Hi all, looking for advice.
I tried skiboards for the first time last season. I've always wanted to but never been able to hire them anywhere. Thanks to eBay I picked up a set of Line Pro 98cm for next to nothing (in near mint condition too) and was well and truly hooked. These have non release bindings on and are incredibly light!
The red ones,
http://www.skiboardsonline.com/image...ro_history.jpg
So I wanted to upgrade this year and as no-one sells skiboards in the UK I picked up a second hand pair or Revel8 Revolts (Trees) that came with Salomon 610 releasing bindings and the Pro rise.
So I tried them for the first time last week at an indoor snow centre and compared to the Line's they felt really heavy which isn't the end of the world but also really unresponsive. To the point I swapped back to the Lines and had so much more fun!
To be fair, the edges do need doing, which I'm about to do today but my main concern is that the release bindings are just too soft and are sapping the fun out of it?
Has anyone any experience with this? I'm not bothered really about having release bindings and if they didn't come already attached to the boards I probably wouldn't have gone down the release route.
Will swapping from release to non-release bindings make that much difference or is the problem likely to be in the fact the edges need sharpening?
Mark
I tried skiboards for the first time last season. I've always wanted to but never been able to hire them anywhere. Thanks to eBay I picked up a set of Line Pro 98cm for next to nothing (in near mint condition too) and was well and truly hooked. These have non release bindings on and are incredibly light!
The red ones,
http://www.skiboardsonline.com/image...ro_history.jpg
So I wanted to upgrade this year and as no-one sells skiboards in the UK I picked up a second hand pair or Revel8 Revolts (Trees) that came with Salomon 610 releasing bindings and the Pro rise.
So I tried them for the first time last week at an indoor snow centre and compared to the Line's they felt really heavy which isn't the end of the world but also really unresponsive. To the point I swapped back to the Lines and had so much more fun!
To be fair, the edges do need doing, which I'm about to do today but my main concern is that the release bindings are just too soft and are sapping the fun out of it?
Has anyone any experience with this? I'm not bothered really about having release bindings and if they didn't come already attached to the boards I probably wouldn't have gone down the release route.
Will swapping from release to non-release bindings make that much difference or is the problem likely to be in the fact the edges need sharpening?
Mark
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