Discontinued for 2012 Advanced to Expert All Mountain to Freeride The Ride Double Agent is another good do everything binding from Ride. The Double Agent is basically the Ride NRC from 2010 with a new name and slightly different footbed. Ride's High end foot beds are some of our favorites when it comes to shock absorption. Most of us are in our late 20's or 30's and our knees have a lot of mileage so we love to see a shit ton of shock absorption and dampening on the footbeds. Ride also added a canted foot bed to make it easier to ride a snowboard on your body and hips. It also adds a little more control. Another nice piece of tech that has been around for a little bit is the ability to adjust the stiffness of the ankle strap. So this is like the Rome Targa when it comes to a mood binding. If your in the mood for a more freestyle change the strap. For a freeride ride then stiffen it up. All in all we are happy to see the NRC take shape in the double agent.
The Good Ride Take on Ride Snowboards They are from the same parent company as K2 and have many similarities in terms of board design and company policy. Ride’s customer service is better than K2’s and actually has a # to call on their site instead of just an on-line form. Ride, like K2 seems almost secretive when it comes to having third party entities like us or end users like you review their gear. So many companies like Burton, Rome, YES, Arbor ect. are really proud of their gear and try to do everything they can to get you to ride them. Ride seems to do the bare minimum and despite its large size has very few demo products. Their policy seems to be if you want to try it you have to buy it. Ride chooses mainly to work with variations of flat/rocker snowboards but has recently started to work with hybrid camber. Their hybrid camber is different than YES and Rossignol and leans more on the flat camber side of things but we still like to see them go in this direction. We have found that we like some of their shapes but other boards we weren’t fans of . Like K2 Ride’s rocker shapes always seem to be pretty flat between the feet and it makes for one of the better rocker set up out there. Ride makes pretty good bindings and many people swear by them. They have more parts than most bindings but all in all they do a very good job despite the fact that a lot of the binding is metal. We are big fans of the canted foot bed but can’t say we are a fan of their Contraband strap system. They make good boots that last for a long time but boots are so personal all we can speak to is their build and longevity.
Dual duty for anywhere your day may take you, the Double Agent bindings will stoke out all walks of snowboarding life. The CustomFlex™ ankle strap allows you to fine tune the feel of your strap to best suit conditions, while the Wedgie™ 3.0 & 4.0 footbeds provide options to add drive and control or max out the pop factor. Combined with the new 3D ThinGrip™ toe strap and FreeFlex Plus highback, this high-end binder offers custom flex like no other.
STYLE: All Mountain
COLORS: Chrome
SIZES: Medium (5-8), Large (8-11), Extra Large (11-15)
