Telemark Insert Pattern

 

Finally! Snowboarders have been doing this for over 15 years and now the telemark industry has caught on to a good thing. Ski manufacturers are now making their line of telemark skis with threaded inserts. A threaded insert gives you the ability to mount a binding in 2 minutes with basic hand tools. Also, you can move that binding position on the ski or even just move the entire binding to another ski with little effort. A threaded insert is also 3 times the strength of a standard ski screw.

Because the Bishops use a Sub-plate Mount the Bishop is compatible with the new insert standard. We added to our system two sets of mounting holes for mounting to the ski: a set for the factory position and a second set for 2.7cm in front of the factory position. That coupled with the Bishops ability to move 1cm more forward can give you a total of 3.7cm in front of the factory position. We consider this the future of telemark skiing, plan to support it fully, and hope more ski manufacturers adopt this standard.

Current manufactures that make skis with Inserts are:

K2 Models with M5 Inserts: