Hi looking to get some bindings for my new Jones hovercraft. Tried it at the weekend with my union sl's and it was great however I do get tired of swapping bindings around and the unions tend to live on my nidecker. Was thinking about getting a set of next year's Now drives as I here they've made some good improvements. Has anyone ridden this combo or got any other recommendations? Cheers.
Drives or selects would be killer. I'd be more partial to selects for that surfy feel. I run drives on my ultralight and they feel like a perfect match for a stiffer deck.
Just picked up a Hovercraft the other day myself and I plan on running my Now Selects on it. You can pick up IPO's for around $170 on sale. I can't recommend the Now's highly enough.
A lot of it is going to depend on personal preference regarding flex.
Is it your only board? If you have bindings that you're already happy with, it takes 2 minutes to swap them for a pow day.
Picked up a pair of Union Factory dirt cheap so they'll be living on the Hovercraft will be interested to see if the canted footbeds make any difference.
OK, I have a question for those splitboarders out there...
if setting up the Spark Tesla bindings with the Voile pucks, are the "Puck Gaskets" used at all? they don't get mentioned in the Tesla setup instructions..
The "puck gaskets" are these thin soft rubber thinggies? They are set up under the pucks to reduce vibration (hard rubber pucks directly on hard top sheet would vibrate), not matter if Tesla or not.
It's bit of a fiddling process to set the pucks up, aligned correctly and with the right angles matching the inserts... put the pucks on the alignment plate and play around with the insert slots, you may need to turn the discs 90° or 180° to match the inserts for your desired angle. If you have both disks matched perfectly, you may want to put a tape on them to fix them temporary on the alignement plate cos they shouldn't move a mm or they won't fit the inserts anymore or you begin all over again . Then adjust the gaskets to fit under the pucks and attach the pucks. Done.
The first times it will take some force (i was swetting and swearing a lot) to slide the bindings on the pucks, don't be surprised if bit of material is scraped off of the pucks. Move the bindings back n forth several times at home, till they glide easily (you don't want to have to do this in the cold derp snow on the mtn during transition ).
BTW: your split questions are a bit hidden in this thread... other splitboarders would surely have hints as well but probably won't read this thread. You may want to start a split thread...?
I installed the pucks last night without the gaskets and things seem OK. Of course, that is without actually riding. It's weird that the spark directions made no mention of them.
I guess a new thread could be good.
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