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Owning 2 pairs of ski boots???
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Does anyone have any experience with this? I have SPK's as my everyday park ski, thats the boot i used all last season and will continue to use this coming season in the park.
However, in my trips out west I found the boot lacking in the support I need for all-mountain performance, in the backcountry and pow. I am 6'2, 175, and im considering some new technica 120 or Lange 130 or somethin, I will be headed to a bootfitter or course, but....
Any thoughts on owning two pairs of ski boots? Anyone else need something other than the SPK for real skiing?
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you could always rent of demo boots out west instead of paying a lot of money for a boot your not gunn ause much
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for me i can center mount skis, get spk boots, and everything will feel good to me. i had rentals for 10 years so i dont care. all my skiing feels good on whatever i get.
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^im similar. I ski at a hill that is 230 vertical feet, and has 5 runs. Centre mount, one pair of boots, and im set-well, forward of centre but thats only because Im awesome.
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yeea but are u skiin pow like dude is? prolly not
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exactly. I want to know if anyone actually has experience owning two pairs of ski boots and how it has worked out for them...
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Yeah, SPK is like supa wide and the lang/nordica are a bit more narrow.
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actually thats not true. I have skied technica and lange boots comfortably for 10 years before trying and loving my SPK's. I always have my boots fit perfectly, with custom soles, and the langes and technicas always needed a little punching out but they were great.
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believe it...my custom footbeds im sure contribute to me having a snug fit in my SPK's....
but aside from this silly argument, what are your thoughts on using two pairs of ski boots? Should I just keep using my SPK for everything?
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if you have two pairs of skis you could pull it off without much hassle, you could ride the spk's with one pair, and then your other boots with another pair. otherwise you're going to have to adjust your bindings every time you switch boots, unless you get another boot with the exact same boot sole length, which would pretty much limit you to another salomon
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No offense to you but this might possibly be the worst comment left this september.
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Unfortunately, your worthless opinion is invalid since we have come to the conclusion that you do not actualy ski.
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Come on Sir. Steven, you know how easy it is to stretch the shit out of those things. With about 30 minutes of boot work and some custom insoles he would be fine. This kid knows he needs to see a bootfitter.
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Ok, sorry for the amount of posts but I did not want to try and remember everyones names, so I just did separate quotes. As for going with two boots. I would not recommend it unless they are the same brand for the reason above me, unfortunatly I am not the biggest fan of Salomon boots. there fit is too generic to get a good performance fit out of them. Also if the narrower last has worked for you before stick with that. The boot work should be free if you buy the boot from the store. (again why conceptkid, or whatever his name is, is a cunt) My whole philosophy with boots is to get the smallest shell that will work and stretch it out to the foot. You get a much better fit that way. Now another idea would be for you to sell you SPK's to some NS low life, man up and just use the agent 120 or the Lange 130 as your only boot. I have not seen your foot so I am not sure about recommending another boot, but you might want to look at the Lange free ride 90 as a solid do everything boot. But don't take my suggestions seriously since I do not know your size or foot.
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yeah but he has said that he used to fit in them with out much problem. Also the free ride 130 is not a complete race fit. Also the fit of the SPK is just a little bigger then that of the mid range langes.
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