mad_trix system: durability + weight ?'s

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First of all, I keep hearing how heavy these skis are, so not having a chance to ski on them, I decided to find actual numbers. I found a site that lists the weight and I was really suprised.

The 172's are 2704 grams with the system, and 1785 without. For comparison, the 172 Scratch FS is 1790, and the 171 1080's are 1680.

2704 - 1785 = binding weight of 919 grams!

This is lighter than Salomon's s912 Ti(990 grams).

Here is the page I got the weights from:
http://snowfan.mimo.com/ski_shop/0008/2003/03000009/

If you don't speek Japanese, you can translate it on altavista. Can anyone verify these numbers?

The only other thing keeping me from getting a pair of these is the question of the bindings holding up. The release lever *seems* pretty solid, but I'm worried it might wear out with lots of use. Anyone with experience on this?

Thanks

 
You think mad trix system is light? It's maybe lighter that rossignol scratch fs with binding, but mad trix system doesn't include binding. It includes only plate which turns 180 degrees. So actually mad trix system would be about 1 kg heavyer than other skis.

 
beasts are fucking heavy

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first of all, thanks for the numbers. secondly, i'll say this with no experience I admit,(just got mine this year) the first time you land a huge jump the lever releases and is broken. Just type into the forum search thing 'mad trix' and you'll get several other threads on the system. And by 'wear out with lots of use' did you mean just repeatedly switching it back and forth? I haven't heard anything about that cuz most people just break the thing before they can actually wear it out.

But if the system breaks, just get it regularly mounted in big mountain with bindings forward and it's an supposedly awesome all-mountain twin anyways. Just by the flex and everything it's sorta obvious but can anyone back me up on its all-mountain capabilities?

 
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