The Rome Black Label is cream of the crop, a stand alone flagship binding. It comes with Romes new composite highback which is incredibly lightweight but extremley durable. Frequently used carbon highbacks can have a tendancy to crack & break. With excellent features like their new Auxgrip toe strap which is made up of auxetic shapes. Whats that? Auxetic shapes form joints at every point meaning the material is not stressed when formed. This is made from one piece of material so you get a very lightweight toe cap which forms to the shape of any boot & grips with ease. Tread on your straps? Sick of breaking them in the cold? All Rome bindings have a tension system to keep the strap out of the way so you dont stand on them when strapping in. Simply set the seperate stretchy PU strap & it will always pull out of the way when open, CLEVER! The Vrod base plate is brand new for The Rome Black Label with the highest glass content in their range with 45% glass fibre added to stiffen the chassis for extra response. Vrod helps smooth this with zones of thicker & thinner foam, thicker under the binding from inside front to outside rear & thinner on the opposite two corners. This is there to allow the board to flex naturally without the binding creating a dead spot under foot. With this & a mini disk Rome get the hard contact area down to just 1.56%! Rome are firm belivers that customisation matters. The Black label echos that Customise your bindings endlessly with the pivot mount max. Offering 64 different positions for the ankle strap to sit in so you can either drive more power, enable more tweak, position it further back for more tension or forward for a looser ride. Canting in the footbeds, canting in the highback (or not, you choose!), adjustable chassis & multi point footbed & ladder setups, customisation matters!