Comments on: Dynafit Titan Boots — Too Stiff or Just Right?

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:22:39 +0000

I just picked up a pair of Titan UL’s and I have to say, so far, I am in love. I was on Scarpa Spirit 4′s before in 27.5 and the same size fits me perfectly in the Titan UL. My first impression was, “Wow, these are really light.” They’re lighter than my spirit 4′s for sure and they are very stiff compared to them. The thing that I really like though is that I do not feel like I am hitting a brick wall when I put forward pressure on them. They have a really nice progressive flex. I had heard that the regular Titan’s felt like that and I never used the black tongues on my Spirit 4′s because that’s how it always felt when I skied them, so I’m glad that the Titan UL’s have that nice progressive flex. The Titan UL’s are also quite stiff laterally and transmit power very easily to the skis.

I have narrow feet with a very high arch. I added the footbed that was included with the boots, but I haven’t molded the boots, and I don’t think that I will, because they seem to fit me well. I’ll just need to throw in a custom footbed to give me the right under-arch support. Wiggle room in the toes is just how I like it.

I have yet to get out and tour on these or use them on wider skis. I’ve just had them at the hill on firm, icy groomers, frozen crud, and corn and so far I am very happy. Looks like some snow in the PNW this week so looking to take them out for a tour on my Drifters to see how they drive my 192 skis.

In tour mode at home they feel like they have better range of motion than my Spirit 4′s. All-in-all, I’m excited about these shoes. Oh and on top of that, they are ridiculously sexy in person.

By: JakeP

JakeP — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:04:25 +0000

Just thought I would throw in my $0.02 on these boots. I just got my pair of Titans last week. I have been a resort/sidecountry skier for many years, but last year I made the jump to full BC/AT setup. I opted for the BD Quadrant which I will say was a decent boot once I got it to fit, but I definitely didn’t ever fall in love with how it skied. Touring, hiking, climbing in it was great, but skiing just always left a lot to be desired. So I sold it and opted to try something slightly heavier as I now have a better definition of what it is I want to do in the BC. That is, I want to ski big lines how I would in my Alpine boots. I tried on Titans, Factors, Tecnica Cochise (still interested in these, but they sold out, plus there is that Cochise light and pro coming out which is interesting), Mobe. Anyway, the titan was the best show room fit and touring prowess seems superior to the Factor in that the cuff can move back past upright quite a ways.

Anyway, I was tempted by the Titan UL, but for the extra money and being unable to get a real report of as to the compromise in stiffness I went with the “heavy” version.

Out of the box these fit my foot exponentially better than the 26.5 Quadrant (310mm BSL) did. I opted for the 27.0 (312mm BSL), liner seems great. I do prefer a narrower 98mm lasted boot, but that’s just my alpine background talking. I wear a size 10 street shoe and I have a fairly wide forefoot, normal arch, and narrow ankle. Like I said out of the box the boot feels pretty good. I did add the extra boot board that was supplied by Dynafit and that helped fill some of extra volume so that the arch buckle actually feels like its doing something.

Stiffness is definitely increased over a BD Quadrant and the lower shell doesn’t deform as much which was a real problem for me with the Quadrant. With the quadrant I would tighten down the buckles, but when I’d put the forward pressure on the lower shell would compress and widen and my foot would swim… Super annoying. I was able to fix this by using intuition luxury liners, boot board, and custom insole. Yeah $200 later the boot was skiable.

I feel light years ahead w/ the Titan and I haven’t even skied it yet…

my only concern so far is that I’m not sure how durable the TFX liner is. Not to worried as I still have my Intuitions…

By: Lee Lau

Lee Lau — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:22:09 +0000

Daniel – I’m a street shoe sz 10 or Euro 43/44. I can fit either a Titan 27.0 or 27.5 (shell sizes are the same, liner sizes are different

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:39:33 +0000

thanks as always for the informative review and website. Lee can I ask what your usual street shoe size is?

I always wear a street shoe 10, foot a little narrow with higher arch.

BD Factor 130s in 27.5 and Megarides in 27.5 though both are a fairly snug fit.

Trying to gauge what I’d wear in the titans or titan ultralights(I wish Dynafit made a chart available like Garmont/Scarpa/BD do). I’ve looked at the chart at wildsnow, size 10 isn’t exactly shown and it’s circa 2009.

I’m guessing I wear maybe 27.5, any thoughts?

thanks!

By: Lee Lau

Lee Lau — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:40:46 +0000

Joshua,

Happily I can answer this question. I fit a Spirit 4 in 27.5 and also fit the Titan in 27.5 – of course fitting best after cooking the liner.