What is the stiffest boot... Ever?

[toastyteenagers]

My father owns a boot, with a flex of 160.

What is the stiffest boot you can find?

 

[Negromancer]

Atomic make the Redster WC 170 with the carbon spine. I haven't seen anything stiffer.

 

[Gmart]

the problem is flex isn't universally measured, each company measures it differently, the example I use is a lange 130 and atomic 130 aren't the same flex, that being said, those world cup boots are stupid stiff, good question tho, I'd be curious to know the answer

 

[JahLiam]

full tilts /thread

 

[Huck_Norris]

Atomic make the Redster WC 170 with the carbon spine. I haven't seen anything stiffer.

This is pretty much it until you get into handmade WC DH boots and shit. None of us on here could ever hope to hand-flex the Herminator's custom boots.

 

[freeski1620]

for sure a race plug.

Maybe a nordica doberman. Lets just call it unflexable!

 

[freeski1620]

for sure a race plug.

Maybe a nordica doberman. Lets just call it unflexable!

 

[haggis_hunter]

This is pretty much it until you get into handmade WC DH boots and shit. None of us on here could ever hope to hand-flex the Herminator's custom boots.

Thats simply down to the fact the Hermintor flexs gravity.

 

[onenerdykid]

Atomic make the Redster WC 170 with the carbon spine. I haven't seen anything stiffer.

Our WC 170 is a real deal athlete product. It is the stiffest boot we offer commercially, but it is the softest configuration that the men use. Above the 170, we no longer give it a flex number but instead use our super secret injection codes for shell and cuff hardnesses. But plastic hardness is only one aspect the racers are looking for from their boots. Elite World Cup racers are actually so über-sensitive to changes in plastic types that we even have different rebound speeds within the same plastic hardness. It gets pretty complicated at the world cup level, hardness is only one part of the complex race boot equation.

 

[GrumpisPringle]

Our WC 170 is a real deal athlete product. It is the stiffest boot we offer commercially, but it is the softest configuration that the men use. Above the 170, we no longer give it a flex number but instead use our super secret injection codes for shell and cuff hardnesses. But plastic hardness is only one aspect the racers are looking for from their boots. Elite World Cup racers are actually so über-sensitive to changes in plastic types that we even have different rebound speeds within the same plastic hardness. It gets pretty complicated at the world cup level, hardness is only one part of the complex race boot equation.

damn racers

 

[MartianMan]

Our WC 170 is a real deal athlete product. It is the stiffest boot we offer commercially, but it is the softest configuration that the men use. Above the 170, we no longer give it a flex number but instead use our super secret injection codes for shell and cuff hardnesses. But plastic hardness is only one aspect the racers are looking for from their boots. Elite World Cup racers are actually so über-sensitive to changes in plastic types that we even have different rebound speeds within the same plastic hardness. It gets pretty complicated at the world cup level, hardness is only one part of the complex race boot equation.

That's wicked cool. So are you saying that a lot of racers ski on boots stiffer than 170?

 

[toastyteenagers]

That's wicked cool. So are you saying that a lot of racers ski on boots stiffer than 170?

I guess if i was whipping down a hill and pulling 2g turns all while at 60 miles per hour, i wouldn't want to wear full tilts

 

[tmottau]

All the World Cup race guys ski the stiffest boots. So ask the euros, not Ligety cause his boots are quite soft. LOL

 

[toastyteenagers]

All the World Cup race guys ski the stiffest boots. So ask the euros, not Ligety cause his boots are quite soft. LOL

Next time Im in park city ill call him up, my father knows him.

 

[Pipe_Munky]

Our WC 170 is a real deal athlete product. It is the stiffest boot we offer commercially, but it is the softest configuration that the men use. Above the 170, we no longer give it a flex number but instead use our super secret injection codes for shell and cuff hardnesses.

Pretty much this.

I know my Lange WC race boots come in a ZB-ZB flex code. I believe they're in the 140-150 flex range. These boots are the least forgiving boots I've ever skied and stay in the closet unless I'm chasing gates or putting on the race boards.