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01-04-2019, 11:30 AM #1326I Like Snow
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01-04-2019, 11:35 AM #1327
I ended up cranking my afd tight to boot. Seemed to solve problem, will keep checking to see if it drops.
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01-04-2019, 11:47 AM #1328
many years ago while skiing in Wisconsin (Wilmot for those that have been to that pimple in a cornfield), saw a guy crash hard on the icy slopes. 1 ski took off like a rocket down the hill, brakes deployed and all. Ski got to the bottom, hit the little snow pile at the edge of the parking lot and shot into the air like a ballistic missle. Skewered the windshield of a Jaguar in the 3rd row. When we slid down to the guy to check on him, he was in silent astonishment. The Jaguar was his car...
Karma, man. We all laughed really, really hard.
Lesson here, brakes “help” but are not the end-All-be-all in some conditions and sometimes Karma conspires to get us all.
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01-04-2019, 12:06 PM #1329
Ha, good story.
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01-04-2019, 12:08 PM #1330
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01-04-2019, 01:30 PM #1331Registered User
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If the arms in this pic were ski brakes... These would sell like hot cakes for shift owners.
I we have all had a ski take off down the hill. Mine usually spot when they flip over, stick in the snow like a spear, or find a tree. If this hasn't happened you aren't skiing hard enough.
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01-04-2019, 08:32 PM #1332Registered User
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I had a fun one a couple seasons ago. Came off a small cliff too far forward and went over the handlebars upon landing. One ski shot down to the bottom of the mountain while the other stayed completely buried under about 4 feet of pow. The snow was so deep and soft I literally couldn’t climb up to search for my buried ski, and it took about 30 minutes just to walk down through it all to retrieve the other one. Grabbed a pair of demos, skied back to the landing under the cliff and spent another hour digging before I found my buried plank. Good day.
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01-04-2019, 10:14 PM #1333Registered User
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" Hey so I had these bindings tested on a Montana machine and got a message of "the messurement value is below tolerance". In Canada it is not an obligation for shops to test release values unless they have the testing equipment so many shops will opt not to own the equipment. When I created this thread I was expecting to hear of many more people with the same problem as I believed the shift had a design flaw but I realize now I just have a faulty binding. Still a little apprehensive of the toe piece deisgn in that it uses an aluminum spring and it has such little contact on the toe ledge of a boot compared to an alpine binding but hey doesnt seem like a common issue "Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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01-04-2019, 10:39 PM #1334
Aluminum spring ??? I ain't no stinkin engineer, but that creeps me out. I'm guessing they know what they're doing ... I think.
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01-04-2019, 10:54 PM #1335
Ever hit a baseball with an aluminum bat? It goes pretty far.
I ski 135 degree chutes switch to the road.
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01-04-2019, 11:02 PM #1336
Alu spring has been confirmed?
Titanium would have been a sexy solution to the toe spring weight problem, having a fatigue limit as do steels... aluminum will eventually yield even from small amplitude stress, but the number of cycles required to do so is probably beyond the useful life of the rest of the system. At least, that is what the Solly nerds would likely say.
Next brocore hack: shift toe spring swap
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01-04-2019, 11:28 PM #1337
So what you're saying is that they shouldn't use wood springs?
I tried finding details on fatigue resistance for alu springs but came up empty.
I wonder if their fatigue cycle calculations were predicated on touring use (fewer vertical feet skied).
The thing about most aluminum alloys' failure mode is that it cracks. I don't know if this is true of some of the exotic aerospace alloys however. I get a queasy feeling about a cracking failure mode.
... ThomGalibier Designcrafting technology in service of music
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01-05-2019, 12:10 AM #1338
Don't recall ever hearing of an aluminum spring in anything.
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01-05-2019, 12:41 AM #1339
Definitely raises an eyebrow. This shit true or just bs rumor?
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01-05-2019, 01:05 AM #1340Registered User
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01-05-2019, 01:07 AM #1341
Probably alloy. A steel alloy. They’re as light as ti and cheaper and don’t wear from friction and/or warp. Aluminium would be worse in all of those measurements
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01-05-2019, 01:14 AM #1342
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01-05-2019, 01:22 AM #1343Registered User
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Yeah so just to elaborate I have a binding that I guess doesn't take enough lateral release force for a Montana machine to register. Yeah binding release testing is just not common practice in Canada. There was one place with a machine I found in Revelstoke. I thought this was a design flaw but it's just a bad binding I guess. I removed the bindings because I need the skis for an upcoming trip. I'll keep posting updates on the warranty situaish. Im wondering why the shift has been developed with so little contact with the boot toe ledge though.
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01-05-2019, 10:04 AM #1344
Spring is a steel spring. Cody misspoke. I checked with Annecy. Also something in that toe responds to magnets.
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01-05-2019, 05:41 PM #1345
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01-05-2019, 06:44 PM #1346Registered User
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Skied mine all day today in some hardback bumps and steep trees and lived to tell about it. Couldn't tell any difference. Probably touring tomorrow.
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01-05-2019, 08:18 PM #1347Registered User
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man, that is such a great scene - thanks for posting, made me chuckle!
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01-05-2019, 09:30 PM #1348
Thank you Cody and Solly for the shift. Skied it everywhere. Inbounds / Backcountry. This clamp rocks.
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01-05-2019, 09:53 PM #1349
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01-05-2019, 10:00 PM #1350
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