Touring adapters: bunk or awesome?

complete fucking shit. anyone who likes them doesn't know what they are missing. If you're going up a hundred feet they might be bearable, but otherwise a complete waste of money. Its not like they are any less expensive than actual touring gear.

cobra_commandercomplete fucking shit. anyone who likes them doesn't know what they are missing. If you're going up a hundred feet they might be bearable, but otherwise a complete waste of money. Its not like they are any less expensive than actual touring gear.

Thats the first thing i noticed. For the price they are I could get actual touring bindings and quiver killers.

Shit could probably find a decent used complete setup for like $100 or so more

I’m not sure how worth it the new ones are considering the price but I bought a used pair on eBay for cheap and they work great for the small amount of touring I do.

As someone who spent a lot of time touring in frame bindings and who then made the switch to pin bindings and never looked back, I have been pleasantly surprised by how well Daymakers go uphill. Compared to frame bindings, I think the stride you get is so much more natural and comfortable; the risers work great; and I haven't yet had any icing issues. They are heavy and take up substantial space in your pack, but I've come away very impressed so far, for what they are.

If you plan on spending a lot of time skinning uphill, it'd probably be worth getting a pin binding (and a touring boot that works with them) — there are a lot of great options right now. But if you're looking to try touring, don't have boots with tech fittings, and / or don't want to put a touring binding on the skis you already have, I'd recommend Daymakers over frame bindings. Between Daymakers and downhill-oriented touring bindings like the Shift, I personally think frame bindings are obsolete at this point.

They work for me, but not worth the price.

I tour maybe 5-10 times a year. I havent had any issues with them. BUT using day makers, with sth2s, on billy goats, makes for a miserable up hill. If youre not touring frequently or for not very long, daymakers would be a decent option. Theres a little play on the interface where my boot heel comes in contact with the daymaker frame while side hilling, but ive never actually slid out or had something break. The climbing aids are kind of a hassle to flip up an down. The low angle climbing aids on mine never seem to stay up for more than a couple strides, so its kind of annoying either being all the way up, or totally flat.

Ideally the cast system is the best in my eyes. nothing beats having confidence in your bindings on the way down. I didnt go cast system because i dont have tech toes in my boots and didnt want to pay an extra 200 for the boot conversion. If you have pivot 18s, and happpen to have tech toes. definitely go cast system.

for someone who likes to go skin up and then drop cliffs/tricks... Cast > daymakers > frame binding

they were daywrecking bunk in 1996 when I first put em on
but there wasn't a lot of not learn to tele options then
2 1/2 decades later the options are mindboggling from cast to 300 gram tech
that good balanced skiers can rip on
and you git the carbon fibered bunk now
bunk is bunk
same as it ever was

i personally like the idea of skiing BC terrain with the proper gear on something that i also love to rip inbounds on. but then again, you could also just buy two of the same pair of skis and throw alpine bindings on one and touring on the other.

I think for 300 dollars you could buy an OK used set up that would be superior to that.

Better than frame bindings, worse than cast or shift