Ski Boot tweaks

Adjusting the lateral alignment of the boot cuffs is easy enough to do (canting the boot soles is a costly specialist job), but it does require two people. Take the inners and footbeds out of the shells, loosen the bolts that fasten the cuff to the shell, place the footbeds centred in the shells and stand on them, buckle the boots as you would for skiing and get someone to adjust the cuffs until the gap between the leg and the shell on each side is equal then retighten the bolts.

As SwingBeep says, adjusting the cuffs is relatively easy, but there's a little more going on in the two photos. Adjusting the boot cuff will only align the cuff to the lower leg, and allow the ankle to flex. It won't change the angle of the lower leg to the boot sole in the way photo 8 might imply. It might help a little to flatten the skis. It looks like some major foot bed work has gone on between photo 7 and photo 8. That's what you need a boot fitter for. If you can envision the feet in the first photo being flat, the feet would have to be tilted outwards in the second photo for the legs to now be straight.

If you only use one pair of skis, it is cheaper to have the bindings canted to attain a flat ski. There are ways you can temporarily get the effect of canted bindings to see what it would feel like.

Trencher, the photos are only to illustrate the procedure. If you look closely you will see that they are not of the same person and the boots are also slightly different.

SwingBeep wrote:Trencher, the photos are only to illustrate the procedure. If you look closely you will see that they are not of the same person and the boots are also slightly different.

OK, I see now. But I was trying to point out that cuff adjustment won't correct an alignment problem like that in the first photo.

SwingBeep wrote:Adjusting the lateral alignment of the boot cuffs is easy enough to do (canting the boot soles is a costly specialist job),

I've had full alignment done, including sole planing. It's not prohibitively expensive and makes a huge difference. You are correct that it is specialist work.

It was this.....

http://www.solutions4feet.com/pwpcontrol.php?pwpID=1828

Which is way different to aligning the boot cuff to the shin. That gets done once the underfoot work is finished.



Here you can see the replacement sole plate, added after the planing of my boots was completed.

Cost?

Tony_H wrote:Cost?

Ahem :oops: Having looked for, and failed to find the bill, AFAIR around £80 for 3 hours work, by CEM and Andi McCann of Alpine McCannix.

http://www.mccannix.com/alignment.htm

bandit wrote:

Tony_H wrote:Cost?

Ahem :oops: Having looked for, and failed to find the bill, AFAIR around £80 for 3 hours work, by CEM and Andi McCann of Alpine McCannix.

http://www.mccannix.com/alignment.htm

That is an incredible deal. Though AFAIR you did buy the boots from CEM, which kinda makes it part of a package.