Pivots are a fucking scam

Vish-shoe

Vish-shoe

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90$ if you bend a brake and you keep buying them ?

Expensice ass spinnys will NOT make you a better skiier
 
Lemme guess, you click out of your pivots using your skis instead of your poles, and the baseplate cracked at the base of the arm.
 
14568081:.nasty said:
Lemme guess, you click out of your pivots using your skis instead of your poles, and the baseplate cracked at the base of the arm.
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Bro, you need to stomp on them so all the homies know how core you are.
 
14568081:.nasty said:
Lemme guess, you click out of your pivots using your skis instead of your poles, and the baseplate cracked at the base of the arm.
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Poles are wack, and no my baseplate is fine. I just think that it’s fucked up that look doesn’t sell the brake part when any idiot can easily replace them with just a screwdriver in fifteen minutes
 
Hot take there isn't a single binding on the market that's actually good. Every single one of them has problems, including the industry-wide problem of not effectively mitigating ACL tears
 
14568184:IsaacNW82 said:
Hot take there isn't a single binding on the market that's actually good. Every single one of them has problems, including the industry-wide problem of not effectively mitigating ACL tears
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personally i’d take a ACL tear over a tib/fib break
 
14568081:.nasty said:
Lemme guess, you click out of your pivots using your skis instead of your poles, and the baseplate cracked at the base of the arm.
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14568085:Session said:
Bro, you need to stomp on them so all the homies know how core you are.
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It's quite challenging to use poles, and actually impossible if you got some types of baskets. Definitely not an attempted style thing.
 
14568184:IsaacNW82 said:
Hot take there isn't a single binding on the market that's actually good. Every single one of them has problems, including the industry-wide problem of not effectively mitigating ACL tears
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The new tyrollia protector binding with lateral heel release is supposed to help in backwards twisting falls which I think is the way a lot of people tear their acl.
 
14568097:Vish-shoe said:
Poles are wack, and no my baseplate is fine. I just think that it’s fucked up that look doesn’t sell the brake part when any idiot can easily replace them with just a screwdriver in fifteen minutes
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if youre talking just replacing the break arms it is actually quite a bitch and requires finessing a spring in and out of place while trying not to snap plastic. Done it a few times and its a bitch.

they sell the whole baseplate which is very easy to replace though.

just go to the tgr thread and get what you need. ive gotten plenty of parts through here and it usually only takes a day or less.

FS: FKS/Pivot Bindings: Used complete sets, and parts, mix-and-match - Page 41 (tetongravity.com)

14568194:WoFlowz said:
personally i’d take a ACL tear over a tib/fib break
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ehhhhh idk had a homie with a full flopper of a leg and he was back on the mtb within like 3 months. Sucks to have rebar in your leg though.
 
14568220:cadebucket said:
The new tyrollia protector binding with lateral heel release is supposed to help in backwards twisting falls which I think is the way a lot of people tear their acl.
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I'm actually pretty hyped about that one, It has some solid theory behind it, hope the tech catches on to more models and at a lower price point. But, right now its $500 for a DIN 13 binding, has a stack height similar to a demo binding, and is pretty unproven durability-wise. But as far as lateral heel releasable bindings, it seems better than the alternatives:

Knee bindings- not even DIN/ISO certified. They are literally prototypes brought to market pre-maturely

Howell ski bindings- starts at $800, maybe ships fall 2024? if it materializes?

Pin bindings- no lateral release at the toe makes them even less safe lol
 
14568314:mrk127 said:
Everyone hates this take but... Markers > pivots
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Everyone has their own preferences but personally I use Marker bindings and they have done me pretty well over the past few years so ill probably keep using them.
 
14568184:IsaacNW82 said:
Hot take there isn't a single binding on the market that's actually good. Every single one of them has problems, including the industry-wide problem of not effectively mitigating ACL tears
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Watch this
 
14568277:profa_212 said:
if youre talking just replacing the break arms it is actually quite a bitch and requires finessing a spring in and out of place while trying not to snap plastic. Done it a few times and its a bitch.
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yeah agreed it is a pain to replace just the brakes, especially if you have never removed and reinstalled the spring before. once you've done it a few times it's alright but really sucks on older sets that dont stay together very well when trying to retension the spring
 
14568687:Literature said:
Wait you mean the binding designed in the 1980s for ski racing doesn't tolerate park abuse?
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Weird that all mogul skiers swore by them. Maybe the pivot arent shit afterall? Ya want maximum tolerence, rip bumps.
 
14568194:WoFlowz said:
personally i’d take a ACL tear over a tib/fib break
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Bones can heal. Ligaments cannot. 100% without question an ACL tear would be worse long term.
 
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