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    Quote Originally Posted by 1000-oaks View Post
    Which means I have a new-in-box pair of black Vipecs for sale, with 100/105mm or 115/120mm brakes...
    I might be interested...you thought about price?

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    Quote Originally Posted by adrenalated View Post
    I had a buddy that owns vipecs and also just bought tectons measure, he says the patterns are the same.
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    1000 oaks review will make or break this binding.

    Do they work with shallow heels like the tlt?
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    Quote Originally Posted by N1CK. View Post
    Who did you order from? (just curious, I don't need 'em)
    Moosejaw (Wal-Mart)

    Martin Volken put 40 days on a test pair last season, and has reviews on his web site and YouTube. I'd think he's pretty unbiased, unless Fritschi is quietly supplying him with hookers and blow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1000-oaks View Post
    Moosejaw (Wal-Mart)

    Martin Volken put 40 days on a test pair last season, and has reviews on his web site and YouTube. I'd think he's pretty unbiased, unless Fritschi is quietly supplying him with hookers and blow.
    Good write-up (assuming no hookers & blow).

    Regarding the earlier comment in this thread relating to forward pressure "problems", my guess is that this is poor documentation and end user training and nothing more. I'm not married to this theory, but it seems consistent with Fritschi's documentation track record. They're better at designing stuff than documenting it. We'll see ...

    Edit: Dawson has something to say about the forward pressure adjustment which would seem to back up my theory:
    https://www.wildsnow.com/22228/frits...#comment-82974

    Here's the written commentary: http://www.proguiding.com/tripreport...i-tecton-test/

    And the video: https://youtu.be/xHBiTzR-XKI

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    Quote Originally Posted by galibier_numero_un View Post
    Good write-up (assuming no hookers & blow).

    Here's the written commentary: http://www.proguiding.com/tripreport...i-tecton-test/

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    40 days on em and all he got was 2 lines on the downhill performance that are just tech specs. Is the video any better?

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    Quote Originally Posted by smooth operator View Post
    40 days on em and all he got was 2 lines on the downhill performance that are just tech specs. Is the video any better?
    I thought it answered the question well enough, but scroll to 8:30 in the video for performance comments.

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    Any idea if it pre releases with weird snow or hard hits?

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    Quote Originally Posted by rod9301 View Post
    Any idea if it pre releases with weird snow or hard hits?

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    I can't see where it would be different (laterally) than the Vipec. Vertically ... dunno.

    My primary concern relates to how the "nubs" that engage with the tech heel fitting will hold up. Granted, the binding's been in development for 5 years, but I'd still like to know.

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    My pair showed up a couple weeks ago. Only question is which ski are they going on...Salomon QST 106 or Helio 105?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Solesides View Post
    My pair showed up a couple weeks ago. Only question is which ski are they going on...Salomon QST 106 or Helio 105?
    I'm going to stick them on a Blizzard ZeroG 108 as the holes and mounting pattern lines up with previously mounted Vipec Blacks

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    Two questions for the collective:

    1. First year and all that. Anyone have any +\- experience with BD about the prior iterations of vipecs? My thought is maybe BD is better about ensuring there are quick fixes if they really want these to compete.

    Sidebar: I think Salewa / Dynafit went from amazing customer service to absolute shite.

    2. I really want a thread that compares these to kingpins...


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    Hmm, kinda thinking about being a Guinea Pig.

    As a fatty, I have been waiting for a binding like this for a few years. Hopefully it will hold me in more so than a Beast 14.


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    Best new Tecton feature is ALL THREE accent color inserts are now included. /s

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    I had a Fritsch Freeride plastic heel piece explode on me at the top of a steep line 7 miles deep and 6k from the car. It was about 4/5 years old at the time, around 08/09 I think. That was the last plastic binding I've owned. The Verticals I bought after that are still going strong....

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    you ^^ realize the body of a Vertical heel piece is plastic

    and them 4 screws holding the top plates/pins all togetehr are basically just wood screws going into the plastic?

    I supose you could switch to the Plum cuz they look like aluminium so a lot of people think they are metal but they are plastic too albeit nicely machined Plastic

    Verticals were/are pretty bullet proof but the radicals blow up all the time from the touring up not the skiing down

    suggest you take 2 of the longest Voile straps with you cuz daisy chained togetehr ... they will strap your heel down to the ski
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    Yeah I learned that trick about halfway out of that ordeal. And yes verts have plastic but you can always lock the toe and ski out w/o the heel.

    So by that argument I guess the tecton could always do the same if the heel exploded, right?

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    yeah I had a rad heel explode so we used a couple of straps to get down the steeper stuff but it was pretty much a bad tele binding with just the toe locked on lower angle

    I duno about the tecton, but given all the updates and probs that generally occur with AT bindings in their 1st year I would wait till it wasn't bleeding edge technology

    i am trying to think of a binding that does not use plastic but it escapes me
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    Weight reduction challenges the limits of all materials out there. Unless the heel piece can weight a kilo, metal will snap, crack, bend.

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    It's the old adage of "I can do light, strong & cheap, which two do you want?"

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    did the kingpins go through any changes from when they were first introduced to where they are now?

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    yeah the pins were falling out of the toes
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    Fritschi Tecton

    Haha.




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    Quote Originally Posted by XXX-er View Post
    yeah the pins were falling out of the toes
    And that Kingpin, pin-loosening failure was metal on metal which took two admittedly quick iterations to resolve.

    Metal doesn't necessarily mean "good" and plastic doesn't necessarily mean "bad".

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    Quote Originally Posted by galibier_numero_un View Post
    Metal doesn't necessarily mean "good" and plastic doesn't necessarily mean "bad".
    ^^^This

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