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Brakes need to be how much wider than ski width?
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alright dudes, I already hooked myself up w/ some Salmon SPKs at 180cm which have a waist of 79mm. Salomon will hook me up w/ a wide selection of bindings, but I'm wondering to I need to go w/ the 80mm brake versions or the 85mm brake versions? I'm def going w/ the z10 ti series, though they may not be the quintessential freestyle break I'm getting them for NADA, so I just need to know if I need to give the greak a lil' room to breath, or go w/ the 80mm... gonna place the order here in a few mins.. so any help appreciated.. thanks...
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just go 80s...as long as they fit its good
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yeah.. the only thing was I had to get my brakes bent to get around my foils last year.. and although it wasn't a big deal, would rather just get some that fit np... anybody else could point me in the dir. of an article on this? or straight up know how this works?
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If I had to guess I'd say an 80 mm brake is designed to fit a ski with a waist of 80 mm or less... like so that isn't the literal widths of the brake... I actually have no idea though. I would say just be safe and go 85 but it'd be quite annoying if they caught on shit.
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I ended up goig w/ the 85mm b/c the brakes that I wanted, the z12 ti, were pretty much starting at 85mm (from the list I had to choose from atleast... I figure the brakes will be set obviously half a foot back from waist which should give the ski a lil' extra width, and at most 2.5mm space on each side is nil' to none... thanks for the help, and any decisive facts on this question would be nice to.
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