Are you a picker?

[Ripitz]

Thoughts?

Rip that shit.

 

[Sick Bird Rider]

The Cubco bindings did require a screw-on attachment on the ski boot.

 

[tirolski]

The Cubco bindings did require a screw-on attachment on the ski boot.

Yup.
My first skis had Cubcos using laceup boots to boot.
Graduated to dang Spademan bindings without a toe piece but a plate on the sole.

Walking on ice with those things was much harder than skiing using em.
Dr Spademan was a bone doctor.

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[Green light]

Sounded like you were tap dancing walking through the lodge

 

[Sbob]

Yup.
My first skis had Cubcos using



laceup boots to boot.
Graduated to dang Spademan bindings without a toe piece but a plate on the sole.

Walking on ice with those things was much harder than skiing using em.
Dr Spademan was a bone doctor.

Richard G. Spademan - Richard Spademan, binding inventor | Skiing History

Richard Spademan was a true believer, a man who found a better way and shared it with the world. Born in 1933 in Detroit, he skied as a teenager at Boyne and attended college and medical school at the University of Michigan. As an intern, he designed and patented a successful vascular catheter...

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I learned on Spademans. Very frustrating at first , any little bit of snow that was stuck to the bottom plate would be trouble. I have to wonder how many people got frustrated and gave up on skiing?

I grew to like them , never felt unsafe.
The boots required a flat spot on the arch for mounting. They created a flat adapter plate for boots with an arch .

 

[gorgonzola]

I learned on Spademans. Very frustrating at first , any little bit of snow that was stuck to the bottom plate would be trouble. I have to wonder how many people got frustrated and gave up on skiing?

Same, that and easy to eat sh!t on the lodge stairs, hard enough for newbs in ski boots without smooth metal plates on yer soles lol

 

[tirolski]

Same, that and easy to eat sh!t on the lodge stairs, hard enough for newbs in ski boots without smooth metal plates on yer soles lol

So ya get a patent for a binding to protect folks from breaking legs when falling skiing...

But they left out the slipping & sliding side effects when ya don’t have skis on for stability.

 

[D.B. Cooper]

But they left out the slipping & sliding side effects when ya don’t have skis on for stability.

That would require another patent.

 

[tirolski]

That would require another patent.

Don’t know if these are compatible with Spademans.

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[Brownski]

What do you think? Too old and cool to cut up for a chair? Cubco bindings and the red ones say “Sears” on the sidewalls. I wonder what these would be worth to a museum or collector. Thoughts?

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I emailed an expert and he said the Heads are worth about $225 and the Sears skis about $250