This is getting out of hand. First it’s the Salomon BBR ski, and now the DPS Spoon 150. When will ski companies quit innovating thereby making the skis I own become ancient history? I shake my fist at the sky because of you! Well, Salt Lake City-based DPS drew an awful lot of attention to their booth at SIA in Denver with a first look at their new Spoon 150 + patent pending Cleat Technology.
I can’t even begin to describe the DPS Spoon 150, or adequately convey what “cleat technology” does for skiing, so I’ll just let the DPS public relations folks handle it from this point on. Here’s their press release. Hopefully you won’t need a degree in mechanical engineering to decipher it.
Introducing the DPS Spoon and the patent pending DPS Cleat Technology.
“The Spoon is a revolutionary new design that moves deep snow skiing into the future. In 2007, DPS’ Stephan Drake started looking for ways to increase ski angle to encourage lift for more dynamic, stylistic carves and slides in deep snow. Deeply convex bases became the focus. However, the inherent problem with base convexity is that a ski becomes dangerous in harder snow and sketchy entrances due to the obvious lack of edge grip. Enter DPS’ patent pending Cleat Technology: a 3-D downward vertical undulation in the edge combined with a convex base. Cleat Tech endows a spoon shaped ski with useable edge at low ski angles for hard snow. At the same time Cleat Tech doesn’t compromise the ski’s flex pattern, or the convex bases’ dramatic performance gains in deep snow.
The Spoon moves ski design into a complex world of four dimensions where shape rocker, base convexity, and cleats all must work together in a synergistic design. Welcome to the future.”
I’m very curious about how this handles on the snow. My only concern is how ski shops will be able to run it through their base grinders. Hopefully we’ll get our hands on a pair someday to test them out.
To find out more, you can check out DPS online, or visit their Facebook page.
3 thoughts on “DPS Spoon 150 with Cleat Technology adds 4th dimension to skis”