Hey Rico,
The xl’s will be available probably some time in November or December, I won’t even get my bindings from bent metal until the 2nd or 3rd week in october. I’ll do my best to scoot on those, I didn’t realize how many bigfoots where out there, but now they seem to be coming out of the woodwork. So you can compare sizes, you can see the dimensions of my baseplates here:

Compare those to your current bindings and let me know if they are too small for you. For those of you that are metrically inclined 9 9/16″ = 24.3 cm, 5 1/16 = 12.9 cm, and 4 3/8 = 11.1 cm. On the width you need to allow about 3.8″ (9.5mm) for the strap and highback hardware that mounts inside of the baseplate channels.

There’s snow in the Bridgers!

Have a good one everybody

Thx Shep, you chimed in while I was writing this. Go see the thrillheads on October 3rd in Boston, I’ll tell them to bro you a t-shirt. Speaking of distractions, I spent all day working on a promo vid to send those guys. We got back from shooting and all of the footage was messed up due to a screwed up camera! Arrrrrgh! Oh well, practice I guess. Hopefully the vid will be done by the time you see the show, enjoy!

ale_capone: Here’s a proto of what you’re talking about from the year before last:

This dilly needs some work, it concentrates the load where the aluminum puck is, so it can bend the horseshoe pieces on the bottom of the binder. A system like this would be cool if you had a huge quiver of boards, you could quick change bindings between boards depending on the day. It’s something I might look into in the future, but I think most of the people around here would like me to finish some other things first.

ikkin: You’re in luck. The good people at bent metal have been thinking of girly calves. There are two vertical positions for the highback. The following pic shows telegirl’s size 7 boots in last year’s missionary bindings (geometry is the same as this year’s). If that’s still too tall it’s nothing that a jig saw couldn’t take care of. In the lower position the top of the highback is 9.25 above the baseplate, in the upper position it’s 9.8 inches above.

Keep those questions coming folks, you’re helping me think of what to put on my website for when it gets its sorely needed update.

Everything is on order right now and should start showing up at my doorstep next week. It will take me a little while to get the assembly rolling but I may have sets available this month, if not for sure in November. I’ll let you guys know when I’m ready to start filling orders. Thanks for your patience!

@mooney wrote:

Definitely interested in a pair of red splitbinders… I live in bozeman and will be looking for u @ the pray for snow party friday. cheers.

Good deal Mooney, glad to hear you like what you’ve seen. There’s been a slight change of plans, I was planning on hanging with the Thrillheads at the pray for snow party, but there was some kind of fiasco with that deal, so now return to schralptown will be playing at the frozen earth film festival next thursday at the Emerson. So I’ll be at the frozen earth film festival, and not at the pray for snow party, at least as far as setting up a table and talking to people goes. Pigeon John is playing there though, and he’s freakin’ awesome, so I might have to check that out. We’ll be at Bioneers this weekend, and it’s starting to rain so Sacajawea will probably be really good this weekend too, so who knows exactly where we’ll end up. I think it makes more sense to hang out at the FEFF anyway, the PFSP is mainly to get people psyched on riding moonlight, while the FEFF is going to show more BC related films.

DFT: Here’s the press release for the FEFF:

Frozen Earth Film Festival Film screening Thursday, October 25, 2007 7:00 pm Crawford Theater Frozen Earth film selections are not the standard industry driven infomercials filled with sponsored athlete highlight clips. Typical films are engaging pieces from talented lesser known filmmakers who lack the funding required for traditional film tours. Past movies have included Sinners, Waiting Game, and breathe.
This year’s headliner, BELIEVE, the new film from Montana native, Tanner Hall will have you believing there’s more to Tanner’s skiing than terrain parks and halfpipes. Tanner and friends, Seth Morrison, CR Johnson, Kye Peterson, Sean Pettit, Callum Pettit and Ian Provo prove that the backcountry is the ultimate terrain park. Award winning MSU Film graduate, Arden Oksanen brings his latest adventure travel documentary, “CASTEL”- (C.ulture A.dventure S.port T.ravel E.ducation L.ife). as part of the film series as well as Thrillhead Creations
“Return to Schralptown” and the People’s Choice winner of the 2007 Cold Smoke Awards will also be shown.

Here’s the PFSP:
Pray for Snow Party at the Fairgrounds Oct. 20

Moonlight Basin, in conjunction with the Gallatin County Fairgrounds and Big Sky Brewing, is throwing one big Pray for Snow Party on Saturday, Oct. 20, following the Snow Expo. All winter sports enthusiasts are invited to this second annual event featuring live music, ski movie premieres, barbecue, raffle prizes and the Burning Dog bonfire, all to usher in a great 2007/08 winter season.

From 3 to 7 p.m., a team from Moonlight Kids will lead activities for children and families to coincide with the Snow Expo. These include pumpkin painting, paper airplane making contests, putt-putt golf and more and are free to those holding a Snow Expo ticket.

Beginning at 7 p.m., the official Pray for Snow party gets under way at the fairgrounds. The Clintons, an energetic, humor-driven four-piece, band with five albums to their credit, open the show. Taking the stage next is Pigeon John, a popular Los Angeles-area rapper who has recorded four studio albums as a solo artist, as well as several others as a member of the groups like the L.A. Symphony and Brainwash Projects. He has been tagged “classic by the underground, and influenced by De La Soul to the Beatles.â€