If I snowboarded, I'd invest in a lock that can't be easily picked and can't be easily cut with tin snips.
Used to split, but now that MrG and I have the same ski (different lengths), we lock . . . it would really suck to have one set stolen . . . making the other set worthless
Always lock them up. Even if it is just the retract cable lock, it deters the wannabe thief. Real thiefs will figure a way to get what they are after. Don't need to chance losing gear I can't afford to replace.
If I snowboarded, I'd invest in a lock that can't be easily picked and can't be easily cut with tin snips.
If someone really wants your ride, well, they will just look for the matching ski set to pair them up. Or they will have the right equipment to get through the lock.
But, like most security system, they are designed to make them look for a mark that is just slightly easier than yours.
Especially when the thief might just be some punk who is going to make a quick grab and sell em on e-bay...
Even with skis like mine, which are usually trashed and ready for replacement, I lock, just because I would rather schedule my trips to see Rick rather than make surprise visits.
My oldest son's new Burton UnInc board and Cartel bindings were stolen on Day One of 2004 at KMart. Talk about feeling violated and having a day ruined for your whole group...
This past weekend a friend had her new board stolen at Okemo before making one run on it. Ski patrol / ambassadors claim the technique is to watch someone set their stuff down and enter the lodge then make off with the stuff.
He now uses a locking motion detector similar to that used on laptop computers in schools. If someone as much as bumps the board or cable about 100 decibels attract plenty of attention.
In the long run, I think the attended storage racks are most covenient.
Sometimes people make honest mistakes. Last season I went to click in to my Volkls up top only to find out the binding was set about five sizes too small. I had picked someone else's identical set!
SnoAddict wrote:
He now uses a locking motion detector similar to that used on laptop computers in schools. If someone as much as bumps the board or cable about 100 decibels attract plenty of attention.
Great idea - but there's something about the sound of
alarms going off that really mess's with my idea of
skiing. The KBL deck will start sounding like Hoboken
on a Saturday night.... great....
Going where the wind don't blow so strange. Maybe on some high cold mountain range.
SnoAddict wrote:My oldest son's new Burton UnInc board and Cartel bindings were stolen on Day One of 2004 at KMart. Talk about feeling violated and having a day ruined for your whole group...
This past weekend a friend had her new board stolen at Okemo before making one run on it. Ski patrol / ambassadors claim the technique is to watch someone set their stuff down and enter the lodge then make off with the stuff.
I just saw this post - I'm sorry this happened to you and your friends. I hope it helps someone else avoid what you went through.
After having my board stolen last year, i bring my board with me whenever i go inside. Even though i get yelled out constantly i refuse to leave my board, even locked, outside. Im not willing to loose another $500 board with $270 bindings on it.
flip wrote:After having my board stolen last year, i bring my board with me whenever i go inside. Even though i get yelled out constantly i refuse to leave my board, even locked, outside. Im not willing to loose another $500 board with $270 bindings on it.
Get a lock or Kathy will toss you and board from the lodge at some point, or have your ticket removed.
flip wrote:After having my board stolen last year, i bring my board with me whenever i go inside. Even though i get yelled out constantly i refuse to leave my board, even locked, outside. Im not willing to loose another $500 board with $270 bindings on it.
Not so unwilling as to part with a $2 fee to check them, though? You'd rather piss off a bunch of people in a crowded lodge by dragging your equipmet through it and taking up table space/floor sapae with it?
C'mon, dude, that's not cool. Just hink about it. If you can do it, then everyone else should be able to as well. There might be room for 25 people in the entire lodge if this happened.
I generally split and lock one or check them. If I plan on apres at the lodge, I ski to my car and put the gear away and walk up. No headaches and I like to stretch my legs and not have to lug the skis back to the car after I've already taken the boots off and relaxed. Try it, if not for yourself, for the fellow skiers and riders that want to relax in the lodge.
If the world didn't suck so much, we'd all fall off.
2knees wrote:
No b.s. ski thiefs are the worst form of humanity.
This dude I knew from high school ripped off a pair of Rossi V.A.S. in '88 from some Choatie at Mr. Southington. I wondered where he got the $$$, he told me his grandmother bought them for him. He lent me try them out, maybe I'd buy them, they were much nicer than I had. Then luckily a friend of mine told me they were hot, so I declined the purchase.I always wanted to steal them back and give them to the poor Choatie (whoever that may be). Not only was stealing the skis wrong, but never using them way also very wrong.
2knees wrote:
No b.s. ski thiefs are the worst form of humanity.
This dude I knew from high school ripped off a pair of Rossi V.A.S. in '88 from some Choatie at Mr. Southington. I wondered where he got the $$$, he told me his grandmother bought them for him. He lent me try them out, maybe I'd buy them, they were much nicer than I had. Then luckily a friend of mine told me they were hot, so I declined the purchase.I always wanted to steal them back and give them to the poor Choatie (whoever that may be). Not only was stealing the skis wrong, but never using them way also very wrong.
Poor Choatie, now there is an oxymoron ! But, your heart was in the right place.
flip wrote:After having my board stolen last year, i bring my board with me whenever i go inside. Even though i get yelled out constantly i refuse to leave my board, even locked, outside. Im not willing to loose another $500 board with $270 bindings on it.
Not so unwilling as to part with a $2 fee to check them, though? You'd rather piss off a bunch of people in a crowded lodge by dragging your equipmet through it and taking up table space/floor sapae with it?
C'mon, dude, that's not cool. Just hink about it. If you can do it, then everyone else should be able to as well. There might be room for 25 people in the entire lodge if this happened.
I generally split and lock one or check them. If I plan on apres at the lodge, I ski to my car and put the gear away and walk up. No headaches and I like to stretch my legs and not have to lug the skis back to the car after I've already taken the boots off and relaxed. Try it, if not for yourself, for the fellow skiers and riders that want to relax in the lodge.
frankly, i dont give a sh*t about the people i piss off. for the most part, my board is either by the door so i can keep an eye on it, or right next to me leaning against a wall completely out of the way of others. and no, i cant afford the extra $2 seeing how i am a senior in high school and have to use all the money that i have to be able to get up every weekend. gas isnt cheap and i live 270 miles away.
As far as my kid's alarm lock goes - it has a flashing LED on it to show it is activated. It has not gone off once since he started using it last season. I suspect the best defense may be a strong offense e.g. the LED may just be enough to keep potential thieves away. If it were to turn into an obnoxious item I would certainly make him stop using it. He also can secure his brothers' / friends' boards with the one lock / alarm.
