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Full tilt tongues for my new roxa boots
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Sup guys I'm quite new on this website but I got a question for you. I'm from Québec and I just bought a pair of 2012 roxa crazy boots at a local store named D-Structure. My tongues are currently 10 ans I would like to have some 4 or 6 but I don't know if Full tilt ones would fit on my roxa boots. For your information they are almost like the full tilt booter 2012. Thanks for your help !
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I'm pretty sure they're not compatible. I know they look like similar boots, but since they are made by two different companies they won't work together. If you look at the tongue for the Roxa and the tongue for the Ful Tilt you'll notice there's a major difference in the way to cables sit on the tongue. For the Full Tilt the cable goes all the way across the tongue to the buckle on the side of the boot, while with the Roxa the buckle sits on top of the tongue. The reason this would be a problem is because of the grooves that the FT tongue has to accommodate for the cable, if you put this tongue on the Roxa the buckle wouldn't sit properly.
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But then where can I buy some roxa tongues ? I don't see any on their websites !
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Talk to the shop, if they carry the boots they can order the parts for those boots (including tongues).
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i work at a shop on the westcoast that sells roxa. picked a pair up myself and tongues are available. hit your shop up.
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Just get a FT Booter tongue - same boot/shell as that Roxa. Will work fine, since Roxa makes that boot for FT and it's the same exact mold. The Roxa dealer you bought it from should be able to just get a softer flex tongue too, if they are still carrying the line.
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Yeah, Roxa is the company that either made, or owns (or both) the molds for FT, so from what I understand, Said Roxa boot, and the Full Tilit booter are exactly the same boot. Maybe shoot roxa an email first though?
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But like BWalmer said, the corrugations with the FT tongue will interfere with how the standard buckle on the Roxa sits on the tongue. FT has the cable system that goes right with the tongue, but they wouldn't fit with the Roxa buckles.
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Ohh frick how did I miss that. Yeah that won't work at all then. Surprised roxa hasn't used a corrugation, since their boot still uses cables. (Or at least one of the clasps is a cable style)
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For fucks sake....he has the ROXA ski boot, which is the same FUCKIN boot at the FT Booter, so the Tongues are inter-changeable. I KNOW because I SOLD them last year, so YES.....same tongue...cables, etc... doesn't Fuckin matter, same Fuckin Tongue. You can swap from FT Booter to Roxa. Hence, I said BOOTER shell....not regular FT. Wow, those that don't know just stop with your 2 cents.
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But if you compare the two boots, even in pictures, the FT booter tongue has corrugations for the cables to slip into, while the Roxa crazy has a flat and smooth tongue because it uses traditional over center ratcheting clasps. If you were mad desperate I'm sure you could get it to work, but because of the clasp differences, they just aren't 100% the same tongue.
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