Dynafit TLT 5 Mountain, WOW!

My experience is when the bottom strap is unbuckled, I feel some slop that you might be referring to. I put them as loose as possible but buckled on the bottom. Keeps my feet in place on the bottom, top open.

^ You could try the sticky fabric they sell to put under doormats or in tool drawers so they dont slide? Or adding an additional sole between the liner and shell.

@norsplit wrote:

Hey guys!
A lot of interesting reading here!

I really don’t know much about these setups, so I was wondering if someone could do a little writeup:

I want to know what my possibilities are in terms of the different “binding” setups.
I see someone talk about Spark bindings, some dynafit bindings etc.
Voile Plates Are these any good?

Hey norsplit.

In short, you have these options:
– any type of carving binding (with bails) mounted on a voile slider plate or a spark baseplate, that slide onto your pucks.
– voile mountain plates on voile slider plates.
– Phantom splitboard binding, if you can get them. Recently the second production run was shipped out, so a good bet is to look out for a second hand set from last years first run.
– Firstlight hardboot bindings

It’s all on here – just search and read up 🙂

A useful tip someone once gave me here was to use google for searching this site. Just use site:www.splitboard.com.

For instance:

site:www.splitboard.com voile mountain plate
site:www.splitboard.com phantom
site:www.splitboard.com hard boot bindings

Dan

@norwegiandan wrote:

In short, you have these options:
– any type of carving binding (with bails) mounted on a voile slider plate or a spark baseplate, that slide onto your pucks.
– voile mountain plates on voile slider plates.
– Phantom splitboard binding, if you can get them. Recently the second production run was shipped out, so a good bet is to look out for a second hand set from last years first run.
– Firstlight hardboot bindings

Dan

I would also add that it looks like Spark will have a hardboot binding option next year, see 2015 Gear thread

Cheers

@barrows wrote:

Chris, maybe I am dense, but I cannot find any info on this Spark hard boot? What page in the 2015 gear thread?

Sorry, edited my post to reflect “binding” on Page 11 of that thread.

Barrows
I too asked Will and they were not interested, I also asked Voile!
In the end I made my own, sometimes its the only way.
Looking at the design its got some nice concepts but I’m unsure how the front of the Tesla system lifts up if the bail is there?
I have made a few HB protos and from now on will leave my designs off line as to not let the ideas out!

Barrows
Exactly right
The base plate appears to be different to the Tesla
No touring parts as you can’t tour with a base plate anyway due to boot length and the front bail attachment plates are screwed in!+
not a straight swap as one would have thought

See differences here

Looks to have the lever concept of the Tesla without the pins.

@barrows wrote:

@96avs01 wrote:

@barrows wrote:

Chris, maybe I am dense, but I cannot find any info on this Spark hard boot? What page in the 2015 gear thread?

Sorry, edited my post to reflect “binding” on Page 11 of that thread.

Understood, this is the binding I asked Will to make three years ago, of well, too little too late for Spark RnD.

Agreed, Phantoms FTW…now, can we please get some Pacific storms to stack up and soak the West Coast!!! PRETTY PLEASE!!! :deadhorse:

I had been using hardboots (Raichle SB413 w/ BTS) for carving groomers and softboots for powder/all mountain. I don’t splitboard, yet. Thanks to Buell, I followed his link from Bomberonline.com to the Splitboarder.com Furberg thread. I ended up buying a Furberg 162 which I’ve ridden in powder with both softboots and my Raichle hardboots. I think the Furberg is a great resort board and it carves great for a powder board.

Now thanks to this thread, I bought a pair TLT5 Mountain boots.

Instead of modding the Forward Lean Slot, I used a shoestring and some 3/8” OD tubing to block the forward lean tab (similar to the post on pg.15). This allowed maximum toeside range of movement while keeping the top buckle tight. I used both the Dynafit optional tongue and the Eliminator tongue to give me the stiffness on the toeside flex that I wanted. The tight upper cuff and tongues acted as the stop for heelside flex. When I ride with steeper binding angles on my Coiler 171 for carving hardpack (54 deg front/51deg back) and Furberg 162 (33 deg front / 30 deg back), I don’t like any forward lean, so loss of the forward lean in this mode didn’t’ bother me.

I decided to also try the Dynafit boots on my Burton Custom 152 (with Burton plates) for the park/pipe. For this mode, I left the top buckle undone (for tweakability) and engaged the forward lean tab by using a Booster Strap. If the forward lean tab is NOT engaged while the top buckle is undone, you lose highback support for heelside turns. I like forward lean on shallow binding angles (18F / 9B) so having forward lean in this mode felt good. I also wore the Eliminator tongues, but moved those inward to prevent shin bang on the medial flex. I did NOT use the Dynafit removable tongue in this mode.

This mode worked great. I was able to tweak my methods and tail grabs just as well as my soft setup. Even with only the bottom buckle engaged (plus Booster strap underneath the top buckle that was left open), the Dynafit gave me better heel hold down than my soft setup (T1 boots / Burton C60 bindings).

With the TLT5 working so well, I’ll be able to retire my old Raichle hardboots AND the K2 T1 softboots.

The only problems I had with the TLT5 were due to the Eliminator tongues moving around. I’ll have to try the Intuition wrapstyle liners from the Raichles to see if I can eliminate the Eliminator tongues. I don’t want to cut the shells to eliminate shin bang except as a last resort.

This sale came across my email box:
http://store.allspeed.com/dynafit-tlt5-mountain-at-ski-boot-2012-2013/
$449 for new TLT5’s and they have some normal sizes as well.