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Haven’t bought a set of Tectons in a while but was pretty easy to find them for 400 euros, and euro is only $1.05. I saw the TR1 at a euro retailer for that price with free shipping to US.
Quick search shows new Tecton 13s for $400-440 if you look around.
Yea, I did look too hard. Olliunid does not have tectons.
I’m back from my month in Switzerland skiing on the TR-1 exclusively in a variety of conditions and terrain, both lift served and touring. Heres the promised follow up.They ski really well. At no time did I feel compromised by being on a tech hybrid binding, whether skiing arc to arc on groomers or fall line powder skiing. They felt much more elastic and solid than my other tech bindings, Dynafit FT12 and ATK Kuluar 11.Getting in and out of the TR-1 is somewhat fiddly, but adapted to quite easily. I found it easiest to depress the toe lever and place one side of my boot toe tech fitting fully into the binding pin on one side and then focus on just lining up the opposite side pin. This gives the best clearance to get the boot toe locked in and greatly improves locating the boot tech fittings correctly. Holding the heel of the boot in place for a moment to engage the cocking mechanism to remain in ski mode also becomes quite intuitive. I can post a video at some point if that functionality ever returns to the forums here. They toured without drama as well. Locking the brakes up is no more involved than other similar systems and they never unintentionally released and dragged. I actually never locked the toes out for the skintrack and was fine on release setting 11 toe and heel. It was really nice on a few occasions to be able to quickly lock down my heel for some sketchy traverses in the skintrack which you can do without releasing the toe pins, a nice option.All in all, I have no real complaints at this point and would buy them again. I think at around $420 they are a good value for this type of hybrid binding. Especially compared to ATK Hy pricing. YMMV.
Who's going to be the first to insert heels to use an ATK heel for mellower touring with TR1 toe and use TR1 heel for more serious endeavors?
You mean try to create your own Knee binding? And hope it doesnt pre release on every turn?
Anyway came here to ask Singlecross whether he got a paper mount template. I doubt any shops here have a jig. Ordered the bindings last night.
I did not get a paper mount template. I mounted to a 2x4 first to check myself and then went freehand on my skis. Measure twice, drill once.