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Adjusting ski boot flex
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hey small zookeeper, you can only go on what people tell you, and if you get it from the horses mouth someones telling porky pies!
I have spoke to salomon tech rep re this and he says, leave em. the 8 isn't stiff. after a couple of weeks the flex will increase as the liner compacts allowing the shell to deform and hence flex more.
ALso if its a boot with a honeycomb clog cutting high up at the vee can move the point of flex from just below the hinge to above it, then the shell won't flex as salomon designed.
Another thought if you do cut the shell and find its too soft, you could then go for a zip fit and should end up somewhere between the 2 extemes.
i have 2 pairs of x wave 10's and old red pair skied in lots and a new 2007 pair, with one on each foot the old one are noticebly stiffer, although they are supposedly still the same. So it appears that the new honeycomb ones are softer.
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I have the definitive answer.
My 2006 x wave 10's started to leak badly, so sent them back to salomon. kindly they changed them for a brand new pair of x wave 10's. they are so soft. every generation gets softer. my old ones were just about ok for racing, (my fat feet won't go near the course), these i keep going over the top of them even on a pocket rocket!
I have compared them to some 'old' promodels and they are even softer than these. A colleague also has the same boot and has commented that they are way to soft for performance skiing.
come on salomon what are you up to?
if you have one pair of boots and want the same again, normally you expect them to be the same. Salomon say they are still 110 flex... NO WAY. Surley 110 flex is 110 flex.
This is a popular boot, and it appears they have softened it up to make it appealing to more people. Surely this is why they have an x wave 10, 9, 8 and so on.
Is it just to make people think they are better than they are making a supposedly expert boot softer.
And they've taken the absorbing footbeds out. rant rant rant.
Still i suppose it will solve the problem of begginers being sold them by certain large uk retailers on the advice that they are fine for all level of skier!
Well at least some boot manufacturer will benefit as I will have to go and buy a stiffer boot for training/racing!
Anyone else had similar issues
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
So don't cut your boots, buy my 2007 x wave tens!
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crasher
, boots can be made stiffer as well as softer just like imortgage rates can go up as well as down
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