As the splittie season started, it was time to do a little fine tuning on equipment...First up was a quick swap of the climbing heels...time to upgrade from the single height to the dual height option. It was a straight forward swap from Voile to Voile.
I saw a Prowder interface too that looked interesting. It was aluminum and it piqued my curiosity. I figured I would swap out the Voile interface with the Prowder on the old 'rock mojo' and see if it felt any different.
The installation was fairly straight forward too. On the surface, it looked like the interface would keep the boots/bindings closer to the board which seems like a good thing.
After installation, I noticed that the interface was almost too low. When sliding the bindings on, it scraped the topsheet up. If this was the new board, I might have shed a tear but fortunately it was the rock board so it was more of a lesson learned than anything else.
A couple of quick observations upon installation...the machining of the parts was not top notch with screws and plates not working seamlessly. It took a little wiggling and wrangling to get everything on and secure. It does make me wonder about the quality control and more importantly the long term prognosis with wear and tear in the backcountry. It is nice to have a guinea pig board to test it on before committing to the 'A' split...
The ride proper seemed about the same. I need more time on the board to come to a conclusive opinion but so far, so good...some pix of the upgrades/changes below:
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