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Snowjam comparison: Which binding is better? NNN or SNS?
Various parts of bindings get jammed with snow -- frozen, slushy or
otherwise. Is there consensus on which type is best? NNN relies on 2 small slots. SNS uses one big channel. Who wins? I was skiing in fresh, 32F snow just now and the heels of the NNN's got a nice big ice clump. So there's that. Usually they seem to work fine, but what's usual? I haven't made a study of it. Has anyone else? |
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Snowjam comparison: Which binding is better? NNN or SNS?
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:36:34 -0800 (PST), jeff potter
wrote: Various parts of bindings get jammed with snow -- frozen, slushy or otherwise. Is there consensus on which type is best? NNN relies on 2 small slots. SNS uses one big channel. Who wins? I was skiing in fresh, 32F snow just now and the heels of the NNN's got a nice big ice clump. So there's that. Usually they seem to work fine, but what's usual? I haven't made a study of it. Has anyone else? If you google around you will find that there is very little performance difference between them and it's more important to pick a boot that best fits your foot and go with that binding system. Ben |
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Snowjam comparison: Which binding is better? NNN or SNS?
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, jeff potter wrote:
Various parts of bindings get jammed with snow -- frozen, slushy or otherwise. Is there consensus on which type is best? NNN relies on 2 small slots. SNS uses one big channel. Who wins? I was skiing in fresh, 32F snow just now and the heels of the NNN's got a nice big ice clump. So there's that. Usually they seem to work fine, but what's usual? I haven't made a study of it. Has anyone else? Hmm, you are just noticing that now? It happens to me all the time with my NNN bindings! It must be "Murphy's Law of Adhesion": glue, epoxy, sticky snow etc will stick to everything except what you want it to! I think icy clumps under the "ball" of my foot are even worse than under the heel. I can scrape the heel off with my poles, but have to take the skis off the clear the forward part of the binding plate. A few years ago I thought maybe the one wide channel of the SNS would be less prone to clumping, and that, plus the fact that SNS was easier to get around here, made me think of switching. But since Fischer dropped SNS, NNN is becoming more available. Maybe that's a reason the NNN-BC only has the 2 slots on the front part of the boot/binding - not on the heel. I've tried rubbing various oils, greases, waxes on the binding plate with limited sucess - it seems to work for a hour There must be some substance that completely refuses to bond to ice!? -- David Dermott , Wolfville Ridge, Nova Scotia, Canada WWW pages: http://www.dermott.ca/index.html |
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