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So Sunday, my great day was cut short by my brake... braking. I was fucking pissed, a small piece of the plastic cover just popped off, which then proceeded to ruin the entire thing. I'm fed up with brakes. I'm pissed at how a new wide brake will cost $40, while most shops will fit you regulars for free. Fat skis are commonly used out there, and wide brakes shouldnt be 'specialty items', and def shouldn't cost that much.
I'm also really just frustrated with all of the binding companies. I've heard endless stories of people who run through set upon set of brakes each season, and also heard horror stories of a failed brake ripping out a heelpiece, destroying the ski, and even worse, causing season-ending injuries. Landing and riding switch is large part of what we do, and what twin tips were designed to do. Its about time a company stepped it up and made a brake system that works accordingly. So this is a shoutout and a call to action - if you've ever had your brake end your day (or worse), post here.
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I broke my entire ski...
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my break broke so i had to get whole new bindings ran a crack down the whole heel pice when i 5;d and cased my moutains big jump
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i broke my brakes like 5 times this year and had to get a new back binding, one of my brakes is still broken but i dont worry about it, it still works!
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yea my PEs and my TMs both look like that.
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i have so many brake problems. my brakes on my AR5s don't come down when my binding releases, they're stuck to the side of the ski. on my old 1260s, i did a 180 and the brake jammed into the ground and ripped my heelpiece off
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I broke 3 or 4 brakes this season, but I have a stash of tyrolia breaks at my home, regular, wide and super wide, so its not a broblem, but now I have salomons and signs of bending are begining to appear
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Im still working on a new brake for an engineering class. surprisingly marker is the company I have contacts with now, though so I might need a new toe piece design for them soon too. Im actually working on putting together a presentation for some lady about this so if anyone has some good photos and videos of brakes fucking up please send them to me. thanks.
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jea, my left ski has been giving me shit all year. it fell off and the brake stayed up and i swear it was lucky it didt hit a rock and shatter. nbut it did snap a bamboo pole strait in half.
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i broke both my brakes in a shifty 180 off a cliff i was pissed
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ive broken it 5 times on 3 skis
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A few months ago, i broke one of the brake legs off of my p 10s. This past weekend, i broke the other three off.
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fer sure dude it sucks i bent liek the metal so they hitch up when i try to take em off and when i fall which makes some close calls but one of my friends just broke his off then the next day hit his lil bro when the kid tried to stop it after he fell it sucks and tehy need to either be made better or cheaper
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I've broken 4 rossi breaks
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i bent mine alot. but i turned my din up just a little bit. that way when you land switch and you lean forward you heel wont lift up as much, and when your heel lifts up it releases all the perssure you are putting on the brake to keep it from coming out, and since you heel is down and the brake doesnt come out, it has nothing to catch on. therefor causing it NOT to bend/break.
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i break them alot...doesnt really ruin a day though.
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I have a collection. Salomon S912's suck.
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word to that, however i broke my rossi fks brake, ruined my day
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thats strange... i have skied on sollies for somewheres around 150 days over the last few seasons in all conditions... never broken one. Maybe i'm just lucky
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i landed switch a little flat off of a hip and my brake went down on my rossi axial 120's...my whole heelpiece exploded and it ripped the binding to shreds. now i use deadbolts and i havent had a brake problem yet.mmm deadbolts...so sexy
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Yeah, people should start saying what kinds of bindings they've had the brakes do this on. I'm interested to see if Deadbolts and the Line Transfers do this as well.
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my rossi axial 120s broke the entire heelpiece because of brake exploding.ive ridden hard switch over 60 fts all season on my deadbolts and not a thing has happened or had a porblem wit breaks
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Yea, I've broken one on each ski this year and quite a few before this year.
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ive snapped 3 off of my rossi scratches landing switch
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sweet moses, yes! mine have broken 4 times this season and ive spent about 60 bucks total in getting new ones. im so fed up. why cant they make a brake system that will work for ejecting switch. would it really be that difficult to make them versitile enough to work both ways? are there any out there now that wont break?
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ive broken so many ive lost count... multiple per season...
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the deadbolt (or rather any VIST) breaks are pretty legit I think, but I have seen multiple pairs of them explode in so many other ways that don't seem reasonable. I'm not a believer.
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broke the brake of p12 jibs last year casing on a 5 but that was a easy fix (sorta it could be done on hill with no tools but still a pain in the ass) and i tried to revert to swithch in so heavey corn and that ripped the brakes off my px12 (next came the entire heel) got em remounted and there good to go now
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alkyy my friend has gone through AT LEAST 10 sets of solly brakes his scratches now have 1 brake that wont go down and one with no brake arms or little press down part... he has also broken 1-2 sets oh solly heel peices as well
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yea my p12 jib bake broke too at camp, it blowed cuz i lost my ski after hitting the big table last summer and my ski slid into this giant pool of water at the bottom
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most of the times I have broken my brakes is from landing switch. My thought is that it is because my heal piece give alittle under the pressure allowing the break to come down.
Here's a thought for the ski companies. Put the break on the toe piece. It sounds odd, very odd. But there is no pressure that can be released in the toe it is either on or off no mid ground for breaks to get ripped off.
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My brakes are legally retarded. for some reason they were like, dragging in the snow and i didnt realize it, then i did a 9, and when i came down my left ski just stopped and i flipped on my back. i grabbed my brake, bent it like up and to the side out of rage, and its been that way ever since. haha. the were mojo 11s by the way.
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Ive a brake on every pair of salomon bindings i have owned and thats like 4 sets of bindings! Though i will say, I have noticed salomon bindings slowly getting better over the years and the brakes lasting a bit longer.
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i have def broken some brakes, prolly around 10-15 pair.
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3 brakes in one day...wide brakes are a bitch
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wide breaks suck, 2 pairs this year
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540 mute, overshoot = Plastic cover shattered, metal plate on the brake bent 90 degrees.
But I got new ones today.
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yup broken Tyrolia Mojo brakes....from landing switch and ejecting on one ski...the brake gets torqued backwards and gets fucked up...the worst part is that the brake is mounted into the ski...
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Deadbolts are pretty much all metal, and that leads me to believe that they're pretty resistant to these problems. However, that also means if they fail, its catastrophic.
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What about a brake system that ejects straight down instead of putting the prongs at an angle. The angle makes sense for skis that eject going forwards, but if its backwards when it hits the snow, the angle just causes it to auger in and snap. If the brake prongs ejected straight down somehow...
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two in one day...it sucked
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Well dude, leashes don't break...haha. I actually rocked a leash this whole season cause I broke my brake. It worked really well. My "leash" was actually just a little piece of rope looped around the bail and then one of my buckles. I didn't usually put it on unless I was riding park, so that died down the pain in the assness. And when I hiked I just didn't use it.
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i broke a wide brake but it wasnt that big of a deal i jsut ordered a new one
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Oh and I and ejected that ski a couple times, and it never really hits you... I mean if you're already falling then what the hey, right?
BUT THIS ONE TIME i was skiing powder at JAY and it was the valentines day storm and i was like all stuck and i had to pop out my ski, and because i had the leash it didn't get lost under the snow forever...so...yeah leashes. well yeah leash. one brake and one leash is the way to go.
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I broke my brake on my Look's at Snowbird, and the guy at the shop gave me a new one and repaired it for $5. I was lucky, but it ruined my day of skiing...
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just cause your brakes break on you doesnt mean you should stop shreddin!
sometimes you just gotta ghostride the whip!
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