To complete our stoke-sharing from the weekend, here’s the Ride ‘Bandita Contraband’.

While we don’t wanna call ourselves lazy, we do believe in making things as easy as possible – if that’s possible. So speaking about bindings, why should you have to close two straps if you can also just close one? And Ride’s contraband technology really works, as the mesh thingy in the front isn’t only made from stretchy material, that snuggles in around your boot, but is also rather sticky so it can’t slip off while you’re looking the other way. The highback is flexy while still responsive and the footbeds are super comfy as well, the only downside you could find here being the fact that you can’t change the heel cup – but most riders won’t need that anyway.

The perfect choice for lapping the park – and again, and again, and again – or just being quicker than anyone else after the lift! But make sure to get them NOW as a little birdy told us they won’t be reproduced in 2012/13…