Double Carbon Fiber

Monday, 02 February 2009 00:00

You may or may not have noticed in the 2009 Exile Catalog that "Carbon" boards are now listed as "Double Carbon Epoxy" boards.

Double Carbon? What is that you might ask... we wondered the same thing the first time we heard the term. It didn't take long however until we realized that Double Carbon is what our competitors were now calling a normal carbon board. Since carbon was first experimented with in skimboards (in the 1980's), the conventional carbon bid schedule has been a single sheet of carbon on each side of the board. Sometime in the last few years however, many of our competitors began laminating carbon into only one side of the board, while keeping their prices the same (we have seen the broken boards to prove it). Well, rest assured, Exile has never and will never do this. It is a horrible way to build a skimboard and you couldn't pay us an extra hundred dollars to build a board like that.

Nearly two years ago we brought some attention to this "development" with a news posting on Exile's website. Unfortunately some time later, consumers still seem confused and often wind up buying over priced single sheeted carbon boards, thinking that they are the real thing. So that got us thinking, if others insist on creating confusion in the marketplace and then capitalizing on it, we might as well take advantage of the opportunity to clearly show how our product stands above the rest.

So starting in 2009 we are going to call our Carbon boards what they are, Double Carbon Epoxy Skimboards. Of course the boards remain built with the exact same high standards that have made Exile famous. We did it right the first time. Apparently our naming conventions fell a little behind the curve, but we try and concentrate on what's important.

Skimboards for skimboarders. Trust Exile.