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i never said I like Roundhouse or chalet. At least they don't bad mouth the competitors though. It's one thing to do it here...but in a place of buisness is poor at best and it makes you look weak. You can sell people on positive without trashing your opponents(marker, roundhouse/chalet, whoever) it's bad buisness, and as some would say, "the low road". MT, if that's your style...then so be it, but eventually it will catch up with you.
As for marker, 16 years and not one pre-ejaculation.
Does that mean that I'll be in Scotland before you?
going to visit your clan, are you
Since you implied that I apparently took a turn down "the low road" as you call it, I was referring to the chorus below:
Oh! ye'll take the high road and
I'll take the low road,
And I'll be in Scotland afore ye;
But me and my true love
Will never meet again
On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.
Sorry you didn't pick up on that one.
i actually thought you hacked into my computer and saw what I was looking at the time. I'm actually planning some backpacking over there in the future. Freaked me all out!
I'm still waiting on whose Geze and Ess-VAR we're talking about, seeing "It's not like their freaking Geze or EssVar...."
Ok, I actually like essvars...not to sure about them since atomic took over, but I'm real surprized with the Geze response. The last two years they were geze(before Rossi took over) the heel pieces on almost everyone I torque checked busted off...hense geze selling out to Rossi. Geze lost too much to keep going and Rossi wanted to hook up with somebody like Volkl. Dosen't anybody remember the 58's,61's,68's,71's,78's, and the whole PGM series exploding recalls. We worked on commision and everytime one of those bindings came through the door we were obligated as a Geze supplier to inform the customer of the recall, which geze would reimburse them within one year for a new pair and after that year they were shit outta luck! We made out as salesmen. I'm sure Rossi turned it around, but I know alot of shops wouldn't carry them for awhile...including the one I worked for. The geze rep said that they got a bad batch of plastic and with heating and freezing temps. the plastic would fail. Not sure if that was it, but that sure was the problem we were running into. EssVar's were actually bomber with the low profile and cement for release, but I always thought they were on the heavy side and always opted for the Markers.
I will admit the old full spectrum idea is shit for agressive skiers, but the new comp free is, I think one of the best bindings on the market. The titanium is rock steady and the release problems have been corrected...have any of you guys hatin' Marker tried them?
Marker's upward release toepiece sure does suck, buuuut... As zhing zhing said, that ain't the end of the story on Marker prerelease suckitude.
I done did a li'l experiment: I got immediate prerelease issues after switching to some sticks that came w/ Markers, and naturally blamed it on the toe. So I tapped :fm: a few new holes:fm: into the existing plate and set up some ol' reliable Sollies that never EVER prereleased in the face of years of poorly-planned backseat huck and flip landings. Setup looked great, sorta frankenstein-ey mismatched toe and heel pieces, blah blah. BUT, weirdly enough, IT DID NOT SOLVE THE PRERELEASE PROBLEM.
Repeatedly, after landing a huck in soft pow, if I've been in the backseat or have underrotated a frontie, I end up standing there upright without one or both skis. Same perfectly acceptable landings as in the past, but no skis to git on down the mountain with. WTF: THE MARKER CURSE HAS NOW INFECTED MY PERFECTLY GOOD HUCK-PROOF old SOLLIES!
No. Something else is at work here, and the best I can figure is that when the ski flexes very deeply (as in a backseat, ride-yer-tails-fer-a-spell landing) the heelpiece slides waaay back along its rail, and THEN, when the ski recambers quick-like, the heelpiece can't track back fast enough w/ the boot and voila, you have a gap. And when there's a gap, we just OOPS! walk out of our skis, leaving no evidence of binding release at either toe OR heel. And when we walk out of our skis and there's no evidence of actual binding release, we look at our f@##ing Marker bindings and blame f@##ing Marker. And we SHOULD. This sh*t is reediculous, yo.
What do I have to do next, bolt them heels down in thar track?:(
Thread hijack -- free Ess Var bindings available from me in Gear Swap. Go get some, replace your Markers.
Post first, then smoke crack.
I seem to have perfected the toke the crack-post-exhale method lately.
Geze had the heels with the long, thin housing for the springs that was bomber. They were also all metal. Some idiot got hired from.... wait for it... TY-FUCKIN'-rolia and talked them into doing a "step-in" plasticised mid-level binding line circa 1989. Those pieces of shit sucked and were the ones under basically permanent recall "as needed" during my years in a shop. The Racing binders and "expert" level ones were so good that Rossi/Look bought them out from bankrupcy and basically took that design, modernized it a bit, and is still making them. If you look at the p-14 it's not much different than a 90's era Geze race binding.
Also, claiming ROSSIGNOL was trying to get on VÖLKL skis is ridiculous. It was Marker that was selling them on the combo idea being espoused by Solomon first, followed by and Rossignol and Atomic, Marker's selling point being their German sister company.
IMHO Marker's only problem is being over-engineered. They outsmarted themselves AGAIN (remember the "Automatic" heels that released sideways and opened automatically?) trying to keep us "safe" and keep our knees intact. If what you say is true and they're getting back to basics then all I can do is applaud them.
I know that I missed having a whole generation with the logic toes but my current 1200 ti free's have been idiot proof. Granted I'm a short, lightweight gaper but I ask my bindings for a lot and haven't had a problem. I had a few backseat episodes due to serious water ice and some bony section avoidance maneuvers at Jay this week, again with 0 problems. I will say though that I am more confident when I'm on my Tyrolia Cyber D8's.
glad to hear that there is some people who don't hate marker also. Maybe I got my, "who approached who" mixed up, but Rossi was definately trying to hit that side of the market and geze, at the time, was a cheap opportunity to do so. I am interested in that solomon test. I guess some will always have their favorite gear...I know I do, but give credit where credit is due. I hope we can all grow from this, and stop bashing Marker!