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10-11-2018, 01:01 PM #26
I’m alone on an island here, but I can’t really tell the difference between when I use regular alpine bindings and duke style bindings for skiing at the resort on a ski that isn’t reverse camber. Then again I’m an apprentice dental hygienist, Ymmv
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10-11-2018, 01:02 PM #27Registered User
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I have 2 pair of Barons but i have only done 1 very short tour on them, the big reason i was atracted to them on some used skis was so I could use my alpine boots at the hill instead of my AT
unless you are really fat or a really strong skier dukes or barons or the other frame bindings work fine for most alpine applications
frame bindings will be dead when all ski boots have tech fittingsLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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10-11-2018, 01:19 PM #28
Dude, just buy some used alpine bindings off of here, remount the Bones, and ski. Don't overthink it. Maybe keep the DIN below 16 until you are sending 40 footers again like you are 28.
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10-11-2018, 01:22 PM #29Registered User
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10-11-2018, 01:28 PM #30
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10-11-2018, 01:30 PM #31
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10-11-2018, 01:34 PM #32Registered User
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If you're in Golden CO -- WildX has a gear swap Saturday. Probably some cheap clamps there if you don't like your dukes. If you leave your skis and boots at my house sometime along a six pack, I'll happily mount them. Just don't sue me.
Loveland also does cheap mounts pretty quickly.
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10-11-2018, 02:47 PM #33
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10-11-2018, 03:03 PM #34
IME it doesn't make a huge difference so I'd just ski them till they break off. Once mine broke I mounted up the same skis with alpine binders and they did ski a little different but I wouldn't have done it if the markers didn't blow up.
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10-11-2018, 03:37 PM #35
Also all my other bindings have some ramp, whereas the Dukes are flat. Maybe your other bindings, (if you have any), are flat like the Dukes. Anyway between the extra weight, flat ramp angle, stack height, weird slow return to center, they definitely feel weird or different to most people.
OP, I agree with most here put some clamps on them and ski, then see where that takes you.Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
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10-11-2018, 03:39 PM #36
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My other bindings are mostly STH 14-16, Head Mojo 15s and Tyrolia aatack16s. I’m kinda baffled, I don’t think I could pass a blind test on frames vs those. All the frames are on 108+ waisted skis to be used in soft snow, so there’s that I suppose.
Maybe I’m too strong and good to notice ... nope
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10-11-2018, 04:43 PM #37Registered User
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if its so much faster/better to have low stack height why do alpine racers have bindings with a buncha stack height ?
I agree you might feel the difference on ramp but If you read a myth somewhere then you might feel the difference because things that are repeated often enough become true
my experiance with stack height was putting a 25mm G3 shim under a Riva binding and ski it with leatehr boots ... couldn't feel any real differenceLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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10-11-2018, 04:55 PM #38Registered User
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Put some quality alpine binders on your skis and get your butt in the gym. Incorporate leg blasters into your work out. And if you’re in your mid 30s you’re far from old. This coming from a 47-year-old.
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10-11-2018, 05:16 PM #39Registered User
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10-11-2018, 07:58 PM #41Rod9301
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Exactly
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10-11-2018, 08:01 PM #42Registered User
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I don't understand why you wouldn't you wana have more leverage ?
In any case this is all geeky shit on the internet , I did a little work in a bike store where these lawyers would come in and repeat stuff they read in MBA word for word to the point i would recognise what they had verbaly plagerized from articles ... at least they had lotsa money
but i'm sure this never happens in skiingLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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10-11-2018, 08:14 PM #43Registered User
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10-11-2018, 08:59 PM #44Registered User
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people always say its about performance blah blah blah that they read on the internet
and if yer into ANAL thats your thingLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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10-12-2018, 09:24 AM #45
I don't give a shit about stack height, but plate bindings do alter the flex of a ski, making a sort of dead spot in the middle. I had a pair of skis that had Dukes then Looks. Noticeable improvement with the Looks.
But if I were you I wouldn't change a thing. Just ski. Then decide.
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10-12-2018, 09:51 AM #46
Stability? Fat skis are different from skinny skis? I have no risk of booting out from my boot hitting the snow in a high speed carve on skinny skis? It feels nicer when landing airs of all kinds? Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean you should dismiss it as fabricated nonsense.
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10-12-2018, 10:12 AM #47
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