Eliminate boot drag forever?! // Snowboard binding riser pads review: Padride

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Video description / background:
Riser pads to lift snowboard bindings higher off the board have been around forever, but disappeared for a while from the mainstream market. A small company from Poland, Padride, recently came up with a new design of an old idea, and they did very well!
Check out this review, if you simply can't eliminate boot drag with any available board width, or if you want to make your board change edges a little quicker, because it's on the wider side of the spectrum and acts a little sluggish.

00:00 Intro / What is Padride?
01:33 First riding impressions
04:08 A closer look / Back from the slopes...
05:05 The riser pads
11:08 Who are theses pads really for?
13:40 Padride, the company
14:03 10% OFF Padride with the code in the video description!

[wildwest]

Risers also help people with smaller feet ride wider board. I wear a size 7 boot and some of my boards have between 26 cm and 27cm waist width. I used Donek plates to give me more leverage. They work very well.

[threeohm]

I'd love some canted riser plates though. Like the Donek risers but with some slope towards the center of the board. 🎉

[threeohm]

I installed some Donek riser plates last year on a board and really liked them. Used them to allow a narrower stance width than my bindings/board inserts would allow.

[patthesoundguy]

I'm all about risers on boards, I have a set of the old Burton risers on my 181 Supermodel and I made a set for one of my Burton Alps out of Ikea cutting boards. I absolutly love the feel of risers and add the hard boots and I'm a happy guy.

[neverinsideguy]

Much love for my The Bomber Power Plate system on my Pipeliner 1.0. That's a heavy setup, yet once I'm making turns I can't feel the weight anymore.

Thanks for creating awareness of this PadRide tech! Now that I'm on riseer plates, I carve deeper then ever. I've noticed that on all of my boards that are at least rocking 260 - 269mm of waist width, I boot out without my risers on groomers. I have size 13 feet, so riser plates have been a game changer for me!

I hope to eventually ride a Pipeliner 2.0 and compare it with the orginal. I don't think I'd need a plate system with 275 mm of waist width. 🤙 I've yet to try a volume shifted board too. Eventually!!

[dlabmobiledetailing]

Those look like nice plates. I bought T-Plates last year and absolutely love them. Plates make a huge difference for carving and make my narrower boards much more rideable.

[rideordietheyretringtranx]

25 years later, laughs in Palmer plates circa 1992

[sattvicvelo]

Would be cool if you could get toe/heel raise plates. I went ahead and bought alpine UPZ boots and SG board and bindings for this season. Seems the easy choice for carving

[ShredAheadSnowboarding]

Again my friend we seem to have many similar experiences; last season I broke out my Palmer risers and put them on my Amplid Morning Glory 162 just to see what they would do to the ride? They are not as high above the deck as the one's you just showed, plus the threaded screws used to attach the binding screws into sometimes loosen up allowing extra play under foot. However overall it showed an earlier use of the edge on both toe and heel side entries; so it was of some help especially since the board under the rear foot had a greater taper and I have that size 12/29.5 or so sizing to deal with depending on the direction I set the back foot at. Anyway we always enjoy you commentary, thanks!

[aaalllen]

I'm definitely reminded of Palmer Plates, but taller and the wings aren't as wide.

[CLGill]

I tried the Donek riser plates last year and although they do give you more available angle, they also reduce too much of the board feel for my liking. Too damp and reduces torsional flex for ankle steering IMO. I decided to just order a custom board with enough width to solve the problem (30cm).

[ColindeSilva]

would be interesting if they offered some canting for very wide stances.

[TheDerekHyde]

I’ve only tried risers once, and it was on one of Cherry’s ultra wide boards. I really didn’t like it. It felt very detached, but also very tippy while on edge… like stacking my weight over the edge was now a balancing act. It was just a couple of runs so maybe I’d get use to it, but my first impression was that nothing else had ever messed with my sense of balance so much.

[RobertoVillaLobby]

This would make drag almost impossible with my current boots/bindengs i think. And Somehow they haven't put any dampening material on the bottom of the Nidecker Supermatic Carbon, so this might be a good fix for that as well.

[cbp]

Maybe one day we see "the light" and use normal hard boots on normal riser and canting plates. For the once in a lifetime carving experience...

[rideordietheyretringtranx]

with risers:

wide boards decrease edging power(ie like ryan knaptons extra ultra wide boards) hence a narrower board with risers works ''like" a wide board, but avoids leverage over the edge decreases, but benefits the need to avoid boot drag

[maness]

I have size 7.5 boot. Ill be seeing myself out.

[brohammer]

Interesting. I wonder how much extra stress will be on the mounting holes and the snowboard overall

[ontheotherside]

im so jelly tou are boarding already!!😮

[renatovolpi]

I wonder how these work in powder, any experience doing so?