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Thread: Mount point and boot cuff height
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03-25-2019, 02:40 PM #1
Mount point and boot cuff height
While surfing the twiggy New Hampshire back country yesterday, working hard to keep my tips up and tracking over the snow snakes, snow sharks, and various other subsurface obstacles, I had a bit of an epiphany:
I think the reason I have to put so much work into keeping my tips up on my BC skis is twofold:
1. My bindings are nearly center mounted (factory recommended position)
2. The cuffs of my touring boots are about an inch + shorter than the cuffs of my in-bounds boots
Thus, the ground has a longer lever (ski tails) with which to resist my efforts in riding my tails/lifting my ski tips, and I have a shorter lever (boots) with which to muscle my skis to do what I need.
Translation: longer tails and shorter boots = harder to keep your tips up.
Now my specific situation:
My setup is Atomic backland FR 102s (2017-2018), and Marker Kingpins. I'm thinking of moving the bindings backward 1-2 cm.
Questions:
1. Does anybody ski this ski? If so, where are your bindings mounted? How do you like it?
2. Does the screw pattern of the Kinpin allow me to shift 1-2 cm back/forth?
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03-25-2019, 08:45 PM #2Registered User
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no idea about that ski but If i was ewe I would forget wanking about with moving ski center and buy some skis with more early rise
Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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03-26-2019, 12:08 AM #3
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03-26-2019, 12:12 AM #4
Shims for toes (increase float. Experience is simiLar to skiing with gas predal more depressed)
move back 2cm (1 won’t be worthwhile)
find taller boots or try taller liner (intuition tour wrap is high)
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03-26-2019, 01:06 AM #5
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