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Post subject: Anybody Tried Ride Contraband Binders?
 Posted: Oct 29, 2009 - 02:42 AM
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First post: Sep 04, 2006
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Hi Chaps,
I ride flows because I want to strap in nice and fast at the top of each lift. However, my NXTs are starting to get a bit knackered, so i'm looking for replacements.
Things I care about in bindings.
1. Must be fast-entry bindings. I'm lazy.
2. The lighter the better.
3. I'd like a green or white colour-scheme cause I'm a vain twort.
Has anyone tried the new Ride Contraband bindings?
http://ridesnowboards.com/bindings/nitrane-contraband
They only have 1 strap, so they should be light, right? But what do they ride like? |
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Jacey
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Posted: Oct 29, 2009 - 11:19 PM
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First post: Sep 23, 2007
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Ooh I wanna know about this too!
Been considering some Ride Bandita Contraband bindings and really interested to hear what anyone thinks about the new v-strap.
Unlike JanSolo I'm not specifically looking for a fast entry binding so not sure what they offer me and may go for the Ride Sigma MVMT instead.
Want the bindings for my jib board K2 Va Va Voom Rocker. Got some lush Salomon Relay Elites for my Feelgood last year after sweet advice on here and they've been great on the VVV too, but I'm lazy (OK, a bit like JanSolo) and can't be arsed swapping them around when I could just as well have 2 pairs of bindings.
So anyways who's rocked the Contraband? |
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Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 10:00 AM
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Lol, I'm looking for bindings for my VVV too and was considering the banditas 
They look like they can't possibly work with the toe strap to me, so am very interested in opinions too! |
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Snowaddict
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Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 10:30 AM
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Never seen this before - Every picture of these bindings seem to not be showing the front, which is very annoying. However looking at them I can't see that it will give as much support as i'd personally like ... Support and response, I bet they lack.
Glad to see they've realised metal bindings are a sh1t idea though |
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Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 10:45 AM
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| Robster has a pair of them, so does Pocket. |
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Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 11:01 AM
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Snowaddict wrote:
Never seen this before - Every picture of these bindings seem to not be showing the front, which is very annoying. However looking at them I can't see that it will give as much support as i'd personally like ... Support and response, I bet they lack.
Glad to see they've realised metal bindings are a sh1t idea though
you don't half make some rediculous , generalised and sweeping statement without providing anything to back them up. This is right up there with when you told someone to avoid anything by Ride and K2.
Oh and contrabands are aluminium and the toe strap doesn't provide support really so they did away with it, they hold your foot in just as well as strap does. You would know that if you were commenting on something you had actually tried  |
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Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 12:03 PM
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You're the most firey little man i've ever spoken to! You don't half get frustrated little one!
I've ridden lots of RIde and K2 stuff and i've explained this to you before ... Are you well? |
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Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 12:06 PM
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Snowaddict wrote:
I said that 'cause K2 and Ride are sh1t mate
What are you basing this on?
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You should probably go snowboarding once or twice before you haunt a snowboarding forum like a bad smell
He does go snowboarding, fairly frequently too. I'm not sure about his smell though |
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Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 12:07 PM
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I've since reviewed my post.
But I do believe what I wrote! Just didn't want to come accross as blatantly confrontational and opinionated as your friend.
I'm basing it on experience. |
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Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 12:37 PM
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Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 12:54 PM
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I don't understand how you can tell me i'm generalising! You're definitely just as bad as me.
We base our opinions on experience, we all do. My first statement was not that they are sh1t, I was looking at a new kind of binding, the design of which will most likely not last as it looks flawed. I was expressing my opinion - the very thing these forums are set up to harbour!
No more arguments, i'm bored of it i'm sure you are and i'm definitely sure everyone else is. We beg to differ about a particular company. Thats cool yeah? |
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Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 12:56 PM
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Oh and I do love the irony of being told to stop haunting a snowboard forum and go and ride instead by someone who posts just as often as I do if not more
its also great when people tell you you're angry and het up just because you question their point of view, like it's not possible to be completely calm and inteligent and still dissagree With them.
