First impression
I was delighted to unpack the parcel and take a look at the board and the connections. The whole construction makes a sensible and well thought-out impression. No big frills, but proven parts reassembled, such as the Plum WOM hooks with a special centre section adapted to 3- or 4-piece boards. The splitboard comes with all necessary connectors, skins from Pomoca and crampons from Plum as well as a small plastic ice scraper. To start in the snow, only a binding on a voile basis (slider) is needed - either a softboot binding or Dynafit Toepieces and lever binding, such as the Spark DynoHD. For Plum bindings there is a special adapter.
Board
According to the manufacturer, the board has a directional taper shape with a medium flex, which I measured to be around 1.3 cm taper and the flex is more on the harder side of "medium". The board has a camber between the feet and a small rocker at the nose. The binding holes are placed with a setback of a few centimetres. The nose and tail are protected by aluminium inserts. The two ski parts have internal, continuous steel edges. The topsheet is painted and smooth to minimise snow adhesion. When assembled, there is a small gap on the right-hand ski, but the overall finish can be described as decent.
The fur suspension is well done. There is a hole for a Z-hook at the front and a simple slot for an elastic band at the back. I particularly like the fact that the board can be fully assembled in order to put on or take off the skins. At the summit, I assemble the board first, lay it on the ground with the skins facing upwards and pull the skins off easily without the fear of losing a ski part in a storm. The cut of the skins is exact, the contour could just follow the curve of the nose a little less. A little snow collects, but no more than with other ski or splitboard skins. I cannot say which Pomoca skins it is (mohair or mix). The skins come with a storage bag.
Slider pucks
Salomon has equipped the Premiere with its own slider pucks. These can be adjusted at an angle of -26 to 26 degrees. This works without any problems, even without an adjustment template. Not all stances can be adjusted, but only the distance between the holes every 2.5 cm. Unfortunately, the pucks are parallel to the snowboard and not canted 3° inwards. Compared to a two-piece, there are more screws that can come loose, so a screwdriver should be taken on every longer tour to be on the safe side.
Weight
According to Salomon, the splitboard has a balsa wood core and is built with carbon fibres. Nevertheless, it feels quite heavy to me, probably because of the double steel edges and also because of the connectors. Ready for the descent the board weighs 5200g (with DynoHD binding), on the ascent it weighs 1950g per ski (with skins).
Now some unpleasant news: On my test board, the holes into which the pucks are screwed are too close together, so that the distance between the pucks does not correspond to the length of the Slider or Spark bindings and the binding has 2mm play (see picture). It is best to briefly measure the distance between the pucks in the shop, the target value for Voile/Spark is 19.4cm. I have attached a spacer to the binding - this works better than expected. I also already have the canted custom pucks from Wildschnee at home, which solved the problem with my board. Salomon has assured us that this is a warranty case and does not normally occur.
