Dynafit TLT 5 Mountain, WOW!

I’ve always wondered if the TLT5 mtn woman’s version would have a softer flex then the men’s, any ideas? Maybe they don’t go up to size 29 tho, haha

Has anyone ever considered an interface that actually took advantage of the heel piece of the dynafit bindings? Forget any bindings, voile pucks, or slider plates. Why not just have an interface that allows the toe piece and the heel piece to work in tour mode just like it does on skiis, then detach from tour mode and re-attach in ride mode and click in like a traditional skier? Seems efficient to me? Does this make sense to anyone or is there something I may be over looking?

Several people here, me including have built DIY split bindings from the Voile plate and Carving Company bails (which are what Burton used to sell eons ago as a hardboot binding). It works, no doubts, but the Voile plate is made from very flexible aluminium and you can notice this, while riding.
It shouldn’t be impossible to source some blocks of 7075 aluminium, they even sell them on eBay and find a CNC machine to carve a clone of the Voile plate. It would be a big improvement. I have somewhere a 3D model I made to measurements for the purpose. The cost including labour and material was ~$200 (in Europe, mind you). But now I will just free somebody from the burden of last year’s Phantoms (:

A leg coming loose is what scares me big time. When I cut the voile plate to bolt the bails on, I did it a few millimetres short, which was big, big trouble. The bails should squeeze the boot with considerable force (without crushing it or being impossible to release, of course) and then spontaneous release is not much of a problem. In my case it was very easy to release, mostly in tight turns. I almost lost my NS Summit in France! I had to enlarge the holes, so that I can move the bails towards each other, but then there was the danger that the bolts will move around in the now larger holes, I had to fill this. Ugly thing. I would show you pictures, but I am ashamed of what job I Did 😳

The big problem is that if one of your legs is released, the other one will follow very soon, because your leg twists inside the binding and unless you are very lucky and the board lands bindings down, you are up for a big chase. After this happened for the third time to me I started tethering the board to my boots! My ski friends, who immediately started mocking me when I switched to split board (“Look, you are almost on ski now, which is almost not a fag!”) and only increased the mocking with the hard boots, started offering me ski brakes for the board 😀

tl;dr
With proper bindings – Phantoms or precisely crafted DIY Voile+Bails you won’t have a problem with sudden release of the bindings.

B and D Splitboard crampons for Dynafit bindings

http://www.bndskigear.com/fatcrampons.html

thanks for the prompt reply!

@Earnyourturn wrote:

Powderider: i can’t quite make sense of the photo as far as how they actually mount to the board. Care to explain? didn’t see an explanation on the link provided.

There are little ‘hooks’ that should have come with your Dynafit toepieces that are optional, that you need to install on the posterior (towards the tail) 2 screws of the toepieces. The crampons from B and D sit in those hooks. My Dynafit toes didn’t ship with any from Spark, but my local ski shop had a few spares and hooked me up. I found this out the hard way one day when it was super icy and I busted out my brand new B and D crampons, only to find out they couldn’t connect without the hooks… held on the ski crampons with Voile straps that day. 😥 Good luck!

As for alternatives, I found this:

http://splitboard.com/talk/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=11124

With the dynaift adapters maybe no need for that shim.

@cometogether wrote:

hey all! I got a tlt question for you, I’ve got one day touring in my fairly new tlt5s and Im feeling the liner slide around on the hard surface shell while touring, what are people doing to eliminate this? some sort of tape?

any ideas welcome

not exactly sure what you mean, as in you can feel the whole liner moving around in the shell? If that is the case are you sure your liner is a compatible size with your shell? it should be a pretty tight fight. I haven’t experienced this issue although I think I have experienced every other possible issue with that boot.