2015 Gear Thread

Looks like some improvement with the K setup, but nothing crazy. I wonder if that whole heel plate, heel piece can be interchanged with the current split30/SL frame. Icing isn’t a huge issue even when its icy, it takes one minute to clean this, and if you cant spare one minute then you need to get back to the resort :nononno:

@philip.ak wrote:

It’ll be neat once we are past the vaguely worded and peppered-with-market-talk press releases and low res images to have a real explanation, or better yet VIDEO, of exactly WTF “solid ride” and “active joining” and “power link” and “tour step” and “quiver link” and “electric ball massager” actually mean.

Cool to finally see a video of the Kram Prime in ‘action’. Looks like a step in the right direction. Can’t say I’m tempted, but concept looks decent.

@Draizuh wrote:

While i’ve only had a brief look at the karakorams (i’ve never ridden a pair, i don’t have that kind of cash for binders!) the split30 style “pucks” seemed not suited to the maritime snow conditions

@Draizuh wrote:

im not really interested in the karakoram’s. the split30’s ive seen in use would get iced up and took longer to transition, not to mention touring pieces breaking.

I’ve been riding karakorams for the last 3 years in lots of places e.g. Japan (super-maritime snow – see below 😛 ), NZ and Australia and I can honestly say I’ve never had a problem with parts getting iced up or the touring pieces breaking. Just my :twocents: but I much prefer them over light rails, they sit much closer to the board and there’s no fiddly pins to snap! Not only that, but I can go from ride to tour without taking my foot out of the binding and I can lock the heel down in tour mode.

Eventually, I’d love to look at something like the fit well boot with a dynafit touring binding, the market is certainly exploding with different offerings for bindings. I guess it’s a matter of choosing which one suits you best. The primary motivation for me to change would be something with reduced weight and greater touring efficiency.

ATENNTION 2 PLANKERS – Please note below the 2 snowboarders transitioned and ready to go, waiting for Mr Tommy Two Planks to get moving! 😳

lightrails…

L O L 😆

Do you drive a plymouth reliant too?

^^^
@Reindeer mtn wrote:

I was looking for the Magneto’s this year when I was in the states but they were totally sold out.
Luckily it seems like Europe is kicking back with this.
Almost starting to sound like a frenchie
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That demo compared to the one I saw with Karakoram is not even fair. But we will see how they work out in the snow. I am guessing they where not at SIA so anyone could try them?

Delete all that “https…” stuff. You only need the AM524xXbOvk part.

In before: “there’s too many moving parts, they’ll ice up, they’ll break, they’re untested, they’re French, voile pucks are tried and true, yada yada yada….”

They do look sick. Could give K-rams a run for their money if they are distributed heavily in the U.S. I’m getting the new K-rams next season as they’ve gotten most the kinks out and I love how their bindings ride (and I’m a fanboy). I’d already take the Plum touring brackets and board clips over K-rams though. In a few years I might be making a switch if these get good reviews and evolve as well as K-rams seem to be doing. Plum’s crampon attachment is pretty slick too! BUT WHEN IS SOMEONE WITH A FUCKING BRAIN GOING TO MAKE A CRAMPON WITH OFFSET, ANGLED TEETH???!!!! :banghead: So frustrating. All this brainy tech wisdom goes into the bindings and the owners throw a chained up chimp in the back closet some scrap metal to design their fucking crampons.

@BGnight wrote:

It’s going to be an interesting day when a board mfg. and a binding Co. decide to think outside the box and develop something that doesn’t follow the old Voile hole patterns. I would think this would open up an insane amount of possibilities but I’m stupid so what do I know.

yes this :clap:

@BGnight wrote:

It’s going to be an interesting day when a board mfg. and a binding Co. decide to think outside the box and develop something that doesn’t follow the old Voile hole patterns. I would think this would open up an insane amount of possibilities but I’m stupid so what do I know.

Why would anyone step away from the hole pattern? Yeah, the pucks suck, but the hole pattern is pretty basic. Sure, channels are an option. But it would take a board company that also makes bindings to change the system and then they would be sacrificing sales because no one else’s bindings would work with their system.

What improvements do you think could be made to the current hole pattern that almost every splitboard uses?

@KennyGPorters wrote:

What I would really like to see is a binding company make it so that we can use the solid board hole pattern on diy splits and not have to put extra unneeded weight in to our diy boards…

Prowder

@shredgnar wrote:

@BGnight wrote:

It’s going to be an interesting day when a board mfg. and a binding Co. decide to think outside the box and develop something that doesn’t follow the old Voile hole patterns. I would think this would open up an insane amount of possibilities but I’m stupid so what do I know.

Why would anyone step away from the hole pattern? Yeah, the pucks suck, but the hole pattern is pretty basic. Sure, channels are an option. But it would take a board company that also makes bindings to change the system and then they would be sacrificing sales because no one else’s bindings would work with their system.

What improvements do you think could be made to the current hole pattern that almost every splitboard uses?

I think we all know what happened with the original Burton splitboard interface.