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steezinitup

steezinitup

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Well basically i have had a disaster with my skis for the last two times they have been in shops and apparently they had no idea what center mounting was. The first time i took them into rockies in kimberly to get waxed and center mounted but the guy only waxed them and filled in the old screw holes with some putty or something and put them back in the same place. i even put a sheet on my skis sayig what i wanted done: wax, fill gouges, center mount, and sharpen edges. They waxed them but no gouges were filled so i just went with it since they were now skiiable. three days later im looking at my skis and notice the front of my binding is coming off. so i get my buddy to take them to lethbridge sportcheck and get them center mounted again but they also don't know what that means so they're probably like, hm? CENTER mount, lets move them back some more. yeah thats it. so thats what they did. they moved the bindings back and remounted them. So by now im kinda mad and was wondering if you guys could help with waxing or remounting. thanks.

 
If you want a shop to mount your skis at something other than recommended, just measure it out yourself, draw a line, and tell them to mount it there. This way there is no confusion.
 
1. learn how to tune your own skis2. draw a massive sharpie line or take some thin colored paper and tape it in the form of a line on your ski. that way you won't have fucked up mounts
 
dont worry, ive busted 4 pairs of bindings this so far this year due to crappy mounting. i doubt it gets worse than that.

1) brake exploded on a 180 on the smallest jump ive ever hit because of improper binding settings.

2) cracked the heelpiece of a binding because they set my DIN to low.

3) ripped the heelpiece right out of the ski (worst mounting possible)

4) under rotated a backie, dug my tips and and torqued the toepiece into a shape i have never seen before. ( that was probably not the shops fault, but the jump wasnt big at all. so small i shouldnt have been doing a backie in the first place)

in the first 3 incidences i did not bail at all. i skied away on 1 ski and looked up for my ski wondering what happened. i found that my binding was busted and had to sideslip all the way down to the lodge with a busted ski in my hand.

event #1 and #2 happened in the same day. brake exploded on my own skis on the first jump of the day. sideslipped to the lodge, rented skis, and on the last run of the day, the heelpiece cracked.

ski shops dont get worse than that.
 
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