2021-2022 Tecnica Zero G Tour Pro

38 comments on “2021-2022 Tecnica Zero G Tour Pro”

1. Any words on possible “In-stock” dates?
   Hoping to try these on to compare to Maestrales
   Sincerely
   Wide Forefoot, High instep, low arch, and narrow(ish) heel

2. Can this go with LOOK DUAL WTR binding as well? Thanks.Tony

3. Won’t be “in stock” until September if we’re lucky

4. How close does Zero G Tour Pro ski to a much heavier hybrid boots, such as the Tecnica Cochise or the Hawx Ultra XTD 120?

   With the Scarpa F1 I already have a boot in the 1300g category (but don’t know if its is smart to drive a Bibby Tour with it*).

   And I need to replace my 50/50 Resort/Backcountry boot.

   I feel I should go for a boot further away from the Scarpa F1, such as the Tecnica Cochise, Nordica Strider, Dalbello Lupo AX 120. That was also made clear in the Podcast with the owner of the BlackSheep Shop in Munich, where he praised to go back to full blown alpin boots for freeriding (instead of hybird boots).

   *) I thought driving big skis with soft boots was a security risk. But in the Fischer Traverse review, Cy Whitling skied it 109 and 112 waist wide skis.

   Thoughts?

5. How do these fit compared the Cochise? The 2017 Cochise fit me great, while shoes like the Salomon MTN and Maestrale don’t work for me. It’s interesting that you say both the later shoes fit you can these too, which makes me think that the fit is tigher and less roomy in the toe box and arch area.

6. In your excellent review of the Hawx XTD 120 you pointed out the impact of the liner on downhill performance. How much difference would a zipfit alpine liner make in this boot? Would it come close to a boot like the Nordica Strider?

7. Jonathan, I am glad you clarify that you would still not see the Zero G as a 50/50 boot.
   The flex feels very nice indeed (at shop temperature).
   Would you see the Hawx 120 XTD more like a 50/50 boot? More but, still far from it?
   I might go with the Salomon QST Pro (fits great, looks silly) or the Cochise if it fits.
   Have fun!

8. How is the fit compared to the old zeroG: does it have the same spacious ankle? or is it more tight?

9. How are they to get the boot on and off? Embarrassing, but my Lange XT Freetour boots were really, really hard to get out of on cold days. If it was 0 degrees, I’d have to wait for them to warm up before I could get my foot out. Sometimes I would end up ripping out the liner or scraping up my foot…better not to talk about.

10. I was not able to find a pair of Tour Pro’s in my size but have been riding Tour Scouts for 5 days. 40% BC 60% inbounds so far.

    Touring/ Uphill: I am BLOWN AWAY with how well these uphill for a 4 buckle overlap boot. Today I did a tour with my Backland Carbon’s in the AM and then after lunch a quick lap with the Scouts (same skis and bindings, snow got warmer as the day went on). They feel almost as easy to uphill with as Backland Carbon’s with the tongue in (tongue out there is no beating the Backland until you get to race boots). I’d guess that double lock system letting them pull the back of the cuff way up is definitely a contributing factor. Really with how light and well the Scouts ski my Backlands are probably just going to become high milage/ fitness mission boots.

    Flex: Pretty f-ing impressive how progressive and supportive these boots are for being less than 1400g. Don’t have too many boots to compare them to in my personal experience but they are stiffer and more progressive than Dyanfit Titans and all the of BD boots (the last Factor was probably stiffer than the Scouts, but no progression). Never felt the hard stop (or sudden drop off) of other AT boots when inbounds driving Enforcers.

    Fit: The long and short of my fit is average to narrow everywhere except for my HIGH INSTEP. They aren’t the highest I’ve ever tried on but certainly high enough that once I cook the liners I’m sure I’ll be able to keep all my buckles tight all day at the resort. It almost seems like I might just be able to pack out the liners enough to not need.

    Forward Lean: Ok I’m really not a fan of the upright lean angle when they’re in regular downhill bindings. Looking to find a bolt on spoiler to try to get some more forward lean since I have a skinny lower leg.

    Entry/ Exit: Entry isn’t too bad, does help if it’s warm, easier than my old Titans or BD’s. But my instep does get pinched getting out of the boot :( Not surprised with how tall my instep is, might trim a little material off medial side of the overlap to help. Again, I wouldn’t put much weight in this as my instep is stupid tall.

