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Show Page 6 Wednesday, February 4, 1976 Sabich Repaired To Win Spider Sabich has a saying: Every silver lining has a cloud. Though he has amassed more silver than any other American ski racer, he has also been submerged by a downpour of injuries. Sabich has been under more x-ray machines than a jet-setter's carry-on luggage. As a highly touted amateur at the U. of Colorado, Sabich suffered disabling injuries three consecutive years. A break in late 1963 kept him off the '64 Olympic team. In '64 another fracture claimed Sabich. and in '65 it was an instant replay. Save for a slalom fifth 'in the 1968 Grenoble Olympics, mishaps clouded his amateur career. Turning pro in 1970-71 glib, his verve teamed with ski 1: Sabich glowed with stardom. . Then the clouds came. In contention with Jean-Claude Killy for the 1973 title, Sabich seemed, for a while, to ap- tragically suffered a fracture pease ullk, tne god or safe of a vertebra when he turn skiing. In his premier campaign, the dashing Sabich won over $21,000 and the tour championship. More money $50,650 and fame highlighted his 1971-72 season as he retained the pro crown and caught the eye of Claudine Longet. Enviably handsome and whimsically .January. bled wildly in the season's finale. In 1973-74 he hyperextended his left knee to cut short his winter. A broken finger handicapped initial racing efforts in early 1974-75; then, he redamaged the fragile knee in his first dual-challenge runs in Spider Sabich, who has won more races than any other pro and is his sports only two-time titlist didn't cash a single prize check in 1975. The trappings of his lifestyle the $250,000 house in Aspen, the cars, motorcycles motor-cycles and airplane, the celebrity status, the relationship with Claudine Longet have hardly supplanted sup-planted Sabich's craving for slalom victories. Repaired by extensive surgery, he is back in '76 to win everything. One more time. By Pete Najar To end this series on bindings, a few tips on mounting are in order, especially since a few of you mount your own bindings. ) Placement of bindings vary from ski manufacturer to ski manufacturer. Usually, mounting a pair of skis on the center of the cord length (the distance between the tip and tail) or . ahead of the center by a centimeter is correct where there are no mounting marks. Most new skis have a mark on the ski for either the toe line or the middle of the sole of the boot. In the case of the latter, measure the length of the sole and find the center. Place the center of the boot sole on the line and mark where the toe of the boot is on the ski. ' The correct binding location is critical to the performance of the ski. If the bindings are mounted to far forward the skis will turn to much and the tails will not hold and slip. If the skis are mounted to far back they will want to run straight. If you're dead set on mounting your own bindings make sure you know what the ski manufacturer recommends for proper bin-dinglocation. bin-dinglocation. Many binding manufacturers have switched to Fearson head (European-Posi-drive) screws for use in binding retention. The advantages of this head are that the screw driver automatically -centers 6ri the screw head and does hot slip off '." A Posi-drive'crew looks j like W regular Phillips"' head except the slots are deeper and more squared off. Don't use a regular Phillips screw driver on a Posi-drive screw. As soon as any force is applied the head will strip. You you will have to buy a No. 3 Posi-drive screw driver ' (Stanley makes one). In mounting bindings the screw hole must be the correct size. A 532 inch (4.0 mm) drill bit should be used for all metal skis. On non-metal skis, a 964 inch (3.5 mm) drill bit should be used. The holes should then be countersunk slightly to prevent ' the ski material from pulling and-preventing and-preventing the binding from seating properly. Some manufacturers recommend that some of the skis be tapped (pre-threadihg screw holes). Tapping allows the screw to go through the different layers of material in the ski without delaminating them. Not all skis need or should be tapped. You will have to find out if your skis need to be tapped. In the days of the old metal skis all screws were epoxied. Now epoxy is almost an exception instead of the rule. Most new skis require the glue to act as a lubricant while inserting the screw'. In most cases, regular white glue is all that is needed. The only skis that have to be epoxied, that I know of, are skis with honeycombed honey-combed cores and Harts. In the shop, to make sure bindings are mounted straight, we use a jig to mark the holes. You at home will have to make sure the bindings go on straight. 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