How do pivots compensate for boot sole wear?

[f100prerunner]

This might be kind of a stupid question, but how do look pivots compensate for boot sole wear? With most bindings, there is an adjustable afd that is able to be tightened up against the boot as the boot soles wear. Pivots obviously don’t have an adjustable afd, so how do they account for keeping the boots tight in the bindings at different stages of boot sole wear?

**This thread was edited on Feb 27th 2021 at 2:21:45pm

 

[anders_a]

DIN 18, and a ton of pressure on the dildo

 

[armada1652]

Looks toe piece works differently then others. When the forward pressure is set correctly the toe will apply the correct downward pressure to the AFD. Also the spot on your boot the slides on the AFD doesnt really wear down. Your boot wears down in front of the AFD slides usually. This messes up the boot to binding contact points.

 

[f100prerunner]

Looks toe piece works differently then others. When the forward pressure is set correctly the toe will apply the correct downward pressure to the AFD. Also the spot on your boot the slides on the AFD doesnt really wear down. Your boot wears down in front of the AFD slides usually. This messes up the boot to binding contact points.

Awesome, thanks. I was wondering if it was something like this. My last pair of boots I actually noticed a fair amount of play in my bindings after a year and a half of wearing my boots, which is why I ask. With that said, the boot soles were super warn at that point and needed replacing. Never noticed this issue with my pivots, which is why I ask.

 

[f100prerunner]

The adjusting of the afd isn't really for accommodating wear anyway

Right, but in the case that you do wear your soles down and don’t check/tighten it (like me before I realized how worn my boot soles were), it actually starts to make wear marks into your boot where the binding contacts your boot. As a result, I now have divots in my old boots where the bindings make contact, which I would assume slightly messes with a smooth binding release.