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Advice K2 Autos and their size
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Poster:
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Poster:
A snowHead
THinking about getting some
K2
Autos bindings that are on offer to me for half price. What are people's opinions on them? I have heard rumours of the cable breaking on some - do not know whether this was a teething problem or something more substantial.
2ndly ones on offer are XL which are advertised for size 10 feet ( the large go up to UK10 as well). Bit worried that the XLs might be a bit large for an normal width board? I do not have a board at the moment, but acutely aware that I ride normally a 158 that has normally about 25cm aprox mid width.
Cheers for comments in advance.
Marcus
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A snowHead
isn't a real person
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
Hello
I got some last week. I've only tried them indoors at Chill Factor for just over 1 hour. I go to Morzine on Saturday and will be boarding on them for 3 days.
I think they are fantastic - they seem more comfortable and responsive than my
K2
V8 bindings. They are also 100g lighter for each binding, not something that I thought about when I bought them but you can tell when you carry your board.
My board has a waist width of 26.0 cm - i.e. it is a "wide" board. I doubt there would be a problem with a 25 cm board, but I couldn't say for sure.
What I will say is that unlike my conventional bindings with 2 ratchets (
K2
V8s) you cannot move the platform forwards and backwards to centre your boot on your board. This is because of the cable system. So the chassis is fixed and cannot be adjusted.
A simple way around this is to rotate the fixing disks so that instead of the holes in the disks running parallel to the board, they run at 90 degree. That way you can perfect how central your boots are in relation to the waist. Downside is that your stance width is restricted to the descreet widths of the bolt holes, i.e. you cannot micro adjust your stance width. This is not an issue for me as I had my stance width based on the bolt holes anyway, but it might be for you.
If they were too wide for your board, I would be very interested in buying them off you since I have another wide board.
Cheers
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
That was why I was asking really as I knew that they were fixed in length and the concern was that to allow for the bigger boots they may hang over the side of my board creating toe drag or in this case binding drag - far worse!
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