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Pivot durability issues

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TBTW1018
Posts: 19 - Karma: 135
Just got my self some arv 106’s for Xmas and am most likely going to put pivots on them since my local shop is practically giving them away on sale. However, I want the WTR timepiece as I know a couple people who have blown knees on pivots and all blame it on the traditional toe piece. I was wondering if anyone has had any durability issues with the WTR toepiece. Might just be me overthinking, but it seems like they would break more often given the fact that there are more moving parts. Let me know if anyone has had any issues and recommendations you may have as alternatives. Cheers
Dec 27 2021 7:12PM
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JLej
Posts: 114 - Karma: 474
bindings arent made to protect your knees, theyre made to protect the bones in your lower leg. blaming knee injuries on the toe piece doesnt make any sense. if you want pivots get pivots, you dont need the WTR toepiece and pivots or a WTR toepiece isnt going to be any safer than any other alpine binding.
Dec 27 2021 8:17PM
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maaattt
Posts: 2500 - Karma: 30,389
While it's true that the style of toe on the 14 and 12 allow for different movements of release, they definitely didn't blow their knees because of the design of the 15/18 din toe.

**This post was edited on Dec 27th 2021 at 9:12:56pm
Dec 27 2021 9:12PM
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animator
Posts: 4552 - Karma: 26,249
This is why you don’t listen to people on the internet. The WTR toe piece will behave no differently than the old toe piece. This has to be one of the dumbest takes I’ve heard on this site.
Dec 27 2021 9:18PM
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Icant_kfed
Posts: 1274 - Karma: 11,538
If your worried about blowing your knee get knee bindings not pivots, wtr doesn’t really do much
Dec 28 2021 5:17PM
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tdollo
Posts: 3767 - Karma: 18,441
bruh the afd doesnt matter unless your boot isnt compatible
Dec 28 2021 9:23PM
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