No major issues

By gillywham2084258 Ranked #320 - Telemark Bindings March 25, 2010

Things I've learned to make this binding work good:

1: Get your cartridges where you want them, then tape them together with a thin loop of duct tape. Looks a little trashy, but whatever - you're on teles, you're obviously a dirtbag.

2: After a lot of steep, awkward climbs/traverses, your heel lift wires will get wobbly and come slapping down when you most need them... Unbelievably frustrating... Remove heel pieces, put the lifter wire in a vice or in some burly channel locks and squeeze the open end, bending the wire so the tips overlap eachother (watch your eyes!) Makes them stay in their heel-piece grooves better when raised. Still happening??? Make sure no ice in the heelpiece wire grooves.

3: Occasionally, the locking bar mechanism (not so often the green button) jams with ice and you can't get it to go back to "ski" mode. Gotta remove the ski, but it's easy to chisel ice out with ski pole tip. No biggie.

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