rossi bindings vs. salomon bindings

nealdawgdiamond

nealdawgdiamond

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ok what kind of bindings are better? rossi or salomon? i have heard good things about both, but my bro is trying to convince me that salomons are better, but i think rossis are. i need reasons to tell him why rossis are better then salomon.

'You only live once. If you live it right, once is enough' -Micah Black
 
personally i think salomon bindings are the best. ive skied them my entire life and they have never broken once. and they dont pop your boot out randomly like marker does.

 
personally i have rossie pivits and i love em. i would never ride anything else. and they come out from the back so its a lot harder to come out of on hard landings, and there strong. also well built. ive had a this one pair for about 2 seasons and i ride them hard. with any other binding i would of broken them by now. rossignal is the way to go i think.

 
Salomon bindings are really good, but the brakes on them suck. If you jumping alot then you probably wont have and brakes on your skis after like a month.

They just strip the screw out and ya cant screw them back on. Later.

 
i have skied both types, and i like the rossignol a lot more. i trust them a lot more than salomon. i have broke a couple of salomon bindings really easily as well. i guess i just don't like them much.

 
my salomon binding sucked. Last years 912ti's..they didn't hold me in, especially in the pipe. I had the dins cranked up, and they'd still clip off for no apparent reason. Skis shooting off in the air on the tables, being scared in the backcountry that you're ski was going to shoot off at the worst possible moment. I'm sending mine away to see if something is wrong with them....they're so shitty.

 
SALOMON bindings are a joke.

Rossi bindings dont prerelease, they don't break, the breaks actually work unlike Salomon bindings, and they are a lot lighter. I used Salomon bindings until the end of last season, and then I got Rossi scratch bindings, big difference. The DIN on my Salomon bindings was cranked all the way up (12 i think) and they still wouldn't stay on, and now i ride with a DIN of 5 on my Rossi scratch 100 bindings, and they come off when I need them to. Rossi/Look make the best bindings for our kind of skiing, Salomon bindings blow nuts. All of my friends who have Salomon bindings (most have the 912s or 900s) all of them had problems. 2 of them had to send them in on warranty after less then a month of riding on them, and one just got new Look bindings. what it all comes down to is Salomon sucks they got cheap in the last few years.

T-lo

Representin' the Midwest
 
I've been riding my 912's hard for 2 years and they're still holding up great, i used to only ski w/ the din on 8 and usually had no probs and I'm 6'0 170. I cranked them up to 11, 12'ish and they never ever come off unless I land hella stupid or on rails (rails are strange, I see everyone's skis come off strangely on rails). The 912's strength comes in forward twisting crashes, even on high dins, they save your knees.

 
ROSSIGNOL is definetley the best, the heel pivots, the toe gives the most range of movement before releasing you. Rossignol bindings have the most ammount of elasticity on the market, that is a proven fact, and also they have a very short mounting distance, so you have less of a dead spot on your ski underfoot.

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Hey what is the pivot on the rossis? I know the 912's are 17mm. I mean even if rossis have more, do you really need anymore than that, what are the good markers like 14mm?

 
yeh but the heel pivoting, what does that do for you? my bro says that it is bad for that to happen, and you want the toe to pivot.

'You only live once. If you live it right, once is enough' -Micah Black
 
err those numbers by me are way wrong

salomon has a diagonal pivot, I couldn't find any numbers, and a 5 year warranty isn't too shabby

 
dakineskier...you want the heel to move so your foot rotates and you dont tear your ACL. This is the same thing that is going to be in the new line bindings. it allows your whole foot to move, instead of just the toe. It saves your ACL countless times on those hard twisting falls.

T-lo

Representin' the Midwest
 
I've got the solomon bindings, and they have held up for me. but I've only put three days of skiing on them. they are better thatn the old rossi bindings I had before though.

pro's arn't just normal people. they are robots made by the ski companies
 
Id go with rossi or look which are almost the same as rossi. Salomons kinda suck, they have a tendicy to prerelease.

'powder before pussy'
 
The rossignol binder and look are exactly the same, rossi owns look, they are made in the same factory. no difference.

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I'm not supposed to eat the lego, but the green ones make me horny.
 
really depends on what skis you're riding. the different companies design bindings to work compatibly with their skis, so yes 912s would suck on rossi scratch. i ski both looks (on bandit XL) and 912pi (on pocket rocket) and both have worked great for years.

~X~

Open your eyes, open your mind proud like a god don't pretend to be blind, trapped in yourself, break out instead, beat the machine that works in your head -Guano Apes
 
Speaking from experience, I think the salis are decent. The brakes on them always got bent, and finally broke completely at the end of the season. The other problem I experienced was loosening of the toe screw, but Im sure some loctite could fix that, or any good ski tech.

'I would be embarrassed to constantly complain about my life considering all the freedom and opportunities we have today. People that can't find anything they enjoy in life simply aren't giving it a real try.' ~Nick 311
 
I used to have salomons but now I have rossi's and they suck in comparison.

SALOMON DOMINATES

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Hey bigwilly I had the same problem, the toe screw was like a weird stripped sort of dealie but it was really easy to fix, but not before it did it's damage in a slopestyle =)

 
I got the top salomon binding the 914s and I've had no probs. With bindings i think you definetely get what you pay for so fork out and get some decent ones.

 
i had salamon bindings all last season and they premature realase all the time

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'I AM THE MASTER OF THE CLIT'-Jay
 
the salomon 900 series is good...the lower ones like the 700 or less suck...the 800's not bad...and as for the breaks...if you land switch and fall on top of your ski...you'll break them off no matter what...the salomons are lighter than the rossis and have a better toe piece design...the one thing you have to do is NOT EVER CRANK YOUR BINDINGS UP ALL THE WAY...if you din goes from 5-12...they will hold you in best at about 10, maybe 10.5....if it's a 6-14...go 12...if it's a 3-10 go 8....if you put it all the way up, it doesnt work properly...i have the 900s on my pocketrockets (and you can imagine how much torque the binding takes from skis that wide) and i've only released once when i didnt want to, and it was when i was skittering over really bumpy icy slush at high speed...but then again my friend lost his ski on that stuff too

 
I've used the current rossi/look binding design since it has come out and it gives me the most secure 'feel' of any binding which I like. it pops of when needed, and is a great design.

 
the more you pay the better it gets, each company make sick bindings, you just have to pay for them.(but go the salomons)

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