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Rossignol bindings/Jib Bindings
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So I bought some Rossignol Scratch bindings for my pipe cleaners last season, skied them and loved them. Then I go for my first switch landing, about to stick it, when I hit the landing the fucking bindings release, the brakes pop out and get ripped off the ski/binding. I recover the ski and broken brake. I go buy a new brake for it, attach it, and increase my din setting. Next day, go for another switch landing, same exact thing happens. Over the course of the season I bought 5 new brakes, and kept increasing my din to the point where it was dangerous. Has anyone else had this problem? Furthermore, I go to Rossignol's website and they don't have a number or an email address, so I mail them a letter explaining my predicament. That was 6 months ago, I never heard back from them. Seems like a major design flaw in bindings marketed as the "Freestyle" binding. Has anyone seen a brake with more range of travel to accommodate for switch landings?
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you should have taken them to a shop before you started messing around with them.
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try increasing your forward pressure.. not just the din.
and the only rossi binding worth using is the fks... but thats just my opinion.
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I thought they were generally one of the more reliable bindings out there for switch landings..
Did you remount yourself or get a shop to do it?
Did you mount back into the same holes? Helicoil?
More info on the original mount and remount..
Sounds like the bindings were badly set up in the first instance, and i'm not sure if thats your fault or a shop's fault. You didn't specify.
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i had the same problem with the dynastar bindings which are the same, i probably bought 10 new breaks last winter,
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this happend to me once, so i grabed the rossi brakes off a pair of old ass race skis with the same binding, but narrower brakes. the new ones fit very very tight up against the edge when im no clicked in, and up above the top sheet when im clicked in. so get smaller brakes should be good
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the bindings were mounted by a shop, the entire binding wasn't breaking, just the brake when it released it would just tear off, i never remounted the bindings, I remounted the brakes. Multiple times.
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haha the same thing happened to me. landed switch...POP! brake gone, ski goes down the hill on a rampage. get a new brake put on. 180....POP! same thing.
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ive had great luck with that heelpiece even at low din settings.
Sounds like maybe whoever put them on didnt get the forward pressure right. There should be a screw near the base of the heel piece. When the boot is engaged, that screw should be flush with the binding.
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This is EXACTLY what happened to me with my Marker 11.0 "Free" (Bullshit, nothing about this binding is anywhere close to resembling "free") and I probably bought 5 brakes for it before cranking my din to 9 and skiing one binding with only one brake.
I'm hellbent on not buying any more brakes, I'm getting new bindings this season, I'll probs get really cheap and trashed skis and mount the markers on there for my urban setup
Fucking pissed, some company should design brakes that can take hits from all sides, seeing as "freestyle" skiing includes switch landings
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Basically, if you land switch, and you pop out, natually your brake will come down, and with your momentum in reverse, the brake will snap off because its not designed to go backwards. happens to all look / rossi / markers as far as i know
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They have them, they are called leashes, it just hurts like fuck because then your skis fall with you and you generally slide over them.
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LOZLZ MARKR BNDRS
but seriously, the joker and the duke are the only respectable bindings they have released in quite a while, IMO!
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never buy any markers other than jesters griffons dukes
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hey, to hijack this thread, whats a good binding for the anthems?
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fuckin noob its jester.
jk i love you serge.
no homo
omg its like de ja vu
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fuck, i knew that! haha Pete's 07-08 dream set up. new ellies with jesters. which then got played out as soon as gapers with money made their appearance later last season.
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my buddy had the same prolbem with his rossi bindings
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its cuz ur brakes are catching the snow when u land and they are not up tight enough against the binding. same think happend to me last year.
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I just bought a pair of those bindings. hopefully it doesn't happen to me
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