New bindings and a board
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This weekend I leave for switzerland and having purchased a beautiful new bamboo arbor push board I went on the quest to find the perfect bindings.
It was rather difficult. The final contenders were the Burton Lexa and the Ride Delta and Ride Beta. I was looking for one that would react better off-piste and would be more solid than my forum recon bindings.
The Burton Lexa took the podium. She looked like a good all-mountain binding that would fit perfectly with my burton boots, but even as she was rattling away about “on the toe straps” and non-tool adjustability, I remembered I’d been out with her like before and love was not in the relationship.
The Ride Delta sat cooly in the background and didn’t say a thing. He knew that if I was the right person, he wouldn’t need to give a big speech. I was at first a little dubious about his aluminium frame.. but soon his differences won me over.
So heres to a glorious relationship between snow, aluminium and bamboo.
Ride Delta RRP: £140
Arbor Push Board RRP: £350
[...] Perhaps it was my new board, or maybe it was the food and the local beer, maybe the ratherpicturesque scenery had something to do with it and that the lack of fresh snow and left-over jetlag from New Z that just melted away.. but I ♥ Switzerland! [...]