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help needed - setting forward pressure correctly on rossi fks platfoms
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

I've got some Rossignol Oversize Ti 9s, which have the gold and black FKS-style bindings - ie rotating platform. Thing is....there's no consensus on how to set the forward pressure. I tend to set it up so that the wings on the front binding just open a tiny fraction, but no tech has the same approach to doing it. Any advice out there?...


...many thanks....
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

valais2, here's how I set up Pivot bindings or the instructions I supply with mail ordered Pivots:

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.

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

A maximum of 8mm adjustment can be made between the two outer bands so when mounting set the template length to your exact boot sole length.

The target should be to have the sloping indicator at the rear of the base plate in line with the notches but this is very often inaccurate (ie no movement in the indicator even though the binding length has been adjusted) so the best method/test is to set the forward pressure so that when the heel piece lever is slowly raised to just past 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 significant rotation/play when doing this.

Hope this helps.
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

spyderjon, this certainly does help...very many thanks...glad to have the voice of deep experience talking! Not as easy as the 'metal tab in the window' (salomon hire bindings), tab between the markers (most other salomon) or 'screw flush with the recess (you know who) - so very useful to have this stored in the forward pressure memory bank. The previous 'blind guess method for FKS' is now usefully replaced by a method which is robust. Very many thanks Tim
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