I'll take that as some kind of indirect smackdown to my question, which, for some reason that I have yet to become privy to, I don't quite understand.
The prevailing "Tecnica sucks" tone may be true, but frankly, I'm a bit puzzled by what seems to me to be a very concerted effort to shun owners and/or questions about Tecnica boots.
I stumbled in here hoping for a helpful answer to a pretty simple question, "Is the XT 17 a lateral boot?" but have only gotten veiled responses
which sound a bit like "take your peasant boots, and get out of here."
I understand that their retail boots are rotary, quite well, and that the new Diablo series "missed the boat." I didn't, and still don't know where that leaves the XT17, and apparently, I never will.
May I suggest, that if you folks would prefer not to hear questions about any boots other than Head, Dalbello and Salomon, that somebody post a sticky thread at the top explaining this. Then I wouldn't have wasted yours and my time expecting to get any reasonable answers to Tecnica boot questions.
Damn, I wish I could afford a brand new pair of Head boots! Really, I do, but I'm a friggin' peasant.