Mix and match dynafits

[gregL]

Thanks. Heard that was "the" combo. It obviously isn't if the intention is to lower your ramp angle. The older Speed TLT heel, a Radical toe with the Dynafit factory shim lowers the the heel by 10.8mm from what you have suggested.

Dane, this is hypothetical at this point, I haven't done it yet for financial reasons. I don't seem to be affected too much by changes in ramp angle - I might be deluding myself, but I think I ski OK on the stock Plum or Dynafit ramps, and I can switch between my alpine setup and tech setups pretty smoothly. I've retrofitted Speed/Classic heels onto a couple people's skis with Comfort and Vertical toes to flatten out their ramps with success, though.

I always thought the older Dynafit heels were fine except for the limited retention in the forward/upward direction. I thought about swapping Plum heel pins, which seem a little stouter, into Speed/Clasic heels to see if they would hold me down better, or asking someone to machine some burlier pins, or making a wider "spreader" for the forward release thingy so it creates a sharper angle at max, or altering the angle on the heel plate of the boot, etc. but it was easier to just buy the Plums and go skiing.

Edit to add: Looks like Lou Dawson has the heel height for the Guide at 48.5mm, so maybe it would be an improvement. Got to measure again. Another thing to consider is how flat the Dynafit boot internal ramp is - never cut one open to measure it, but they feel lower in the heel than most other boots to me.

[Dry]

Wow Greg glad to see I am not the only one over thinking this Luckily the one thing I don't generally worry about on any tech binding is safety or pre releases. Thankfully! Naive I suspect.

I would have never noticed my Dynafit ramp angle I suspect. Then I started testing gear and writing about it. Going from Speeds, to demo bindings to race bindings was noticable. Worse yet ,as you mention boots! Difference between a pair of RS and a One was stark and almost painful on the wrong binding combo.

Trust me I am all about "easy" :-) But for me anyway 8.3
more ramp won't help. Wish the number was going the other way!