Giray Dadali on the new Daymaker Touring TEKDAPTERS

GEAR:30

BLISTER

Arts, Design, Skiing, Snow, Snowboarding, Sports, Outdoors, Bike, Technology, Gear

4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

A very intriguing — and extremely affordable — new piece of ski-touring gear has just been released, and you ought to know about it. So on our latest GEAR:30 episode, Jonathan talks with Giray Dadali, a pro skier, engineer, ski designer, and founder of Daymaker Touring, about their new product, TEKDAPTERS, that allow you to ski tour using a pin-tech toe on the way up, then click into your DIN-certified alpine binding of choice on the way down.

Giray and I dive deep into the design, materials, weight, compatibility, and rationale for this new product, and we think you’ll agree that it represents an intriguing new offering in the world of ski-touring gear.

TOPICS & TIMES:

When was this idea born? (6:17)

Giray’s Background (8:59)

Who’s It For? (11:52)

TEKDAPTERS vs Original Daymaker (17:48)

“Field Goal” guide rails (26:52)

Universal Compatibility (31:47)

Materials & Design (35:18)

User-Error-Avoidance Tips (43:48)

Locked-Out Pins & Avalanche Danger

Using the Right Tool for the Job (54:42)

Crashes & Close Calls (1:02:20)

Where & When can you get TEKDAPTERS? (1:12:37)

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0:00.0	What's up everybody and welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.
0:11.1	I'm Jonathan Ellsworth and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at
0:17.5	blisterreview.com.
0:29.0	Today, our guest is Garai de Dali, who is a pro-skeer, an engineer, a ski designer for J-skis and Forefront Skies, a very sharp guy, and he's the founder of Daymaker
0:36.4	Touring, which has been making Alpine Binding adapters since 2016.
0:43.4	And today we are talking with Garai about the latest Daymaker product called The TechDaptors.
0:51.0	And as the Daymaker website says, very accurately I might add, the techdaptors system enables
0:58.6	you to utilize Pintech ski touring efficiency on the uphill with the safety and performance
1:05.8	of DIN certified alpine bindings on the way down. All of that at an unheard of value of $280.
1:16.6	Sound intriguing? Well, we received one of the first pairs of tech adapters at Blister headquarters
1:23.5	last week, and our initial thoughts and impressions are that it appears to be very well
1:29.3	built, and it's a very intriguing tool. So we thought this new product very much warranted a
1:36.2	Gear 30 conversation with Garai to really dive into this new tool for touring. And as you'll hear us
1:44.1	say, this is not going to be a product for everybody, but as you'll hear it
1:48.4	laid out in this conversation, it is a product that is going to make a lot of sense for
1:53.9	a lot of people.
1:55.6	And frankly, any self-respecting gear dork out there ought to know about the tech
2:00.8	adapters, how they work,
2:02.8	and why they matter.
2:05.1	Techdaptors are currently in stock as I am recording this on Thursday, October 26th, and they
2:12.1	are shipping now.
2:13.6	So we are going to include a link to the Daymaker Touring website in the show notes of this episode
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