been using the chinhook boge for 3 seasons now.... (time 4 a new 1)

this are the only uj's that have never failed me.


ALTHOUGH i wish they'd put the bolt in the centre instead of off set,,,, it's f**ks up the paintwork on all my boards

The best boge is the one you change every year.

+1 for Chinook s.s. tendon uj.

Tentative +1 for the chinook europin tendon. The new tendons are softer than the old (streamlined) ones that everyone loved or hated. The chinook has quite a wide load dispersal area in the base whereas most of the brands using boge have really small base areas. I haven't really looked into how bases share the load though- if the base disperses load through most of the base plate or whether it just point loads the centre (I dont imagine this would be the case though). That all said I still use boge's on my waveboards, I cant say they are any softer on landing jumps/through the chop than the tendon but they are 3 dimensionally a bit softer (if that makes sense).

Brass is not entirely unsuited to the purpose- chinook and others used it for years with their old hourglass type uj's and they didn't fail the same way. I had a boge fail where the nut was some dodgy white metal which just crumbled with corrosion then split the rubber- thought it was weird since all the boge replacement bits where all brass and had been for a longtime prior to that. If the brass insert is staying in one piece maybe it's the rubber isn't suited to the purpose. The problem is that when the boge's fail like that there is no failsafe- there is nothing holding the webbing in place so sail just seperates from board.

NotWal

are you onto Chinook and off boge joints yet??

I don't know how to post pictures of the failed three piece Boge joint, or I would.

Rubber U.J.'s must vary in construction so which are fully one piece (like the Kinetic - are you sure?) and which are not?

Withe Boge, the top and bottom are seemingly moulded around the metal (or plastic) inserts) seperately then glued to the main central body with a thinner continuous rubber sleeve glued all around, so that it appears to be one piece.

If other makes are truly one piece (and safer) how do they manufacture them? Is it really possible?