Difference in left/right binding mounting?

[PeachesNCream]

I bought some boots from a ski shop and I got a free mount. So I had them mount the Kingpins on a pair of BC Noctas. Looks like karma of not mounting my own fucking skis came back to bite me and they mounted the left binding on the right ski and the right binding on the left ski. I don't think there a left and a right kingpin or a left and a right ski on the nocta, but when adjusting the din, do they adjust the right/left ski differently? I assume not

[Eluder]

How do you know what binding is left and what binding is right???

[John_B]

I bought some boots from a ski shop and I got a free mount. So I had them mount the Kingpins on a pair of BC Noctas. Looks like karma of not mounting my own fucking skis came back to bite me and they mounted the left binding on the right ski and the right binding on the left ski. I don't think there a left and a right kingpin or a left and a right ski on the nocta, but when adjusting the din, do they adjust the right/left ski differently? I assume not

It depends on if you turn better to the right or left.....or you are over thinking it.

[PeachesNCream]

How do you know what binding is left and what binding is right???

They put a sticker on there...any it was the opposite of what was printed on the skis. IDIOTS

[mooseknuckle]

Is there crack involved in this story?

[PeachesNCream]

It depends on if you turn better to the right or left.....or you are over thinking it.

Great, that's what I assumed

[Supermoon]

Lots of shops tweak the DIN on each binding so they release at the same torque values. Boot wear and differences in the springs can make them release slightly off their indicated DIN is what I’ve been told.

[BC.]

Ski switch.??..

[PNWbrit]

Wear a helmet that doesn't fit that should fix it.

[CascadeLuke]

I wouldn’t ski them. Post in gear swap and explain this again.
I might be a buyer tho - 190cm?

[SumJongGuy]

I once had a student show up for lessons wearing two left boots. Rental shop FAIL! Never did find the other kid out in the hill wearing two right boots.

[MiddleOfNight]

I don't think there a left and a right kingpin or a left and a right ski on the nocta

How do you know what binding is left and what binding is right???

uhmmm. yeah +1

When mounting: I use left boot on left ski, right boot with right ski. Whichever binding is on the R ski becomes the R binding by default?
(but my skis are RES and l/r specific).

[MegaStoke]

They put a sticker on there...any it was the opposite of what was printed on the skis. IDIOTS

I run a shop. Some liability insurance companies want you to label L & R skis to make sure they both get setup and tested rather than one getting tested twice. As far as I am aware, there is not a single normed boot on the market that doesn’t have a symmetrical interface with the bindings. In other words, feel free to swap skis unless your skis themselves aren’t symmetrical.

Also, it’s not out of the ordinary to have your bindings set differently. The indicators are really just a rough starting point, and we set the bindings to release at the same torque value regardless of what the indicator says(within reason of course)

[pureantigravity]

There is the faint possibility that the shop DIN tested the bindings with a proper machination,
and hence, with great accuracy and much aplomb and zeal,
determined that the right and left bindings calibrated differently for DIN settings.
Then, by stroke of luck, and with much emphatic zeal,
indicated which binding had what DIN calibrations,
by marking them, with a removable sticker, as
LEFT and RIGHT.
Now, perchance did they give you a form indicating that the bindings were calibrated and tested?
That form, rarely obtained from any but the best shops, does show DIN settings adjustment for
Left Toe, Right Toe, Left Heel, Right Heel.
It happens.
This could be the culprit.
I'm just taking a wild guess.
GOOD LUCK
In which case, all that matters is that the bindings are properly calibrated
but it doesn't actually matter what ski they get put on, as long as you remember which is which,
when you perhaps might want to change the DIN in the future.
Because they probably set your bindings up correctly, but as we knows,
DIN 16 to DIN 18 is the only truly viable settings for
ultimate retention.
Now, if the DIN is the same setting on both bindings,
then it really doesn't matter unless,
there really are left and right handed bindings.
Anything is possible.
Anything.

[ACH]

The short answer is, i'm pretty sure you're gonna die...
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Some day.
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In the meantime, go skiing and don't overthink it.

[pureantigravity]

I bought some boots from a ski shop and I got a free mount.

What do you mean by 'mount'?

[gregL]

Neither the Kingpins nor the Noctas are left-right specific, regardless of what's printed on the ski, but I have seen cases where the tech toe fittings are molded in slightly off-axis on one boot and only align correctly on one ski of the pair.

[oftpiste]

Wear a helmet that doesn't fit that should fix it.

and be sure it's red. buy it from gregl.

[AK47bp]

Just ski switch. Duh!



These recent binding threads have to be trolls right? Or are people really this stupid here?


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[MegaStoke]

Or are people really this stupid here?

Yes

[galibier_numero_un]

Neither the Kingpins nor the Noctas are left-right specific, regardless of what's printed on the ski, but I have seen cases where the tech toe fittings are molded in slightly off-axis on one boot and only align correctly on one ski of the pair.

My Maestrales were an example of this. If I switched left/right, the heel fittings were off center relative to the heel pins.

... Thom