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Yes, pretty much. The elasticity allows a bit of movement in a jarring force- which is the type of stuff that would normally create a prerelease- but with the turntable heel and elastic toe travel of the FKS you have the ability to make that wiggle or recovery without prereleasing, allowing you to deal with the force rather than blow you out of the ski. If it ends up that the elastic travel isn't enough to allow a recovery, it releases on DIN just like it's supposed to.
I prefer to think of it as just a better way to deal with funky forces at speed than to have a mechanism that is more prone to prerelease. It just soaks all that shit right up by working at a wider range of angles and with a more comprehensive retention profile. Best binding ever IMO.
Yes. The one piece toe has vertical release in the form of the whole toe releasing upwards on a central hinge point, not via fixed main toe piece and releasable wings as in the 14. I can take pics of both my 18s and my 155s when I get home for the sake of discussion if you'd like, you can clearly see there are no movable wings on either toe.
wut
- Worn boots allowing the boots to wobble in the bindings.
- People on the wrong din
- Bad technique
- Incorrect set up / mounting and adjustment.
Im a big chap at 6'4 and weigh 96kg ish and im used to riding race skis so have no issues with control at speed, my piste skis only have Salomon Z12's on them and I have clocked speeds way in excess of a GS race on a daily basis on skied out sloped all over France, during one week in VT I had one release and it was not a pre release it was a case of ambition getting the better of adhesion. I would describe my style as a mix of skier cross and GS.
Over the last few years I have had Tyrollia peak 12's and Marker Jesters, I suffered a few early releases from the Tyrollias but it was down to an incorrect set up (not enough forward pressure), the Makers preformed faultlessly from bombing down pistes, smashing crud and holding me in while hot dogging and icy mogul field and smashing pow all week.
Im not saying the FKS does not work as it does, my folks had the originals and loved them, mother would use nothing else on her skis, but as others have said it does not make other bindings worse, I used to help build race and track cars specializing in suspension and in the cases of people suffering component issues it was in 99% of the cases the fault of the users abilities and not the part, it was usually down to a poor fitting and set up on the end users part. Much like bindings there was a distinct difference between lower and higher end parts but when you reached the top tier 99% of the 'issues' were perception issues and people taking other peoples views as fact.
GAH! Correct.
The 155 is the aluminum body toe. It is exactly like the 18 and with the single pivot vertical release too, just lighter and lower DIN. Sorry, responding to threads first thing in the morning while laying in bed is not a good look for me.
