![]() ![]() Traditional piste bindings are usually drill mounted (as shown here, without an adjustable toe piece to set your forward pressure), or rail mounted (with an adjustable toe and heel piece to set your forward pressure) to your skis. You’ll find these types of bindings on most off-the-shelf alpine skis. There is a white plastic tip on one side and a black plastic tip on the other side. The back plastic piece has two little pointers on it. Traditional piste bindings are easy to adjust by hand on-the-move, as they predominantly have levers and common screws. How do you adjust forward pressure on pivot You can adjust the forward pressure with the help of the arms of the heel piece. Drill mounted bindings only have an adjustable heel piece, and so they only offer a small amount of forward pressure adjustment, and must be re-mounted using specialist drilling equipment to fit different boot sizes. Look at the arms of the heel piece, youll notice you can screw them in and out, thats how you adjust the forward pressure.Rail mounted bindings (AKA track mounted bindings) offer a larger range of easy-to-move forward pressure adjustment as they have adjustable toe and heel pieces, with rental or demo bindings offering the biggest range of adjustment.This guide will predominanly focus on this most common type of binding, a rail mounted traditional piste binding. ![]() Touring bindings are usually drill mounted (with limited or no toe or heel adjustment to set your forward pressure without using specialist equipment).
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