Chris L

Thanks, that’s super helpful Tristan!

I'm currently skiing the Scarpa F1 LT. I have a very low instep - I have a bontex shim beneath the stock liner, a thick footbed, and I still struggle to get the instep tight enough with the boa. I'm not sure that more shimming or padding will do the trick. The boots ski well enough for me except for being sloppy, and I'm ready to move to something that has a real instep buckle. The TLT5, TLT6, and Salomon X-Alp all fit me pretty well. It sounds like the Skorpius has a low instep and a fit not too far off of...

Thanks Zak, I’ll give that a try. How often do they need to be greased to prevent the problem?

My wife and I both have these bindings. We just got back from a multi-day ski tour and we both had heel pieces that we couldn’t rotate back from flat-on-ski to ski mode. No matter how hard we twisted (or banged) on the binding it wouldn’t rotate. In the end we removed the heel from the ski and disassembled the binding to get the pins pointed forward. After this happened a few times we gave up on the flat-on-ski mode. Neither of our bindings have seen much use and I don’t think we did anything strange to the...

I should have added that it’s not clear whether this added volume is from a thinner bootboard in the shell or from changes with the liner. Since the liner seems a little burlier than the RS liner, I’d guess it’s the former.