Splitboard Touring Just Got More Powerful With The Flex-Lock
Flex-Lock: Ride Like a Soft Booter. Tour Like a Hard Booter. Imagine touring up a hard packed skin track on your splitboard: your legs are on fire as you spit and fight with every ounce of strength and focus just to keep your edges griped to the slope. You’re trying to keep your cool so your buddy on AT gear, who’s effortlessly dancing up the path, doesn’t notice your struggle. Your downhill leg is contorted and awkwardly twisted inward as you desperately try to keep your edges from rolling down hill and breaking free from the firm snow. You even
Where Do Splitboard Bindings Come From?
A couple days ago we decided that we wanted to share more with Karakoram users about how Karakoram the company (Bryce, Tyler, Russell and Robert) works. So we are going to start doing more blog posts about the inner workings of our small forward thinking company. This first post should hopefully give you some insight into how we innovate and create.
SL and Carbon SL Splitboard Bindings
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New Colors for Split30 Splitboard Bindings
[br] For 2012-2013 we've decided to add two new colors to the Split30 Splitboard Bindings, white and red. We're big fans of the black, but we wanted to give customers a couple more options to choose from. I really like the way the red splitboard bindings pop on my board, but I'd have to say the white splitboard bindings are my favorite because they remind me of a Storm Trooper. Split30 splitboard bindings will be available in September.
Karakoram Splitboard Heel Lock Down Update
I just put together a new video for the heel lock down showing more details. Check it out. In our endless journey to make splitboard equipment the best it can be, Karakoram will be releasing a new heel lock down system for 2012-13. The heel lock down will be compatible with all Karakoram Splitboard Bindings (Split30, SL and Prime) starting from 2010. The purpose of the heel lock down is to allow splitboarders to skate more efficiently on flat terrain, and traverse and side step without skins on in tour mode. The Karakoram Heel Lock Down will be available for
Karakoram Splitboard Binding Heel Lock Down
In our endless journey to make splitboard equipment the best it can be, Karakoram will be releasing a new heel lock down system for 2012-13. The heel lock down will be compatible with all Karakoram Splitboard Bindings (Split30, SL and Prime) starting from 2010. The purpose of the heel lock down is to allow splitboarders to skate more efficiently on flat terrain, and traverse and side step without skins on in tour mode.
SIA and ISPO Whirlwind Tour
So we just got back about a week ago from a whirlwind trade show tour of SIA and ISPO. What a trip! Splitboarding is truly taking off and it's pretty amazing to be right in the thick of it. It was great to see the excitement for our new releases for next year, including the Prime- our new 575gram binding The Prime on the Jones Carbon Solution Our new heel lock down (just realized we didn't take any pics of this, so I'll post one later), the rest of our binding line, and accessories including board clips and crampons. The Binding Line Up- Split30
Vote Karakoram for the ISPO Brandnew Award (One click to vote!)
Hello Karakoram Family, We have an easier way to vote for us for the ISPO Brandnew Award. Click the "like" button below to vote for us. Thank you all for your support! -Bryce and Tyler [br] [br] [br] [br]
Vote Karakoram for the ISPO BRANDNEW Award
Hello Karakoram Supporters, Please vote for us for the ISPO Brandnew Award. The ISPO Brandnew award is the largest start-up company competition in the sporting goods industry. With your help we can win this. The process for voting is 1.Click the link below 2. Select "vote for your favorite" 3. Select Karakoram from the menu 4. Scroll to the bottom of the "video" window and select "Like" button Thank you everyone for your support!!! Bryce and Tyler http://www.facebook.com/ispo.brandnew.awards?sk=app_299646646729963
Karakoram Split30 Splitboard System Video
We just finished up a new product video showcasing our Split30 Splitboard System.
