DIN Setting?

[PhishingME]

Recently purchased so new boots, and it seems the chart recommends a 7.5 given my age, weight, and skier type (III+). Seems unusually low to me. I'm running Look Pivot 14s for clamps and used to set them at 9. I'm a bit concerned about prereleasing at this point. Am I over analysing this or should I just turn them up.

[FortySixMac]

Biggest missing data point here is BSL. Can you give the actual numbers for all of these things?


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[XXX-er]

you can start at 7.5 and turn them up if you come out or just go with what you always did

[EWG]

Biggest missing data point here is BSL. Can you give the actual numbers for all of these things?


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yeah, and weight, height and age.

The only reasonable way I can get to 7.5 is a 50+ y/o skier that is on the lighter side and has a BSL between 331-330. Did you turn 50 since you last checked your DIN?

[jackstraw]

You're experienced and have been running 9 and releasing when you feel like you should, then run em at 9.

The charts are incredibly conservative as they should be, but I don't know anyone who is an actual skier run what the chart says. Way more dangerous to prerelease imo

[rod9301]

Yeah, at 9

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[rod9301]

And turning 50 is no magic number. Go check your bone density and then decide

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[FortySixMac]

yeah, and weight, height and age.

The only reasonable way I can get to 7.5 is a 50+ y/o skier that is on the lighter side and has a BSL between 331-330. Did you turn 50 since you last checked your DIN?

Most likely 50 or older was my guess


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[FortySixMac]

For what it’s worth, if you’re running Pivs @ 3+, your toe and heel should actually be different settings.


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[PhishingME]

Biggest missing data point here is BSL. Can you give the actual numbers for all of these things?


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313 bsl

[PhishingME]

313 bsl 46years

[J. Barron DeJong]

7.5 doesn’t sound right for that weight and 3+.

You can play around here:

https://www.mechanicsofsport.com/ski...alculator.html

[snowaddict91]

The charts are incredibly conservative as they should be, but I don't know anyone who is an actual skier run what the chart says. Way more dangerous to prerelease imo

If I put my skier type as III+, I chart out at 11. I ski pivots at 10, solly at 11 and rarely prerelease. I don't huck things over 5' very often though.

OP, 7.5 doesn't sound right. I'd keep skiing at 9 if it works for you.

[gregL]

Recently purchased so new boots, and it seems the chart recommends a 7.5 given my age, weight, and skier type (III+). Seems unusually low to me. I'm running Look Pivot 14s for clamps and used to set them at 9. I'm a bit concerned about prereleasing at this point. Am I over analysing this or should I just turn them up.

If you are between 5'11" and 6'4" those numbers and Skier Type III+ puts your DIN at 10. If you are between 5'6" and 5'10" you would chart out to 8.5. Who told you 7.5? (You would need to be in the latter height range with a BSL equal to or over 351mm . . . )

[PhishingME]

The shop was adament I charted out to a 7.5. This chart has me at an 8.5. I'll go with that.

[SoVT Joey]

there is no 7.5 setting in the 313mm range. What’s your height. If you are 5’11-6’4 then you will be a 10. If you are 5’6-5’10 then you are a 8.5. The tech that told you 7.5 is a moron and shouldn’t be certified to adjust din.

[gregL]

The shop was adament I charted out to a 7.5. This chart has me at an 8.5. I'll go with that.

Someone needs to take the test again. PS All the DIN charts are the same . . . if you miss one DIN question on the certification test, you flunk.

[kootenayskier]

7.5 doesn’t sound right for that weight and 3+.

You can play around here:

https://www.mechanicsofsport.com/ski...alculator.html

That calculator seems accurate(8.5) for me, though I’ve never bothered with half settings. I turned my STH2WTR13s down (I was at 11 a decade ago) to 8 this year, partly for the low snow hazards and also cause I’m getting older (55), and aren’t pre releasing.

[SnowMachine]

Chart has always been wrong for me. 6' 160lbs, 303-306 BSL. I typically get a 7-7.5 back from the shop. I can get away with that in a Pivot, but release right out of STH heels. I run mine at 9 and have always released predictably when I thought I should. I view the DIN chart as a reference point and go from there.

[fleaches]

Chart has always been wrong for me. 6' 160lbs, 303-306 BSL. I typically get a 7-7.5 back from the shop. I can get away with that in a Pivot, but release right out of STH heels. I run mine at 9 and have always released predictably when I thought I should. I view the DIN chart as a reference point and go from there.

I also have always had issues on sth heels. I ski a 9 on pivots or marker royals but have to turn the heel up +2 on sth heels to keep from just walking out of them randomly.

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[gregL]

The DIN chart is not a "law," it's simply a fairly conservative baseline used by shops to cover their legal asses. Any hard charging TGR maniac with a screwdriver can set their bindings wherever they please.

[lrn2swim]

You're the same size, age, and roughly the same bsl as me and I run at a 9 or 10 din on all my bindings

[jackstraw]

I also have always had issues on sth heels. I ski a 9 on pivots or marker royals but have to turn the heel up +2 on sth heels to keep from just walking out of them randomly.

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Yeah, it's interesting how solies do that, but I've walked out of all brands. I've hit compressions straight on and "click" you're skiing on one ski. I always run a higher heel din than the toe. Forward pressure settings can play a role in that as well.

[XXX-er]

DIN questions & warranty on a ski with loose screws, did TGR suddenly suck or did it creep up or are these trolls ?

if a ski pre-releases turn it up

if skis has loose screws fix it

isnt there a " not worthy of a thread" thread ?

[axebiker]

Everyone knows that Standard Mag DIN is 16 or higher