With the success of a a couple companies selling poles with cool designs , I'm wondering how much the graphics on the pole really matter. Would love to hear your thoughts! I've been on newschoolers for a while and just discovered this forum.
Thanks!
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With the success of a a couple companies selling poles with cool designs , I'm wondering how much the graphics on the pole really matter. Would love to hear your thoughts! I've been on newschoolers for a while and just discovered this forum.
Thanks!
We've just met and you're asking about my pole? I'm deeply distressed! :eek:
apparently you didn't get the message... summer trolling season is over.
I spray paint all my gear flat black when I get it. That way all my sets of poles match each other.
I didn't think the kids used poles anymore?
It's polez jong
as in pinkpolezboi?Quote:
Originally Posted by The SnowShow
only thing that matters to me is the grip.
thats what she said
I promise I'm not a troll. http://hippiekiller.files.wordpress....8/09/troll.jpg
So you work for a company that designs and/or produces poles? Otherwise, why do you care what we think about what our poles look like, JONG??Quote:
Originally Posted by jerallenz
I read a post a while ago that it was ok to paint your pole so it looked like a storm trooper.
Try the stranger . . . sit on your left hand until it falls asleep and then pretend you don't know it. Figure out the rest. :fm:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ski_Phan
Don't care how they look - hoping they are buried in snow anyway. What does matter is how light and strong they are so I can whip them easily. Used the same pair for about 7-8 years and thought it was fine until a buddy gave me his brand new pair. Easily 1/3rd the weight. Skiing felt quite different. To me detailed designs don't matter much, but simple colors, price, and performance do.
So long as they are skuffed and bent back into shape a few times, fine by me. Tech Talk seems to be a better place for this though.
I buy a new set every year, put them in the fire to form them to my fat-ass body and then look all downhill racer style...it's cool.
Why would any these crusty hippies care what there poles look like?
You must use Roxy poles, they are the best, I love me some polka dots.
x2, ya fuckin chodeQuote:
Originally Posted by The SnowShow
Mine are plaid.
I prefer gold - bling blingQuote:
Originally Posted by G
They are bent a bit....but she doesn't seem to mind or effect performance.
nothin like some pimp polz matching my tall tee. Word
Coffin, die, get in. Whats wrong, my rental poles are not cool?
How about printing the lifetime guarantee on the shaft?
Heh heh, I said shaft...
Woo hoo! 200 posts! I am a force to be reckoned with!
I don't particularly care what my ski poles look like, but I like my ski germans to be blond with an extra beer in hand for me.
all i care about is that they have a BD fliplock in the middle of them.
never thought about that, real clever son!Quote:
Originally Posted by G
i have mismatched poles- one is a rental
Yes, this. Men secure in their masculinity can get great deals on chick's poles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skier M
I spray painted mine flourescent orange so I could find them easier in the pow , spraycan paint isnt that bomber so you end up with little flecks of orange on everything when it gets flaked offQuote:
Originally Posted by G
I think any color that is going to stand out when buried in snow is fine
Stripper poles...Quote:
Originally Posted by digitaldeath
I like raw aluminum for the same reason.
20 minutes with paint stripper and all poles look the same.
Unless they are carbon of course, or have flip locks.
I usually buy any shitty pole at end of season but the last one's didnt work so well ,SO I got some new leki's last month half price but still spendy for me , the aluminium is triangular shaped (instead of round)for better durability , nice grips with a quick release strap for when you snag it on a tree
black & silver with metalflake sparklies in the black BUT really it was about the features and half price over the color
i spent $ 2 on my last pair of poles. should have bought a lot more than I did in hindsight.
Who the heck cares about your ski poles? I don't even know what kind mine are. They may be a $20 pair of Scotts. I just know that they are the right size and work. I'm going to keep them and not get new ones until I lose one or I cartwheel over one and kink it too bad to bend out. I think I'd like my next pair of poles to be less bendable but even when they bend I just bash them against my boot and they are straight again.
I just really need some k2 pole baskets.
Don't care.
mine is ribbed for her pleasure
This guy knows poles
https://youtu.be/AFN0Qw2cpdM
Corde!.... Merde!!!
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