Expensive Divorce - The Split Thread

[pow_hnd]

^ I admire your openmindedness. I have a pair of Sparks and Unions as well. I like them both, very different and both have their pluses and minuses, it pretty much comes down to what you're looking for and sometimes for me it depends of the environment/terrain I'm going to be in.

I ride mellow slopes 90% of the time, I’m just out there for the pow slashes I do absolutely no mountaineering type shit. I ride a few big lines a year, but even then it’s in pow. I feel these are gonna ride great on that type ( mellow ) terrain.

[casjcade]

I actually have Burton Freestyle bindings on my pow split, really comfy. Wish someone made plates for normal bindings as good as the old Burton system, minus the flaws.

Getting the "toe ramp" in the right position and putting pads on really helped for the Sparks, though I did need large baseplate/medium heelcup to make it comfy.

[pow_hnd]

After adjusting the Unions a little bit more and then adjusting the phantom hooks I can honestly say I’ve never had a Splitboard with this tight of a connection, the closest was a Venture, which was, at the time, head and shoulders above any other split I had previously owned, but that was still back in like 2012 and it was running the old Voile hooks.

This thing is tight, literally.

The Unions really do suck the board together.

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