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Grip walk boots with touring bindings
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I have had my touring skis for a number of years now. However I only get to tour about 6 days a year. My old touring boots were fine but I didn’t really like them. My old downhill boots were ready for retirement. So I bought myself a pair of (fitted) hybrid boots, which I love. The boots have grip walk soles (which are incredibly useful for me). That means I have to clip in at about 45 degrees (see photo). Previously I was clipping in with the boots (with classical flat soles) almost horizontal.
I have been back to the boot fitter and the ski shop (unfortunately not the same place). Other than some radical and/or expensive solutions, the advice is “they are fine, you just need to practice”. Seems fair and that is what I intend to do (eg next week I am off piste but not touring and I will use my touring skis).
Anyone with any advice as to how to get used to this?
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@JohnMo
, are you saying that if your boot is (more) horizontal then the GW sole is fouling on the binding and making it impossible to align the pins etc?
When clicking-in try having the ski a little more rearward - say with the toe pins adjacent to the ankle of your standing foot - to give a better view of the alignment etc.
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I can't quite figure out what issue you're having but I've had to dremel a bit of rubber sole before as the sole was making contact with the middle part of the toepiece and releasing the pins before they were properly aligned to the holes on the boot. 2 min job.
Curious as to what the radical / expensive options were though?
Couple of pen marks on the top of the toe of the boot also help with alignment.
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spyderjon wrote:
@JohnMo
, are you saying that if your boot is (more) horizontal then the GW sole is fouling on the binding and making it impossible to align the pins etc?
When clicking-in try having the ski a little more rearward - say with the toe pins adjacent to the ankle of your standing foot - to give a better view of the alignment etc.
Thanks for the reply. I think the issue is that the grip walk sole is raised at the front (compared to a horizontal “classic” ski boot sole). Therefore you have to tip the sole forward to engage the pins much more than you would with a horizontal sole.
That is a really good idea re bringing the ski rearward when trying to align and engage the pins. I will certainly try it.
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Dashed wrote:
I can't quite figure out what issue you're having but I've had to dremel a bit of rubber sole before as the sole was making contact with the middle part of the toepiece and releasing the pins before they were properly aligned to the holes on the boot. 2 min job.
Curious as to what the radical / expensive options were though?
Couple of pen marks on the top of the toe of the boot also help with alignment.
The pins are not being released early. Just struggling to get them to engage. The expensive options all revolved around new bindings or new boots or both! To be fair to the guys at the mountain shop they said I shouldn’t do that as my bindings and boots were both fine (too polite to point out the user was not - but I have no pride, I know it is me).
Good idea re marking pin holes. I’ll do that as well.
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