Be glad we have things like injection molding and mass production to bring the price down somewhere in the ecosphere as $449.00 with brakes (see below for brake sizes). If you were in Chile last summer you might have seen a G3 binding tester with a calculator and load cell riding these $3,000 one-off machined protos.

Yeah, it took fifty years, but we have finally reached ZED!īonus photo. What blows my mind is how similar this is to the ION, only I lost count of the subtle improvements. Using the Lost Z binding as a point of departure, in little more than 12 months the Vancouver vanguard had a modern version of the ZED 12 ski touring binding they now announce, with plans to retail beginning fall of 2018. When a grizzled grave robber excavated what proved to be the Z, the Canadians were as quick on the patent licensing bid as they are on their hockey blades, thus snatching this amazing technology from the hands of their competitors. I thought this was BS, but reliable insider sources tell us G3 had secret agents seeded throughout the world. A man who in lieu of modern computerized machining would carve perfect prototype ski binding parts using only a sharp pocket knife and dense knotwood harvested from secret groves in the high Alps of Slovenia. The search at times appeared endless - ultimately taking nearly half a century.Īll quested for the Lost Binding of Z, a fabled amalgam, rumored to have been created by mad engineer Mac Ztrif 50 years ahead of his time. Ski touring gear archaeologists across the world sifted through dusty parts bins, dug like starving gold prospectors through European industrial dumping grounds, and even excavated through the sifting bone dust of ancient tombs. The new ZED 12 ski touring binding by G3 is based on the Lost Binding of Z, that storied apex of design that only lived in legend - until the persistence of G3 paid off.

Binding of the lost