Now you could be optimistic and say this is because they want to ensure your safety and make sure you have the most reliable bindings possible, but I'm cynical and think its more of a marketing and sales ploy. Rossignol/Look are also pretty unhelpful both with their guidance but also with their provision of spares, requiring most people and indeed ski shops to return bindings to them for repair and thus costing way more than it should. There is one ancient and grainy vimeo video floating around that shows the basics, but it could do with embellishing. and whilst there are many helpful replies there is nowhere a post/guide to fully dissembling and reassembling these bindings. Web forums are scattered with questions about these bindings relating to how to change/replace brakes, how to bend brakes to larger sizes, how to fix odd behaviour in the bindings, what's that little white bit do, why does my heel twist funny. There are subtle differences between different DIN rated versions, most notably the much coveted enitrely metal toe of the -18 rated bindings, compared to the composite construction of the 12's, 14's and 15's.
In recent years (2013?) the Rossignol branding of these bindings was discontinued again, and so today (2018) they are only available new as LOOK Pivot.įrom what I have gathered their construction has changed very little over the years of their production, with the greatest difference coming in the Toe pieces, which in more recent years have been made available with the adjustable WTR/Alpine to height adjuster, to accommodate the thicker/cambered sole of WTR boots. Discontinued at some point in the late 90s early 00s, they were later re-born in 2009, either as "FKS" under the Rossignol brand, or as "PIVOT" under the LOOK brand. For an introduction to these bindings there is a great summary on the NewSchoolers forum HERE.Īs a simple introduction, these bindings have been around for years, either under the Rossi brand or the Look brand.
What I do have is an insight into how to rip them apart and then hopefully put them back together again in as good, if not better, working condition. Truthfully I have yet to actually ski this binding and so don't have an opinion on how well they work yet, I'll leave that discussion/argument to people with more experience in that department. The Rossignol FKS/Look Pivot binding seems to me to be the "you either love it or you hate it" binding, what we British would call the "Marmite effect".
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