adeehr
01-10-2007, 10:19 PM
Switched from snowblades to EMP's this season and tonight was my first chance to get out on them with the warm weather. I set them up with some ExtremeII's having been a long time skier and not sure of myself with the nonrelease so I went cheap. I got what I paid for.
I listened to many of you and went and got loctite before locking in the bindings and then sized up my boot. My sole measures at 13.5 inches meaning my sole is near the top the EII can handle. 343 out of 350.
I'm not a small guy at 6'2" and 225lbs so I knew I'd need to put some elbow grease into tighening these things, so I did.
It started off well and had gone down about 2 dozen runs when I noticed on the lift that when i shook my feet one of my boards gave a little. I didn't think too big of it since it never seem to get any worse.
As time went on I hit some small man made jumps as I haven't jumped before and wanted to start off small. Had done quiet well and the bindings held up nicely through them...well until I decided to actually go just a tad faster and higher, that's when it happened. I found out why you should use leashes.
I started to land the jump and was putting my weight on both feet but noticed one foot didn't have a board under it, yup there it went down the hill without me....and i bit it hard, nothing really damaged but my pride and a sprained finger.
After it happend I figured the bindings had come loose from the boards and the loctite didn't do it's job, nope I was wrong. It was the bolts holding the adjustable pieces in place that had come loose, in fact they had come completely loose and thats why when I hit the jump it didn't come with me.
After getting back to my truck and pulling out the allen wrench that comes with the bindings I tightened it back up, but decided to check the other bolts. Low and behold all, yea both on each board had come loose and the other board was getting close to doing the same thing! OUCH!
In all I had been out about an hour and a half when this happened. Sure to say I am not pleased with my purchase at this point.
I am going to give it another try, but if this type of thing becomes typical out with them and FF or Bomber here I come.
If I was to score these bindings out of 10 I'd give it a whopping 5 at first trial. Maybe I didn't tighten them enough and will find out in the next trip and probably adjust my rating, but as of now: :mad:
I listened to many of you and went and got loctite before locking in the bindings and then sized up my boot. My sole measures at 13.5 inches meaning my sole is near the top the EII can handle. 343 out of 350.
I'm not a small guy at 6'2" and 225lbs so I knew I'd need to put some elbow grease into tighening these things, so I did.
It started off well and had gone down about 2 dozen runs when I noticed on the lift that when i shook my feet one of my boards gave a little. I didn't think too big of it since it never seem to get any worse.
As time went on I hit some small man made jumps as I haven't jumped before and wanted to start off small. Had done quiet well and the bindings held up nicely through them...well until I decided to actually go just a tad faster and higher, that's when it happened. I found out why you should use leashes.
I started to land the jump and was putting my weight on both feet but noticed one foot didn't have a board under it, yup there it went down the hill without me....and i bit it hard, nothing really damaged but my pride and a sprained finger.
After it happend I figured the bindings had come loose from the boards and the loctite didn't do it's job, nope I was wrong. It was the bolts holding the adjustable pieces in place that had come loose, in fact they had come completely loose and thats why when I hit the jump it didn't come with me.
After getting back to my truck and pulling out the allen wrench that comes with the bindings I tightened it back up, but decided to check the other bolts. Low and behold all, yea both on each board had come loose and the other board was getting close to doing the same thing! OUCH!
In all I had been out about an hour and a half when this happened. Sure to say I am not pleased with my purchase at this point.
I am going to give it another try, but if this type of thing becomes typical out with them and FF or Bomber here I come.
If I was to score these bindings out of 10 I'd give it a whopping 5 at first trial. Maybe I didn't tighten them enough and will find out in the next trip and probably adjust my rating, but as of now: :mad: