FrankenFit woes

[Skirotica]

So i have some Dynafit kit.
TLT, Radical 1 Heels, Beast 14

I really like the Radical heel for touring and wanted the Beast toes. Sure, I could've bought some Radical 2's but let's assume i made a conscious choice not to do that and move on.

I set them up with 5.5mm gap between the heel piece and boot. Worked fine on day one corn.
Yesterday, with 13" of heavy fresh, i was prereleasing worse than a 17 year old virgin at a naked prom.
Kicked me out when i tried to turn, or stop


It could've been the ski flexing too much (Icelantic Ranger).
IT very well could've been my piss poor skiing (pretty sure i was in the backseat at every opportunity)

i used my caveman sense of cause and effect to decide it was the elastic toe that allowed me to slip out of hte heels. So i move the heel into the kiss position (e.g., like the Radical 2 and Beast setup). This kept me in the bindings and didn't destroy my knee. But as I feared, boot heel doesn't go all the way down in the flat touring position. it'll catch on the binding. Now, I can tour with the elevator on, but i am actually concerned about damage to the binding.

Thoughts?

Can this combo work?
If yes, what's the right spacing between boot and binding?
Am I a stupid JONG who shoulda gone to see a specialist first?

[Ocean]

I don't have any direct experience of Beast Toes and Radical 1 heels (and no desire to try it either), but it seems to me that the pre release is likely to be due to the rotating toe of the Beast. I suspect that the Radical 2 heel has a stronger spring to take account of the reduced resistance provided by the rotating toe. So turn up the release setting to allow for the weaker spring in the Radical 1?

Re heel gap - do your Radical heels have the extra spring that allows the heel to slide? Not all do.

Lou Dawson tried the opposite combination of Rad 1 toes and Rad 2 heels....

https://www.wildsnow.com/19714/dynaf...on/#more-19714

[gregL]

Re heel gap - do your Radical heels have the extra spring that allows the heel to slide?

If you don't have the later version I'd worry about stressing and eventually breaking the pivot post.

Trying a combination that no one else has ever tried and complaining that it doesn't work perfectly is a bit weak, though. Prerelease? No flat mode? Like ski touring in a remote part of China and complaining about the lack of huts with decent espresso . . .

[JRainey]

Subject change...

How do you think Kingpin heels would work with radical toes? I think it could work just fine.

Point is, if I have lots of radical toes. I Could just leave them on skis and add inserts at the heels and swap.

I wonder if you can get spare baseplates and just slide the heels on and off?

Not really sorry for the thread drift.