Slingshot Rad x Space Mob Wakeboard Boots: Gutting the Rads to Use a Walkable Removable Liner
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- This video is all about hacking up gear to serve your purpose. In this episode I share how I bought some Slightshot Rad bindings on sale and tore out the liner so I could use my walkable Space Mob liners with them. By going this route I have second full setup ready to go at the cable and I don't need to take my liners off my feet. In addition, I saved a bunch of cash over buying a full second set of Space Mobs. This could be a great hack if you already have RADs and wish they were walkable liners or if you are looking to have a 2nd set of boots on a 2nd board. For me, I like having the option to ride my #slingshot Volts and Space Rover depending on the mood I am in throughout the day.
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I did the same (but more carefully and reversible:)) with my KTV a year ago. I managed to get out the inner liner (using heat gun and patience:)) with a minimal damage. Added laces hooks for 20$ in a shop. Covered velcro with another velcro(soft part). Works just great and reversible (just remove velcro cover and laces and put it together).
Nice. I tried a hair dryer but wasn’t getting anywhere. Probably need a legit heat gun to do it that way and a lot of patience haha. For the $170 I was in on them i’m happy with where I ended up. Feels perfect with the liner in.
Nice seeing someone hacking wakeboard boots. After 3 pairs of rads I gave up on Slingshot boots, despite loving their K9 fix system (The complexity does not bother me, and I love the flexibility allowing to fine tune position: it gives you an almost-flextrack precision in stance width even on boards with not that many inserts,, and add centering adjustment as a bonus) and also the gummy straps. However, their fit went from tight but OK in 2020/2021 to too small and painfull in 2022 when they added the second gummy strap, on the same size same model. The front of the shoe got too narrow for me and has a painful pressure point near the new gummy strap. But the main reason is that they are too fragile: I teared off the liner at the heel after one cable season on each pair (maybe after 20 times 2h), and pulled off the boot from the base one my second pair (really bad suction on a backroll, even submarining, but the boot should handle that if it happen especially as it cost me a boot on one side and a knee ligament on the other side).
Soo many riders got boot/base separation toward the heel after 1 or 1.5 season at my local cable that it can be considered an inherent flaw, not a freak failure: boot/base stiching/gluing is weak.
I went to a more traditional boot, with much less adjustment but better fit, lighter and hopefully more durable (I think it will be, I got a crash that would have teared my rad off it's base almost for sure hand here the boot didn't flinch, contrary to my ankle ;-) ). However, I miss the gummy straps (new boots have a velcro strap, very well positioned on the boot, but velcro is not as nice as gummy strap: it does not stay tight), so I think of a hack getting the straps from my destroyed rad to replace the velcro of the new boot. Waiting for the end of warranty of my new boots to try, if I manage to do this boot transplant surgery cleanly enough I may post the result ;-)...
Yeah I noticed the Rads fit smaller than my spacemob shell with the same internal liner. That is a bummer though that you’ve had so many issues with them. Which traditional boot did you end up switching to? I think hacks are worth it especially if you don’t have a ton of money wrapped up in them. Agree the gummy straps are nice.
@@LifetimeShred DUP costa, their boot with lace and non-removable liner (Yep I'm very old school (and also very old - period ;-) ), I like walkable liner when walking back to the dock, but absolutely hate the sensation swimming with those...and I like the strong lock-in feeling provided by good sized fixed liner, something I never really found on removable liner or worse, system bindings. DUP Costa feel nice after 1 session, contrary to the rad they fit larger so better to downsize a little bit compared to shoes, which my vendor correctly advised. They are very light and with nice support, the velcro is used to keep your heel down rather that tighten the boot....But traditional base, so the positioning is not as flexible as I loved on the rad....
I'm suing you, Rich! Just damaged these damn boots! Oh wait, I don't ride cable. Never mind, LOL!
Don’t ride cable yet***. Haha
Do you think the KTVs would be able to remove the liner?
Yeah, another guy below (@Handyretouch) did similar to a pair of KTVs.