Carving gurus, can you help me ID these bindings?

[shawndoggy]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3026/3006279001_d6817ed694.jpg?v=0

Seller says they are Oxygen bindings. Carvers almanac suggests Oxygen were rebranded Fritschi's. But I can't find any info about those. Any good? Horror stories?

[dredman]

I think that those bindings may be best used as paper weights or a door stop.

Not sure what they are but look pretty flimsy.

[b0ardski]

judging from the really crappy pic, they look like old Nitros. I think oxygen/nitro were all built by Fritschi.
The European guys would know more.

[Jrobb]

They look very similar to Snowpros...non Race model.

J

[BlueB]

Picture is really bad, but I'll take a crack on it:
Toe bails look like Fritchi,
Plate looks like Nitro,
Toe/heel blocks are hard to see... If they were cast aluminum, I would say definitely Nitros.
If plastic toe/heel blocks, they might be the older Snowpros.

As for Fritchis, I would say not too bad. But thhose are not the Fritchi model I used to have. The ones below are Fritchi.

Oxygens have somewhat thick plastic base plate, so I would say that's out too.

[paragonUE]

they bear a stark resemblance to emerys, if it wasnt for the color......

maybe a special edition/race model?

[Dr D]

They look like wild duck/ emery's to me. they make great skwal bindings if you mount them with the cants leaning out.:biggthump less stress on a skwal so less worries about breaking them.:biggthump

[mr_roboteye]

The seller is correct, they are branded as oxygen, but manufactured by snowpro. I had a pair of them on an oxygen APX years and years ago.

L8R,

Dave R.

[shawndoggy]

OK, got him to take a MUCH BETTER pic. Thoughts?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3171/3009481052_6715d87437_o.jpg

[mr_roboteye]

Hate to say "ITYS" :biggthump

later,

Dave R.

[shawndoggy]

Hate to say "ITYS" :biggthump

later,

Dave R.

Hey good eye. So are they any good? Trustworthy enough to ride?

[BlueB]

Sharp eye MrR.

Definitely Snowpros. He squished the gasket rubber in the strange way, but probably still ok.
I love Snowpros, got them on most of my AM and pow boards. Make sure he send's you all the canting/lifting shims and loads of screws that should come with them.

[mr_roboteye]

They are pretty flexy, I think the bails are a little thinner than the newer snowpro race, I wouldn't use them on a board that you want to put a lot of power into. If I had a freeride board (softboot deck), they would be fine for that. They aren't shi**y bindings, they're just not td2's,.... I mean td3's.

later,

Dave R.

[trikerdad]

BlueB, those Blax bindings bring back some memories. Had a pair blow up on me at Bachelor years ago. Caught some air off a roller under the Sunrise chair and when I landed they just exploded! When I was at a snowboard shop in town, looking for something to replace them with, one of the guys that worked there came in from a day on the mountain and started telling the clerk I was talking to about seeing someone crash and burn under the chair when his bindings blew up!

[BlueB]

Auch! But you are a well know gear destroyer ;)
Shawn has my Blax now. Hope they don't share the history of yours. They are supposed to be pretty solid - old version of F2s...

[tufty]

They are pretty flexy, I think the bails are a little thinner than the newer snowpro race, I wouldn't use them on a board that you want to put a lot of power into. If I had a freeride board (softboot deck), they would be fine for that. They aren't shi**y bindings, they're just not td2's,.... I mean td3's.

Yep, looks suspiciously like what Snowpro sold as the Snowpro BASE, I have a pair of those on my freeride deck. They are okay to ride but, as mr roboteye says, go easy on them : I was forever bending the bails on my pair when they were mounted on an alpine deck.

[Bobby Buggs]

The disc is not going in the right direction:freak3:

[mr_roboteye]

The disc is not going in the right direction:freak3:

It may have been done on purpose to bias the boot either way.

later

Dave R.