 Poster: A snowHead
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Hello all,
I was wondering if I might be able to pick your brains. We are starting to do touring so I am going to need to change to touring bindings and was looking to grab some advice. I am looking at the Marker Duke and Tour F12 bindings, which will be attached to Whitedot Preachers.
Being a prop, I am not the lightest fella in the world (around 100-107kgs) and tend to ski with more power than technique. This has me leading towards the Barrons, as I am little worried that I will be close to the weight limit on Tour F, which I think is around 113kgs (considering that my 100-107kgs is without ski boots, gear and a hearty lunch, I reckon I could make that 113kg easy enough.) We are not going to be done massive tours, so am slightly less worried about the extra weight (800g) of the Duke and, I reckon, I could loose more than the 800g to off set them!
Any thoughts would be greatly appricated
Cheers
DF
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Buy the F12
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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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and make sure you get a set of brakes to go around them!!
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
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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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Thanks for the quick replies. livetoski, it is my understanding that you need to take your boot out of both bindings to switch modes or am I wrong? SMALLZOOKEEPER, I was worried about the brakes, but was told they could be bent around? Does that make sense?
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| Dublinfella wrote: |
| Thanks for the quick replies. livetoski, it is my understanding that you need to take your boot out of both bindings to switch modes or am I wrong? SMALLZOOKEEPER, I was worried about the brakes, but was told they could be bent around? Does that make sense? |
Dukes you need to take both feet out to switch modes.
I had my brakes bent, seem ok (touch wood....)
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I had my brakes bent, seem ok (touch wood....)
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yep Marker brakes are pretty good they bend round the Flyswatter and they are 125 under foot 
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I was really hoping to get Tour F12s but was swayed against them by a number of people who reported (on TGR) either failures of the F12 (mainly due to knee falls, I understand), or, more worryingly, a tendency to develop significant slop after relatively limited use. So I bought Barons, and I'm only c. 85kilos. (Disclaimer: I have no idea if the reports on the F12s are exaggerated, normal failure rates for the volumes sold, etc).
SMALLZOOKEEPER knows a lot more about equipment than I do, but at that weight, and assuming no long tours, I would go for Dukes.
you definitely need to take the boot out of the binding to switch modes on the Barons and Dukes. Not ideal but for me the hassle is worth for the downhill mode.
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horizon, Cheers for that. Those reports are quite worrying alright. Especially with my lack of petiteness!
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