Alpine bindings - current best?

I run attacks, pivots and SPX in my quiver. I am of the impression that I have to run my SPX heels a bit higher to avoid over the bars releases. Pivots are a little more of a pain to get in than the others. I don’t really notice any difference in elasticity. I like all of them. I like the BSL adjustability of the attacks and SPXs so I can share skis with family members with different BSLs.

SPX and Attacks seem easier to install and adjust. Forward pressure is a little finicky on pivots. You can get more metal in pivots if you care about that. I have attack and pivot 14s and SPX 12s and the release seems to work fine despite being different levels from the end of the DIN range. I had a pair of skis mounted with demos when I bought them and then switched to pivots and I definitely could tell that difference.

More color choices in attacks. Cooler forza colors maybe for pivots and some SPX.

Remember - and this is important: pick a binding and be an ass about it.

*dick

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Originally Posted by toast2266

Same. Skied salomons for years. Had weird pre releases a few times a season (and yes, forward pressure, toe height, wings, etc. were adjusted correctly). Been on pivots for ~6 years now. Have never once had a pre-release, despite a lower din than the sally's. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

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Yup, yup, yup..... Run Pivots one point down from STH. Never had a single release that I questioned. All of my bindings are Pivots except Duke PT16's and a pair of Shift.

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Originally Posted by SnowMachine

Yup, yup, yup..... Run Pivots one point down from STH. Never had a single release that I questioned. All of my bindings are Pivots except Duke PT16's and a pair of Shift.

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I must be a masochist. I do have occasional questionable releases from STH2s (should probably bump my heels up), but I still consider them my binding of choice. The driver toe just speaks to me and the heel goes click.

I've been warming up to the Strive (after getting past a really sketchy pre-release caused by shop not setting a demo binding correctly the first time I skied them), but I'm not sure if it really solves the problem as the higher DIN Strive 16 keeps the same STH2 heel. The lower DIN heel feels cheap, but maybe it doesn't have the prerelease problem--I haven't noticed it yet on my demo set.

One of the things I noticed when I switched to Pivots was not just the footprint is less, but it’s where the mass of the heel dildo is. It’s close to your boot. It seems like the swing weight is less. I know it’s subtle, but I’m weird that way.