Anyone in Switzerland ordering from Catek soon?

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Anyone in Switzerland ordering from Catek soon?

Post by xyxx » Thursday 22 February 2007, 14:36

Lads, I'm in an urgent need for a front catek bail. But placing an order for a five-dollar-piece and paying 50 bucks for shipment does not look as a great idea to me. Is anyone going to order anything from them soon? May I join your order?
Preferably in German-Switzerland :)

Thanks a lot!

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Post by Vitaly » Thursday 22 February 2007, 18:48

I did not see anybody have Catek bindings, except Russian guys, during ECS 07.

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Post by xyxx » Friday 23 February 2007, 0:50

Well that only increases my chances, innit? ;)

They all have got to get these bindings finally!

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Post by Vitaly » Friday 23 February 2007, 5:03

I do not think so

Because Catek OS2 is not the best choice for wide boards. ( I don't know whot board you have :) )
Catek pulls out inserts!

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Post by xyxx » Wednesday 28 February 2007, 14:13

Dear Vitaly,

extremecarving dot com has a misfortune to be the largest hardboot-community in europe. I do know that among visitors of this site there are also people that ride skinny boards (as I do).
I commiserate the misfortune happened to your board, as well as to others. I also congratulate you with the switch to f2 bindings and wish you to break less than 8 bails per season, as your friend used to.

However, as for myself, on a mountain there are two things I am most afraid of: hitting a kid and having my binding broken/opened. To cateks the latter seems to happen more seldom than to other bindings. They are my personal choice, and I have them already ordered.

Very best wishes.

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show me the proof!

Post by yyzcanuck » Wednesday 28 February 2007, 14:56

Vitaly wrote:Catek pulls out inserts!
Really?
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Post by nils » Wednesday 28 February 2007, 15:05

I personnaly like cateks which seem extra strong. We have noticed two boards broken because of the leverage the central disc does at the ECS meeting. One on a Virus ME190, one on a Virus made Swoard. It seems that using small central disc pattern on wide boards with less angles ( which causes more power on the cantilever) might be putting too much pressure on the core ( even with the ash cores). The inserts where really pulled inside the core, causing the breakage of the core.
We recommend using bindings with wider or longer footprint on the boards that are wider than usual race boards. If I had a race board i'd use cateks for sure!

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Post by domsch » Saturday 10 March 2007, 22:18

@xyxx

you already got them? I wanted to order too but due to the leak of snow this winter i didn't do it...

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Post by xyxx » Sunday 11 March 2007, 14:16

Domsch,

yes, I have ordered the parts (though not directly through catek), but if you will order bindings later, let me know please, I might be interested in getting a pair of OS2s. Later. Some time in summer, probably.

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Post by domsch » Sunday 11 March 2007, 17:49

ok good... i still want some custom colored ones...i will contact you when i decided to buy them.

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