WARNING FOR LOOK BINDINGS! Getting robbed in the hood.

Eachung

Eachung

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It was 4th day I was skiing with my new skis. I mounted the Look NX 11's on my new skis I skied maybe only a couple of days and tried 450 off a rail. I landed switch and fell. I got back up and saw my ski going down the fill android brake broken. I dont know if this just never happened to me but kinda pissed that it broke like the 4th day riding them.

Some warning if you 're planning to buy look bindings. Tell me if anyone else has experienced this. Photos below

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**This thread was edited on Feb 23rd 2019 at 6:56:59am
 
I’ve seen this happen on every ski binding with detachable brakes.

This is one of the main reasons why I buy Look Pivots. You can’t really break the brakes off because they’re built into the binding.

Best of luck OP, hopefully you can get it fixed in the meantime.
 
Just FYI, the nx11 is one of the least burly bindings you can possibly buy. It's ideally for people that put their din at like
 
14003099:wasatch_rat said:
wtf? it lost like half my post. the nx11 is for petite soccor moms who keep their din at like
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wtf it happened again? get a better binding. look pivot, salamon sth, griffon/jester, tyrolia attack are all legit
 
14003101:wasatch_rat said:
wtf it happened again? get a better binding. look pivot, salamon sth, griffon/jester, tyrolia attack are all legit
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That shit happened to me the other day, wrote a long ass helpful reply too. Bummed.
 
Too much plastic for even 270s off! To go along with what others have said, don't cheap out on bindings. Just pay a tad bit more for something with more meat to it. It may be difficult to justify at first, but beefer bindings just live through so much more. Also having an ACL at the end of the day is pretty neat too.
 
Yeah those are some plastic China bindings. On the other hand I seem to be the only person on Earth who repeatedly breaks the look pivots (3 times).
 
14003151:Quaff said:
Yeah those are some plastic China bindings. On the other hand I seem to be the only person on Earth who repeatedly breaks the look pivots (3 times).
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Yea my brother keeps landing switch too far forward and it makes the brakes on his pivots catch, making him crash and his bindings are perma fucked which sucks
 
topic:Eachung said:
It was 4th day I was skiing with my new skis. I mounted the Look NX 11's on my new skis I skied maybe only a couple of days and tried 450 off a rail. I landed switch and fell. I got back up and saw my ski going down the fill android brake broken. I dont know if this just never happened to me but kinda pissed that it broke like the 4th day riding them.

Some warning if you 're planning to buy look bindings. Tell me if anyone else has experienced this. Photos below

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**This thread was edited on Feb 23rd 2019 at 6:56:59am
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Just letting you know look and rossignol are both really reliable reputable brands. I’ve never actually used these bindings but I have the fks/pivot bindings and they are the only binding I trust. Not only that but I broke two heal pieces and broke a toe piece and I called rossignol asking if they could fix it and I sent them in to get fixed and they returned two brand new heal pieces to me free of charge and fixed my toe piece. So to be honest with you, give the company a call and see what they can do, I’m sure you can get a replacement or get it fixed. Otherwise, I would try the fks or the pivot bindings, they are really solid and reliable.
 
Lol this is probably the furthest possible thing from being robbed in the hood. But yeah OP you need some beefier bindings bro. Nothings wrong with them they’re just not meant to be skied hard
 
14003089:weastcoast said:
This is one of the main reasons why I buy Look Pivots. You can’t really break the brakes off because they’re built into the binding.
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Bullshit they don't break. Within 2 weeks of riding the shitty cheap alloy brake plates on both my fks 14s had cracked and a day later both had fallen off. This means the brake can't fully retract when I clip in and thus there is brake drag and a risk of the two wonky inside edge brakes locking together midair or mid carve. To make it worse no one seems to sell a replacement in my country and you have to remove the entire cunty heelpeice to replace the brake if you can find one. Even the rossignol rep was no help.

Keep in mind I only weigh 75ish kg and although I ride them every day on hard pack they are expensive bindings and are supposed to be durable.

I'd take replaceable component brakes like on markers any day of the week over these orange pieces of fucking garbage that have turned my nice kartels into sketchy bullshit. Fuck fks and fuck shitty metal. Fuck. Surely someone else has encountered this problem?

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14003226:marrows said:
Bullshit they don't break. Within 2 weeks of riding the shitty cheap alloy brake plates on both my fks 14s had cracked and a day later both had fallen off. This means the brake can't fully retract when I clip in and thus there is brake drag and a risk of the two wonky inside edge brakes locking together midair or mid carve. To make it worse no one seems to sell a replacement in my country and you have to remove the entire cunty heelpeice to replace the brake if you can find one. Even the rossignol rep was no help.

Keep in mind I only weigh 75ish kg and although I ride them every day on hard pack they are expensive bindings and are supposed to be durable.

I'd take replaceable component brakes like on markers any day of the week over these orange pieces of fucking garbage that have turned my nice kartels into sketchy bullshit. Fuck fks and fuck shitty metal. Fuck. Surely someone else has encountered this problem?

**This post was edited on Feb 23rd 2019 at 5:43:11pm
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Sorry to hear about your bad luck, sounds like a shitty situation. But I never had to deal with this. Heard of those rings snapping tho, but only after a while.
 
I've had the exact same problem with Look Spx dual. I took a sidehit and landed switch but too hard on my nose which caused the binding to "break". Fortunately for me, I was with a friend who went on to seek for my ski (who slid down the whole slope). I had to ski the whole run on one ski which wasn't an easy task. This sucks
 
14003099:wasatch_rat said:
wtf? it lost like half my post. the nx11 is for petite soccor moms who keep their din at like
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Did you try to lose a “less than” sign? IIRC that can fuck up your post somehow
 
14003688:jamsandwich said:
Lol op is prolly 13 and from the whitest suburbs on earth
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I don’t get why people on this site always make fun of kids for being 12-14 years old. I swear I see a comment like this on every thread. Yeah, we all did dumb stuff when we were 13 but I don’t think we should constantly be calling people out for being 13 and skiers like it’s a bad thing. There’s way too much hate on this site already and that sort of thing discourages people from wanting to be a part of our community. Not really directing this at you jamsandwich, just a broad observation you reminded me of
 
Sorry kid but you gotta pay to play! No one here has sympathy for you buying such a shitty binding... not saying to need a Pivot 14 or 18 but open the wallet and get a set of Pivot 12
 
How much do you weigh and how tall are you?

Look nx 11 is akin to a marker squire, maybe even less in terms of freestyle performance. Plastic bindings and high speed releasing at high din is a recipe for disaster. You may need to look into a beefier binding if your gonna continue to progress.
 
Your problem isn't look bindings its the look nx11. It wasn't designed to be doing 450s off of rails in the park. Get a Pivot or a Griffon even, something sturdier to put up with the abuse in the park. The NX11 is all plastic and designed for kids under the age of 13 learning how to ski.
 
14003226:marrows said:
Bullshit they don't break. Within 2 weeks of riding the shitty cheap alloy brake plates on both my fks 14s had cracked and a day later both had fallen off. This means the brake can't fully retract when I clip in and thus there is brake drag and a risk of the two wonky inside edge brakes locking together midair or mid carve. To make it worse no one seems to sell a replacement in my country and you have to remove the entire cunty heelpeice to replace the brake if you can find one. Even the rossignol rep was no help.

Keep in mind I only weigh 75ish kg and although I ride them every day on hard pack they are expensive bindings and are supposed to be durable.

I'd take replaceable component brakes like on markers any day of the week over these orange pieces of fucking garbage that have turned my nice kartels into sketchy bullshit. Fuck fks and fuck shitty metal. Fuck. Surely someone else has encountered this problem?

**This post was edited on Feb 23rd 2019 at 5:43:11pm
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I have about 100 days on a pair of FKS 180's that I bought in 2016. Seems like the quality may have gotten worse around the time they switched to only producing them as Look Pivots. I've definitely heard about the vulnerability of the steel ring, and I'm sure people still broke it before, but not nearly as often as I see now on NS.
 
14004452:supersquid said:
How much do you weigh and how tall are you?

Look nx 11 is akin to a marker squire, maybe even less in terms of freestyle performance. Plastic bindings and high speed releasing at high din is a recipe for disaster. You may need to look into a beefier binding if your gonna continue to progress.
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I'm 15, I am like 5'7 and maybe 120lbs
 
Look into something a little bit studier. Even though your DIN is low you want something that can put up with all the abuse given out in the park.
 
14005065:Eachung said:
Like 7.5
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I would seriously recommend the attack 13's. They are cheap, light, and the din range is from 4 - 13. A din of 7.5 would fall in that range really well, while still leaving room to crank em up if you grow/get better.
 
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