Need boot advice!

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wabene
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Location: Duluth Minnesota
Ski style: Stiff kneed and wide eyed.
Favorite Skis: Åsnes Gamme, Fischer SB98 & TN66, Mashus M50, M78, Pano M62
Favorite boots: Crispi Svartsen 75mm, Crispi Bre and Crispi Nordland BC
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Re: Need boot advice!

Post by wabene » Wed Apr 13, 2022 9:24 am

@Severianin I much prefer leather backcountry boots to synthetic NNN boots. Better support, comfort and style. If you go for the MR48 skin, I think you have a dilemma. Fixed, recessed skins on double camber skis are amazing, fast and up for any XC situation, sliced bread imo. But to truly make them shine having a binding that slides fore and aft is a must to unlock their full versatility. A leather NNN boot would help, but they don't exist. Even better would be an NNNBC binding that slid fore and aft (if somebody here wants to invent this I'll donate a binding for the cause!). Now if you got the MR48 Wax, then NNNBC all day long. Not the Magnum for that ski though. It's not track friendly.

I know I'm a broken record on this subject :oops:
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Re: Need boot advice!

Post by greatgt » Wed Apr 13, 2022 11:06 am

Ski swaps......Antique store up in the Kingdom....2 bucks for Asolo extreme....Another find an Asolo pine?.....the best though is the most very light full leather Merril and it is a flex machine.....Pins and leather is real good! Up....down....all around...TM
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