And here's the friendly PSA that the first three rules of tech bindings are as follows:

1. Don't buy a first year product
2. Always cycle your toe pins while transitioning to ski mode
3. Don't...

When are you kool-aid drinkers going to realize that there is nothing special about these bindings? This thread is 90% complaining about all the flaws with these bindings, but somehow that reality...

Agree to disagree. The bindings are "fine," but I don't understand the hype surrounding them. Their QC is demonstrably not very good, they're shitty communicators, their website is loaded with...

Most of my winter touring is low angle enough that kick turns aren't required on the way up.

FWIW, I have Crest 10's mounted on some fishscale based skis (Voile V6 99mm underfoot, 178cm), and I had no problem breaking trail, or following a set skin track through low angle terrain with the...

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How did your ski get away from you if you were transitioning with your skis on? I hadn't heard about brake deployment issues, although I can see how they would be frustrating. Aside from being a...

Would you order 97mm or 102mm brakes to use on a 99mm underfoot ski? Voile V6 in a 178cm length is the ski in question.

Would you put a Crest 10 or an RT 10 on a fat fishscale setup? Seems like either of them would work well paired with a ski like that for meadow skipping, long rolling tours, forest road cruising,...

Did that happen when you were tightening it by hand? If so, that's disconcerting. Never use an electric driver to install binding screws.

For what ATK's stuff costs, it's disgraceful that you should have to do anything like that to make a set of ski crampons work properly. Ultimately, the technology in these bindings is 30+ years old...

That's good to know, considering every other manufacturers brakes seem to be about 10mm wider than the stated width.

I find these bindings really appealing on multiple levels, but there's still something that seems wrong about putting your life in the hands of something designed and built by an Italian. What has...