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Bending brakes to make them wider

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Hazard
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Is this hard? If it is easy what size have you changed it to? Would bending a 75mm to 90mm brake be too much? Do the brakes hold up after many days of riding, or do they snap, and break?
Dec 28 2006 12:10AM
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drewishish
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thats a lot of bend, id just buy new breaks.
Dec 28 2006 3:55AM
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Love_Wins.
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Easy as pie dude, throw them in a bench vice and bend away. Heat them with a blowtorch if you need to, and bend fairly slowly, if you wrench on them too fast or too many times they might snap. I've bent 105mm brakes to fit my Prophet 130s, so yeah, I wouldn't drop the extra cash on wide brakes if I were you. What kind of bindings do you have?
Dec 28 2006 4:46AM
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unchyll
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dude on getboards you can buy a line wide break for like 1.99
that would be beter than riding some nappy ass makeshift shit
bindings are the most important thing to take care of
Dec 28 2006 9:44AM
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VTPE
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bent brakes will bend back in time. bend if you wanna lose a ski when they dont clear. just suck it up and buy wider brakes....they're cheap.
Dec 28 2006 6:43PM
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MattMcGinnis
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a line break most likely wont work with any other binding, they arent all the same.
Dec 28 2006 8:13PM
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Hazard
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yea well I'm planning on getting a pair of rossi FKS. Which I can get for 200. Or I could get the FKS with wide brakes, which is gonna run me up 300, (I think 100 extra ontop of an already expensive binding is pushing it)
Dec 28 2006 10:00PM
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Love_Wins.
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Ok, LINE brakes only fit LINE bindings, so that's a no-go. If I were you, I wouldn't drop another $100 on the wide brakes when you can do it yourself. And who ever said that bent brakes will bend back is a fucking moron, once you bend metal brakes they stay just fine. There's a full tutorial on bending the P18/FKS series brakes here:

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24647
Dec 29 2006 1:32AM
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drewishish
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i have recently changed my mind seeing that it is another 100 bucks
Dec 29 2006 2:34AM
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bda10889
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http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73273

check the vid... looks pretty easy!
Jan 11 2007 11:42AM
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nothanks
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If you get the FKS's, the standard break can only bent to a certain width. If you're looking at somethig over 100/105mm, you're going to NEED the wide brake, and then bend them as well.
Jan 11 2007 11:44AM
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nothanks
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100/105 is an estimate. I've heard some people go wider, and some people have a tough time right around there.
Jan 11 2007 11:45AM
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Mex_LineJib^a
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75mm to 90mm shouldnt be a problem
Jan 11 2007 12:28PM
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tBatt
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when was the last time you saw a kid with reactors?
Jan 12 2007 7:13PM
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Aenigma
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See if any of the shops in your area have experience bending FKS brakes because they are a total pain in the ass to do.  If you do feel up to the task, you can make those fit at least a 125mm waist with the right bending.
Jan 12 2007 7:17PM
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eastchris
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i brought my 90 mm waist width ski to get mounted to my bindings with a 70 or so mm brake. the store i bought them at wasnt used to wide skiis so they just bend my old brakes. I WOULD NOT SUJEST DOING IT. first they broke a pair of brakes and now that they bend a new pair they get stuck all the time. DONT DO IT
Jan 12 2007 7:31PM
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Aenigma
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If you do it right there will be no issues.  Just because your shop sucks at bending brakes doesn't mean it can't be done correctly.
Jan 12 2007 7:32PM
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nychka
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yeah it is quite the ordeal
Jan 12 2007 7:49PM
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skiRay
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if you bend that far, are you sure there will even be any breal left to stop the ski???
Jan 12 2007 8:24PM
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ijibgoremtn
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if you want to hear nappy ass makeshift shit listen to this a kid i know is to poor to buy brakes so he took like a metal bolt for his brakes its sharp as hell to id hate to get stabbed by it it looks like to nails shaped like U's
Jan 12 2007 11:47PM
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