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[gregL]

Atomic Hawx Ultra 130s 4-buckle w. Professional liner and custom Sidas footbed = 1993 grams, Atomic Hawx Ultra 130 Duall BOA w. Professional liner and custom Sidas footbed = 2091 grams. It's probably more like 125 grams difference, because the power straps are not identical (Dual Professional Strap...

[gregL]

BOA is heavier, plus you have to beef up the shell and/or cuff to mount them. It's less than a pound, though....

[gregL]

M-Free 100 or Völkl Revolt 101...

[gregL]

Ahhh. Said large manufacturer in Oregon probably could care less about ski boots, kind of like they abandoned the snowboard market. I've seen 3D-printed boots in your office, what plastic do you use for the mockups?...

[gregL]

Engineers at two big companies tell me the plastics don't exist yet. Not sure if anyone is working on it, or how hard....

[gregL]

You can build a shell with scanned data using 3D printing technology, and many companies make "touchable" prototypes this way, but they are so stiff you can't really put it on your foot or ski in it. So far they haven't been able to put a plastic with reasonably smooth and progressive flex...

[gregL]

We used to scan customers' feet with a Sidas scanner built by Corpus.e in Germany (Fischer had their own system using the same hardware). The scanner matched the customer's foot with most known production ski boot shapes (they scanned the interiors of the boots and had a library you could match to)....

[gregL]

You do care about how well you transfer power and intention to your skis, you just don't know it yet. You'll regret a soft, sloppy boot when you find yourself unable to keep up with your kids.

Sounds like you don't need a super high volume boot everywhere, you just need someone to make...

[gregL]

Ahh, sorry, Barry goes back to Ottawa around the end of March every year . . ....

[gregL]

I've never been to Daleboot, but I've been in the race boot facility in Altenmarkt where they make Mikaela Shiffrin's and Marco Odermatt's boots, and even the superstars start with stock clogs and cuffs. Their boots get a lot of special attention and are assembled by a wizard named Hannes rather than...

[gregL]

What exactly is "custom" about Daleboot? From their video it seems they make a custom footbed and mold an intuition liner in a stock shell, but you can do that with any boot....

[gregL]

Sorry, 2:00 PM slot has been taken....

[gregL]

Greg at evo has a concellation at 2:00 PM next Thursday January 15th, you need to book online here (best to book 2:00 and 3:00 separately, there is no 2 hour option). There is a $45/hr extra charge to book me.

https://book.squareup.com/appointmen.../7REBQCP5DQSX6...

[gregL]

The current ski boot BOA for alpine and hybrid boots (not light touring models) has very little in common with the snowboard, bike shoe or hip wader models. We replaced many more buckles than BOA knobs on ski boots last season....

[gregL]

It can be either or both, depending on the boot model and exactly how long the manufacturer decides to make the cables. If you are having a hard time getting into a boot (tall instep in a narrow cuff boot, for instance), some people are unable to get into the BOA but able to get into the buckle version...

[gregL]

The only racing I do these days is across the traverse or flats to beat the competition to the untracked, but it matters enough to go with temp specific wax of the best qualilty I can afford and do a proper iron/scrape/brush application . . . not that much more time consuming or expensive than doing...

[gregL]

Seems like everyone is happy with what they've been using and just keeps using it.

Who's actually had multiple seasons with the full temp specific range and additives from more than one brand? Any race techs or former race techs here?

Over the years I've done Toko, Briko, ad...

[gregL]

I remove the laces on all my Professional liners (3 pairs) and put them on normally, which requires less acrobatics in the parking lot and skis fine. The injected foam is much firmer than stock liner foam and hurts your heel a little going in, but overall less hassle....

[gregL]

Whoa, can you get the stiletto heels AND tech fittings?...

[gregL]

At 195 lbs those lengths sound pretty normal, the ski can't tell how tall you are....