bbense+rec.skiing.backcountry.Aug.04.03@telemark. slac.stanford.edu
wrote:

_ You're drawing some very spurious conclusions from very little
evidence.

More to the point, the evidence points in the other direction. There
must be tens (hundreds?) of thousands of man-days on the Silvretta
design in the past two decades. Yet no rash of spiral fractures or blown
ACLs. You can bet your sweet-bippy that lawyers would have been all over
it if the binding were inherently unsafe. Silvretta has long argued
their design is safer because the pivot point is closer to the leg axis
so less knee torque.

And nobody pushing Fritchi should even be talking about past reliability
issues, puhleeze.