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martyagt4

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  1. Not sure how those are built. These had a nice thick area up front, probably a .25" or more. It was not compressible in the slightest.

    What it did was push my heel back into the boot. Made a huge, positive, difference in the way they fit for me.

  2. I know it's pretty close to ECES, so I don't expect to see many, if any. Plus it's K-Mart. Work interferes with everything this year so this is my only trip.

    Making a trip to the Starting Gate on my way, for a super duper boot fitting. So I may get a half-day in at Stratton on Sunday.

  3. I believe that would be a pretty bad idea. One end of the boot would try to "drop" more then the other, introducing some twist and putting unnecessary load onto the bails.

    However, you probably could mix it on the latteral vs. medial side of your boot. Like, yellow on medial, toe and heel, blue latteral, toe and heel...

    Yeah, ok. That sounds like a better idea.

  4. Each sole block has 2 pads, one on each side of the pin, 2X4=8.

    I weigh 155lbs, I am a very aggressive racer and the way I have mine setup is blue under the blocks and yellow erings. I have tried blue and blue but didnt get the flex I wanted and yellow and yellow I found it was too much.

    hope that helps your decision

    And I suppose there is no reason you couldn't mix it up also, with yellows under toe, and blues under heal or vice-versa. . Wonder if that would work out to be in between to two.. Hmm.

  5. Well as for the step-in receiver, perhaps making it out of aluminum as before, but machine the area that wears the most for a hardened steel insert. Wouldn't need to have the entire hole that the Fintec pin rides in to be all steel.

    Make it fairly thick at the bottom to register into the aluminum, then drill it and tap it. Come at it from the outside with a countersunk screw to hold it in. Sounds complicated, but nothing that Bomber Industries can't handle.

    Maybe I'm just crazy.

  6. Well as usual it all boils to, it depends.

    For our little bump here in Ohio, I'm more concerned with too many people, than with not enough degrees. I'll happily go when it's -10F out, as long as I can move up the lift and down the hill. Standing in line then sitting on the slow lift at that temperature will certainly dampen my enthusiasm.

    If I'm out west on a vacation with limited time to ride, I'll suck it up and go out.

  7. In regard to the Flows. I did find, obviously, that my Flow boots fit in them perfectly. The problem was they were crap. Too soft for decent forward lean. I was crushing them.

    The 32 Forecast I ride now fit damn near perfect in them. I was lucky, although it took a day of getting the strap height just right.

    I think the boot is the biggest difference, hardware-wise.

    Honestly though, you ask 30 people their opinions, I suspect you'll get 30 different answers.

  8. The US way of shoe sizing is random at best. As you noticed, Mondo is an actual measured number.

    I measure a 25 on one foot, and a 24.5 on the other. Make sure you check both feet.

    Now, I tried a 25 at first and it was way too big. Next year I went to a 24, which was slightly better. This year I finally went to a 23, and it feels great. These were all Deeluxe boots. I found it a lot easier to fit into a smaller shell, than it was to make a larger shell work.

    Get yourself to a good bootfitter. Like jp1 says, it's worth a drive.

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