Hello! My name is Don Slovenkai and I'm first and foremost a telemark skier; perhaps like yourself. Tele-Ride is a small, home-grown New England company that arose from a passion for having fun on snow. The name Tele-Ride reflects the purpose of our product: a binding that lets you combine telemark skiing with snowboard riding. Thanks to the nice folks at TeleboardŽ , telemark skiers like myself can now enjoy another way to have fun on the slopes!  
Evolution of an Idea  

The story of the Tele-Ride binding begins in 1995. I purchased a used snowboard with a crazy idea: combine my love for telemark skiing and slalom waterskiing by attaching telemark bindings to a snowboard - and accomplish this feat with a movable binding "slide" that allows freedom of movement and replicates a telemark turn.

While the idea for a movable binding quickly came to mind, a freestyle snowboard was too wide to ride in a forward-facing position (as the inventors of the TeleboardŽ discovered!). The evolution of the hardboot "alpine" snowboard discovered the same thing: make the board narrower if you're going to face more forward.

Thanks to the TeleboardŽ, the telemark binding slide idea found its perfect mate. Now you can enjoy the sensation of cruising the slopes on a single board, riding in a forward position, using your poles, and arcing great tele-turns!

 
Tele-Ride is an independent company, not part of Uniboard, Inc., makers of the Teleboard  
   
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