UNION 0708 VIDEO

I want them.

Too bad I already got cartels..

i love unions, but minimal hardware?  yeah right.  they have twice as many pieces as the average burton, for example.  i counted.  heres a more realistic picture, same bindings (forces)

no no, i wasnt saying anything bad about union.  and i wasnt saying more parts is bad, either.  i was only saying they dont have "minimal hardware."

dont get me wrong, i love union, and i agree that they feel minimal.

nope, they dont.  forces vs the standard burton, it was something like 46 to 26.  unions have way more parts no matter how you look at it.  the union baseplate alone is 8 pieces NOT including hardware (nuts/bolts), while a burton baseplate is only two.

me too.  i finally got to ride my forces today.. havent ridden forces for about a year and a half, maybe more.  still rad.

and i have datas on my 09 fish, so im stoked on that too.  i figured out a way to make unions work with ICS without it being weird.

yep.  its not that hard either.

i did it last year for my friend when he borrowed my custom ICS.. the ICS disks fit in the union baseplates (though its pretty tight) but it works.  we just put those straight in, and then put that baseplate cover thing on.  the problem was that the ICS disk with padding and the bolts that stick out were pushing up on the union baseplate cover thing, but it still worked.

so now what ive done is taken the padding off the ics disk (if you get under the adhesive, it peels perfectly off).  then i put the union baseplate cover thing on were i wanted it, and then hit it straight down a few times to try to make an impression where the ICS hardware was sticking up.

then i took the baseplate cover thing off, circled the marks from the hardware in pen, and then took a drill with a big drill bit, and at an angle, i carved out a dome in the plastic of the baseplate cover for the hardware to fit up into, so then the cover could lay flat on the baseplate.

anddddd it worked!

ps - baseplate cover thing is not a technical term.. i dont know what to call it.  but you know what im talking about?

i would have called it a gas pedal, but its not just a gas pedal since it covers the whole baseplate except for the very back (heel).

i tried it without it and it would work, but the sole of my boots goes up a little in the middle so the bolts kinda have a place to fit.  but then without the gas pedal/padding, you lose.. well, just that.  gas pedal and padding.  so i wanted to keep it on.

this is a sweet video i have the union forces and i love them

Ahh I want these bindings so bad. Anyone got 08 ones they wanna sell me? :) Too bad I got my cartels too early, ah well 2 pairs of bindings can't hurt me:)

I'm getting contacts from union, but not forces. sorry.