As for on-snow testing, I assumed they’d be doing that by now or even sometime last winter. So your rumor is probably fact.

Lou

Regarding “beef” or not, if we accept the stated weight of <500g/binding that's about 100g less than the Radical FT12, and with several added features! No other tech binding comes close to that weight with the same feature set. It could be a winner.

BD didn’t “give” a binding to show, there was a Fritschi guy, or actually two of them, who were showing it and pretty tight and possessive about it. Was actually a pretty funny scene with some good laughs, like this one overweight bossy type (whoops, lou edit) who claimed to be some kind of legal council for BD and thus had a right to play with the binding hand’s on, while the rest of us were politely standing there watching the Fritschi guys… always a good show at ze show.

Lou

My understanding is that Fritschi is much further along in the process than the 3D model they gave to their distributor (BD) to show at the shows. So I think there is actually some basis in the weight reported and the conjecture on your part that the weight will somehow balloon up the that of the beast is a bit unwarranted. Time will tell.

You seem to think that I’m in the market for something like the beast, which I am most certainly not. I am in the market to replace my FT12′s at a similar weight but with better performance. I think the Zenith may be that binding, but we’ll have to wait and see.