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salomon bindings / burton boards
I need some help. i'm running salomon medium spx5 bindings on a burton
custom. i wear size 9 boots. i have noticed that to get any response with heelside turns i have to crank my forward lean all the way down on the rear binding. my toeside turns are quick and snappy but the transition to heelside is a little slow and awkward feeling. i feel like my boots are centered too far towards the toeside edge of the board which makes toeside turns instantaneous but heelside alot more effort, in other words just the slightest toeside pressure gives me a quick response (what i like) but heelside requires the movement of my whole leg (and body) just to get the same kind of resonse. the disks that came with the bindings won't allow me to shift the bindings towards either edge only front to rear. my sons burton mission bingings allow side to side adjustment. does anyone know if i can get some replacement discs for my spx bindings that will allow for side to side adjustment on the burton 3 hole pattern? i have salomon boots and i love these bindings and want to keep them. joe |
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salomon bindings / burton boards
besides modifying or changing your
discs to center those bindings...you might not have enough leverage, meaning that the board is too wide for you. what size is your board? juani "Joe" wrote in message om... I need some help. i'm running salomon medium spx5 bindings on a burton custom. i wear size 9 boots. i have noticed that to get any response with heelside turns i have to crank my forward lean all the way down on the rear binding. my toeside turns are quick and snappy but the transition to heelside is a little slow and awkward feeling. i feel like my boots are centered too far towards the toeside edge of the board which makes toeside turns instantaneous but heelside alot more effort, in other words just the slightest toeside pressure gives me a quick response (what i like) but heelside requires the movement of my whole leg (and body) just to get the same kind of resonse. the disks that came with the bindings won't allow me to shift the bindings towards either edge only front to rear. my sons burton mission bingings allow side to side adjustment. does anyone know if i can get some replacement discs for my spx bindings that will allow for side to side adjustment on the burton 3 hole pattern? i have salomon boots and i love these bindings and want to keep them. joe |
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I've owned both the Burton Mission bindings (two seeason ago) and the Salomon SP4s (now). I actually had the exact oppositve problem... I had Burton Missions on a Salomon board and wanted shift the bindings along the longitudinal axis (nose to tail - you seem to be calling this front to rear). However, the Burton plates only allowed for toeside/heelside adjustment... to fix this I simply rotated the plate 90 degree and voila! Now I'm not sure what disk your SP5 came with, but I just checked my SP4's and they can definitely do this... even more so they looked like they are designed with this in mind because the angle indicators have "0" degrees in all four directions... compared to my Burtons which I had to "scratch/cut" in new angle markers at the 90 degree locations. Are the SPX5 disc unable to be rotated 90 degrees? I do actually feel a little like you in that my heelside transition doesn't feel as instantaeous as my toeside... slow and awkward even... maybe I should try it too... however - reading your post, one thing that caught my eye is that your are increasing the forward lean on your *back* foot. Increasing the forward lean of your highback does help your heelsides (I have mine nearly at the max). However, when initiating you heelside turn, you are mainly using your *front* binding to bring the heelside edge (right behind the nose) into the snow. So you would need to crank up the forward lean on the front binding to transition to heelsides more quickly - especially if the board isn't particularly torsionally stiff (although I think the recent Burton Custom models are pretty good). Anyways... let me know how it goes... good luck! --Arvin I own a pair of sp3s and had the same need for heel/toe adjustment as Juan, and as Arvin suggests I rotated the plates 90degs (I had a Salomon board). I think the problem is that due to the lack of rotational symetry in the Burton 3D system, the plates are only compatible with Burton boards at one angle, and unfortunately that's the position that gives you tip/tail adjustment but not heel/toe. S |
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Arvin Chang wrote:
The binding disks have 2 (side to side) x 3 (frnt to rear) evenly spaced rows. They will adjust toe/heel with a 4 hole pattern and the middle row allows you to rotate 90 degree as you said and use the burton pattern but as you know the way they are slotted, when you do this the toe/heel adjustment becomes an frnt/rear adjustment. Mmm... I'm having a bit of trouble visualing the problem there are like this xxxxx xx0xx xx0xx xxxxx xxxxx xx0xx I see, rotating 90 degrees doesn't quite work. Hmm... maybe get generic discs... The ASCII art is giving me a sense of deja vu... http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...ing.google.com I've got a few Salomon bindings...S5, SPX5, and SP4. The mounting disks look about the same. As you said, you can have either edge-to-edge or nose-to-tail adjustment on non-Burton (4x4 mounting) boards. Or you can only have nose-to-tail adjustment on Burton (3D mounting) boards. On your particular bindings, can you adjust the highback mounting relative to the base of the binding? Some have a couple sets of holes for connecting the highback, to accomodate different sized boots. I'm not home right now, and I don't remember which of bindings have that adjustment. (I have a pair of Drakes that definitely have it, but I'm not sure about Salomon.) -Ryan |
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