Dude I'm not arguing with you I'm just asking you to back ip your statement that all ride stuff is sh1t, and saying it's from personal experience doesn't tell anyone anything. You also just said that the controband design is flawed and won't last long even though a few posts earlier you said you know nothing about them and have only just seen a picture of what they look like from the front. You're guessing aren't you and asume you know more than people who actually ride them |
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Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 01:50 PM
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I clearly haven't posted over 5000 times though have I.
Look, you get shirty at everything you read that you disagree with! I admit I made the comment about you never riding directly to piss you off lol, but i DID remove it before i saw anyone had posted. Because i don't particularly want to argue with you again about the same things. We've actually already argued about the Ride and K2 thing and i've explained why i wouldn't ever trust that company. That SHOULD be enough.
Interestingly i'm expressing an opinion based on the only information that seems to grace the internet, i'm expressing an opinion about these bindings in particular, based on the information that the potential punter that started this thread has found. I think thats fair personally.
And you ARE arguing with me lol. I'm not a saint, I argue too, but you said you aren't arguing - yes, yes you are.
We should both stop from this point. Nothing more actually needs to be said. I also have nothing else to say about this thread, which means if you choose to drop the subject like i'm requesting of you then you won't see me post on this topic again. Alright? |
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Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 01:56 PM
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| mate im not arguing im just interested in why you say all ride stuff is sh1t and what specific reasoning you have for it. What products have you used and what didnt you think was sh1t about them. I was just suggesting that given that you dismissed contrabands as a bad idea that wont last and wont be very responsive having admited youve not ridden them ever that maybe your opionion might be just based on the generalisation that you dont like the company who makes them. We didnt argue about ride/k2 before, you said it was sh1t, and asked you to clarify why you think that and then i never saw that thread again, thats not an argument thats someone asking a simple question! I do comment on allot of things on here but i always back it up with facts and reasoning behind my opinion, im just asking you to do the same |
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Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 02:24 PM
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I did reply to that mind
Okay , wrong foot, lets start all over again.
Broke my first DH by screwing up the start to a spin and giving up on it, its a snowflex kicker, with a drawn out, soft landing. I came down wrong (but not that wrong) on the tail and where every other board i've ever ridden including those i'm significantly under the weight restrictions of would not have broken, genuinely, this one did. I snapped the tail. From about 4 ft off the ground. This is the first time riding it, i'm upset and confused as to whether its my fault, this board was a 159.
Approached Ride, who began by telling me it's not something they can replace specifically because i broke it on dry ski. I pushed very politely and Gail (i think her name was) fought my corner for me. I sent the board in for a wood test and the test was deemed 'inconclusive'. Gail sent me a new one.
For fear of history repeating i waited to take this out to Banff, and it lived for a reasonable few months, the board looked sexy and i was really happy with it. The tail cracked when i was doing one of those silly presses on the tail where you hold the nose for a split second? Mind you can do that on my 150. Again this is a 159. Didn't warranty it, kept riding it and realised the next day the rail had come out of the board on the nose. Banged this back together and replaced it with a Burton board. When i got home, i delammed and then snapped a K2 Darkstar from 08. I also had some spi ride bindings that fell apart, piece, by, piece. Literally all that is left is the metal frames and the heel straps! I've also broken, on that topic, in excess of 8 toe straps on those bindings and 1 heel strap, i've naturally been riding every single time and it gets very irritating. Most recently after living with a Burton toe strap on each foot for quite a while I gave ride a call to get some toe straps, they said they'd send them, but sent me the wrong model binding (thats fine) with no ratchets. Not helpful.
So all in all, i have not had a good experience. Since then i've spoken to quite a fewwww people who feel the same way and i've developed a bit of a hate for it.
I genuinely have had some experience with them, i didnt like particularly how i was spoken to, and contrary to what you MIGHT think about me on these forums i'm very polite in real life
You're ABSOLUTELY right, i have no experience with these bindings. But i don't feel that Ride have anything to offer me that i cannot find in other companies.
That being said, i still look at their stuff in the hopes of changing my mind. But the combination between 1 set (fair enough) of crappy bindings, the slimewall that seems to help with the breaking of a snowboard and the darkstar's weak outer rim i just don't have faith!
Sorry if i came accross as angry or boystrous or argumentative. I respond badly to things like this lol. |
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