So I've just ordered some new ArmadaARV106's due in June for NZ Ski season. Gonna use them for pretty much everything aside from park, and I wanna do some touring this season as well. To be fair it probably won't be a ton on the touring side, I'd say it'll be about 10-20% of the total skiing I'll be doing this season. I have two options, get shifts and new boots (cause my current ones don't have tech inserts) or put on some normal bindings and either buy daymakers or just hire them out from a shop. obviously option 1 is a whole lot more expensive, would it be worth it for the amount of touring I'm doing? Also if I do go with option 2 do daymakers work with pivots?
May 13 2020 7:40AM
May 13 2020 8:01AM
I rock some daymakers with my k108s and pivots. I'd say the advantage with Daymakers is that you can tour on all your skis, which is one of the things that initially attracted me. But if this is gonna be a touring ski you are doing longer tours on you'll probably wanna go with the shifts. I adore my daymakers but those mf are heavy.
**This post was edited on May 13th 2020 at 8:01:50am
May 13 2020 12:37PM
CatdickBojanglesIt just depends on how long of tours you will be doing. Short tours just get daymakers for long tours go shifts and new boots. Sounds like you'd be fine with daymakers.
Spot on. If you want a setup FOR touring - the shifts are the real deal. If you want to be able to tour sometimes - daymakers. Ideally you should get another pair of skis, buy the shifts/tech-fit boots and have that as your touring set up.
I have and use both, the daymakers were great until the lifts stopped spinning and touring became our only option. They're a great tool and work smooth; but any hikes over 30-45 min and your partners will be way ahead of you. They're just so damn heavy when paired with pivots; on longer tours, the weight will make you reconsider.
I was extremely skeptical of the shifts after mounting countless pairs; and I'm constantly breaking equipment. I bought them once the world and all ski lifts shut down - and I won't be looking back. I'll continue to use the daymakers for the occasional side-country and jump-specific missions. But the shifts feel really solid in ski mode and hike incredibly well. I'm sold.
Hope this helps - was in the same dilema at the beginning of this season!
**This post was edited on May 13th 2020 at 4:49:35pm
May 13 2020 7:28PM
Get a Cast system when they drop this summer for the pivot 15/18, shifts are great but super finicky, price wise for what they do they’re not bad though, still about to get kingpins instead. Daymakers are good, the risers on them are fucking awesome it’s just weight and the fact you have a metal plate running across your binding that makes kick turns a bit more work but they’re awesome for a novice BC person or some beast who can hustle big lines on them.
May 20 2020 5:32PM
If this is mainly your all mountain ski then I would 100% go with Daymakers. I have never been let down by them and I don't think I would want to be riding all over the place on some bindings that I dropped the kind of cash on that you have to spend on shifts. Leave the Daymakers at home when you are riding lifts all day 90% of the time and then they will be in prime shape that day when you do want to go out and tour
May 21 2020 8:40AM