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Tweaked binding

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TDpeak
Posts: 130 - Karma: 10
I was riding down a pretty steep slope of soft snow the other night carrying a fair bit of speed when my left ski hooked on a buried bent over tree tip and sent me flying. After ragdolling for a little while I got up and when I tried to put on my left binding, I found that the entire wing section of the toe piece had twisted a full 90 degrees and gotten stuck there. I had to ski down on one ski to get something I could use to hammer it back into place. Once I got it back into place I was able to click into it no problem, and I rode them down the last run to the lodge and nothing bad happened.  My concern is that I have been skiing since I was 5, and have never seen a binding get this far tweaked out. Could this have damaged the binding in some way?

Thanks.   oh yeah the bindings are px14's
Nov 26 2009 12:42PM
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MEGAZORD
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They are supposed to do this.  You could have just kicked it into place on the mountain.  I laugh everytime someone brings a look toe in and its twisted.  Its not broken, its designed to do this.
Nov 26 2009 12:56PM
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BWalmer
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Yeah, it happens to me all the time, I just stomp the hell out of it and it pops back into place - it also helps relieve frustration.
Nov 26 2009 1:04PM
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Abc567def
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This^, i just kick the mother fucker on the mountain and it will pop right back in
Nov 26 2009 1:23PM
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onenerdykid
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kicking your gear back into place might not be the most graceful solution to the problem but it can work.  I realize that not everyone carries tools around, but if you had a shorty screwdriver you could wind the DIN spring down and make it a lot easier to get back into place.

Nov 26 2009 1:34PM
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no_steeze
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its so fucking satisfying to kick the shit out of a toe until it snaps back into place
Nov 26 2009 1:35PM
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TDpeak
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Thanks for the help guys, I know they are supposed to twist like that but I had just never gotten one stuck like that so I was a little concerned. And I did hammer it back into place once I got to harder snow, at the site of the crash the snow was too soft to stand so I couldn't really kick it very easily.
Thanks
Nov 26 2009 1:49PM
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MEGAZORD
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The snow was too soft to stand? What were you in a lake?
Nov 26 2009 1:51PM
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TDpeak
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haha, no I should have said deep, you put a foot down and you posthole to your crotch. I wasn't very far from crossing a groomed trail so i just skied down on the one ski so it would be easier to pound it back into place.
Nov 26 2009 2:12PM
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