Heel part for a ski binding

In a heel part for use on a ski binding, the ski binding including a housing being movable in a longitudinal direction relative to a ski-fixed guide and selectively secured in different positions, said housing including a locking piece being supported in said housing and movably urged in a longitudinal direction against a housing-fixed stop by a spring means and is limitedly pivotal about said stop, said locking piece having locking means engageable with a counterlocking means on said ski-fixed guide, said locking piece and said locking means being pivoted in a direction of said counterlocking means by said spring means engaging said locking piece above said stop, and a two-arm opening lever supported on said housing, one lever arm of said opening lever having handles and the other lever arm of said opening lever engaging a rear end of said locking piece, said locking piece being pivoted away from said guide during a pivoting of said opening lever to release said locking piece, the improvement wherein said lever arm of said opening lever is generally U-shaped as viewed from the rear and has a connecting bight bar extending between a first and a second leg thereof, said bight bar engaging the rear end of said locking piece from below, said first and second legs of said opening lever extending from said connecting bight bar upwardly to a bearing point on said housing, and wherein at least one of said first and second legs of said opening lever forms a forwardly extending bent leg section on a side of said housing, said leg section carrying on a free end section thereof an outwardly projecting handle set.