HOW TO SET BINDINGS

Tomski,
Please forgive my comments about your messages and manner in which they are transmitted! It was a "poor" first impression!

All the previous comments are on target in the sense that most skiers should go to ski shop! However I have seen more than enough errors made on binding placement and wrong DIN settings to "trust" shops blindly!

My attitude is if you are an adult and know the risks you are taking and still wanted to verify or do work yourself , you should be allowed to do so!

It is not complicated!

I still did not get the type of binding you have! I need company name and model number!

I will send via PM your DIN settings which you should memorize for the rest of youe skiing life.

Again please forgive my comments about communication style! It was not intended to be a reflection on your competencies as person or house builder!
Respectfully,
Pavel

Pavel perhaps he shouldn't remember them for the rest of his life as no doubt he will improve!! I am not doubting your intergrity it is just an "aside" if you will.

Ross

Tomski
Binding Setting is more than numbers. Take toe wing height for example, is it automatic, or do you have to set it? Just how tight does the boot need to be in the binding for it to be correct?
My suggestion, is to set them up yourself, (and this assumes they are already mounted on the ski), and have them checked by a good ski shop once you arrive in resort.
Ski shop staff mounting bindings use custom made jigs, and they still mess up!!
I'm just back from Zermatt and the Swiss Ski Test. I took a piece of paper with my DIN, weight, age, weeks skied etc, and handed it over each time I took out a new ski. Each time the DIN setting was queried as being too low. I use 5.5, routinely they would have set 6.5-7.
I got my way, and there were no pre-releases :D

hi ross thank you for that site it is really easy to work out the din number ,and if it is slightly lower than it should be that will fit in to what trencher was saying and will be fine for me as i ski quite relaxed no jumping ect cheers tom

We could re-title this thread I'll SPAM my software :roll:

It's not necessary to download any software to look at DIN Charts. Most of the Binding Manufacturers have them online, and unless you have been trained to set bindings it's probably not a good idea to try to adjust them yourself.

tomski wrote:my weight is 115kg ,or 254 lbs but will be down to 210 lbs after i have been training,

Off thread a bit, but surely the binding settings not the important parts of this thread.

Surely the stand out thing here is, what training plan are you going to use to lose 44lbs before the ski season??

Publish that, and you'll never have to build a house again!!

:lol:

ok cat among pigeons time

if you are setting a salomon binding you need to use the salomon chart if you are setting a marker binding then use the marker chart etc etc

DIN should be DIN should be DIN but it is not, there are subtle differences between what the settings come out at on the different charts and these subtle differences can be the difference between a binding releasing and major knee surgery

in most case the charts are the same from skier to skier but there are a few anomolies and if a shop set the binding using the wrong chart then an accident occurs who is to blame??????? even if the setting is correct on the shops chart if that chart is not for the make of binding being adjusted how do you know!

there is of course all the other implications such as forward pressure, toe wings etc etc

in essence the only way to know that they really are set properly is to have them run through an electronic binding tester machine [i think there is only 4 or 5 in the UK in the next few years every rental operation in europe will HAVE to have one