On the Fritschi Tecton & Vipec Evo

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🗓️ 23 December 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Today we are talking about two new alpine-touring bindings from Fritschi, the Tecton 12, and the Vipec Evo 12. We’ve just put up full reviews of both the Tecton 12 and the Vipec Evo 12, and we wanted to go deeper with Blister reviewers Brian Lindahl and Cy Whitling about their experience with these new products, and how they would rank them against some of the the other most popular alpine touring bindings on the market.

TOPICS & TIMES:

Brian's extremely memorable tour on the Tecton (1:35)
How Brian first got interested in the Fritschi Vipec very early on (3:00)
A/B-ing the Tecton with the Marker Kingpin (8:15)
A/B-ing the Tecton with an alpine binding (17:40)
On the Fritschi Vipec Evo 12 (22:39)
Updates to the Vipec Evo (24:43)
Fritschi Vipec Evo vs. Dynafit Radical 2.0, G3 ION, and Marker Kingpin (27:38)

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of Gear 30. I'm Jonathan Nilsworth, the founder of
0:09.9	Blister, and as always, you can check us out online at blisterreview.com. Today we are talking about
0:16.5	two new bindings from Fritchie that are currently on the market, the Tecton 12 and the
0:21.5	Vipec Evo12.
0:23.5	We've just put up full reviews of both of those products on Blister, but we wanted to talk
0:27.9	a bit more with Blister reviewers Brian Lindahl and Cy Whitling about their experience with
0:33.2	these new products and how they would locate them against some of the other most popular
0:37.7	alpine touring bindings on the market.
0:41.2	This episode of Gear 30 is presented by Marble Brewery.
0:45.3	Last night, our strikingly handsome audio engineer, Justin Bob, was coming over to do some
0:49.9	work on our podcast studio, so I went and picked up his favorite marble beer, the Marble
0:55.2	Red Ale. It's another good one from Marble, and yes, I am enjoying one of them right now.
1:00.7	But I realize now that I should have gotten Jabob on the podcast last night to have him tell
1:05.7	you why Marble Red is his personal favorite, so we're going to have to do that very soon.
1:11.6	But till we do, you can go learn more about Marblered at Marblebrewery.com.
1:17.2	And if you somehow missed my conversation at the end of our last Gear 30 podcast with Marble's
1:22.0	master brewer Joshua Trujillo, you should definitely go check out that when you're done with
1:27.2	this episode.
1:28.6	And now, let's talk about the new AT bindings from Fritchie, the Tecton 12, and the Vipec
1:34.2	Evo 12.
1:36.5	Brian Lindahl, how are you today?
1:39.6	Great.
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