Fischer Flowflex binding question

[deadheadskier]

Anyone else running these?

I have a set on a pair of Motive84s that I picked up this summer. Today was my first day out on them. The Flowflex have a dial that adjusts the flex of the ski. I started out the day on the middle setting, but after a couple of runs I adjusted it to stiff realizing how slick the conditions were. Then later in the day we found somewhat of a bump run and when I went to switch the dial to soft, the dial on one of the skis was stuck from I assume snow in the mechanism. Once I got home and the snow was melted from the ski, it worked fine again.

Anyone have a similar experience when using their Flowflexes? If so, what was your remedy for making the adjustment on hill?

I hope this was just an isolated incident because the technology is pretty sweet. It would be a shame to not be able to take advantage of it throughout the day as conditions/terrain varies.

 

[skidmarks]

That's a great question! Not that I have the answer but I can imagine the dial freezing up under certain conditions. My guess is you find the spot you like and leave it there.

 

[Nick]

[MENTION=1253]deadheadskier[/MENTION] (trying out tagging...) Did you notice a difference with it?

My old Atomic Beta Ride 9.22's had a lever where I could slide it out and then move the entire binding up and down the ski by a couple CM's to adjust for the type of skiing you were doing. They were Atomic Xentrix 310 bindings...

They didn't say "race" but looked kinda like this:

See the markers for "Extreme"... "Allround" ... "Speed"

I'm pretty sure I ended up leaving them on All Around.

 

[marcski]

They didn't say "race" but looked kinda like this:

If they didn't say "Race", they were worthless crap. :lol::lol::uzi::uzi::uzi:

 

[Madroch]

Anyone else running these?

I have a set on a pair of Motive84s that I picked up this summer. Today was my first day out on them. The Flowflex have a dial that adjusts the flex of the ski. I started out the day on the middle setting, but after a couple of runs I adjusted it to stiff realizing how slick the conditions were. Then later in the day we found somewhat of a bump run and when I went to switch the dial to soft, the dial on one of the skis was stuck from I assume snow in the mechanism. Once I got home and the snow was melted from the ski, it worked fine again.

Anyone have a similar experience when using their Flowflexes? If so, what was your remedy for making the adjustment on hill?

I hope this was just an isolated incident because the technology is pretty sweet. It would be a shame to not be able to take advantage of it throughout the day as conditions/terrain varies.

Will be soon... just mounted them on my motive 84's yesterday... man talk about some torque needed... to mount the bindings on the plate I almost lost an arm. Anyway, will let you know.

More importantly... how did you like the motives?

 

[deadheadskier]

Only three hours on some fairly flat terrain, but I think I'll be VERY happy with them. Comfortable in all turn shapes, good edge bite, stable at speed. Even on the stiffest setting I thought they did okay in the one small bump line we encountered. That was when I was trying to switch them to the softest setting and had the problem.

 

[wa-loaf]

Only three hours on some fairly flat terrain, but I think I'll be VERY happy with them. Comfortable in all turn shapes, good edge bite, stable at speed. Even on the stiffest setting I thought they did okay in the one small bump line we encountered. That was when I was trying to switch them to the softest setting and had the problem.

Did you take them off before trying to switch?

 

[deadheadskier]

Did you take them off before trying to switch?

:lol:

yes.

I don't believe it is possible to switch them while clicked in. I switched them once from the medium setting to the stiff setting after the first run. It was when I went to switch them to the soft setting a couple hours later that I had the problem with one of them.

 

[bigbog]

DHS,
They bark much when adding skidding at med speeds or do they want an edge-set check more...to kill a little speed?

 

[deadheadskier]

I'll have to get back to you on that when I have a larger sample size.

 

[bigbog]

Hope we get a demo day with snow up here...to try em'.