 Poster: A snowHead
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Looking at some skis mounted for 315 boot sole length and my boots are 322 so the mid point of my boot would be 3.5mm behind the mount point of the ski. Would you notice the difference?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I wouldn't
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I would think it very unlikely. Many skis, particularly off-piste ones, have optional boot center marks anyway. Just checked my wife's Rossi Blackops and they have "Progressive", "Recommended" and "Directional" lines marked, at a total of 6cm apart. This sort of difference would certainly be significant, but 3.5mm is in the order of differences you'd get from one boot to another anyway, so I wouldn't worry about it.
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@BertieG, no. Not at all.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@BertieG, Full on race GS skis that I am well used to, had set up just for me, really going for it on a race track? Maybe. But would probably not be sure if it was me or the mounting position that was affecting any performance differential.
Recreational skiing - not at all.
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No. 1 cm then yes, possibly. But you are talking about the width of a mounting hole here.
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Cut your toe nails by that amount.
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If you measure your skis centre mount points, you may well find that they are different anyway. Whenever I've had bindings mounted, they have measured the binding mount point from the tips, and used the mount line on the ski for reference only.
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| BertieG wrote: |
| Looking at some skis mounted for 315 boot sole length and my boots are 322 so the mid point of my boot would be 3.5mm behind the mount point of the ski. Would you notice the difference? |
Er no. On a really badly designed ski that required almost perfect entering on a perfect piste, still no. And I've tested skis for a job. 15mm maybe under extreme circumstance, but would be very small difference. If the skiing conditions are less than perfect a skis mount has to be way off to notice.
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On a related note I recall that the very successful Salomon CrossMax ski of the early 2000s was allegedly identical to the not-so-successful X-Scream Pilot, except that the mounting point was moved backward or forward (I misremember which) by a couple of cm. As an all-mountain ski it was not a worthy successor to the original X-Scream Series, but in it's new branding, alongside the increasing popularity of wider piste skis, the skiing characteristics provided by simply moving the mounting were enough to make it a market leader within its particular niche.
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