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Back to the chalk board dude. You have a worthless design if it cannot operate in a 0 to 90 degree range.

You have cant and lift incorporated, right?

I disagree,
If you could accommodate + - 25 degree angles the vast majority of riders could use it. Adjustability, always has tradeoffs in a design, if you come up with one design that fits everyone it's going to be heavier and less user friendly than it needs to be. My vote is to have many models, which is more of a pain from a manufacturer's point of view, but can allow different types of riders to have a setup that is optimized for them. I don't need any cant and lift adjustment on my setup, to me it would just be extra stuff.

My $0.02

I'm going to wholeheartedly disagree with that statement as well.

Wouldn't 90 degrees be a ski stance cat jockey?

In a perfect world it would be nice if a new system could accommodate all of our needs but in the real world I don't think it's in the cards. The reality is that only a small percentage of snowboarders run angles beyond 30 degrees. Having said that, it doesn't make sense to design a new system around the needs of the smallest percentile.

Sorry bro...hardbooters with 50 degree angles aint even on the radar.

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Sorry bro...hardbooters with 50 degree angles aint even on the radar. [/quote] I'm on your radar baby! Just 'cause I wasn't watching you, well, you know, I'll catch you!

Soft boots??!! I'd rather take up the monoski!

That has the makings of a great t-shirt.

John is my hero due to his inventiveness in the garage to create the gear that he wants to ride, not because I'm crossing over to hardboots, angles over 45 degrees and compound cant plates. Which brings up the question about the interface issue in general - soft booters and hard booters are looking for different things in their ride, would it not make sense for there to be a different interfaces for the hardbooters and the softbooters? Food for thought.

Will has a good comment about interfaces. The reality is that we will, for some time at least, have to modify anything we use for the split setup. Even when I rode soft boots (yes, I did!) there was always something missing from the puzzle for me. A cant/heel lift shim for my rear foot binding was the one thing I needed and never found. If somebody had told me about the old Burton cant back then I would have been in heaven! I could have kissed heel lift in my boots goodbye, the one thing I suffered from even at 20f/10r. Everyone is different and their biomechanical needs vary, and any interface design will need to accomodate that factor.