chewy Posted December 23, 2009 Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 For those that love stiff softie setups the Malamute is a reference if the boot fits your foot. http://www.salomonsnowboard.com/en-us/products/mens/boots/malamute/ This year Salomon has added stiffening bars to the shell, right under the top cleat velcro covers. they at least 8 inches long on size 12 and slightly angled. also included are the standard smaller ankle insert on the outside of the liner http://www.salomonsnowboard.com/en-us/bluebook/tech/boots/#/upper/energizer-bars http://www.salomonsnowboard.com/en-us/bluebook/tech/boots/#/liner/power-liner If one upgraded the plastics used with thicker, stiffer material, the boot would be REALLY supportive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdea Posted December 23, 2009 Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 deeluxe and many other companies did this a long time ago. burton did tongues like this for ages too I have ridden softboot setups that were too stiff, doing much to malamutes would be overkill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave ESPI Posted December 23, 2009 Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 I was told the 09 and 10 versions were unchanged. can anyone verify this? I have 2 "J" shaped ankle inserts in the powerliners of my 09 boots. The on-line vendor whoom I specificly asked if there was any differences between this years and the 2010 version and he said "no, not other than the outside of the boot graphics". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy Posted December 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 Salomon is not the first to do this. I have over 1000 days of riding on different malamutes. I can say that in the warm spring weather this will help alot when my boots are getting close to 100 days. For dave espi, the energizer bars are new for 09-10, sorry your vendor is wrong... this year there is also a blue bar... more than twice as long and twice as thick as the white j bar powerliner insert. New, the boots are much much stiffer than past version, about the same without inserts I have only ever seen one pair of those deluxes with the bars, they are anything but common and the Burton tongue insert was not enough to change much at all in boot feel in the spring soup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave ESPI Posted December 24, 2009 Report Share Posted December 24, 2009 damn it..... ARgh.... Well Im happy with them so far, so I will stick with them. They are stiff as I would like them any way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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