Spark R&D designing and creating splitboards from amazing views!

For the uninitiated, Spark R&D—the splitboard binding company—just might blow your mind. No pun intended!

Spark R&D is rider owned and operated, dedicated to pushing innovation in the sport of splitboarding, since 2005. With a view of the Bridger Mountains from our shop, we design and build splitboard bindings and accessories with backcountry performance coming first. All of the products are manufactured and/or assembled in a small shop in Bozeman, Montana USA. From machining to anodizing, laser engraving to assembly–everything is done by a skilled team of workers who are also passionate splitboarders. In-house design and manufacturing capabilities allow our products to quickly evolve and provides us the flexibility to cater to niche customers within the splitboarding market. Spark R&D continues to step it up; seeking perfection based on customer needs and rider feedback, keeping pace with the rapidly expanding splitboarding community.

"Spark" indeed! This stuff is exciting. What's all the hizzle? The relatively new technology of splitboarding is so efficient, so clever, so elegant of a solution to the "what goes down can't always go up" conundrum that frankly, we're feeling a little giddy. Tingly, even! Ski up; snowboard down. It's fantastic! Makes us think of 3-2-1 Contact (you know, the moment when everything happens?). Or feel some of the child-like enthusiasm—minus the bitterness—of George Costanza. "This is huge!"