11. So these don’t fit a regular alpine binding like an Atomic Neox 412?

12. Hi Blister,

    Great Review as always – After reading and ” getting to know thyself ” per Jonathan and Luke – this boot is nice but not for me as I am only a occasional touring skier – short hops to catch a patch – not even a 50/50…..I have old old Garmont Megaride and they are jarring as heck so my priority is suspension and comfort not weight. Given those parameters which direction would you recommend……Scarpa Maestraele ? Atomic Hawk ? to be used on Raven w KP bindings. I am kinda looking for a Alpine boot that is KP adaptable. I ski on Salomon XMax 120 ( little soft but I like them )

    Thanks Blister ,

    Guy

13. Looking forward for the deep-dive… I’m really curious to see how they compare to the Maestrale RS2

14. Since you made a point of saying it goes down to a 22, can you guys confirm the bsl on the size 22 and 23 to ensure they’re not a larger shell just with a toe dam? The evo size chart only shows down to a 24 with 285 bsl.

    • Just talked to Tecnica about this — it looks like they’re actually only offering it down to a 22.5 (their previous catalog had said 22.0), and the 22.5 does have the same BSL as the 23.5, which is 272 mm.

15. I’ve put about 40 days touring on these boots this season and I’m still undecided if I like them. Firstly they are a b!$@# to get on! Straight out of the box they are pretty tight, really tight over the front of the ankle (Think Maestrale ankle strap zone) quite a bit tighter than the cochise 120. They have broken in well to a similar fit to the cochise but not as comfy as Maestrale. I cannot emphasise enough how hard these boots are to get on when cold. I camped overnight at -15°c and could not get these on in the morning to save my life. I had to boil water to put in a bottle to warm these up to get them on. Even if you leave them in the back of your truck they will be hard to get on. Getting them off isn’t much easier . BUT they do ski pretty damn well. In fact, they rip. I ski them on Zero G 108’s w Kingpins and there’s nothing I wouldn’t ski. They walk OK. I don’t believe the 55° articulation. I’d say 40° at best. I’ve put probably 500km+ walking in them and they OK. Not great. The booster strap is useless(?!) it slides up above the carbon cuff and doesn’t cinch down tight anyway. The buckles are pretty nice, the teeth are soft though so bottom ones get munch when scrambling over rocks in them. They do climb very well with the rubber sole/rocker/precision fit. I’m happy to climb exposed rock/ice in them. Crampons (Techpon 250 & Sarken) fit very well on them. Overall they’re probably not quite as tour friendly as I was hoping (I don’t ski resort at all) but they do ski well. They’re really not cut out for expeditions unfortunately and take a bit of breaking in. If they didn’t ski so well I probably would have thrown them into the forest after how hard they are to get on/off (I feel it’s the lower material is too stiff where it underlaps the upper boot around the ankle, doesn’t open up enough to slide the foot in) somehow the pull loops have not broken under extreme tension so far. 7.5/10

16. Skied these boots 2 days (no touring) in spring conditions in the french alps. They weigh 1380grams in size 27,5.

    Very very to ski! In fact I was really surprised even though I had done some serious research before buying them. Nice flex pattern (I ski dalbello boots otherwise) I skied völkl mantra and a blizzard Rustler 10 in heavy wet spring snow, slash, moguls and horribIe frozen snow. I weigh about 100kg with gear. I like them much better than my salomon mtn lab. There is no doubt in ny mind that they will tour much better aswell.

    I have wide feet (fore foot 106mm) and I needed to heat mold both liner and shell and add padding to pressure points in the store. After that; two full days of skiing without any problems. Really comfortable! Without this bootfit it would have been impossible though.

    I plan to pair these with a mantra v werks and a shift bindning for a kit to do it ALL. I skied in very nice weather so can’t tell you about cold weather performance.

    If they hold up, and I think they will, this will be a blast :-)

17. I have skied 50+ days on the Scout, both involving lifts and over 25000m of ascent.

    Great boots, but watch out for the ski/walk mode. At different times I have lost a screw attaching the top of the mechanism to the boot on each boot. And this after nipping them up after loosing the first. It causes the boot to pop out of downhill mode at inconvenient times.

    I carry spares now.

18. Very important observation there by HammondR!

    My screws also needed attention after 3 days of touring. Will try to fix this with Loctite.

    Other than that; very happy with the boots!

19. Please can you tell me if these boot soles of the new Tecnica Zero G Tour Pro work safely with Salomon Guardian MNC 13 bindings (mine are a couple seasons old but have the sliding afd). My local ski shop crew say no but I’ve heard from other crew that they do.
    Cheers Jon

    • As long as your Guardian is the MNC version with a toe piece that can adjust vertically, the Zero G boot should work with it. The Zero G has an ISO certified touring sole so it should work with any MNC binding as long as you adjust the toe piece to the appropriate height.

