Where to mount the binding on Salomon Dumont

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Fox

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Just got my 08 Dumonts yesterday and I am wondering where I should mount the binding. After measuring the skis I found out that the Simon midsole marking is not core center. Thought I should mount the binding core center before I got it but know I am not so sure anymore. I use it in the park and for the normal groomer usage. Maybe you got some advice for me.
 
i mounted mine at "simon stance", which i found out later is a little bit forward of center, but i would still do it there. It took a day or two to feeling the flow carving, but for park its great. I've even had some pretty deep pow days on them and they do fine, just have to lean back.
 
I'd go with where the hash mark is. It's about 3 mm from standard and 1-2 mm back from Simon Stance. There isn't much point in mounting core center if the sidecut on the ski isn't a full symetrical sidecut. For example 115-80-115. Which the Dumont is 117-83-110.
 
mmmhhhh but the simon point is around 4 or 5 cm behind the core center of the ski. Isn't that to far? I read somewhere that Simon rode his teneighty's back in the days at core center which also hadn't symmatrical sidecut.
 
If you're leaning back, then they're not fine. Leaning back is perhaps the worst thing you can do technically, not to mention the fact you look stupid doing it. Oh, and I'd say mount them at recommended. The sidecut on the dumonts is not engineered to be mounted true center, so if you are skiing groomers more than just as a route to the park, then you should mount them at recommended.
 


actually they are engineered to be mounted forward from center.

at least that s what simon said.

sidecut is not just 3 numbers.
 
If I mount them forward from center that would be at least 6cm ahead of the recommended mounting point on the ski. In this case the binding should also cover abit of the Dumont script on one of the skies. This can't be right.
 
Thank you mr. ski instructor. Now i finally know how to ski! You have to lean back a little to ski any park ski in the pow. I don't lean back when ski groomers. For the mounting point, if your gonna ride park then you should just put it on simon stance, no need to measure where center is. Just tell them where to mount it. They rip groomers and bumps too, i rocked them for two season and there found know problem with the sidecut. i don't know about the smaller sizes, but 181s are pretty stiff and will charge anywhere, even at simon stance.
 
If they are engineered to be mounted further forward then the mounting points, why aren't the mounting points further forward. I understand that where the ski begins to widen and stuff is more important then the dimensions, but that makes no sense to me, for a ski to be designed to be mounted firther forward then the mounting points. What if you never heard Simon say that the ski was engineered to be mounted further forward?(which I don't believe, unless you can show me) It just seems like a stupid thing to do on salomons part. Oh and sorry about the backseat rant, its just that there was a 50 cm day at sunshine village a few weeks ago, and if you've ever been there you'll know that it's not the steepest resort, so I found my self leaning back(on 185 rossi steezes) at the bottom of runs so that I didn't have to plow through the waist deep pow back to the lift, and I kind of felt gay, but the snow did somewhat justify it. Not to diss pow either, that day probably bested the second best day of my life by 20x
 
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