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Break Width?

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ItsFen
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With skis with waist of 95mm - 100mm maybe a little above that... I'm planning on getting a skis around that, I generally use look pivot bindings but they only have break sizes in 95mm and 115mm. Should I try to bend 95s or just go buy 115s?
Oct 30 2018 12:27PM
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_____alfredo____
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if you get 95 you can't get a ski wider than 95 lol
Oct 30 2018 12:35PM
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ItsFen
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darticus_primeif you get 95 you can't get a ski wider than 95 lol


I know a lot of people bend 95 mm breaks around K2 poachers which are 96mm...
Oct 30 2018 1:57PM
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subwoofer
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FeldstezI know a lot of people bend 95 mm breaks around K2 poachers which are 96mm...
Yea thats my setup and it works fine
Oct 30 2018 2:06PM
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SofaKingSick
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darticus_primeif you get 95 you can't get a ski wider than 95 lol


(Trump impression) WRONG!
Oct 30 2018 2:29PM
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clorox
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if you're gonna bend brakes, I recommend you use a vice. Gonna fuck them up if you apply all that force on the weak point and not the metal itself. Generally good to aim for brake width no more than 1cm wider than the ski but narrower generally isn't much of a problem and like I said, they can be bent. Brakes that are too wide become a hazard, and like to lock together. Wide brakes also tend to brake much faster from catching on each other/skis/anything you may come in contact with.
Oct 30 2018 9:55PM
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Gryllz
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finderif you're gonna bend brakes, I recommend you use a vice. Gonna fuck them up if you apply all that force on the weak point and not the metal itself. Generally good to aim for brake width no more than 1cm wider than the ski but narrower generally isn't much of a problem and like I said, they can be bent. Brakes that are too wide become a hazard, and like to lock together. Wide brakes also tend to brake much faster from catching on each other/skis/anything you may come in contact with.


Yea. Slightly to narrow is better than slightly to wide in my opinion

I broke my breaks on my rossi soul 7's, bought new ones and they were a bit to wide so they would actually catch on eachother sometimes.

Like i'd be skiing, maybe touch my skis a bit through an icy carve and my breaks would catch which was pretty sketch at times. Bought new, slimmer breaks cause i crashed pretty bad once.
Oct 30 2018 10:11PM
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Gryllz
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GryllzYea. Slightly to narrow is better than slightly to wide in my opinion

I broke my breaks on my rossi soul 7's, bought new ones and they were a bit to wide so they would actually catch on eachother sometimes.

Like i'd be skiing, maybe touch my skis a bit through an icy carve and my breaks would catch which was pretty sketch at times. Bought new, slimmer breaks cause i crashed pretty bad once.


^ I also had an old pair of griffons on them so the breaks weren't retracted horizontally with the ski very much
Oct 30 2018 10:12PM
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Chunderface
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darticus_primeif you get 95 you can't get a ski wider than 95 lol


Totally, utterly incorrect.
Oct 30 2018 11:07PM
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clorox
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Gryllz^ I also had an old pair of griffons on them so the breaks weren't retracted horizontally with the ski very much


had it happen to me grabbing safety on like a 3 or something. Scary shit when you're trying to put down the landing gear.
Oct 30 2018 11:08PM
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skimandan
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I have 95mm on my blends, sometimes they don't deploy which is sick.. but if your skis are 95 mm wide the 95mm break should be fine
Oct 31 2018 12:46PM
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Mapper
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If a binding says 95mm on it, it will be at least 95mm at the narrowest point, because they are saying it's for a 95mm ski and they take sidecut into consideration. You might get away with it if you don't have a deep sidecut without any bending at all. But since 115 is available you should buy 115.
Oct 31 2018 1:23PM
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yungmish
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I have 95mm FKS brakes on 108 kartels so bending isnt a bad option
Oct 31 2018 1:26PM
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Logi
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I don't know what all the fuss is about, I took my bindings with 60 mm brake width from my old racing skis, and recently got new JJ 116's, so I just bent them, worked fine.
Jul 19 2021 5:36PM
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jompcock
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Bend your brakes with a boot in the binding. Otherwise you risk damaging how the brake retracts inward.
Jul 19 2021 5:59PM
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CatdickBojangles
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LogiI don't know what all the fuss is about, I took my bindings with 60 mm brake width from my old racing skis, and recently got new JJ 116's, so I just bent them, worked fine.


You also bumped a 3 year old thread. There’s a new one of these made every other day to bump.
Jul 19 2021 8:16PM
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