Duke PT 16s Order

freeskibum82Has anyone who has ordered the new Duke PT16 received them? I ordered from Marker first week in november and they have yet to ship. And now just recently they sent a back order status of 12/16. Same goes for the Blaze 106 ski that is on order as well. Is marker having issues with supply chain?

I would say it is everyone buying these exact two models at shops, and the MDV is prioritizing retail partners. Are you ordering through the MDV pro site?

So it's not so much supply chain as it is demand for do-it-all touring/resort one ski quivers this year

I got my hands on a pair of 16's, 12s not in yet, but they are hard to get for sure, they are starting to hit MDV retailers in europe just the last few weeks.

Blaze 106 has also hit some stores in limited quantity, but I know others hasn't gotten theirs yet. Also talked with a few guys who said its been selling well.

Thanks for the feedback! Looking forward to getting my setup. Just curious if anyone has played with them yet to see how well it works and how swapping the toe compared to the shifts with just their switch lever.

Its about the same meh as shift toe for transition I'd say, do it a few times i vastly improves though.



But! its basicly a jester 16! I did a short writeup on it, you can really look forward to this thing!

freeskibum82Thanks for the feedback! Looking forward to getting my setup. Just curious if anyone has played with them yet to see how well it works and how swapping the toe compared to the shifts with just their switch lever.

I'd personally take the Duke PT 16 over the Shift so far and here's why
Disclaimer: I don't tour a lot, or really at all, but I was going to get a touring binding this year before I realized the boots that I had that were touring compatible just didn't fit my foot, and my heel spur would make touring very difficult. I have daymakers now, and I'm taking an avy 1 in feb though.

Shift seems to have durability issues, and a lot of Newschoolers skiers ski hard, harder than your average backcountry skier, and many resort skiers. If you read google reviews, breaks with this binding just seem to happen, and I know @iamwanex can speak to this personally.
Also from google reviews:

"I bought these because I was excited to finally ski a binding that could tour with the pins but used the regular alpine DIN toe piece for the descents. Only 2 weeks into ownership and on my 5th day touring, not even skiing in bounds, I broke the toe piece in half like a lego.
I work in a ski shop. Five other people. Five. Both employees and regulars have come in with the exact..same..break. Thank god I was close to the resort and wasn’t 15 miles into the backcountry when this binding failed."

I know people talk about Cody Townsend skiing on these, and someone made the observation that adjusting these bindings properly seems to take more finesse than other bindings do.

About the Duke PT 16: I have not skiied this, but holding that binding, and seeing how it functions, it is a beefy chonker. Heelpiece is great, toepiece is massive, and it looks far more put together and better quality than the shift. I have also talked to people who have skiied on it, and while I wouldn't want to put @patagonialuke in between a rock and a hard place, Blister seemed to like how it skiied a lot too.



Anyway, if you're still here, that's my 2 cents. I ride attack 13s and pivots inbounds, and I've been happy with both of those, and realistically, Cast is still the best out there IMO

**This post was edited on Dec 7th 2020 at 3:05:03pm

imho for doing stupid stuff on the downhill it cant be compared to shift, but more to.. a CAST freetour pivot setup, I will be using it for resort skiiing a ton just to verify.

Appreciate the feedback @BigPurpleSkiSuit. I too heard the stories of the shift and that was the main reason for not getting them. I understand that was their first season of them but I was touring with a friend who had nothing but problems transitioning and having the brakes not stay locked and ice build up in the toe non-stop.

I've thought about the CAST but I only have currently P12s and CAST needs the P15 or P18. I do like their idea of buying the extra setup. I could see having a mid fat and fat ski set with CAST and only need one tech toe. Even then you could get away with doing quiver killers for the heel.

Do the duke or cast if you can and plan on any resort skiing at all.

For the shift, Ive had issues in one of my toepieces stepping down randomly even after heeding Cody and LeeLaus advice, i think i may have stripped the mechanism. It usually hold up for 2 days of resort skiing then drops. Its led to a few spectacular crashes in the resort. Im 6'2 ~220 so not a light dude and like skiing fast through chop. I used them 50/50 and they tour great but i have been steadily loosing confidence in them to the point im going to sell them after likely warrantying them. My cousin who is the same size has had no issues and we ski similar

I cant trust them in the resort as it happens randomly when skiing hard then i know a prerelease is coming if i hear that click in the toe. Then you have to quickly shut it down before it happens. I just bought a cast setup, while more expensive by like $200 i figure ill make that up not having to have medical bills from a busted shoulder or concussion due to a prerelease or binding failure like ski suit mentioned above.

FYI ive skiied with a few dudes who rip way harder than me have zero problems with the shift but ive also had about half shop techs ive talk to have nothing but problems with them.

**This post was edited on Dec 8th 2020 at 12:34:16pm

received an update from Marker. Production delays in Europe have caused delays into February for receiving the Dukes