bindings eating my boots!

[Brewski2]

What the hell is going on here?!?


These are cheap ass Head Edge 9.7's that I got just to finish out this season. I'll be getting new(good) boots next fall. My question is this: is this happening because the boots are made with cheapo plastic or is there something with my bindings? It started out mostly on the right boot but now its happing on the left too.
The bindings are Vist 914's

I'm hoping I can finish out the season (which is been pow day after pow day) before my boots don't sit properly in the bindings. Am I doing something wrong?

[INDY GS]

Could be that the forward pressure is way off (too far forward), or that the boots are uncompatable with the bindings. Believe it or not, this is sometimes the case. Your best bet would be to have a release test done to see that they are releasing correctly, and then as you say they are boots to finish out the season, get new boots that work with the bindings.

[hemas]

It's god's way of telling you to screw the alpines and mount the Goats with teles .

[danhikeski]

sounds like your heel isn't set correctly, you need to adjust the height of it. It happens to my Koflacks, but they aren't supposed to fit in freerides...

[Smails]

I don't know from a tecnical standpoint how to fix it, but I have had the same exact problem. Back when I was a teenage I raced on Tyrolia bindings, some kind of free flex model that looks like the current model, maybe 977 or something like that? Anyway, they chewed the crap out my Tecnicas. I used the same boots from the first half of the next year and pre-released 4 times with s900 bindings. I'd say your boots are pretty much done. My problems didn't stop until I got new boots, thankfully I broke them somewhere else and the Tecnica rep gave me a new pair . . . Good luck and be careful!

[INDY GS]

Can you post a pic of the boot in the binding from a side view as well as the boot resting in the binding unengaged?

This may help determine the problem.

Also the to figure out if the forward pressure is off on the vist binding, make sure teh worm drive screw lines up wth that black molded tab at the bottom.

[davep]

Could be that the forward pressure is way off (too far forward), or that the boots are uncompatable with the bindings. Believe it or not, this is sometimes the case. Your best bet would be to have a release test done to see that they are releasing correctly, and then as you say they are boots to finish out the season, get new boots that work with the bindings.

That damage is happening on the corner of the heel tab - I'd think that too little forward pressure could do that (ie too far back), but I don't see how too much forward pressure could cause that problem.

If the forward pressure is too low, then when you lean over the boots try to pry their way out of the heelpiece, and are just barely stopped by the corner of the plastic (where yours are getting eaten). If the forward pressure is higher then the binding contacts the boot closer to the middle of the tab. At least this was my experience with naxos when the forward pressure was too low, they left similar marks in my AT boots until I cranked up the pressure.

[Brewski2]

It's god's way of telling you to screw the alpines and mount the Goats with teles .

I've tele'ed exclusively for the last 4 winters and kinda got over it. I bought this setup in march right before we had a big storm on St. Patty's day and I haven't looked back. I've been loving the locked heel.

I spoke with a guy who works at Inner Boot Works here in Stowe, its a certified boot fitting shop with a very good rep. He took a look at my stuff and said that the boots were indeed made of shitty plastic and that it had nothing to do with the bindings. Kinda wierd though. I wonder if I could warenty these boots since they are about a month or so old.

[wi3dzmin]

I had the same happen to my last year's Performa 4's to the point where the boot would pivot in the binding without releasing... Warrantee them and get a nicer boot imho.