Look Pivot Bindings

A snowHead

Hi folks,

I've just bought myself a nice pair of secondhand Line Prophet 90's equipped with Look Pivot bindings after using rental gear for the last few years.

Never had to worry about setting bindings up so need some advice (especially on these bindings as they sound a little more complex to set up).

Also wondering if anyone has any good tests that can be done at home to check the release once they are set up.

Thanks in advance Very Happy

A snowHead

Setting up a Pivot heel correctly takes experience/practice/feel and often each heel of a pair may be set slightly differently to achieve to same result.

The extending arms have 3 knurled bands on them. The two outer ones are the upper and lower limits. The centre one is the ideal but that depends how the jig was set and a tech experienced with Pivots will set the jig slightly differently to the boot sole length. If you have bought secondhand and the binding was mounted for a different bsl then you have very little adjustment in the heel, namely 4mm at best and often less depending how the jig was set.

Extending the arms eases off the forward pressure and shortening the arms increases it. The dildo needs to be raised to access the no.3 pozi driver heads in the ends of the arms.

The target should be to have the sloping indicator at the rear of the base plate in line with the notches HOWEVER this is very often inaccurate and it’s often possible to make a large adjustment in the forward pressure & the sloping indicator doesn’t even move. This is a ‘feature’ of the design!

The better method/test is to set the forward pressure so that when the heel piece lever is slowly raised to half-way it then it ‘snaps’ up. As a further check, & with the boot in the binding, grab the dildo part and rotate/pivot it. Basically you want to tighten it (the forward pressure) up until you no longer get rotation/play when doing this but without the arms snagging on the sides of the boot.

It's also important that each time you make an adjustment rotate the heel fully in both directions to reset/bed-in the adjustment before you examine its effectiveness.

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Thanks for the reply Spyderjon, I have got about as far as adjusting the screws either side of the dildo and luckily for me (far end of adjustment) the white sloping tab lines up with the black markers...

I'll have a look at the heel lever/dildo tonight and see if it matches up with your advice.

Being new to setting bindings do you know of anyway to make sure they are going to release when they are supposed before actually skiing on them?

Also is the Din setting the same as for normal bindings? Only asking this as they obviously release differently and have a lot of pre release?

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