@ jonny,
So the heels are spendy. Like $70 or more? That stinks. And there is also an additional adapter? Also, that seems like a ton of torque being applied to a screwed in piece of plastic. Does anyone have safety problems with step ins. Like the heel ripping off or something? Even when screwed down, in a hard wreck if you torque it hard I could see any threads holding a heel on getting ripped out. The reason I was hoping to go this route is that the set up i wanted to buy is in my price range. Board and step ins for 250. If I can pick up boots for less than a hundred bucks i'd be happy. Is that realistic? Also I had another random question. I managed to find some oldschool asymmetrical board on craigs list. Its a Burton race board from the 90's. The board looked very similar to what the guys were riding in the catapult hard attack vids. It had soft boot bindings set up on it. Those guys weren't using softies were they? they were going so fast I couldn't tell but it almost looked like they were. At any rate. Those guys were shredding harder than I've ever seen on those boards. And on all different terrains. Could you have that kind of versatility with any alpine board. Considering how old those vids are, if I could get into a cheap set of gear like what they were using so I could shred hard just about anywhere and lay it over I would be super stoked.