New Spark Binders at the OR Show

ShredLife · **Joined:** Thu Apr 22, 2010 9:32 am **Posts:** 88

Volcom21d wrote:

http://issuu.com/zuzupopo/docs/14_sparkrnd/1

heres a peek of the actual Spark catalog for next year that I found online!

oh man - the gold is at the very end... Tesla System Baseplate Adapter Kit! FUCK YEA WILL and Spark - that is sweet!

powslash · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2013 9:23 pm

They will be selling the Tesla baseplates in a kit with brackets and heel plates. You will be able to swap heel cup and straps from your Burner/blazes. Holy shit. :bow:

Will

^Hah shredlife just said same. So sick.

philip.ak · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2013 10:30 pm

I've got two sets of size large and one size small bindings to convert plus 5 freaking decks sporting LT hardware. It's still gonna be expensive. :shock:

But a classy move in any case. Thanks Spark! :mrgreen:

WhitePine · **Posted:** Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:53 pm

barrows wrote:

Q_Surf wrote:

"Now, Burton is a corporation, driven by corporate goals first"

burton has always been corpo primarily driven by profits - which is the same m.o. as every other equipment manufacturer (incl those you love). dissing them for that is silly and naive.

Actually, your statement is untrue and invalid. I have worked in small business manufacturing for many years. The companies which make the best product, are almost always concerned with the quality of the product first, and profits second. I am not suggesting some kind of ridiculous model where business concerns are entirely avoided; what I do believe (and have seen to be true by direct experience) is that when financial concerns are the top priority, the resulting product suffers enormously. ...

I would wager this is true in just about every industry. It certainly is true in the medical device industry I work in. Financial decisions in corporations are made by people who are many levels removed from the product and the customer.

That being said, I'm not a Burton hater, but all of my resort boards except one Never Summer have been Burton. In the past 17 years I have noticed a drop in quality. I'm not sure I'll buy another ever again.

philip.ak · **Posted:** Sat Feb 09, 2013 10:33 am

Incase anyone missed it, the Edison system is pretty much dead.

Spark R&D wrote:

Over the Edison protoypes we showed last year, the Tesla bindings are easier to use, more snow tolerant, and less expensive and complicated to manufacture. We will not be continuing further Edison development; the Tesla delivers everything we need and more for all around splitboard performance.

One of the cool promises from the Edison concept was for easy DIY boards using the existing 4x4 inserts. Oh well.

chrishami · **Posted:** Sat Feb 09, 2013 1:44 pm

Volcom21d wrote:

heres a peek of the actual Spark catalog for next year that I found online!

That link was busted, try this one:

http://www.zuzupopo.com/xe/catalog/87886

PeRi · **Posted:** Sun Feb 10, 2013 3:27 pm

exactly, the Edison system will not see the light. Will mentioned that the system had issues when being on the mountains, so they decided to not release it, and take the good things they developed and adapted to their binginds creating the Tesla system.
I think it's a very wise move from Spark, if something doesn't work in the mountains, don't release it.
Many brands should learn this lesson...

about the Tesla system, I have been using the After Burner this whole weekend, and they are great! much faster and easier than the pin system, and so easy to install the crampons, even though I didn't need them... video coming soon!

bcall8 · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2012 10:07 pm **Posts:** 26

Does anyone know what the anticipated retail prices will be for the magneto bindings and the tesla adaptor kits?

Killclimbz · **Posted:** Sun Feb 10, 2013 6:07 pm

From what I understand the main problem with the Edison was that it was not self clearing of snow packed on the interfaced. You would pack it down and make it worse. So you had to clean that bitch quite a bit. Where as the Voile pucks are fairly easy to get bindings on even caked with snow.

I got a hunch Will is going to come up with a tweaked interface that addresses these issues. You just got to give the guy a little time.

Cadderly · **Joined:** Tue Apr 10, 2012 3:56 pm **Posts:** 38

Just in case you haven't checked the catalog yet--there will be an upgrade option for the current spark users. I'm not sure it will be all that much cheaper as you are mostly only using the straps and high back, but I love that they offer that!

Way to go Will!

Matt

bcrider · **Posted:** Sun Feb 10, 2013 10:38 pm

bcall8 wrote:

Does anyone know what the anticipated retail prices will be for the magneto bindings and the tesla adaptor kits?

I wanna say 385$ but dont quote me

bcrider · **Posted:** Sun Feb 10, 2013 10:45 pm

I just occurred to me that some splitters may not be aware of all the new product pics I've been posting to IG and FB.

You can check Instagram even without an iOS device here: http://instagram.com/splitboard_com

And of course FB here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/splitboardcom/45914273520

horatiu · **Posted:** Mon Feb 11, 2013 3:24 am

wanna say 385$ but dont quote me

, and the tesla adaptor kits? :bow:

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