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Did anyone have a pair of these?

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:31:04 GMT

Lots of time on my hands at present - so did a search for the infamous Nordica Polaris boots.

Did anyone out there have a pair of these knee-high beauties in 1980 or 1981?

I wonder if anyone still has a pair in working order!

http://cdn.epicski.com/9/95/950a7477_IMG_6670.jpg

Re:Did anyone have a pair of these?

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:39:29 GMT

Aaah, drool, rear entry, single clip, and that photo, imagine what the occupants were up to......

Re:Did anyone have a pair of these?

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:45:08 GMT

I think RoseR's husband has a pair in white, but he doesn't use them for skiing

Re:Did anyone have a pair of these?

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:37:32 GMT

Dave Mac wrote:Aaah, drool, rear entry, single clip, and that photo, imagine what the occupants were up to......

It wasn't so much the 'rear entry, single clip' that made them stand out - it was the fact they were knee high. I read an unwarranted fear of knee injuries killed them off commercially.

Re:Did anyone have a pair of these?

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:11:05 GMT

One of my friends had pair of these for use with his monoski, but he always used 4 clip boots with skis.

Dave Mac, did you ever try the Nava Ski System?

http://cdn.epicski.com/b/bb/bb947c99_NAVA.jpeg

The boots look like they would be much better for dancing in than your current ones! :wink:

Re:Did anyone have a pair of these?

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:05:02 GMT

Trencher wrote:I think RoseR's husband has a pair in white, but he doesn't use them for skiing

:) :) :) He has about 20 pairs of those

Re:Did anyone have a pair of these?

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:24:26 GMT

Ha,,,,the Nava system !!!

Italian design and produced!

Yes the "boots" were very comfortable,,,but that rear spring arm?????

You could do some nice SL GS turns on soft slopes ( like in Europe circa 1980's ), but if ever you got into hard mogul type skiing,,no way could rear arm hold you !

Broke two in one week !

What you do not see is a center pin on ski which goes INTO the boot sole. The designers did not think of snow/ice while walking to ski or chalet! That hole very quickly got full of ice and thus you had to have a friend clean out hole !!!!

Strange sight !

Another Italian design which looked great in lab,,but once on slopes,,,,disaster time !

Wish I had kept my test units since they are real museum pieces !

Now let us see if Dave Mac knows the BURT bindings ! ( no cheating by looking up Google David ) !

Another great design far far ahead of its time,,,but at $300 in the 1980's ????

Re:Did anyone have a pair of these?

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:59:23 GMT

That's easy!

Burt was a plate binding that had a platform and cables that came off the ski in a fall, rather than separate heel and toe pieces that remain fixed to the ski.

Look, I believe, did something similar in Europe. I recall that at the dry ski slope where I worked in the late 70s/early 80s, we had a number of pairs of skis fitted with these plate bindings. They appeared to work ok, but were a bit fiddly to reattach!