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Gapers and "putting the bar down"
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our quad is like 5 feet long, why put the saftey bar down. has anyone else noticed this? the weird thing is that, people always think that everyone puts the bar down, so they don't bother to ask, and then it hits you in the back of the head (if you are tall). people are maniacs, dude.
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at my resort no one puts the bar down except the gapers and our bars have things that touch the actual seat so their is a big chance you can lose a nut when some one slams the bar down its fucking gay
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i like the bar down because i always lean forward on the lift so it is much more comforting
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Im not gonna lie.. i always put the bar down
Me and my mate had a bad experience on an old fixed chair tripple. we didnt put the bar down and there is this point where the chair passes over this valley part. its about 25/30 metres off the ground. so we're just passing over this part when the lift stops. now when this lift stops, it stops. no mucking around here, the fucking thing stops in an instant. this results in mad swingage. so we're sitting there, the lift slams to a halt , next instant we're looking straight down at this massive drop, both of us grab at the back of the seat and hold on.
so yeah we always put the bar down now, even on the detachable chair lifts that dont come slamming to a halt. you're no cooler if you leave the bar up its there for a reason, so use it.
and i agree its fucking annoying when people pull the bar down straight away. fortunatly most peope at my mountain are chill about it and check /call it before blindly pulling it down.
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i know seriously, you'd think that kid skis at a nazi internment camp.
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a few days ago when i was sitll in the states someone tried putting the bar down, hit me in the head, it bounced back up, they tried pulling it down again and hit the hit next to me! fucking gapers
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people always crush my leg or smack me with it if im fiddling with my boots or sometihng. what did i ever do to them ?
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wow u must go to such a faggot of a mountain. oh my ggod if they did that anywhere i skied.....wow
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i noticed that most people out west dont put the bar down at all. lots of lifts dont even have bars. why is it such a problem on the east coast? if you dont put it down some people freak out.
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why would you ever put down a bar? it is a great place to set your drink when your hand gets tired. it holds ashtrays for all the smokers. and when you are feeling realy tired ( or drunk) it is a fabulous place to rest your head. the bartenders don't much care for this though, and will usually remove you from the establishment.
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I went to alta a while ago and they didn't even have bars on their chairs
that's not really relevant at all but...
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i pretty much always put down the bar
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hahaha i ddont htink any one else got that
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neiher do bakers, i call them wussie bars. and when people put the bars down i always get stabbed in the thigh by the handle.
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Sometimes I like footrests.
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what lame ass mountain is this?
I love whistler. you don't put the bar down on Peak chair, they don't care, they just wipe the frozen piss of the chair.. man I keep that bar down after seeing some sorry fuck dying on Redline years ago.
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i dnt mind it, but liek everyone else, if they slam it down, you get em back. hold it down until the very last second. they flip out. its funny
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my mountain (baker) doesnt have any, on any of the chairs.
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When I'm teaching or have my nametag on I have to put the bar down or I get fired. Otherwise, i get lazy unless there are footrests.
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well, i dont mind the bars
but i hate it when i'm not expecting it and my arm is on the armrest, THAT hurts
or they get my leg
or smack me in the head
also, i hate it when i put the bar down and the footrests are all like sketchy jagged metal
but i really like the ones with no footrests, u can lean forward and still be all free
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I hate how my mountain has a short really lop triple for the beginner slope and they yell at you to put the bar down. Then lifts like millicent at brighton have no bar and are like 200 feet up. gay shit. btw, they should really put bars on milli, im not a pussy or anything, but if your stuck over that one spot and it's windy, that would make me nervous.
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well maybe its good for gapers to have the bar down. yesterday someone fell off the lift and broke their back. i was on the lift at the time and for some reason they had to stop the lift for 45 minutes (no exaggeration) while they cleaned up. if she had the bar down it wouldn't have happened. it cant hurt to have the bar down so why not?
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are we talking just a safety bar, or a safety bar/ foot rest combo? the safety bar is retarded, but the ones with the foot rest are the bomb, i always but those down and rest my feets on em.
