realskiers

The CP13 is a nice plate. However, without a Free Flex mounted on it I suspect the ski will have a dead spot under the binding when the boot is snapped in place.

Max:  I'm pretty sure that all of the flex associated with the Free-Flex is in the plate (and, as you mentioned, does include a screw in the middle to stiffen the ski if wanted).  The front half of the plate is fixed, all of the float is in the back half of the plate. Of course, the mounting holes in the plate itself only match up with the FreeFlex bindings.


The key feature of all of these bindings is some sort of bar that connects the toe and the heel, so as to maintain a fixed distance between the two. With the free-flex that bar is in the bindings.  With the RailFlex, the bar is the rail, with the Power Rail the bar is also in the plate (no rail directly connecting the two bindings).