Vet inte vad det beror på men den verkar få bra betyg i åkegenskaperna.
Blister testade ju utförligt mot varandra Alpinist , Dynafit TLT Speed, Atk Rider 12 , Atomic Backland Tour.
Sam Shaheen :”First, the downhill performance of each binding is surprisingly similar. If we weren’t skiing them directly back-to-back, I doubt we would be able to discern many performance differences.”
Though all the bindings performed pretty similarly in terms of downhill performance, the Alpinist did have the most distinct performance characteristics out of the group, in that it felt smoother than all the other bindings we tested. There is less feedback transferred to the boot in rough, icy snow. The Alpinist also provides a smoother feel when blasting through large piles of softer, chopped-up snow.
”The Alpinist also edges out the ATK Raider 2.0 / Hagan Core in terms of
power transfer, putting the Alpinist at the top of the group.”
Luke Kopa: When it came to skiing hard and fast, the Alpinist was definitely my favorite binding in our test. I was very surprised by how smooth it felt, especially given its very low weight. We were straight-up mobbing down A-Basin’s slushy, chunky summer groomers, and I was pretty blown away by how little feedback I was getting from the Alpinist.
The Alpinist did feel harsher than an alpine binding (duh), but still, the Alpinist’s downhill performance was impressive. And as for Sam’s note about the energy he felt transferred by the bindings, I can’t say I noticed a big difference, and I’d personally take in a heartbeat the better damping of the Alpinist over the other, harsher bindings.
The really important caveat here is that I spent most of my time on the Alpinist in fairly soft, to very slushy snow, so it wasn’t the harshest snow in the first place. But even in this soft snow, the Alpinist was notably smoother than all the other bindings in the test.
Har inte erfarenhet av andra 300g pinbindningar men monterade den på skida som jag tidigare hade kingpin på och är positivt överraskad av åkkänsla. Bra åkegenskaper , samma skarjärn som kingpin och förmånligt pris fick mig att slå till. Har inte testat riktigt utförligt ännu men gjort ett par stigningar från plus till miinus på hårt underlag och inte haft problem med bromsarna ännu men ser nog att det är en svag punkt helt klart.
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