Rocker_Binding

I know what you mean about the rotation. When I started on it took me a while to establish a coordinate system so that the different types of rotations could be distinguished. I'd agree with roll but I'm not sure the Roller Binding sounds all that good. Do you think the prevalence of Rocker with other technology is a positive or negative? or just potentially confusing?

Lol. Too bad I don't have control of what's posted. I would blank out the B word you like to drop. I'm split on my michigan feelings. On the one hand I want to see you guys get back on your feet so there is a little competition in the rivalry. On the other it would be kinda of neat for OSU to beat Michigan so many time for the last game of the year to the point Michigan keeps firing their coaches and run their football program into the ground although this would mean we would have pounded you into submission and there would be no more rivalry : ( Tressel also needs to pick up his game and be a little more Woody with the trash talk. He's too PC. I'm confused why you don't like my alliteration. What verbs don't you like? rocker? rotate?

Are you talking about motion from the toe to the heel of the boot?

There is very low flex in these binding's highback.

Did you make those?

Yeah, forum had their Shaka technology last year and Burton owns forum. I'm familiar with that technology. Are you talking about the Salamon Relay bindings?

I've been working on a snowboard binding design and am looking to see what people think of it. The binding has a hinge which allows it to pivot along the length of the board (tip to tail) about 5 to 10 degrees. The hinge allows a shin s...trap to be put on the highback which gives support on toe edge turns (without the hinge you can't shift your weight tip to tail). Toe edge support is taken out of the board and your leg and is put in the binding. I'm not sure if you can put pictures here but have some up at www.rockerbinding.com . Let me know what you think.

I got your message about starting a new post on one of the other threads but for some reason I could see it in the email notification but not when I tried to go to the page. Can anyone start a new thread or post or whatever they are called? Ok. Just figured it out. Sorry. I'll start a Rocker Binding thread. I was just trying to post on some of the relevant 3-strap ones. There were several that the 3 strap was secondary to the main conversation. There is a lot more talk on this forum about 3 strap binding which I guess makes sense since carvers would care about this a lot more.

Thanks. That was a quick response. I wasn't the expedience on a 2007 post. They are heavier than normal (3 lbs 13oz each). Since I am making low quantities right now, the highback is cut from plastic sheet which is less than ideal. I think I could get the weight down for each binding down a pound if I was injection molding the plastic parts.

I saw this 2007 post on bomberonline.com forum about 3 strap bindings. I’ve come up with a similar design which has the 3 straps and a hinge for rotation. I have some pictures up at www.rockerbinding.com. I was wondering what you thought of them. I’ve been designing this as a general snowboard binding not as a race or carving binding although I think it could be done. Right now the standard angle adjustment on my binding can be set to a max of ±20º which probably isn’t enough for racing/carving. I think for higher angles the hinge would have to be shifted relative to the base plate of the binding. I posted to the thread and sent messages to some of the posters because I’m not sure what is the best way to do it for a post which is old.