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Union - MC Metafuse?

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#1 · (Edited)
Anyone have any experience with this light weight binding. I have a Ride Highlife UL and was looking for an Ultralight binding or Flow's NX-GT's.

I read a couple of reviews about last years Metafuse breaking on everyone who reviewed. Don't know if others who DIDN'T review had that experience.

Anyone have an opinion on the binding that has one or even ridden with the binding?
 
#3 ·
The MC rules. It's the binding I use the most, and use it with all types of riding. It's incredibly light and rides like a dream.

Last season we had a very isolated issue with Heelcups. Those things are injected in Italy, shipped to Canada where they get Nano coated, then shipped to China for assembly. A huge pain in the butt. Basically what happened is during "step 1" of injection whoever was running the injection machine that morning didn't allow the tooling to heat up long enough. Keep in mind that we only make about 400 pairs of these. I think we estimated that 20-25 of them were faulty, which all ended up in the US. So that 25 or so pair all happened within about a 5 minute span. That's how precise things need to be.

The problem wasn't anything to do with design or material and it's not going to happen again.

Wait till you guys see what we have for next year. Oh man!
 
#5 ·
We usually shy away from rating our bindings for stiffness. The reason is because if you really want accuracy, you need to rate the base, highback and straps.

In the case of the MC, the base is medium and the highback & straps are medium to stiff.

Most importantly,everything comes down to personal preference. Some of our jibbing team guys like stiff bindings, and some of our guys you would assume would want stiff binders, want soft bindings. Some guys don't care, and will rip on anything they strap into.
 
#7 ·
I'm definitely not a Union rep, but I rode the 2013 Forces and Chargers last season at a C3 demo day on Stevens Pass. The Chargers were definitely the stiffer binding. It's also what the C3 guys all said.

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#14 ·
hows it going OP. I also have the ride highlife UL board and am in the market for a super light binding to match with the Ultralight board. Was curious how you liked your highlife paired with the union MC's. Its one of the bindings that I'm considering on picking up along with the Union Chargers and Burtion Diodes. Cheers!
 
#15 ·
Honestly, the Bindings were well worth the price I spent. I thought they would be too soft for my liking but I been hitting up all sorts of terrain and hauling ass in the process.

When I took the bindings out of the box I was shocked how light they actually are.

My only gripe with them was the Toe Ratchets but over time 6-7 days on them they were fine... The problem was trying to get OUT of them. It always felt stuck.

Do yourself a favor and grab em. My friend has the Diodes and they are sick as well... I Just wanted something different than Burton.
 
#19 · (Edited)
The charger from my understanding is more responsive / stiff. I haven't ridden it so I couldn't tell ya compared to my MC's. My setup I was trying it make as light as possible. But if your used to a stiff ride like the CX I'd go with the chargers. The MC's were stiff enough for me. I had C02's with my CX. But I'd say the Chargers would be more similar to Burton C60's based on the info I've read.

That Billy Goat looks sick. I wish I had the money for all these different boards / brands.
 
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