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You spend hours doing your research, checking prices. availability . . . all the stuff you do before shelling out some serious wedge against new kit . . . and someone moves the goalposts
Some of you know I'm falling down the Frankentele rabbit hole, I already have far too much of a mixture of equipment and I need to rationalise . . . and lose some travel weight
So looking at all my stuff I have some elderly Technica Alu Icon Carbons that are incredibly comfortable, concrete-flex, slippers for alpine, Crispi NTNs and my Garmont Duckbills . . . all being replaced by a pair of Scarpa TX Pros with Tech inserts. Might even make enough on eBay to cover most of the new purchase (but I will miss the sublime close fit and comfort of the Technicas and they were straight out of the box & not even fitted)
That's the boots down to one pair, now for bindings. Already have a set of 1st gen NTNs and a second mount kit and the same with some Bishop Bombers along with some Rotti 75s on the Teleboard. I was going to add a set of G3 Onyx to use the heels for the Frankentele and could use the Tech nose and TTS adaptor to have a Tech/Tele setup on a second set of skis and move the Bombers to the snowboard.
Logically all that works but FFS . . . all that stuff . . . but I was happy to make it work to give me all the flexibility I wanted to learn to tour, tele, and alpine with not much faffing around on just 2 pair of skis . . . some sharp turning ice cutters and some lighter fatter backcountry wanderers.
. . . . . . THEN! . . . . along comes the spanner in the ointment(sic)
http://www.moonlightskis.com/moonlightskis-home
who have produced this
http://www.moonlightskis.com/moonlightskis-2-products
Which converts from Tech to tele just by turning the heelpiece.
http://youtube.com/v/R0QP5jg5HOg&feature=player_embedded
Just quiver killer anything I own to the same pattern and flog everything else?
edit: CrispY
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A snowHead on Wed 18-12-13 3:11; edited 2 times in total
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So looking at all my stuff I have some elderly Technica Alu Icon Carbons that are incredibly comfortable, concrete-flex, slippers for alpine, Crispi NTNs and my Garmont Duckbills . . . all being replaced by a pair of Scarpa TX Pros with Tech inserts. Might even make enough on eBay to cover most of the new purchase (but I will miss the sublime close fit and comfort of the Technicas and they were straight out of the box & not even fitted)
