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That's a little scary since most of us probably don't carry spare touring brackets most days.

Turns out all you have to do is tighten the screws back down and it holds together just fine. Seems crazy but I was still able to skin miles and thousands of vertical feet after the area around the middle screw had broken.

Thank god I grew up watching Macgyver

I just noticed they moved the hole that the cable connects to, presumably to eliminate the weak spot where most of the force is concentrated when you push or pull the pin.

Mine had the hole up the top and thats what cause the pin to snap, too much leverage.

Yeah, I broke a pin (aluminum, leash hole in the old location) when I was skating a little flat section. Got home and ordered spare brackets and pins... didn't want to get caught out again.

I think the problem with the little tuck-the-lever-under-your-foot design is that when my toe binding straps flops open, it usually tends to yank that lever outwards and over the side of the board, where it probably got mashed. Not a big deal if you don't ever have to skate, but that seems to happen relatively often out in VT. Though it can make strapping in a little annoying when the pin flips out while opening the strap to get your boot in.

The system seems slick, but I would trade the tuck-in leve for a voile pin-lock kind of setup. Except now I am wed to the LT pin system until I want new bindings or drill a hole and bend my own wire...

Guys
Just use the spark ss pins!