Welcome to Louis (Lou) Dawson's backcountry skiing information & opinion website. Lou's passion for the past 50 years has been alpinism, climbing, mountaineering and skiing -- along with all manner of outdoor recreation. He has authored numerous books and articles about
ski touring and is well known as the first person to ski down all 54 of Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks, otherwise known as the
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Hey Lou,
Since you have travelled much in Europe lately, I thought you might be able to help me out. I’m trying to get some Dynafit compatible after market heel pieces for my race set up. The ATK looks nice and seems to be popular with the WC guys. I have emailed someone at ATK a few times and they were going to let me know when they had some more in stock. I have a friend in Belgium who would buy them for me and send them my way. Unfortunately, my emails no longer go through so I was wondering their status. Do you have any other contact info for a place to buy them? It could even be a shop.
Thanks,
Brian
Hi Brian, I’ve of course checked those ATKs out but I don’t know where you’d get them. Since they’re made in Italy what you need to do is probably find the phone number for an Italian sport shop, then just try to find someone who speaks English. Perhaps someone here has the number for a sport shop in Italy?
Lou
Would you email me directly to discuss the rear bumper.
Tom
Got to sell the topper and bumper to pay for the Euro trip????
Halsted, the firstborn wouldn’t put up with being sold to pay for the Euro exchange rate, so I had to start on the car parts.
Brian-
Let us all know how your search goes. Those ATK products look great.
DG
@Brian
Perhaps this might be an alternative? http://pierregignoux.fr/
I am interested in the bumper if you are still trying to sell it,
let me know…
can you give some more info on the topper? color, style, etc.
Kelly, sorry, all that stuff is sold, didn’t realize this post was still up. I’ll delete this post in 12 hours, after you see this. Lou