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Friday, 07 March, 2008
Dynafit Zzeus boots and Manaslu Skis
Last year’s splash with the introduction the Zzero ski touring boot range (amongst other goodies) would be a hard act to follow so Dynafit has opted for broadening and deepening its line-up by moving into Freeride territory with the Zzeus boot and Mansulu skis.
Dynafit Manaslu
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Thursday, 06 December, 2007
Ultimate touring ski from Dynastar?
New babies from Dynastar to be unveiled at the January ISPO in Munich. A 2600 gram wide ski with good grip for the steeps. Ski legend Pierre Tardivel and friends have helped with the development. The ski is creating quite a buzz in the French ski touring world.
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Thursday, 15 November, 2007
Zag is back
It looked like game over last Autumn for the Bourg St Maurice ski company with their original designs. The company had been doing well with 2000 pairs of skis sold per annum however they faced a funding gap after the withdrawal of one of their shareholders. They maybe did well to miss the miserable 2006-7 winter. The company was refinanced by their Pyrenean rider Franck Bernes-Heuga but keeps their shaper Stéphane ’ZAG’ Radiguet on the team. We caught up with Steph at the Mondial.
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Sunday, 11 November, 2007
Dynafit Se7en Summit Ski and Vertical ST binding
A review of the Dynafit Se7en Summits Touring Ski. We spent a weekend on this ski, equipped with the Dynafit Vertical ST binding (and not another manufacturer as we say in the video!). The glacier up at les Deux Alpes provided some testing conditions of hard snow and ice and we really liked the ski.
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Saturday, 10 November, 2007
A weekend with the Dynafit Zzero 4
Last week we spent a couple of days on the new Dynafit Zzero 4 C-MF boot, no touring, just skiing and walking and overall we came away with a favourable impression of this stiff ski touring boot.
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Friday, 19 October, 2007
Review of inexpensive ski touring gear
I got a call from Ian, PisteHors.com’s Pyrenean correspondent, last week. He wanted to know what were good ski touring pants for next season. Decathlon Bionnassay, 49.90 € in my local store. Stunned silence at the other end of the line. Ian had expected me to suggest some technical Goretex VCR pants retailing for five times the price. Okay, I continued, you could go for the Bionnassay 700 which has a breathable but waterproof membrane. What? The pants I suggested weren’t even waterproof? Had I gone completely barking mad?
Primark Fleece & Decathlon’s Bionnassay salopettes and ruck-sack
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Wednesday, 28 March, 2007
Reboot for Dynafit
Dynafit has gone back to the drawing board with its new selection of ski touring boots available for the start of the 2007/8 season. Reflecting a redesign from the sole up the range has been aptly called Zzero. While Scarpa and Garmont are focussing on the sidecountry market with heavy touring boots that owe more to alpine designs Dynafit is keeping the accent on light weight.
Dynafit 2008 boot range
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Thursday, 15 March, 2007
Silvretta FR800/Pure Freeride First Look
Last weekend we took a pair of Silvretta Freeride 800 skis for a test drive. These skis were equipped with a pair of Pure Freeride bindings. The FR800 is the top of Silvretta’s 2007/8 line-up. It is a mid-fat freerando ski built using a wood core and honeycomb construction. The graphics are very pleasant, a pair of burgundy stripes with a translucent top sheet. The FR800 has identical dimensions to the Atomic Sweet Daddy, 118-80-106mm. This gives plenty of float underfoot for powder. The ski remains light - in 175cm a pair weighs around 2800 grammes, 200 grammes less than the equivalent Sweet Daddy but the FR800 gains 3cm in length.
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Sunday, 04 March, 2007
Low-tech returns to its roots
If Dynafit makes the catwalk strutting supermodels of the ski binding world the new Low Tech Race must be Kate Moss. It is positively skeletal in looks, consisting of nothing more than a curved spring and post for the heel. This brings the standard binding weight down from 335 grams for the TLT Speed (without mounting screws) to just 160 grams. Extreme skier and journalist Volodia Shahshahani suggests that Dynafit had been feeling the heat from “artisanal” products. It is possible to buy similar heel units built by ski mountaineering fans in their own workshops.
Dynafit low tech race
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Saturday, 10 February, 2007
New boots and liners from Scarpa
The biggest news from Italian ski and alpine boot manufacturer Scarpa is the dual use Terminator X. Named after Norman “Terminator X” Rogers, Rap DJ, former member and producer of Public Enemy the X is designed for the NTN (New Telemark Norm) system. This dispenses with the classic Telemark duckbill front lip. Instead, the NTN binding interfaces with a rounded front sole and a lip under the arch of the boot. This gives much greater rigidity and power transfer for the widest telemark skis.
Scarpa Terminator X
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