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I don't like the foot rest (my legs rest better with my feet hanging), and the foot rests always seem to be right where I'd like my legs to hang, so I greatly prefer the bar to be up. And they're just kinda annoying.
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One time my friend slammed the bar up smasged me in the face and knocked a tooth loose, that sit hurts
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the bar does not always work i have a freind who passed out on the lift and fell almost 40 feet he was in the hospital for a month with numerous internal injuries, he flatlined twice
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I hate when ppl dont put the bar down when they dont tell you, usually if im in a really good mood and they hit me on the head i pretend like it hurted really bad and make them feel awful
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i ski in new Hampshire 75% of the season,where there is no laws about using the bar so most people don't use it.. at Alta its crazy they don't have safety bars on any lifts! wdf!
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i hate the bar, it always gets me in the head
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The absolute worst is where they slam the bar into your head, and then they think there was just a mechanical error so they slam it down harder in panic. Im a fan of the last second scenario myself. gapoers dont seem to grasp the concept of footrests, becasue once again, when it doesnt go up and my feet are on the bar, thier breathing quickens and they start saying shit like "the safety bar is stuck! omg helllpp!"
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i dont like the bar either cuz ppl always hit me with it and my legs r too long for the footrests to do me any good
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i dont think there are any chairs with bars in ohio lol. but im not gonna lie, when skiing at a real place, its nice to have the footrest and to be able to lean forward on um
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it doesnt make your feet fall asleept
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Isnt putting the gaper bar down something like -500 gnar points according to the GNAR code?
What I hate is the bars at Heavenly.. I dont go there very often (mainly because its farther away from better places, way more expensive then everywhere else, and loaded with gapers if its not a powderday) but whenever I have, and I have wanted to get back down to the California side lodge or something, you have to go up one of these two, slow as balls chairlifts that have superdooper gaper bars that are even closer to you than most... as in, I dont even think fat people can fit with that bar down... What cracks me up is the chair is short as shit, and still, every gaper on the planet feels the need to lower the bar as soon as they get on the lift, and they whack me in the head because it is so short and I am quite tall...
One time I straight got fed up with it and put the bar back up as soon as they hit me in the head and they gave me this -OH MY GOD I'M GOING TO DIE IF YOU DONT PUT IT DOWN- look... I then told those two kids "hey dude... not every lift has a bar... get used to it..."
I know, that was a long ass post, but I'm trying to kill time before class. lol.
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i never used to put the bar down but now i teach kids ages 3-7 to ski so i always do, and now its what i automatically do. my feet dont touch the foot rests though, so it sort of sucks.
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my advice is get friends so you dont ride up with idiots who put the bar down?
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at my mountain no body puts down the bar
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i hate it im liek only 5'7" and i get hit in the head by people all the time because they dont ask and its rediculous but oh well
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I like leaning against the bar. It's annoying when someone just slams the bar down, but it's also annoying when someone is not paying attention. If someone tells you they are going to put the bar down, and you're not listening, that is your fault. People should say something though. It pisses me off when people slam the bar down one second after getting on the lift, they should at least look around and get eye contact. At the same point, I've had someone bitch at me when putting the bar down because they were not paying attention after having been asked twice. If someone asks you, and you are not paying attention, you are a dumbass and deserve to get hit by the bar. At Mammoth I spend most of my time on chairs 22 and 23 which don't have bars, so it's usually a moot point anyway.
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thats some super scary shit. my mountain (Perfect North Slopes) doesnt even have bars, theres this one lift that goes over a run and you get wayyy up there, and all the noobs grab on to the back of the seat.
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It sucks when they slam it right when u get on and then it hits ur head11
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the only reason i put it down is cuz where i ride it gets really friggin windy at this one section so i put it down cuz i feel like im going to get blown off the chair
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i fucking hate taht but ive found a way to stop them, just keep your head there and theyll eventually give up or just b really creepy and give them an im gonna kill you look
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sm guy slamed it down on my hand n i fucking flipped on him n put it back up, he ddnt say a WORD
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its negative 500 gnar points for putting the bar down...
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i always put the bar down, especially when my legs are tired
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