Trekking Poles

In article <[email hidden]>, sandy saunders
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Anyone experience of Stormlite Trail Anti-Shock Walking Poles?

Selling at Field & Trek at £19.00 each, a few quid cheaper than Leki poles.

I'm after a couple of new ones, so advice would be well received.

No experience of those but:

Do you really want anti-shock?

Have you seen the AlpKit CarbonLite poles?

http://www.alpkit.com/shop/cart.php?target=product&product_id=16154&categ
ory_id=251

£35 for a pair and 195g each.

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Dominic Sexton

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Quoted message said:

Anyone experience of Stormlite Trail Anti-Shock Walking Poles?

Selling at Field & Trek at £19.00 each, a few quid cheaper than Leki

poles.

No experience but I think you can normally tell with them a) if you like
them and they suit and b) if they look like they'll fall to bits early on.
I'd go on what you think. I've had some very cheap lekisport poles for
years now and they have always been sturdy and reliable and only problem was
over tightening them once so cheap doesnt always mean no good.

Quoted message said:

Do you really want anti-shock?

Not really, it just happens to have it as part of the poles.

Quoted message said:

Have you seen the AlpKit CarbonLite poles?

http://www.alpkit.com/shop/cart.php?target=product&product_id=16154&categ
ory_id=251

£35 for a pair and 195g each.

Seen them now, and they look just right. Will placing them to the top of my
list.

Cheers Dominic

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'Mountains or Mole Hills ... summiting still
brings the same excitement'

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No experience but I think you can normally tell with them a) if you like
them and they suit and b) if they look like they'll fall to bits early on.
I'd go on what you think. I've had some very cheap lekisport poles for
years now and they have always been sturdy and reliable and only problem
was
over tightening them once so cheap doesnt always mean no good.

Its difficult to get a feel for a pole from buying on the Internet. Bought
some Komperdal (Austrian make) poles a couple of years ago, two pair foe
just over £30.00. Were fine for a while, but now all are defective.
Managed on Saturday to make one 'reasonable' to go with my serviceable Leki,
but the strap failed to adjust after a short while. So that is now dead!

Dominic's link looks god though ...............

No, I much prefer to pay good money for good gear.

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sandy saunders @ www.thewalkzone.co.uk
email: saunders.sandy at ntlworld.com

'Mountains or Mole Hills ... summiting still
brings the same excitement'

"sandy saunders" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Do you really want anti-shock?

Not really, it just happens to have it as part of the poles.

Quoted message said:

Have you seen the AlpKit CarbonLite poles?

http://www.alpkit.com/shop/cart.php?target=product&product_id=16154&categ
ory_id=251

£35 for a pair and 195g each.

Seen them now, and they look just right. Will placing them to the top of
my list.

then 6 months from now at the bottom of the car boot.

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then 6 months from now at the bottom of the car boot.

Time will tell!

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sandy saunders @ www.thewalkzone.co.uk
email: saunders.sandy at ntlworld.com

'Mountains or Mole Hills ... summiting still
brings the same excitement'

sandy saunders said:

Quoted message said:

Have you seen the AlpKit CarbonLite poles?

http://www.alpkit.com/shop/cart.php?target=product&product_id=16154&categ
ory_id=251

£35 for a pair and 195g each.

Seen them now, and they look just right. Will placing them to the top of my
list.

I've had a p[air for about a year now, and they're excellent. There
were initial teething problems with the straps, they had a faulty
batch, but this was rectified by return of post, their aftersales
services has been top notch.

I guess the poles might be a little less robust than others, as
carbonfibre will snap rather than bend, but they're still fine so far.
And extremely light, mine are actually just under the advertised
weight.

S.

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