What Boot Is This?

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JohnSKepler
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What Boot Is This?

Post by JohnSKepler » Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:59 pm

As y’all know I’m looking for 75mm boots. These are interesting with what looks like some kind of carbon-fiber layup. The holes have a bit of expansion as you can see in the second picture. Is that acceptable?
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Lhartley
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Re: What Boot Is This?

Post by Lhartley » Wed Oct 11, 2023 10:16 pm

I bought my t1's with the 3pin holes pretty much ruined worse than that (the price was right), I had no intention of running them with the pins anyways. Interesting boots, t2s?



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Re: What Boot Is This?

Post by bobbytooslow » Thu Oct 12, 2023 1:15 pm

These are the first generation T-Race, with the very not-ergonomic bellows. They might work for some people -- Craig Gordon from UT Avy, for example -- but a lot of people (myself included) lost toenails in them. For subsequent generations, Scarpa changed the geometry of the bellows to flex in a way that matches more people's feet.

If you think they will work with your feet, I wouldn't worry about the elongated pin holes. You don't want to use them in a cable-less 3-pin binding anyway.



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