I sold my soul to tech bindings 5 years ago for everything and haven't looked back. Funny though, I wanted to get on the wailer 99 tour 1s in the 176, but all they had were marker ft tour bindings on them. Just about every single manufacturer was there and all had tech bindings on at least a couple pairs of their skis, even the traditional alpine brands. There were some other great boots to demo there, but I'm pretty happy with mine. I like a stiffer boot for no nonsense terrain as well as skiing in bounds. I've modified them to be light enough, intuition pro tour liners, light booster straps, no tongues on long tours so they work for me for everything. I'm personally skiing on the dynafit mercuries as my daily do everything boot. The weight was not perfect and kind of heavy, i'd be putting much lighter binders on then, but they worked to get a sense of the skis. All skis I skied had either Dynafit Radical St demo plates and binding or G3 ion demo plates and binders on them. I'm the assistant manager of a gear shop here in the north west so I got to go to the on snow demo two weeks ago. I found the Cho a little hooky in bad conditions. Also thinking I might be happier with the more moderate side cut on the 99T. They did go just under the Denali for weight, which frankly I didn't think DPS could pull off. While the over all flex on the 99 is pretty soft by comparison to a Cho Oyu or Denali I suspect the torsional stiffness on the 99 will better than either.īut I have to mount them up and ski them to find out if that is true. It is a stiff ski torsional and a decent over all flex front to back.ĭPS is know for its torsional stiffness on their skis. Using both a TLT6 and a Scarpa Alien with the Denali and have yet wanted more ski in any situation from glare ice to wind crusted powder. In fact the Denali is the ONLY ski I have been on since July. I have no time on the (99 Tour as of yet. But exactly the same to the mm just eye balling them. Might not be common at all.Įither way the DPS is a tiny bit lighter per pair and 2cm longer by Company measurements. DPS win on consistency but I have only weighted one pair. The last pair the most inconsistent for weight. One of the best skin attachment systems and precut skis.Īt least with my own skis the DPS is consistent on build quality by comparison to my Dynafit Denali. No ski attachments (out come the dremel and drill for that)ġ290g 2nd ski.2540g for a pair of 176cmĤ0grams difference between a pair is an aberration I suspect and not the normġ0g difference on one pair and a 20g difference on a third pair here.
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