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Fks or marker griffons?

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S.P
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which in your opinion is all around a better binding?
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Jun 30 2011 1:29AM
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ILLinoisance
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FKS, hands down. Marker bindings durability is absolute shit.
Jun 30 2011 2:08AM
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alexg1687
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I don't know why a lot of people here say that marker griffons are rubbish. I have them on my armadas and my k2s and they've been great. I also know a lot of people who use them and I've never heard of anything breaking.

I like the FKS a lot. I'd even consider them for my next skis. The only problem I can see is that if you change your boot size slightly you wont be able to adjust the heel piece back and forward. You need a remount because the heel piece is screwed in at a fixed location.
Jun 30 2011 2:19AM
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DERS.
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as an owner of both fks's and jesters i would have to say it depends on your intended use for the binding. i have fks on my park skis and the jesters on my pow skis. ill warn you that putting fks's on after a fall especially when on a steep slope or deep in pow is a BITCH (surprise storm.. i wasnt properly equipped). but if its for a park ski then there is no better binding out there than the fks.
Jun 30 2011 2:42AM
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DERS.
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not exactly true. there is a little room for adjustment on the fks's (screws on the end of the rod connecting the heel piece to the pivoting disk) but it is really hard to adjust it perfectly as each side has to be done evenly. but either way if you dont know what you are doing... take it to a shop.
Jun 30 2011 2:46AM
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BlakeG
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I have demo griffons which are amazing cuz I can move them up give centimeters and back 5.... Also I can move them easily when my boots sizes get bigger
Jun 30 2011 3:06AM
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rozboon
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Hrm.

Not really a fair comparison, Jester vs FKS is better.

FKS for park, Jester for pow. As above - FKS can be a bitch to get back in in deep snow, especially if you've had a monster bail and the heelpiece is all backwards and shit.
Jun 30 2011 6:01AM
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I_Am_Mod
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Not really related but i just had a dream where i was skiing and i knuckled a big jump and when i got up my jesters toepieces were shattered ! :(

this morning when i woke up, i had a serious hate towards marker jesters, thinking they were crappy bindings, until i got outta bed and saw that my skis were fine :)
Jun 30 2011 6:07AM
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J-Sway
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Yup the grey plastic on my grifons last year snapped in half. But I came up short on a jump and under rotated so i cant say they failed because I put a huge amount of tention on them. And marker replaced them so I cant complain. I would go with the fks' though.
Jul 1 2011 1:57AM
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.nasty
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don't rule out the salomon STH driver series...
Jul 1 2011 3:14AM
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A.Eberhard
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I own griffons and for user who trashed on them, I personally never had one problem. They have hit trees, urban rails and have 150+ days of use and they are still going strong.
That being said the FKS's are sick bindings and I have heard a lot of good reviews, but I don't have first hand experience.

If you have the money go with the FKS's, but if you're stuck on cash the griffons are not a bad binding at all.
Jul 1 2011 10:21AM
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BuSkiz
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this. my sth 16 drivers are the shiznit
Jul 1 2011 10:24AM
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huge-go
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I don't know why people find fks so hard to put on in pow. Are they harder than most other bindings? Yeah. But by no means are they a bitch. Within a week of using them, you should be able to figure out how to do it without too much trouble.
Jul 1 2011 4:13PM
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Shredability
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I own FKS, there rad
Jul 1 2011 6:01PM
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Dustin.
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No they aren't. It's actually really easy since you can just grab the dildo and use it to pull the ski onto your boot until the binding engages.

FKS vs. Griffons can't be what you meant because that's like comparing a Ford Focus to a Ferrari. FKS vs. Jesters is debatable but several pairs of Jesters have met their match and you'd be hard pressed to find some pictures of destroyed FKS 155's. As said above, the metal Salomon STH stuff is awesome too.
Jul 1 2011 6:14PM
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.nasty
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this. I hardly ever clicked into FKS I had like a normal binding. I just grabbed it and wiggled it on and made sure it was in the right position.
Jul 2 2011 12:51AM
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Horizon
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It's really metal vs plastic.  FKS has so much metal vs griffons and even jesters.  To me, durability is better then ease of getting into in pow.  I'd rather it take me more time to get into my binding while I'm motionless then failure of plastic while in motion.
Jul 3 2011 6:14AM
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cobra_commander
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You guys bitching about putting your bindings on in deep snow a) need to learn how to put skis on in terrain and snow, and b) don't care about the performance of your bindings enough.

Jesters flat out suck.
s916/STH16 need to be cranked down due to the inconsistent release in the heel.
Jul 3 2011 11:26AM
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Jennings
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QUESTION

If the brake breaks, do you have to take the whole binding off to replace it? or is it pretty simple like the jesters and other bindings?
Jul 3 2011 1:42PM
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cobra_commander
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take it off, or just not give a fuck.
Jul 3 2011 1:51PM
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jca
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this seriously. i've only been using fks 185 and 155 on my pow skis for the past 5 or so years. i dont get why people thing they're hard to put on, just brush the snow off like you would with any other binding and you're good to go.
Jul 4 2011 12:15AM
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