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WIN MORE RACES - SKI FASTER
SKI FAST - WIN MORE RACES
- ✓ WIN MORE RACES - The highest quality equipment is demanded by racers Wordwide and Zipline provides!
- ✓ INTEGRATED HAND GUARD: Durable Thermoplastic to withstand impacts on your knuckles and hands from the gates so you can concentrate on the course.
- ✓ UNIVERSAL FIT - Accommodates poles from 14mm - 18mm diameter shaft. Sold as a pair.
- ✓ SKI POLE SHAFT PROTECTOR - Kit includes "spacer" so you can easily get a tight fit on any ski pole shaft, nuts & bolts included
- ✓ INCLUDES FREE LEKI POLE ADAPTER KIT - If you ski with Leki Poles with the Triger S grip this kit will allow you to easily add the Zipline Hand Guard to your poles
✓ Impact Resistant = Faster Skiing
✓ Easy to Assemble - Secure
✓ Innovative Carbon Look Graphics
Joel$ Brandt
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2024
Super pleased with this guard for the price and ease of install. Unless you are just not handy at all, this was not a problem to install. Honestly annoyed by the reviews that said it was hard, I assume from people who also don’t wax/sharpen their kid’s racing skis. My 13 year old son did most of the work. His poles were much larger than the opening, I boiled some water and soaked them for about 5 minutes, then slipped on the narrow part by the basket with the help of opening the gap with a flathead screwdriver. Then he slid them up the the grip. Probably a total of 20 minutes including the water boiling time. I would absolutely buy again and recommend buying with confidence.
Carrie Witty
Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2024
My daughter downhill ski races and needs hand guards for her poles. We used a different brand of guards last year that cover her hand more fully, but made it really clumsy to carry her poles together in your hand. We are loving that this set will give the protection she needs, without all the extra material.I did read reviews prior to assembly and have a few takeaways that made this easier (and MUCH better than the big red brand guards we had last year!). 1) the openings are snug to get slipped onto the pole. I ended up dunking the pole attachment end in some hot water on the stove top which gave me just enough wiggle room to get it slid over the tapered bottom end of my pole. From there, you just have to wiggle it up to the grip (most poles widen towards the top). Worked great . I did use a tongs to hold them and made sure that they never touched the pan because the last thing you want to do is melt them!2) I find that assembling the top screw on the handle before you do the the bolts on the pole is helpful to ensure you know right where the bolt part of things is going to land. This is out of order from the directions but really doesn't matter at all if it goes first or last. Just a helpful tip!3) Pay attention to the shape of the slot when you put in the bolts. The round shapes are meant for the bolt, and the pointy shape is meant for the nut (holds it in place when you screw in the bolt). I find it works best to stick the nut into the slot flat, hold it tight with your thumb, and then insert the bolt. Once it catches, you can let go of your thumb.4) The directions tell you to put the top and bottom bolt in going the same way, and to reverse the middle bolt - however, you'll be on the struggle bus trying to get it screwed in tightly unless you've got a teeny tiny socket set you can use to hold that middle nut steady. Just put them all in the same direction and save yourself some headache.
David Abajian
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2020
They swivel a tiny bit but overall they are good for the price and work well.
Rebecca Hall
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2020
First off, this product does work as expected. So, that's good. It was terrible to mount, and didn't fit well on specified diameter of poles as indicated. Took a lot of work to configure, and I would have rather spent the extra money on another option that would've been an easier setup.
The Boo
Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2020
We bought the Zipline graphite carbon composite poles and these guards at the same time thinking that they'd pair well – they don’t. I understand now that the Blurr's are designed for the guards, not the Lollipops. The instructions that came with the guards were thus not very helpful and were hard to read given the small font. There are no YouTube videos to help with installation. To make them work for my poles I took the following steps.Tools needed: Duct tape, Phillips head screwdriver, a large flat-edge tool like a chisel, a drill bit that matches the provided long wood screw, a socket wrench that matches the provided nuts.Steps:1. Warm the guards in hot water to make them more pliable. Not sure if this step is really needed but I saw other reviews suggest. Can’t hurt.2. After they’re warm, use a large flat-edge tool, like a chisel, to pry the bottom of the guards open just enough to slip them on the bottom of the pole, right above the basket at its thinnest part.3. The provided rubber/plastic square that comes with the installation kit is hard to use. The purpose of the square is to provide a filler between the pole and the guard. Without it, the guard wouldn’t be secure. The problem is that, for me, the square is darn near impossible to use unless you have a helper to hold the square while you slide the guard over it. Instead I used duct tape. Use the provided square as a measuring stick to cut a piece of duct tape approximately twice the size of the plastic square. Note: the length of the tape may be larger or smaller depending on the thickness of your poles. Two-times worked well for the 42” poles I was working with.4. Slide the guard up to below the pole grips to see where the three bolts would sit. Mark that area, slide the guard back down and wrap the duct tape around the pole.5. Slide the guard back up and over the duct tape. You may need to use the flat-edge tool again to wedge it over the duct tape.6. Use the socket and the Phillips head screw driver to secure the bolts – top and bottom in one direction and the middle in the opposite. Note: the nuts are difficult, but not impossible, to get onto the bolts. Tighten until the guard is secure on the pole.7. If your poles have a screw on top of the grip, remove per the provided instructions and secure the top of the guard. If it doesn’t (like my poles) you’ll need to drill a hole at the top of the grip and use the provided screw. Note: the provided screw is very long, you can probably use a shorter screw.Leki’s instructions and installation process are worse and were harder to install.
Troy Yeske
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2020
My daughters ski pole hand guards (Leki) were getting old and the plastic cracked and they needed replacement. Instead of buying the more expensive Leki replacements, I found these. They seem to be well made and the nice thing is that they offer different colors. This makes her poles stand out from the standard Leki pole guards that most of the other Alpine skiers have.The only downside is that they are not easy to install. I removed the bottom plastic part of the pole since it is smaller at the bottom and slid it from the bottom up. You need quite a bit of force to pry them open enough to slide over the pole shaft. I don't think the Leki would be any easier, but I don't have any experience with replacing the Leki ones.
Mikol
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2019
We just received the hand guards this evening and are going on 2 hours to assemble with no luck. There are no instructions and no YouYube videos online. We have tried heating the guards in hot water, but the rubber sleeve is impossible to position correctly. Never buy this product!
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