back speed strapp

it seems that a lot of guys are running there back strap across the board because there arn't any wide strapps on the market, and at times you will find two back strapps are to wide and one isn't wide enough, after chatting to mr love i made him up a strapp 100mm wide, its only a proto and up to him to modify it, like cut it down or resand it, but there is enough strapp to work with
you will notice the difference in the standard gaastra strap

mathew i sent mr love some bits and pieces to show him how there done , his strap was a bit of an over kill on the layup and is very stiff and weighs 70grams the ones on my board are allso stiff but 40 grams
martin said he will have it on his board for speed week so you can check it out then

The wide back strap is nothing new, my old bic allegro speed board from the early 90's had a wide strap and i'm pretty sure neil pryde also made them at the same time.

thanks for the info jimbob im sure there would be guys out there wanting to get there hands on them , you know jimbob the reason for this post is "weight", the normal gaastra strap holds 50 grams of water so i would imagine a conventional wide strap would hold 100grams, the kevlar strap weighs 73grams all up and there is an over kill in the laminate, the strap could weigh 50grams

as you can see the CA is now sailing about 800 grams lighter wet

thats true mathew you know the way i see it is where i sail you need boots till about october and after that you don't need them, so if you have the two possitions because your foot doesnt get any bigger or smaller not like your guts over winter

mathew it could be done but the way i see it the strap would have to be cut in 1/2 , these straps are around 35 to 40 brams and stiff and im happy with that like keep it simple