20. Hey guys!

    I was just able to try on a pair of the Pro G’s today. They felt… like a good boot.

    I know all the specs and have done my homework on the boots technical qualities and I think they match up well with my skiing style (I’m a 6’3 215 skier who’s fairly aggressive, and only doing more and more touring as the seasons keep going after starting to actually get to the backcountry 4ish years ago. Otherwise have skied “inbounds” the rest of my time.

    I’ve been on and am currently using Cinderella story “perfect fit” craigslist scarpa maestrales from 2012/2013 and thus have a boot that is worn to perfection to my foot.

    In trying on the new Pro G’s there was minor discomfort in the top of the foot and a little kn the outer mid sole near the base of the pinky toe — but when locked down and in ski mode with an active stance most of the discomfort went away. The heel felt fine in both walk and ski mode.

    I haven’t had boots heat molded before but my family swears by it.

    Am I getting too bogged down in the details of a “perfect fit” especially with the advent of the heat molding magic bootfitters can now work?

    I want these to last and dont plan to buy boots for a while after this purchase.

    Any thoughts or especially updates on how these boots wore on over multiple seasons?

    Best, Zach W

    Ps, great review of the boots and other stuff you guys rock!

21. Have skied these boots both inbounds and out a couple times now, and really really like them. In my opinion, they are not as stiff as the S-Lab MTN (MTN labs), but walk significantly better (especially forward ROM). A little looser in the heel, and slightly higher volume overall. Skinny calf people beware, I have the lower buckles as tight as they will go (moved the buckle clips AND micro adjust dialed all the way down) and I can still flip the buckles with just one finger. Looking into maybe drilling out a third hole to make calf closure even tighter.

    One really bad thing to report: just yesterday I snapped BOTH wire buckles in one day. Hoping this is just bad QA and not a design flaw, and that warranty will take care of me. If not, I’ll be really bummed and not buying touring boots from them again.

    Overall, this is a dialed boot that skis wonderfully, walks really really well, but has some issues with durability of the buckles and fit for those with skinny ankles/calves.

    • Hi Brett,
      You say: skinny CALF people beware, I have LOWER buckles..”
      In my mind, the lower buckles are the ones on the clog, the upper buckles are the ones on the cuff, and therefor relate to calf (top upper buckle), and ankle (bottom upper buckle).
      Can you clarify which buckles you are talking about?

      • He obviously means the lower cuff buckle on each boot.

        Note his reference to “mov[ing] the buckle clips” – you can only do that with the cuff buckles on the Zero-G. The clog buckles are effectively immovable because of the way they sit in fixed-position recesses.

22. Just bought these to tour in Marker Kingpins and found that these are not compatible with them. When the toe is locked out they will pop out with minimal torque. Not good. We went into the shop and tested on new kingpins and another set of older ones and no dice with my zero g’s. I popped some Dalbello boots into the kingpins and they held just fine. Of course there’s no literature guaranteeing kingpin comparability with dynafit certified boots. We’re going to make a video and send it to marker. Something worth checking into if pairing either. I just bought atomic backland bindings and they work flawlessly with these boots.

23. I just got a chance to spend an hour in the zero-g-pro-tour in the shop. I tried them along side the Maestrale XT and atomic backland carbon. If they fit your foot, I can see why people really like the ZeroG, unfortunately, they don’t fit my foot as I have a fairly high instep.

    Things I like about the ZeroG ->

    The Zero G cuff felt very secure, and progressive, and broadly supportive.. This cuff feels about 1000x better in ski-mode than the backland carbon, while apparently only weighing ~30% more. Leaning into the cuff felt really good and supportive, with no pressure points, unlike the backland carbon, which basically feels like it has a thin band of steel holding my shin.

    In the shop, I especially like how the Zero-G top buckles transition to tour mode. The flexible loops not only “clip” securely into the “touring clip” in their most open setting, but the buckles also “lock” in the open position. It might be a bit fussier in gloves, but i like the way everything easily stayed where I put it. With the Maestrale XT everything wanted to flap around if not done in just the right order… I’d have to first undo every buckle and the strap, and *only* after this, move the buckles to the touring clips. If I tried to undo just one buckle and immediately put it into the touring clip, the tension on the other buckle made the undone one too long and it would flop out. Of course both of these systems work just fine, and you’d get used to either, but I prefer the way the Zero-G system works.

    I found the zero-g pro tour (subjectively) easier to get into than the HAWX XTD, as a similar overlap style boot.

