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cracked bales on Rotefella Super Tele 3 pins
just had to alter a tour quite a bit when my wife's Rotefella Super
Telemark 3 pin bindings failed within a few days of each other. They were being used on fairly normal nordic tourers (Morotto Jokylkyrkkjas) with Crispi CX-T light plastic boots, touring waymarked routes with nothing aggressive going on (kick 'n' stick over rolling country with turns usually wedges on fairly easy slopes). Weather wasn't anything out of the ordinary, with temperatures around freezing when they went. In each case the bale cracked and broke between the hinge and the centre notch-post, and we managed to ski on (carefully!) for several km with just one side and the notch fastening holding things together before we could replace the bindings. The bindings are 4 years old, this was their third big tour (plus quite a few days there and here). I use the same model on similar skis and with fairly similar boots (original brown T3s) and haven't had any trouble. We suspect it was just a Late Friday Afternoon pair and will be sending them back to Rotefella to see what they think, but I wondered if anyone else had had a similar problem? Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ |
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cracked bales on Rotefella Super Tele 3 pins
In message , Peter Clinch
writes just had to alter a tour quite a bit when my wife's Rotefella Super Telemark 3 pin bindings failed within a few days of each other. They were being used on fairly normal nordic tourers (Morotto Jokylkyrkkjas) with Crispi CX-T light plastic boots, touring waymarked routes with nothing aggressive going on (kick 'n' stick over rolling country with turns usually wedges on fairly easy slopes). Weather wasn't anything out of the ordinary, with temperatures around freezing when they went. In each case the bale cracked and broke between the hinge and the centre notch-post, and we managed to ski on (carefully!) for several km with just one side and the notch fastening holding things together before we could replace the bindings. The bindings are 4 years old, this was their third big tour (plus quite a few days there and here). I use the same model on similar skis and with fairly similar boots (original brown T3s) and haven't had any trouble. We suspect it was just a Late Friday Afternoon pair and will be sending them back to Rotefella to see what they think, but I wondered if anyone else had had a similar problem? Pete. Sounds like a dud pair. I was out a few days ago on a pair of "rock " skis with those bindings dating from 1987! The bindings are still fine. They must have had many months of use. -- Chris Townsend http://www.auchnarrow.demon.co.uk |
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cracked bales on Rotefella Super Tele 3 pins
Chris Townsend wrote:
Sounds like a dud pair. I was out a few days ago on a pair of "rock " skis with those bindings dating from 1987! The bindings are still fine. They must have had many months of use. Thanks for the data point Chris, everyone who looked at them was quite surprised... First up, a group of engineers who arrived at Rauhellern after we'd limped in there (and who did an artful bodge with an old bucket handle to help hold it together so we could get back to Tuva), and then the folk at Tuva who replaced it. We'd assumed that would be that, but the second went the next day so we diverted to Haugestol where they had a new pair sent up from Geilo for us. Subsequent surprised inspectors noted a hairline the side that hadn't given way on the second one, so I suspect we were lucky we got as far as Haugestol with it! It did mean our plan of crossing Hardangervidda was a bit of a partial success, but we managed to salvage something in Skarvheimen on the replacement set and still had a good tour. Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ |
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cracked bales on Rotefella Super Tele 3 pins
Chris Townsend writes:
In message , Peter Clinch writes just had to alter a tour quite a bit when my wife's Rotefella Super Telemark 3 pin bindings failed within a few days of each other. They were being used on fairly normal nordic tourers (Morotto Jokylkyrkkjas) with Crispi CX-T light plastic boots, touring waymarked routes with nothing aggressive going on (kick 'n' stick over rolling country with turns usually wedges on fairly easy slopes). Weather wasn't anything out of the ordinary, with temperatures around freezing when they went. In each case the bale cracked and broke between the hinge and the centre notch-post, and we managed to ski on (carefully!) for several km with just one side and the notch fastening holding things together before we could replace the bindings. The bindings are 4 years old, this was their third big tour (plus quite a few days there and here). I use the same model on similar skis and with fairly similar boots (original brown T3s) and haven't had any trouble. We suspect it was just a Late Friday Afternoon pair and will be sending them back to Rotefella to see what they think, but I wondered if anyone else had had a similar problem? Pete. Sounds like a dud pair. I was out a few days ago on a pair of "rock " skis with those bindings dating from 1987! The bindings are still fine. They must have had many months of use. Contacted Rottefella with a brief report and some pictures, no reply as yet. Does anybody have any experience with their customer services, and/or a more direct contact email address than the general one on the website? Next step will be to run it through the shop where I bought the skis and bindings, though they are a 2 hours drive away so I hope we can do this by phone and email! Roos |
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