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Broken Bindings

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steezywannabeezy
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Broke my third set of bindings in four years last night. Maybe it's time to actually buy park bindings. Suggestions for those who eat shit a lot and break things? Fairly lightweight would be good. Would I be down syndrome to buy used? In the meantime looks like I'm going to be a ski instructor on rentals. Weeee!
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steezywannabeezy
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I'm 150 lbs.
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tomPietrowski
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What bindings have you broken and how did they break. That will help recommend what to go for.
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zyzzbrah
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Pivots or FKS seem pretty durable
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tomPietrowski
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That is a pretty common misconception. Did are in fact some of the worst bindings to maintain. Brake a break an you have to remove the heel piece and rebuild the heel unit which sucks. These days Sth2 is pretty much accepted to be one of t he best. I rate the attack bindings too take a look at both those options and see what you think.
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Balto
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You should never snap a break if it's the right width for your ski, I've been riding FKS for years and have never once broken one.
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tomPietrowski
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It depends if you ride park much. It's a switch landing where you loose a ski that it will most often happen. Even with a correct brake size a switch fall can be bad for any brake. Obviously if you mainly free ride there is much less risk of this but for park with current binding tech broken brakes are something we have to deal with.
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steezywannabeezy
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All three times, but more like didn't get all the way switch and my body is leaning way uphill, so I just slam an edging into the snow and the force breaks a binding.
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steezywannabeezy
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I mean, I don't really have the money for good park specific bindings. I mean. These look like they'll hold up. Right?
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steezywannabeezy
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or http://www.ebay.com/itm/Marker-FREE-12-Ski-Binding-110mm-NEW-6824J1WS/201002335109?_trksid=p2047675.m2109&_trkparms=aid%3D555003%26algo%3DPW.CAT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D142%26meid%3D3778069709210254385%26pid%3D100010%26prg%3D1076%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D200991282922%26
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.squirrely.
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i mean theyll hold up, but then youll find yourself back in this situation at the end of the season.

look in sell and trade for a pair of fks/pivot 120 or 140, griffons, sth, and ive heard nothing but good things about the new tyrolias. you can find something used but not abused for less than $150 that will last you a while
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ChristianMingle
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if you can cough up 150ish mojo 15's have been great for me http://www.ebay.com/itm/Brand-New-Head-Tyrolia-Mojo-15-bindings-in-the-box-/271356977892?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f2e22e2e4
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HuckNorris44
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Just go with an Axial style Rossi or Look, the forward pressure is easier to set than the FKS and are easy to maintain. Broken every brand of bindings but these.
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charmander
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get an old s900, 14 or 16 din will be burly enough, brakes are cheap and easy to find and breaking them wont break the housing.

stay away from marker, everything those guys make is a piece of shit
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Balto
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I ride fks exclusively for park, always have, never had problem. The ONLY times I see fucked up fks breaks are when they are to big for the ski, that can be by a few MM even. My original look P18's from back in the day have been on 4 pairs of symmetrical park skis and are still on the original, properly bent to size from stock 78mm breaks.
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K-Dot.
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i think i just broke my binding, not sure. going to the shop tomorrow to have it looked at. the heel piece of one of my tyrolia peak 11s is behaving weirdly. I can feel and hear my boot physically moving up and down in the binding. anyone else experience this / know what I should do?
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TOAST.
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eh, they are okay, but I have broken 4 heel pieces. 3 the track broke right after the break and 1 the forward pressure tab broke and the binding exploded.
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tomPietrowski
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All I can say is your lucky really. I see a ton of broken brakes from all brands and usually they are the correct size for the ski. It's been a issue with switch landing for a long time so yeah you have certainly been lucky till now. But I'm sure you would agree swapping brakes on fks is way harder then on pretty much any other binding.
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