with carbide tipped "roller skiing" ferrules. Sharpen them frequently with a diamond hone. A helmet is necessary. I highly recommend knee pads as well. I use biking gloves to protect my hands. Wrist guards and ski poles don't cohabitate well. FWIW, I've thought about buying some MTB-style armored shorts but haven't taken the plunge. MOO, Matt David Snyder wrote: I've just acquired some used classic ProSki rollerskis, and am wondering if I really need so-called rollerski poles or if I can just use my regular training poles. Also wondering what's recommended for protection from the inevitable asphalt face-plants, other than helmet. [FYI, if I'm not comfortable on these, I'll be looking to resell.] Thanks! |
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Rollerski poles & protective gear
Check out the Jenex Vasa carbon poles. Extremely lighweight at a very low
price. Also, the Jenex road ferrules are great. Fitzgerald |
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Rollerski poles & protective gear
There are no inevitable "face plants' although small-wheeled
rollerskis are less safer than 100mm variety. Rollerski poles are shorter than your snow poles even though you are higher off the ground. Good snow carbon pole needs summer vacations too. Get a carbide tip; Jenex is cheapest ($9) and the best. You need some gloves - I use thin glove liner. If it gets too hot put some duct tape on blister prone parts of your palm and keep gloves handy anyway. Wear the helmet. Do not wear elbow and knee pads. We rollerskiers look like morons half the time anyway. Why add insult to an injury? The theory behind it is : if you look like moron, you gonna ski like moron too. Everybody can fall, people with knee-elbow pads do it much more readily - this is psychosomatic. |
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Rollerski poles & protective gear
Serge:
A rather interesting albeit very incorrect post IMO. Serge wrote: There are no inevitable "face plants' although small-wheeled rollerskis are less safer than 100mm variety. Rollerski poles are shorter than your snow poles even though you are higher off the ground. Good snow carbon pole needs summer vacations too. Get a carbide tip; Jenex is cheapest ($9) and the best. Why are rollerski poles shorter? My experience is not that at all. If anything, if you're roller skiing on flatter roads you'll actually want longer poles. Only if you RS on long steep climbs will you want shorter poles. BTW, I do agree on the carbide tips! You need some gloves - I use thin glove liner. If it gets too hot put some duct tape on blister prone parts of your palm and keep gloves handy anyway. Wear the helmet. Do not wear elbow and knee pads. We rollerskiers look like morons half the time anyway. Why add insult to an injury? This certainly isn't the brightest statement I've read this week! If you take that on face value, then I would highly suggest that you dump the helmet, and make sure you wear the coolest, most radical garb you can find. Don't worry about the implications of this. Take a good fall at almost any speed and you'll either be happy you had your knee pads or you'll wish you had them. The theory behind it is : if you look like moron, you gonna ski like moron too. Everybody can fall, people with knee-elbow pads do it much more readily - this is psychosomatic. Whatever you say. Actually I haven't fallen since I purchased my knee pads. Hmm, maybe that psychosomatic thing works better than I think!! I hope the original poster discounts everything in your post. MOO, Matt |
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On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 08:56:25 -0400, ML
wrote: A helmet is necessary. Necessay? No. JT |
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On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, ML wrote:
. . Wear the helmet. Do not wear elbow and knee pads. We rollerskiers look like morons half the time anyway. Why add insult to an injury? This certainly isn't the brightest statement I've read this week! If you take that on face value, then I would highly suggest that you dump the helmet, and make sure you wear the coolest, most radical garb you can find. Don't worry about the implications of this. Take a good fall at almost any speed and you'll either be happy you had your knee pads or you'll wish you had them. I've taken quite a number of falls on roller skis over the years (fewer lately, though some), and never landed on my knees (or elbows). Hip pads would have been quite useful a number of times, forearms have gotten chewed up, the gloves have come in handy (and had to be replaced), the shoes have gotten holes in them. The fastest, worst fall I ever took (going down a hill I'd not scouted out beforehand, a truck coming up the hill making slowing turns impossible, and the pavement deteriorating at the fastest section) gave me road rash on my hip and butt that took weeks to heal. Maybe if I'd had knee pads, I could have kneeled down and slid on them :-). -KS ************************************************** ********* Kenneth Salzberg Hamline University School of Law (651) 523-2354 1536 Hewitt Ave. Sisu Skier - 50K Club St. Paul, MN 55104 ************************************************** **************** |
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Rollerski poles & protective gear
I have some MTB gloves that are well ventilated on the back ... nice for summer
poling. Skip the pads, wear the helmet, and keep your eyes on the road and not on the summertime distractions sunbathing along the parkways. The second you take your eyes off the pave' ... your wheel will find that one stone to run over. *SPLAT!* :^P jw milwaukee |
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David, just practice and start out slow and take it easy. You might fall but
it's the same as regular inlining. You might have a pole incident---poles hitting skis, boots or between legs or just getting in the way can happen. The falls aren't bad usually. Pads do stop bleeding from the padded areas! : ) My worst was forearm---blood is very hot I found out---but elbow pads might raise forearms off the ground. Gloves and helmet are great idea. For starting out any pole will do---with rollertips. Classic is less pole intensive anyway since poles are shorter. I didn't wear out my snow tips the first time: I bent them over. The plastic collapses, not made for it. They were still OK for snow after that (bent back). I learned RS classic a couple years ago: I found it much harder than skate, which is just inlining with poles. It took me maybe 10 outings to get comfy, then it was great. I'm still looking for classic rollerskis myself---so email me if you bail out on those! Thanks. -- Jeff Potter **** *Out Your Backdoor * http://www.outyourbackdoor.com publisher of do-it-yourself culture ... bikes, skis, boats & more ... ... with radically relevant novels from the ULA's LiteraryRevolution.com .... ... free music ... tons o' articles ... travel forums ... WOW! |
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