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PLUM BRAKES.
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Those interested, this is finally how they they'll work. X Wing Fighter Stylee

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They're on the front! Hnn.
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Zero-G, so are mine on my NTNs . . . in fact on my next skis I could have brakes front and rear Very Happy
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I'd be concerned that forward-facing brakes might get snagged in heather and other random stuff. Probably just my paranoia & I'm sure the folks @ Plum had thought about that when they designed them.
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moffatross, Thinking about it, forward facing brakes are probably ideal for putting yer skis on . . . heather and other random stuff Shocked lord you bases must be boogered wink
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moffatross, my first ever brakes were retro fitted front facing ones on Salomon S222s. Yes, heather was the cause of many park and fly events...

Maybe the Plum ones tuck a bit more out of the way?
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under a new name wrote:
Yes, heather was the cause of many park and fly events...

Maybe the Plum ones tuck a bit more out of the way?


Yep, I think they'd need to wouldn't they. Here's my Dynabrakes and they look like they'd be proper snaggy if they were pointed forward.



Masque wrote:
heather and other random stuff Shocked lord you bases must be boogered wink


Mid tour and where the snow ran out at the end of a Moffat hills outing about 10 days ago, this is some of the stuff I'm thinking of. Heather, gorse, bailing string, rock etc. No, none of it is kind to bases but you slide when you can slide. Laughing





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moffatross, That's not skiing, that's walking with planks rolling eyes
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Masque wrote:
moffatross, That's not skiing, that's walking with planks rolling eyes


Masque, nope, so long as you can skin up it and slide down it on your planks, powered by the force of gravity, it's called skiing. The snow can really be quite thin and still skiable but isn't that really kind of the point of touring kit, and more to the point, why you wouldn't want something snagging at you as you went ?

Sometimes the snow in the Moffat hills is deep enough that it wouldn't be a concern though ...



Anyhow, show me the hills you see from home that you go sliding on. I like pretty pictures Little Angel
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moffatross, Florida Crying or Very sad steepest thing around here is the slip down to the Atlantic.
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Zero-G wrote:
They're on the front! Hnn.


Not many other ways to fit brakes to a frameless touring binding that will still work in touring mode, I suspect.

ATK make a couple of different models of brake for their skimo race bindings... they're both front mounted, one triggered with a small leash, and one with a little lever under the toepiece. How good they are as actual brakes I don't know; they're made to comply with race rules first and foremost, and normal people don't seem to use em wink The Plum offering looks substantially more meaty, at least.
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Brakes are for sissies
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Serriadh, except dynafit managed...
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You know it makes sense.

Reasons for front mount.

1 Must remain active in free heel mode.
2 Cannot be attached to the rear unit, as Dynafit have the patent.
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CH2O, Tell that to G3 and I thought that all the Dynafit(tech) patents had expired.
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Masque, Plum's words, not mine.
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G3 who honestly uses that shite? Think the brake at rear system mean they can build it in without the swivel heal piece. Pluim have a swivel heal piece. I hope that can make some sense to someone.
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CH2O, My Onyx certainly have rear brakes . . . though the Septics do have a rather Laissez-faire attitude to other people's intellectual property and a slavering paranoia about their own.
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under a new name wrote:
Serriadh, except dynafit managed...


Did they?

Serriadh wrote:
Not many other ways to fit brakes to a frameless touring binding that will still work in touring mode, I suspect.


With Verticals and Radicals in tour mode, the brakes are locked out. Don't know about the Beast. I do know from personal experience that it is a) possible to come out of a Dynafit toe in tour mode and b) possible to twist the heelpiece during a fall in ski mode such that it clicks into tour mode.

This is why I no longer rely on Dynafit brakes to stop a ski on their own.
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