1990 was a very good year. After patenting his distruptive “tech” binding in 1984, Fritz Barthel finally found someone with the vision and smarts to mainstream it. Dynafit. Check it out. (We do these brief linked blog posts as a place for commenting on our museum pages, and to insure search results are useful.) Commenters, did you ski the Purple People Eater? I happen to like the colorway, how about you? Dynafit wants to know (smile).
[Please visit the museum display for this binding]
[And, enjoy the entire museum]
WildSnow.com publisher emeritus and founder Lou (Louis Dawson) has a 50+ years career in climbing, backcountry skiing and ski mountaineering. He was the first person in history to ski down all 54 Colorado 14,000-foot peaks, has authored numerous books about about backcountry skiing, and has skied from the summit of Denali in Alaska, North America’s highest mountain. For more about Lou, please see his personal website at https://www.loudawson.com/ (Blogger stats: 5 foot 10 inches (178 cm) tall, 160 lbs (72574.8 grams).
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Lou, thank you for the start of the Dynafit journey. I started with a Ramer binding with a Ramer ski and then a Ramer skin. Then I moved to a Dynafit binding. My wife and I are in our mid 70’s but still enjoy “clicking” into our Dynafits for a run or 2. 🙂
Bought a pair for 50 bucks a few seasons back. I guess the plastic in the center of the wings of the toepieces had degraded and one piece cracked and self destructed halfway down a run. Manufactured a replacement from some lexan I had kicking around. Bindings still in use on not often used skis in the quiver.
Thanks for the comments you guys. The museum project is still in process, what a fun journey it’s been. Lou
Lou and Crew…
I couldn’t see anywhere else to plug this in as a question so went to the most recent Binding Entry… For all the talk and reviews on Fritschi products, Vipec and Tecton…. Nothing early on the new Xenic 10? Looks pretty innovative and is killing it weight wise. Thoughts?
Yup this was my first Dynafit binding (in 1994) and it served me well until I sold them 15 years (still functioning perfectly). The heels had to be mounted perfectly, no tolerance. The speed classic had 6mm tolerance, and now the Speed Turn has 26mm. These three are the simplest, lightest non-aluminum Dynafit bindings as far as I know, but they don’t handle brakes, if thats something you like.
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