If your Arbor has GripTech then its similar. If you are used to rocker boards it will be a slight transition, If you have never ridden Magnetraction before thats another adjustment. Thanks for reading, I hope you found this useful.Camber + Magnetraction + Ice Coast= Awesome. If you have similar and/or different experiences, it'd be interesting to hear them. If you have questions that I didn't answer, I'll do my best to respond to them. If I can think of anything else I'll edit this review. That said, I believe they could be used for a wide-variety of terrain/riding styles and that is exactly what I intend to use them for - everything and anything despite the fact I have both Union and Flux bindings at my disposal. Overall: I would highly recommend these bindings for anyone looking for an all-around, highly adjustable, do-it-all oriented binding (if you can't adjust these to meet your boot/board requirements, well it won't be the fault of the bindings I can say). I rode a few days from first chair until the lifty told us last chair and I could easily have ridden longer - these bindings are that comfortable. There isn't a lot of B3 gel in the baseplate, and I can't distinguish any EVA dampening visually, but you can simply feel that there is a significant amount of cushion/dampening in these bindings. Regardless, my stance angle combined with these bindings felt absolutely great. Because of this, I'd like to say the Autocant worked but the truth is I don't know if it did.
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BURTON PARKITECT 2015 REVIEW FULL
Since the PYL is a longer board than my last one, I found myself setting up my stance a full inch and a half wider. Well built, and if you ask around, very few if anyone ever has issues with Burton binding hardware like buckles.Ĭushioning: The main features of this binding in this area are Autocant, B3 Gel inserts, and built-in EVA dampening. As for buckles, they are smooth operating both closing and opening and I experienced nothing bad to say about them in my time thus far. The Gettagrip Capstrap toe strap is simply put, the best one in the business in my view. Perhaps others would like this feature, but I don't. To get around this, I found myself closing the binding strap anyway, defeating the purpose of this technology. When I get off a lift line I put my foot where other people put their stomp pads (I just don't use one) and I found that the flex-slider makes it so the heel strap is always lying across the exact spot I would want to put my back foot when I get off a chair-lift. I must say, this low-level technology does indeed work but I didn't like it.
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This is supposed to make entry into the binding that much easier because you aren't constantly moving the heel strap out of the way to strap-in. This feature designs a crease into the strap so that when fully opened, it stays that way instead of springing back towards the closed position. The heel strap has a feature that Burton are really promoting this year called 'Flex-Slider'. There is excellent padding on the heel strap and there are absolutely zero pressure-points.
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Others may have as good on some models, but no other company does this any better than Burton IMO. Straps: What can you say about Burton straps? Pretty much the standard in the industry in my experience.
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The high-backs are canted, which I didn't really feel physically, but is a good idea in my view since pretty much any stance set-up will have your legs at some angle other than perpendicular to the base-plate of the binding. Nevertheless, the high-back gives excellent support and I found it to be perfectly comfortable (and a great fit with my boots). Hi-Back: This is advertised as a one-piece high-back, but if you want to get technical, the forward lean adjustment screw should count as two pieces. Obviously these bindings come with two sets of discs and are 100% compatible with all commercially available common board mounting systems. Straps: Lightweight Reactstrap™, NEW Flex Slider, Gettagrip Capstrap™Ĭushioning: Re:Flex AutoCANT FullBED Cushioning System, NEW Under-Baseplate EVA Dampening, B3 Gel, Features Re-Ground Materials to Reduce Wasteħ/10 on Burton 'Feel' Rating where 1 is the softest and 10 the stiffest.īaseplate: Has the living-hinge baseplate disk supposedly to offer more feel and flexibility but being as the PYL is so damn stiff on its own (one of the reasons I bought it) this feature was difficult for me to test/experience. Hi-back: Single-Component Hi-Back Construction, Living Hinge™ Hi-Back, Zero Forward Lean HI-Back, Canted Hi-Back Design, DialFLAD™ Baseplate: Single-Component Baseplate Construction, 45% Short-Glass/Nylon Composite, Re:Flex™ Baseplate Construction, Re:Flex™ Bindings, Compatible with all Major Mounting Systems