Burton Cartel Re: Flex Restricted Snowboard Binding
- Darkkar Noir
- 2013
The Burton Cartel has been in snowboarding for so long it has almost become the benchmark for bindings, everyone seems to have had a set over the years & every new binding to hit the market is compared with them in one way or another. So how do they stay ahead of the game? Well, the Cartel’s are built around comfort & performance, two tenants dear to any snowboarder, which they attain using a raft of features & materials that have evolved with the bindings over their many incarnations. Performance is achieved by using Burton’s lifetime guaranteed single-component combination of short glass & nylon composite in the baseplate married to their new Living Hinge Zero-Lean Hi-Back with dialable forward lean adjustment or FLAD. Comfort is taken care of by the Auto CANT Sensory BED cushioning system with B3 Gel in the heel for those flat landings & the new Asym Reactstrap & Gettagrip Capstraps holding you in place. This particular Cartel comes with Burton’s Re: Flex disks, which are hinged to promote natural board flex & are compatible with any 4x 4 or 3D insert pattern, & comes from Burton’s restricted range, available in core snowboarding shops like Boardwise, which basically means you get an upgraded ankle strap on this binding over the regular Burton Cartel without paying a penny more! The Cartel Re: Flex Restricted has a flex rating if 7/10 making it ideal for free-riders of any ability & freestylers who ride in hard & fast.
STYLE: All-Mountain Freestyle
BASEPLATE: Single Component 30% Short-Glass/ Nylon Composite Re: Flex
HI-BACK: NEW Single-Component Canted Living Hinge Zero-Lean Hi-Back with Dial FLAD
STRAPS: NEW Asym Reactstrap & Gettagrip Capstrap
BUCKLES: Dual-Component Smooth Glide Buckles
CUSHIONING: Re: Flex Auto CANT Full BED Cushioning System with NEW Under Baseplate Dampening Pad & B3 Gel
RESPONSE: 7
Rides with any 3D or 4 Hole insert patterns as well as the Channel
Features re-ground materials in Baseplate & Hi-Back to reduce waste