 Poster: A snowHead
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Hurtle, Well, it got my attention! 
Due to the title, I read a thread that I never would have bothered reading. (Telemark holds no interest for me.)
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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maggi, It's all very peculiar. Have no idea what soap has got to do with anything, btw... 
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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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Attention seekers get attention............ 
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PhillipStanton, I'd be quite grateful if you could amend the thread title, to deflect said attention. My apologies - again - to all who are offended by my feeble attempts at humour, for straying into another specialist area where it is considered by some to be contra-indicated. BZK-creep (pun fully intended, but please don't take it personally) is becoming something of a hazard round here...
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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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PhillipStanton, Thank you! Happy telemarking!
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No problem Hurtle - we'll get you telemarking yet!
Personally, I rather enjoyed your attempt at humour!
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PhillipStanton,
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PhillipStanton, Have you got the job done yet ?
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This weekend ski. Sunday evening. After skiing. And after an unspecified amount of wine.
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PhillipStanton, i finally received my G3 bindings and in order to mount them you have to first disassemble and wrap the cable around a post to take up slack if you have small boots or readjust for larger boots.
all very 1920's engineering
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Help please,
Just remembered that i havent ordered straps. What do i buy to go with G3 targa bindings and Scarpa T2 boots?
How do you attach them?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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You could try dropping those nice Telemark Pyrennes chaps an email skimottaret.
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skimottaret, G3 leashes are pretty good. You'll find a mounting hole on the outside-edge side of your binding. The leash will be a (very expensive) length of wire, with a loop at one end, and a clip (for the boot loop) at the other. Thread the loop through the binding hole, and then the clip through the loop an' yer done ! Welcome to the world of being last to get your skis on 
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You know it makes sense.
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skimottaret, Any short leash should attach to a hol on the outside edge of each toe mount then clip through the D ring on the outside of your boot. I've got wires that look a bit like old skool safety pins.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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tah boys, stupid question really but i wasnt sure if you were supposed to loop through the binding hole (and risk losing the leash) or somehow make a more permanent attachment to the binding when afixing binding to ski....
also seen these curly ones that seem easier but seem to get slagged off as useless.
PhillipStanton, asking the experts is wise and will email our friends at TP.
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Poster: A snowHead
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skimottaret, Small tip - get used to undoing the leashes after you have unclipped the binding. That way you won't have a ski wandering off to find new freinds of it's own.... 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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ski, yeah good one, i am kinda surprised that the leash isnt permanently afixed to the ski
TP have recommended the black diamond jobbies and they are on order...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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skimottaret, Sorry to be unhelpful... but no... my Hammerheads are mounted directly on the ski. How many holes does the G3 binding have ?
When I mounted the Voile release I found that I could not use all of the holes in my Superloops - there were 5, I could only use the traditional 3. Looking at the picture on Jon's website, the plate has old (Riva) bindings on it, which have the traditional 3 hole mounting problem - is this what is happening to you ?
Is the tap for the ski ? or for the plate. If it's for the ski, you'll probably ok just to mount the screws only. I think you've just really discovered the joys of telemark
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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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Well, I'm back.
Did I mount the tele-bindings? Did I heck as like. I had a choice on Sunday evening - six course dinner at local chalet (staggeringly good food) - or a couple of hours in the cave...
Next weekend. Honest.
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PhillipStanton, glad you had fun. ta very much for the package 
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Well, buy me a stick on beard and knit me a lama hat * I'm a telemarker...
...ok, a pretty rubbish telemarker. Blue runs haven't looked so scary in years. And the one time I got cocky and started really "flowing" I crossed my uphill ski over the downhill ski - just as I transitioned. I stood up, tried to change edge and fell down like a tree. Onto my left thigh. My it hurt. And the resulting bruise is mightily impressive.
Still, I've mounted my own bindings and they've not come off. (Thanks for all the moral support.)
And I've now spent a total of three and a half days down on one knee or the other. The morning after the first full day was somewhat "special". And remarkably, I've only fallen once.
And, as promised, my alpine skiing has mysteriously improved.
* Actually, I've realised that a real telemarker would knit their own lama hat. After having grown the lama...
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Thanks ski
As per your suggestion, I've mounted them as per the 22 Designs instructions - which on the Aztec Pros turns out to be just about midway between chord centre and balance centre. On the Aztec Pros this is quite a long way forwards of alpine boot centre - as they've got a dual sidecut.
My only problem now is that I've discovered that I'm running out of edge on the skis - so they're not going to last long!
I've randomly got the bindings set to hole 2, but haven't yet been brave enough to play around with making them less or more active. Any tips on this?
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Oh, and this  is what I got for crossing my skis!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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PhillipStanton, Try them further back.. makes it really easy to flex the rear boot. and - ouch !
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Thanks ski, I'll give that a go.
Nice photo - although I'm not sure I'd go within 300-400m of an edge at the moment!
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You know it makes sense.
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| PhillipStanton wrote: |
| ... not sure I'd go within 300-400m of an edge at the moment! |
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| ski wrote: |
| PhillipStanton, Try them further back.. makes it really easy to flex the rear boot. |
ski - I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!
Errr, ok, maybe that's a little overstated.
As advised, I moved the bindings back to position 4 and it made a huge, instant difference to my telemarking. Much more "support" from the back foot and the added resistance has made me much more willing to trust the kit when I "drop" down (wrong term I know).
I would have tried position 5, but I found out that I'd not centered the plastic plate properly on either binding - so I can't get the guide into position 5. I'm going to have to loosen the screws and re-centre.
THANK YOU SKI!
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Poster: A snowHead
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PhillipStanton, Steady there ! Thanks 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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kiwi1, nice
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kiwi1 - you'll just need to talk me through that setup...
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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PhillipStanton, Bomber bishops (mounted 1cm forward of Chord centre) and Crispi Evo NTNs.
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Looking at the old Bomber Bishops above they still make them but pricey at $500 but.... can be reworked for NTN to future proof. Anyone on the BMF/3 binders ?
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I've been using 7TMs for a number of years, skis fitted with Quiver Killer inserts - when going away I've tended to take 2 sets of skis with Alpine and Tele boots and bindings. This worked well, apart from lugging the extra weight in my baggage and meant I could ski Alpine if worried about keeping up with fast friends.
This year I've bought the Meidjo binding, together with the alpine heel units with Crispi EVO boots (Scott and Scarpa boots don't have the option to use the heel units) and although pricey it has been simply fantastic (based, so far on a few days in the Alps and several trips to Chill Factore). Again, I've fitted Quiver Killer inserts to my skis for this, but beware that is 13 inserts per ski (plus 2 more if adding the alpine heel units), so a lot of careful measurement and drilling. Stepping into the bindings is okay, not quite the 'stamp and go' of an alpine binding - a bit more fiddly than the 7TMs as care is needed to engage the pins when pressing down on the brake.
For future trips it means I only need to pack one set of boots now 
They do recommend ensuring you have skis with metal/titanal plates in the binding mount area to reduce risks of pullout (I think the QK inserts also help here as they have a greater contact area).
(I do still like my old skis with 7TMs and G3 Targa bindings although I haven't been on them since I got the Meidjo set up).
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