Hi all,
Patrice, Nils and Jacques, you said some time ago that you were trying the TD2. I looked in the archives but didn t find a really exhaustive review. What about the results of your tests ? How do the behave when you compare it to TD1 or PHIOKKA bindings ?
Comments from other testers are of course welcome ....
Dollar is low and I might ask a friend of mine who s going to the USA to get the TD2 for me ...
TD2 comments
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Re: TD2 comments
Hi akira!
We have tried the new TD2! We can't summarize our impressions by a simple word like "excellent". Extremecarving has special requirements... Jacques is going to write a detailed review!
Personally I continue to use HEAD bindings though they are not as good as the TD2, simply because they are more compact (the levelers don't touch the snow during the laid turns)...
But we are working on a solution for the TD2. And we will try the Intec model with Deeluxe boots.
We got finally PHIOKKA bindings and are going to test them from this week-end!
Patrice Fivat
We have tried the new TD2! We can't summarize our impressions by a simple word like "excellent". Extremecarving has special requirements... Jacques is going to write a detailed review!
Personally I continue to use HEAD bindings though they are not as good as the TD2, simply because they are more compact (the levelers don't touch the snow during the laid turns)...
But we are working on a solution for the TD2. And we will try the Intec model with Deeluxe boots.We got finally PHIOKKA bindings and are going to test them from this week-end!
Patrice Fivat
I meant "lever", the part you use to close your binding.Cool ... Just a precision ... which part is a leveler ? (Number of the parts on TD2 parts on bomberline).
In any shop that sells HEAD equipment, they can order for you "Stealth DNA" bindings... The model is shown in the professional catalogue.Regarding the HEAD, is it true that they are provided in two sizes (small and large). That would be a very positive point cause I have small feet ... Do you know any supplier in Europe.
Patrice Fivat
Hi, Akira
I tried the TD2 stepins for three days this last weekend in Kirchberg. Excellent snow and sunny freezing weather on Friday and Saturday. Tried a couple of ECcarves for the first time. Need some practicing but satisfied till so far. I was too late at the piste so there was some uneveness already. So did carve the whole day, but almost no EC because of this. Sunday it snowed all day and the board with these bindings are also a good combination in a fresh dump of snow.
I tried them with the yellow elastomer rings. They are great with the SWOARD 168 Hard, this system combined with the ATC works comfortable for me. You think that you have a rigid binding but it doesn't feel like this way. I didn't touch the snow with these bindings so far, didn't touch the snow either in the few ECcarves I made. I use them with the boots modified RAB Raichle AF 700, size 25,5. You do need only one Hex Key/Tool to fix another setting. Very easy and in short time to set these bindings which part I like. I ride the bindings all flat. It's easy to change degrees on piste. I ride them about 54/49. The stepins are working great, just stepin like a skier and you are away when others are sitting on their cold butt or breaking their back fixing their bindings. I also have the Catek Olympic stepins, these bindings reacts more direct and are more rigid than the TD2 stepin with the yellow ring. I don't know yet which I like more. Both bindings are a piece of art as I think the TD2's seems to be more durable and easier to set in degrees where Cateks have more variety in settings in one product. You need to buy extras with the TD2's when you want to vary in lift and cant. But in EC you don't use the lift and cant, so why make it difficult. I also have the purple rings. So I am gonna try these rings from 21 till 28 February at Haus im Ennstal (Austria). To see if the bindings reacts more directly which I think I like more about a bindingcombination. It's all about personal settings.
So in short:
- comfortable, with the yellow rings don't feel rigid as you will expect from
these sort of aeroplane aluminium made bindings
- options to comfort with three sorts of elastomer rings. I bought the soft
and medium ones.
- easy to set with one tool in no time.
- nice and solid, durable construction
- nice looks
- stepins are microadjustable to set your boots right.
- baseplate is microadjustable to your board
- expensive when you want lift and cant, you need some extras like the 3
or 6 degrees cant/lift disks
- and also important: service and dedication of Fin (Bomber) is superb.
- not the most important: the TD2's bindings are cheaper now for me as
an european because the euro has a very good exchangerate to the
USdollar nowadays.
Akira, I hope you will have something about this review. Mail me in March (or sooner if you want to) when I will be back from my next winterholiday and I hope I have some more experiences with this binding/boardcombination.
Greets, Hans.
I tried the TD2 stepins for three days this last weekend in Kirchberg. Excellent snow and sunny freezing weather on Friday and Saturday. Tried a couple of ECcarves for the first time. Need some practicing but satisfied till so far. I was too late at the piste so there was some uneveness already. So did carve the whole day, but almost no EC because of this. Sunday it snowed all day and the board with these bindings are also a good combination in a fresh dump of snow.
I tried them with the yellow elastomer rings. They are great with the SWOARD 168 Hard, this system combined with the ATC works comfortable for me. You think that you have a rigid binding but it doesn't feel like this way. I didn't touch the snow with these bindings so far, didn't touch the snow either in the few ECcarves I made. I use them with the boots modified RAB Raichle AF 700, size 25,5. You do need only one Hex Key/Tool to fix another setting. Very easy and in short time to set these bindings which part I like. I ride the bindings all flat. It's easy to change degrees on piste. I ride them about 54/49. The stepins are working great, just stepin like a skier and you are away when others are sitting on their cold butt or breaking their back fixing their bindings. I also have the Catek Olympic stepins, these bindings reacts more direct and are more rigid than the TD2 stepin with the yellow ring. I don't know yet which I like more. Both bindings are a piece of art as I think the TD2's seems to be more durable and easier to set in degrees where Cateks have more variety in settings in one product. You need to buy extras with the TD2's when you want to vary in lift and cant. But in EC you don't use the lift and cant, so why make it difficult. I also have the purple rings. So I am gonna try these rings from 21 till 28 February at Haus im Ennstal (Austria). To see if the bindings reacts more directly which I think I like more about a bindingcombination. It's all about personal settings.
So in short:
- comfortable, with the yellow rings don't feel rigid as you will expect from
these sort of aeroplane aluminium made bindings
- options to comfort with three sorts of elastomer rings. I bought the soft
and medium ones.
- easy to set with one tool in no time.
- nice and solid, durable construction
- nice looks
- stepins are microadjustable to set your boots right.
- baseplate is microadjustable to your board
- expensive when you want lift and cant, you need some extras like the 3
or 6 degrees cant/lift disks
- and also important: service and dedication of Fin (Bomber) is superb.
- not the most important: the TD2's bindings are cheaper now for me as
an european because the euro has a very good exchangerate to the
USdollar nowadays.
Akira, I hope you will have something about this review. Mail me in March (or sooner if you want to) when I will be back from my next winterholiday and I hope I have some more experiences with this binding/boardcombination.
Greets, Hans.