There's been enough hours logged and time on swiss-cheesed (with inserts) skis to more or less discount any concerns with a ski snapping. Go look at TGR - plenty of examples, and I've been running inserted skis for 4+ years now. That is a concern with too many previous plugged holes, but in my own a...

I can't answer what works best, but know what currently works for me. I'm a Solly guy when it comes to alpine bindings, so have no clue on compatibility of Rossi's. My solo data point is that I've got NTN (old 6-hole metal plate pattern) and Salomon 912/916 (also out of production)... that I haven't...

They ski fine. The power version is a bit more active and probably HH 3-ish. Biggest problem is they're no longer made, so you'll be dealing with used bindings and not much for parts availability. I seem to remember some having toe-bar breakage problems - but I think those were the early ones - didn...

Depends on where you'd like to use the binding primarily. If just learning and mostly resort oriented, my vote would be for the 22-D Vice or the G3 Enzo R, just for the sole fact that you can easily adjust the pivot point to play around with different activity levels to find what you like/prefer. Th...

New black freerides will mount to any of the metal plates and the pink plastic plates. On the old TTips, most folks with orange freerides couldn't get them onto the new pink plates, except for *maybe* the last run of oranges. The hole patterns of the metal plates and pink plate are different. As not...

It's pretty common, and definitely not exclusive to NTN - you're likely noticing it more with the hippy's since they're wider than your supers (so the same stance width is more likely to make contact), and that era of K2s had notoriously soft top-sheets on the "team" skis (hippys, piste-pipes, AK's,...