PM ChrisNZ if you want more info. Thats his project. Also on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/RangerBindings?fref=ts

Some cool bindings made right here in NZ.

very slick!!! I like to see the progression of a product, you tend to appreciate the end result that much more.

Looking good Chris, you are making great progress there, well done. Like the noise/dust enclosure too, good kiwi built stuff!

This is a very interesting and exciting design. Way to push forward with innovation. I like the forward-positioned touring pivot and skeletal base plate.

Some questions:

What’s the weight of the entire system?

Are stance angles limited? If so, to what range?

Did you design the touring bracket (the piece mounted to the board) or is at an AT system?

How does the binding connect to the touring bracket? Is it a one-step pin system?

Does the forward-wrapping heal cup inhibit lateral boot flexibility?

Is the portion fore of the heel cup necessary to the structural integrity of the binding, or could it be removed with little consequence?

Does this system have a touring-mode (or ski-mode) heel lock-down?

@chrisNZ wrote:

@Taylor wrote:

Did you design the touring bracket (the piece mounted to the board) or is at an AT system?
Built it. Its to tech binding standards for the pin widths/size.

Does the forward-wrapping heal cup inhibit lateral boot flexibility?
Experimenting with the sidewalls. I like them, but will find out what others think first. They are not as high as the seem in the pictures. The base connection also provides lateral flex and allows board flex.

This is very exciting. If I’m reading this correctly it means that you are very close to having one interface that works with softboots and hardboots that just uses different bindings but the same touring bracket and the same ride interface. That’s a big improvement for people who want to go back and forth.

Thanks for understanding that some flex in the binding is a good thing. :thumbsup:

Yes it’s very ridged toe 2 heel and the pucks allow lateral flex at the binding. On to the hard parts straps and
ratchets

Looking at the latest picture in the thread I suspect that I would bend those heel cups where they mount to the heel of the baseplate. It would most likely happen hitting a small windlip in flat light and rolling over the nose or trying to jump off of a small drop and washing out onto the tail.

I’ve bent or broken most of the aluminum bindings I’ve ever had from Preston, Sims, K2, Drake, and Karakoram. Sometimes it’s wear out failure but usually it’s from a tumbling fall, a few times it was from landing hard with a lot of forward lean. I’m a skeptic when it comes to metal heel cups. I know it makes sense from a design stand point and I was just offering up some feedback on places to look to reinforce the Ranger bindings. That aside, I do like the direction that they are going, especially with the dynafit standard touring bracket.

Thanks Jason this is good feed back. I will be trying different profiled side walls and testing the gear hard, i think any binding should be able to handle going over the handle bars or falling out the back on a drop and still provide good lateral support when riding/skinning.

Cool looking interface, actually not unlike what Sparks was looking at doing with the edison. I like the universal TLT toe piece. It makes me wonder if you’re also working on a plate binding that works with your interface. I was also wondering if you’re looking at a heel lock in tour mode.

Any idea whey these bad boyz will be available?