I have some higher-end (not race) Salomon bindings on a powder twin-tip ski. The shop mounted them too forward for me - the binding placement is fine for light powder or corn snow, but it's not good in Sierra Cement or mank or very wet snow. I end up doing an endo and my big toes pay the price - along with my quads.
The skis I have are very light and a full binding plate wouldn't add that much weight for me.
I contacted Vist (a binding/binding plate manufacturer) and they said I had to buy a Vist binding along with the plate. What a ripoff. No, I'm not going to buy Atomic bindings (the brakes never close when mating to the other ski). They are basically E.S.S. bindings, which Atomic has made worse and worse over the years - E.S.S. bindings were relatively light and sturdy, but Atomic (they bought E.S.S. over five years ago) bindings are neither of these. I've seen many people on so many mountains replace that damned Atomic plate on the ski, and use the binding they are used to. The same goes for the heavy Neox.
No, I don't want to buy some cheap plastic Salomon risers - that would mean I would have to take off my bindings, screw those cheapo Salomon risers to the ski, and then remount my bindings.
Isn't there a full binding plate that will take any ski binding? Maybe even Derbyflex (or Salomon's D-Flex) might do the trick. I would hate to redrill my skis once, let alone twice.
I wish every ski manufacturer would set in pre-drilled screw-holes - every snowboard manufacturer does it - it can't be that hard. No, I don't want to telemark (K2 has pre-drilled holes for most of its telemark line).
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