    Unfortunately, the Zero-G didn’t fit my foot very well in ways the bootfitter said he couldn’t really do much about. I’m 10.5 US / mondo ~28. My current downhill boot is a 27.5 dalbello pantera, though in some boots I upsize to 28.5. In the size 28.5 ZeroG, my heel was swimming around sideways and up-and-down, and yet there was a slight but noticeable bite on my instep. A footboard solved my heel slip, but made the bite on my instep unbearably painful. This might be partly due to the thin touring liner, but it’s mostly because the shell doesn’t have enough instep room for my foot. I’m sure sizing down to 27.5 would make the instep bite worse. My bootfitter said it’s really hard to create more instep room, and that it’s better to find a boot that fits better there. The Maestrale XT 28.5 certainly did, no instep bite at all. I didn’t like the Maestrale XT design as much, but it felt much better on my feet.

24. I’ve been using these for the season so far and only have about 60km in them, but have a broken buckle. The wire buckle design is great in theory but in practice is pretty annoying to actually use, and the middle buckle on my left boot has broken with the wire pulling out of the metal swage. There’s no real way to fix it in the field, and you can’t fully unscrew the wire-loop section, so the only solution is to drill out the rivet and put a new buckle on (which luckily Technica sells for $30, but I’m hoping they’ll send me the buckle free since I’ve only worn these boots for about 8 ski days).

    The powerstrap is essentially useless in my experience as well and rises up over the cuff. I’ve got skinny calves so it barely does anything when correctly in place and tightened all the way too – it just doesn’t have enough range of adjustment.

    Both liners have wear spots into their foam where the interior buckle rivets are wearing away while walking. This isn’t a huge issue and some well placed fabric tape will slow the wear, but still frustrating to see considering how little use the boots have gotten. Technical really could have avoided this by using a more robust material in these areas of the liner like other boots.

    Overall, I really like the _boot_, but the hardware and little things are what aren’t great and make it seem like they rushed the design to market without any real-world testing.

25. I’ve toured in mine for around 150 days and I really like them. The liner feels like it is just now starting to fit even better. BUT, a few day ago I noticed that the large cuff rivets have developed some lateral play, maybe 1-3mm. Anyone with a high mileage zgtp have this issue? Wonder how to go about fixing it?

26. I’m a little worried about the lean angle of only 13 degrees. It sounds pretty upright to me. Does this affect the downhill performance in any way or is the flex progressive enough to compensate? The Hoji Free comes with a lean angle of 17 degrees, but only with a built-in spoiler. Without the cuff is supposed to be just 11 degrees. Do you think one could increase the angle of the zero go pro with a bolt spoiler too?

27. @ Luke Koppa. It sounds like you have almost identical feet to mine. Can I ask what other boots you have got on well with as I am struggling to find anything that fits me well. Any advice would be well appreciated. Thanks

    • While I can’t guarantee they’ll fit *your* feet, the Atomic Hawx Prime XTD is the touring boot that’s offered the best out-of-the-box fit for my feet. The Nordica Strider also fits my feet really well, but that’s more of a 50/50 touring/resort boot, rather than a dedicated touring boot.

28. What do you think of using the Tecnica zero G pro tour on piste given their high and progressive flex? There are some relevant disadavteges to consider? Thank you!

29. Luke/Jonathan – how does the Zero G compare to the new Fischer TransAlp Pro? They seem to be competing in the exact same class, right?

    Thanks,
    -Felix

30. I’ve had these boots since the start of the season. Impressed with the stiffness (coming previously from the Spectre 2.0) , but still struggling to find a suitable ski for it.
    I was skiing the Volkl VTA 98 177 but now I’m leaning towards the Salomon MTN 95 184 since the VTA does not offer the support anymore.Would this be a good match for this boot?

31. Have used the the Technica boots 1,5 season for backcountry/rando(about 250 days and 130 000 height meters) so quite a lot use.
    I am satisfied with the boots when talking about the outer one/shell. Stiff enough for skiing and okay for walking.
    Had to do some boot fitting which is easy because of the material. Done that at a proffessional boot fitter.
    The inner/liner is thin and really bad so switched to Intuition Pro M which is perfect whit this shell. Heard from others which done the same.
    Another bad thing is the buckles. The thin wire have broken twice and seems to be a very week. Would like to have more solid construction.

32. As an update, the boots are not ISO 9523 unfortunately. I went to have them mounted and they said they were not compatible. I have seen it stated in multiple places that they are ISO 9523 so I messaged Tecnica and they confirmed it is not ISO certified but they said it’s geometry is compatible with the Shift binding.

33. After 40 days or so mine have developed tons of slop in the cuff rivets -> very imprecise on hard snow. Rest of the boot looks almost new. I just spent an hour perusing the interwebs, and sounds like this is very common, and I have not read of a fix. For comparison, my Cochise with many more miles has no slop.