 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi
I'm going to get my daughter her first ski boots. Do GW boots cause issues when hiring skis or am I better sticking with traditional soles?
Cheers....
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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 think all the skis at ski hire places are now GW compatible, and you'll be struggling to find skis that will fit traditional soles. Hope that helps.
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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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| MajorQ wrote: |
| I think all the skis at ski hire places are now GW compatible, and you'll be struggling to find skis that will fit traditional soles. Hope that helps. |
That's surprising..... but I have my own kit so not up to date!
Thanks
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I've had GW boots since last year and had no issues hiring last year or this in three different resorts from four different shops.
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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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| MajorQ wrote: |
| I think all the skis at ski hire places are now GW compatible, and you'll be struggling to find skis that will fit traditional soles. Hope that helps. |
Don't think that's so much an issue. Boot sellers* not telling you your new boots will be incompatible with all your old skis or proactively offering to swap for a DIN sole is a much bigger problem AIUI.
* The problem being greater the more if a seller and less of a fitter it is.
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GW has been around a while now and most bindings are compatible. If the hire shop doesn't have compatible bindings they're running a very old fleet of skis.......
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Interesting -- so if you have your own boots (with older soles), but hire skis - you may have a problem getting skis ???
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@albob, no, GW bindings are generally compatible with alpine norm also, so no problem there.
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@mgrolf, Thanks... (phew!)
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Thanks everyone....
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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this is a discussion we have had with pretty much every customer for the past 6 years
any binding produced in the past 6 possibly 7 years (other than a race binding) should be gripwalk compatible
gripwalk bindings will all accept older style alpine 5355 soles
the problem comes when people are still using older style bindings, right now alpine 5355 soles are still available for most boot models', they are definitely becoming harder to get hold of and within a few years will be gone completely, but please don't have a go at the stores for you using an old pair of skis, we don't get an option as to if a boot has gripwalk or alpine 5355 soles on it, it is the new norm, just like VHS and Betamax one takes over the other fades away and pretty quickly
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