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Digging my new G3 Onyx bindings

Graeme

2010-01-06 00:43:13

Digging my new G3 Onyx bindings

Toured 2 days on my G3 Onyx bindings and so far, I'm sold. On the way up they toured very well and matched or exceeded the performance of a Dynafit binding. I found the heel lifts to be easier to use and thus faster to deploy. After a short familiarization period I found the binding to be very intuitive to use.

On the way down, I was loving life. The connection to the boot is SOLID and there is little to no play in the binding (a complaint that I have always had with my Freerides). The power transfer from boot to ski is immediate making edging in the mank easier... not my strong suit.

I know it's a little early for a review, but so far... real good! Just got the brakes for them and looking forward to trying those out too.

Here's a link to the website for the bindings in case you're curious.

http://www.genuineguidegear.co.....dings/onyx
andrew

2010-01-06 16:13:04

Hello Graeme and welcome to the forum! Good mini-review...The onyx's do look pretty sexy and most things I have read about them are thumbs up. I am a Dynafit evangelist and am really interested in the onyx's ability to change from tour to ski (and vice versa) without having to get out of the binding. I just thought of this factor a couple days ago on a tour actually. This is the only real benefit I, personally, can see because everything else works for me on the dynafits.

I can't really see why anybody other than super aggressive skiers would want to tour/ski anything "non-tech" these days. Maybe if they spent the vast majority of their time skiing lift-serviced stuff.

Did you go from a Dynafit to an Onyx or from a Fritschi to an Onyx?
Graeme

2010-01-07 01:08:04
Graeme

2010-01-07 16:42:27

Hi,

I have skied both Dynafit and Fritschi extensively. They both have their merits and their place.

The ability to switch between ski and tour mode is slick. I also find the heellifts easier to use on the Onyx versus the Dynafit.

The ski better than the Freerides in my opinion. Less slop.

I hope that they hold up.

Overall, for a company's first AT binding, I think that this is a really impressive first. Dynafit has tweaked their bindings for 20 years and yes they are great. I'm sure that G3 will make changes and improvements, but this binding is doin' it for me… so far.

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