No toe movement after 4 seasons of 75% bc and 25% resort. Only 1 or 2 heel pre-releases in heavy, wet powder. Maybe double-check the toe set-up and heel pressure?

I've never had an issue with icing in the heel. The brake pad issue is well documented. The key is to always (ALWAYS) press the brake pad down with your hand before locking the heel up into tour...

This is my third season on Tectons with Maestrales (old version), skiing maybe 20 lift service days and 20 touring days each year and there is no noticeable play in the toes. Is the entire toe...

If you haven't mounted Vipec or Tecton brakes, it is a little tricky. Here's a good video....Tecton starts about a minute in....

Maybe a stupid question, but did you mount them on the heel piece or just hold them up to the ski? I ask because when I got some 90mm brakes to replace my 100mm, they looked exactly the same as the...

I have Maestrale 1.0 (not RS, orange ones) and have had no issues releasing, although I've only had 2 releases that i can recall: one vertical heel release in a head-over-heels fall, and one lateral...

A helpful video about mounting brakes to Tecton and Vipec (NOTE: Tecton starts around 1:08).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STGdNEDWWxc

I just discovered why my brake wasn't staying up in tour mode--one side of the heel pad brake off, so it doesn't take much force to pop the brake open now. I'm pretty sure it happened because the...

That is a game-changer....I had no idea! I have an old set of Diamir Freerides with brakes I can probably use. Thanks LeeLau! I missed your post, but will look for it.

What size arms and how do you swap them? I'd be interested if they are 90mm.

Yes, I bought the bindings last year before the details on brakes were made clear. I'll probably pick up a pair of 90 brakes.

Mine have performed pretty flawlessly as well, although I had an annoying thing happen while touring over the weekend. While in tour mode and negotiating through thick woods, I realized the brake on...

That's the beauty of how BD is handling the issue--they send the new toes first and ask that you return the old toes after swapping them out with the new ones. Might be worth contacting the...

Just heard from BD warranty and they are sending me new toes as well. Instructed me to return the old toes after I swap the new ones! Awesome!

You might find the the stuff below helpful. It was originally posted by 1000-oaks back around page 20 of this thread:

Some brake arm measurements taken on a Tecton heel, measured from the inside...

I used the Tecton template available at Wildsnow....worked perfectly. Not familiar with the Powderguide template.

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Same here--about 30 days on my set (~half lift service/half bc) and they still look brand new. Some folks should just be on alpine binders....

Kind of looks like there was some sort of impact to that side of the binding--scratches and dings above and below where the break occurred. That's not a moving part, and looks pretty important to the...

What makes you think this will stop the dimpling? And does it still release in ski mode?

Maybe it was just my inflexibility, but I could never master the maneuver of bending over, shifting my weight to one foot, lifting up my boot heel and rotating the heel piece of my 1st gen radicals. ...

Update on the Tectons. I finally got some extensive touring use on my tectons, mounted on Voile V6. We skied 5 days in Quebec's Chic Choc mts, touring 4,000-5,000 vertical most days. Conditions...

I don't know for sure, but the paper template I downloaded from Wildsnow had a both demo and normal screw pattern for the heel. I believe the demo hole pattern had six screws.

Interesting. I emailed customer service at BD asking specifically if the TLT5 was compatible and said they weren't sure and referred me to Fritschi, whom I haven't heard from.

Interestingly, that is not how Fritschi demonstrates shifting into walk mode on their own video. It shows the guy flipping up the heel lever with brakes extended and then stepping onto the brake pad...

FWIW....Lou Dawson deconstructs a tecton/Vipec EVO toe. Other than revealing the complexity of the engineering, not much of use here.
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I've experienced the same difficulty with stepping in to ski mode, but only after skiing them for awhile (e.g. it's a non-issue when the bindings are clear of snow when I first step in, but after...

Yes, good point...the side release will (or should) function in a twisting fall or if you get caught in a slide while skinning.

I guess there's damage that's repairable and damage that isn't. What is the damage if the boot regains it's shape? I don't know squat about plastics, but I guess it could be weakened if it happens...

I could be wrong, but I'm not sure any boots were "damaged" in these instances....I think the plastic can be easily pushed back out to its normal shape. Maybe some toes were damaged! I think we'd...

Skied my Tectons yesterday at the resort in -20 degrees f (some of the coldest temps I've ever skied in) with windchills near -40, and was a bit nervous about the plastic given the recent post on...

I believe the bumper is designed to release the toe in a forward fall when in ski mode, but it appears that in walk mode the release value is too great to release.

Keep those reports coming....mounted mine up last night on Voile V6. Took awhile to figure out how to get the brakes onto the heel piece. Hope to get out in the next few days.

Brilliant! Thanks!

Could some shop rat post the actual Fritschi instructions for setting forward pressure? Please?