Tech
Bon Hiver’s FBS allows you to strap-in at the base of the mountain once for the entire day and never have to worry about undoing any of your hard work getting in. We like to make things simple: strap in both bindings, reach down, disengage the lock, rotate your foot, step out, and start skating to the lift. When you’re ready to lock back in, do it in reverse. Simply line your foot up angled to the board plate and twist your foot to lock. Once you have both bindings locked, dismount the lift, blow past your friends miserably strapping-in, and ride.
Later on, if you get stuck on any flats, quickly disengage the back binding, skate and then step back into the board plate to rotate, lock the binding and keep riding. Easy always does it.
Rock Solid Hold
Nubs, cams, caps and springs are the name of the game for the inner-workings of the Bon Hiver Freebase™ Binding System (“FBS”).
Let’s start off with the cams. Rock climbers have used cam designs in their gear for years to stay secured to cliff faces and alive in case of a fall. And, in the FBS, they’ll keep the your binding secured firmly in the baseplate and keep you riding. The beauty of the design is simply that the more you wrangle and move, the tighter and firmer the lock gets.
The cams interact with the nubs on the bottom of the freebase to keep the binding 100% in place on the FBS. These nubs protrude from the toe and heel on the bottom of the freebase and slide under the toe and heel caps where they engage the cams in the baseplate. Springs then work in conjunction with the cams to counteract the rotational force of the nubs when the rider locks in and helps make sure that the “back door is closed.” While the cams work to prevent counter-rotation of the nubs to ensure that the binding can’t rotate out, the caps then help prevent vertical retrograde, which is a fancy way of saying they’ll keep your binding from coming off the baseplate.
Now, the FBS is locked, loaded and ready to ride. If technical jargon isn’t your thing, see the videos of how it works
