review: dynafit zzeus

[verbier61]

it will be short, 'cuz there are already many of them, and IMVHO the only relevant issue about boots is the shape of your foot.
I spent half a day in a shop to pick the right replacement for my old megarides. Tried zzero, axons, skookum, black diamonds, sorry there were no radiums available. Final decision were zzeus 27, ie half size smaller than megarides (27.5).
The first hour on the mountains with the zzeus was of horrible, horrible pain. Then quite suddenly the pain ceased, and I immediately appreciated how the zzeus work. In simple words, they fit very well my foot (the second day was almost painless...), and drive the skis exactly (or maybe even a bit better than..) my 27.5 flexons with intuition liners, ie WAY better than megarides (including the latest version of my megarides, with intuition liners). Stiffness was OK for the way I ski, I definitely would not be interested in the (supposed to be..) stiffer titans to be released next winter.

weight: zzeus 2030, megarides 1650, flexons 1850

[skew]

I'm having a good experience with mine now that I have them fitted properly (165 lbs, 5'-8", 26.5). At first they were pretty bad. Initially I tried all the other AT boots and Zzeus fit me the best. But once skiing on the Z's could not get my foot flat. I was standing on the outer sides of both feet. So I had them punched out on the inner shell and now I'm fine. Some minor tweeks since then and even better. Overall, I'm happy with them. I wanted a boot to do both alpine and AT and I think this boot will do both well. It is the lightest alpine use boot I have ever had. The boot is becoming more flexy the more I ski. I have to sinch the upper shell pretty hard now to keep my heel in place. I killed a big toe nail the other day because I didn't have the upper cuff tight enough. I have limited fore-aft ankle flexibility so I need a firm flex to keep my ankle from being able to rotate too far forward. I can see that eventually I may have a problem with this if the boots loosen up much more. One other minor gripe: Mine squeek a lot.

[verbier61]

edit: I realized the real zzeus weight was prolly lower, because I left some paper in the boots... maybe between 1950 and 2000 per boot, I'll check it out again