It’s the toe where potential weirdness resides like an imaginary alien gray hovering over your sleeping form, contemplating an abduction for experimental shenanigans. Firstly, don’t fret whatsoever on the heel fittings. If Albert Einstein was a freeride tour skier, he’d call the “TechTrab” fittings genius. (Note, Trab has truly interesting bindings, check them out.) Folks are questioning the performance of La Sportiva’s “hybrid” “tech-Trab” fittings (used in their Spectra 2.0 boot and others), designed to function with both “standard” tech bindings as well as Trab’s Attaco TR2. As with any gossip, do not trust - verify like crazy before you base your credit card I/O or personal safety on what you hear muttered over the digi-waves.
The ski touring rumor factory : You could banshee scream “IT’s ALIVE” and you wouldn’t be far off the mark. BEAR IN MIND, this test was performed WITHOUT THE HEEL LATCHED to measure retention tension of the toe unit presumably related to the shape of the boot toe tech fittings. Much of the variation in my data sets is no doubt due to using poorly regulated muscle power to push the gauge, but my results had obvious consistencies so I didn’t trouble with creating a mechanical force injector. The heel of the boot is held by an anti-friction shim at the same level as if latched in downhill mode. As engineer Cam Shute of G3 says, “Don’t talk about it unless you can measure it.” I used this unit as a “push” gauge, with only my muscle power and a slide platform made from plexiglass to reduce friction. And yes that’s a real “force gauge” measurement instrument. So, boys and girls, we lashed up this rig using the G3 ION as it provides consistent release, and noticeably more clamping pressure than most other bindings, which makes them work well as a test bed.
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