Pivot Brakes
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tomPietrowski
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2 options. Get them direct from Rossi but you will need to send the bindings to Rossi. if you don't want to do this try shops. Some may have some old brakes they will sell you. Make sure you get the shop to fit them if you have not done it before. It absolutely sucks changing brakes on fks.
Pipe_Munky
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13076917:ctrace said:
welcome to FKS bindings...
tomPietrowski
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13076917:ctrace said:
Yep that is how they are sold. To replace the brakes you really have to disassemble the baseplate and Rossi do not want you doing that so they sell it as one unit. Shops may have just brakes but they are becoming pretty rare.
Huck_Norris
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13076931:Pipe_Munky said:
Seriously, I have no idea why anyone who land switch with any regularity would want to deal with the FKS brakes.
I scored a pair of 155s a while back without brakes because someone broke them and simply sold them at massive discount rather than find brakes haha
forrest.baker.52
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This may be a dumb question but has anybody tried to modify the brakes to help prevent them from hooking when landing switch?
funkmaster
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In my experience, most local shops won't replace just the brakes, as previous people have said, rossi only sells the full back plate setup, even they can't just order the brake. So that makes the hardest part of replacing these brakes on a budget is finding the part, however totally worth doing.
Best thing to do is try and find a really cheap pair of old or broken fks where the brakes are still intact. Then change it yourself. It's difficult, but easily doable if you're handy at all.
really good video that outlines the process:
http://vimeo.com/4218404
basically find cheap parts and do it yourself or fork out lots of dollas
Best thing to do is try and find a really cheap pair of old or broken fks where the brakes are still intact. Then change it yourself. It's difficult, but easily doable if you're handy at all.
really good video that outlines the process:
http://vimeo.com/4218404
basically find cheap parts and do it yourself or fork out lots of dollas
tomPietrowski
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13077202:_J.T. said:
They will in no way save your knees any more then any other alpine binding. The reason the brakes suck is it's an old binding and when it was designed people rarly needed to swap brakes on a regular basis especially in racing which is what the binding was designed for.
Like huck said above fks would be my last recommendation if you are generally a park guy. They are just to much hassle to maintain.
BigScaryLarry
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fairly certain that if you just send in the bindings to rossi they will send them back with the size brakes you want
tomPietrowski
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13077346:Strange.Journey. said:
Yep send them to Rossi with some cash and try will replace them.
To the guy above asking about safety on bindings. The only binding which can show to be "safer" is the knee binding. All other alpine bindings have to meet standards but they will all operate roughly the same. that is the point of having the din norm that you in Thorey could use any bindin on the same din and release consistently.
tomPietrowski
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13077319:Nillion said:
In terms of a poll it woul not work as ther is no way of knowing how the binding were set. You can get data from renter shops as all injuries are logged and equipment tested. But like I said before the only binding which claim to be any safer is the knee binding.
profa_212
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13077504:KingTaco said:
He isn't saying they are more likely to break, he is saying that when they break they are like 3 to 4 times more expensive to replace than other bindings. So it is dumb to use them if you are landing switch a lot because you will eventually have to fork over $120 instead of $30.
KingTaco
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13077545:Profahoben_212 said:
I see what youre saying but i havent had that experience. Any time my fks brakes "break", its something that can be bent back into place or rigged up to work just fine. Ive never had to take them apart for broken brakes, but have messed around with some sets for bending brakes wider etc etc. The tutorials are really good and if you can get that spring back in easily, the whole process is a breeze
Shops do usually have some dead heelpieces lying around that you can scoop for cheap. Id rather pay 20 bucks for two heelpieces, than 70 for a set of axial brakes that WILL brake landing switch, where an fks brake may be fixable
bottom line, yes theyre a bitch, expensive, etc but so are a lot of bindings its an unfortunate part of an otherwise perfect system