Gear Review
Black Diamond O2 Telemark Binding
Tele Aphrodisiac
By Angus Bohanon
Ranked #34 - Telemark Bindings
October 26, 2008
If you buy these and don't turn love teleing way more as a result, you might as well just throw in the towel and get a binding that nails your heel to the ski. These bindings have the smoothest flex of any bindings I have used, from Hammerheads to G3s to Bishops. As a matter of fact, every person on the telemark team at my school has O2s, and we didn't even plan it. They're just the best. The cartridges don't catch on your boot when you're putting them on or taking them off, they're underneath so they don't scrape in hard carving turns, they keep you stable in crud and floaty in powder. When you tear by those silly alpiners (and Marko the great here), dropping the knee and flashing those gunmetal gray cartridges under your boot with every turn, they'll know they just got beat by the best.
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Change me.
2 Comments Last Reply: August 21, 2010 By: m
G3 is caveman gear compared to O2 (I have both). The prev comment must be from a novice. O2 rocks at the chutes in Jackson and the backcountry beyond.
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Bah! Even with Rid stiff cartridges these suck. I don't know how you could say they are better than hammerheads or bishops. Better than G3's or Voile's, but barely.
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