Using a “kiss gap” with a rigid binding heel that’s not spring loaded will result in binding destruction that can cause injury or death. Unless you are sure about binding having spring loading or not, check binding literature for specified heel gap, and evaluate spring loading by manually moving the binding forward and back by inserting boot and observing behavior. Examples of such bindings are the Dynafit Radical 2.0, Dynafit Beast, G3 ION. Mainly, bindings using “kiss gap” MUST HAVE HEEL UNIT ON SPRING LOADED TRACK THAT MOVES FORWARD AND BACK. While doing this adjustment, be sure to tap and wriggle the heel unit to make sure it’s not catching on its spring loaded track and giving a false impression of where you have it adjusted.

We use the term “kiss” because the best way to perform this adjustment is to move the heel unit to the point where it lightly touches the boot heel, then back off a tiny amount. We call this the “kiss gap” and define it as setting the binding heel as close to the boot as possible while still being able to see a small sliver of light coming through a tiny gap. They’re only human and can be easily confused as well.Ģ016 autumn addendum: We added a few photos at bottom of post to clarify how the tech binding pins should appear with a “classic” tech binding such as Dynafit Superlight 2.0.Ģ016 addendum: Certain tech bindings are now sold that specify a tiny gap at the heel, as illustrated in photo below. We feel that competent ski shops who deal with this issues daily are in many cases better than efforts at DIY. (Note the binding shown here is all black and may be confused with Radical version 1, current versions of Radical 2 have green and gold components that make it easily identifiable.īefore we get started, fair warning : Due to numerous Dynafit binding models that look similar, have the same names and sometimes were even sold under the same SKU number, the issue of proper adjustment has become incredibly confusing. Note that some Radical 1.x bindings have a spring-loaded heel unit that moves fore/aft, but still requires a 5.5 mm gap! Confusing? You bet. We recommend this method because it insures you are not pushing the heel unit up too tightly against the boot heel. Dynafit Radical 2.0 heel unit, with ‘kiss gap’ adjusted to what we think works best, a very small gap that just allows a sliver of light to come through.

Atomic 310 binding adjustment