Backpacker’s “Best in Snow”: Split30 Splitboard System
Snoqualmie, WA October 19, 2011 – Karakoram has been honored as a recipient of a 2011 Backpacker magazine Editors’ Choice Snow Award, the most prestigious award in the outdoor industry, given annually to products in recognition of their outstanding innovation in design, materials and/or performance. Backpacker Editor-In-ChiefJonathan Dorn and his staff of editors and testers presented the Karakoram Split30 Splitboard System with the award at the annual Outdoor Retailer Summer Market in Salt Lake City, Utah on Thursday, August 4, 2011. In total, nine manufacturers were honored as recipients of the first-ever Editors’ Choice Snow Award. Using the same rigorous
Press Release: Jeremy Jones Partnering with Karakoram
PRESS RELEASE, Snoqualmie, WA- Karakoram is proud to announce a partnership with Jeremy Jones, renowned big mountain snowboarder and owner of Jones Snowboards. [br]The partnership will combine Jeremy’s legendary backcountry freeriding experience and Karakoram’s innovative design capabilities with the goal of delivering products that redefine the backcountry experience for snowboarders around the world. “We started Karakoram to create backcountry snowsports equipment that challenged the norms and provided performance beyond expectations. The opportunity to work with Jeremy on this journey will bring a perspective destined to help take our designs and products to the next level. Jeremy is truly an inspirational
Crampons are ready for Spring Touring!
Karakoram Splitboard Crampons are here, just in time for the Spring corn season. The splitboard crampons are weighing in a hair above 6 oz (173g) per side, 12 oz (345g) a pair. That is .2 to .25 lbs (80 to 104g) lighter than our competition. In addition to the light weight design, the crampons nest together to take up less space in your backpack, provide fix crampon traction with a floating design, and can be installed on the fly. For more information visit the splitboard crampon product page. [button bgcolor=”#BC2D30″ textsize=”24px” link=”../store/#ecwid:category=925319&mode=product&product=3726384″]Buy This[/button] Crampon engaged in snow:
New Tip/Tail Clips
[br]Tyler and I drove out to our injection molding supplier last night to check out our First Article Tip/Tail Clips. Most companies now days go offshore for plastic components, so we're really excited to be working with a local shop that's 25 minutes away. The Tip/Tail Clips are really simple parts, so there wasn't much to inspect. The tool needs to have the surface finish smoothed out in one spot, but other than that we're good to go. The Tip/Tail Clips snap into place nicely and are incredibly stiff and tough. We've worked directly with Dupont engineers to select the
August Testing on Rainier
Tyler and I got out last Saturday to test our improved ride mode interface and our first article bindings. For this trip we zipped down to Mt. Rainier and hiked up to a little below Camp Muir. On the ride mode interface we modified the toe attachment portion to be a single bent sheet metal part instead of a sheet metal part and a CNCd aluminum part. This change makes set-up easier and it shaves .25 lbs out of the system. All of our engineering calculations showed the part was stronger than the old set up, but we needed
Split30 Technology Page
We've had lots of requests for more information on how the Split30 system works. I finally had the chance to put together a technology page and post it to the website. Click on the link below for more information: Karakoram Split30 Tech Page We don't have any production bindings built up yet, so all of the pictures are from prototype systems. The production bindings will be much prettier :). I'm going through powder withdrawals right now, so I thought I would throw this picture up of Tyler exiting his powder roost. Snow...........
A New Toy and First Article Board Clips
I just picked up the first article inspection board clip bases on Wednesday. They look and feel a lot nicer than the prototype versions we've been using the last two years. The base is a really simple part, but a lot of thought went into making this a cost effective part. In the picture below you can see the difference between the prototypes and the production bases. The protos are CNC'd aluminum with a lever mount attached with M4 screws. The production is a cleanly bent piece of stainless steel, prettier and stronger! We've had some questions about the lever
Karakoram Split30 Change Over
I've had a lot of requests to post a video showing how our splitboard system works. I would have had the video finished yesterday, but we had about 12" of snow in Little Cottonwood Canyon and I would have been breaking company policy if I had worked on a powder day :). Here is the video. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoyyKmuIywA]