Customer Reviews

Advanced Elements BackBone

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This is from my Advance Elements AdvanceFrame review:
"We bought two of these wonderful kayaks. We were debating whether to go for hard shells vs. inflatables since we live in Arizona where there is not much water to paddle. We tried the Expedition version at a local shop demo and felt it was quite good considering that it did not require us to purchase special roof racks and park one car outside of the garage. When we ordered these, we also got the backbones as we felt that when we were demoing the Expedition, it flexed significantly when going through waves. Man we made the right decision paying more for the backbones. Now we can say that we have hit the sweet spot. Not only do i enjoy the storage advantage, with the backbones, we can paddle these almost as fast as a good hard shell kayak with no detectable flexing of the boats. Highly recommended for people who want to get inflatable kayaks."

The bottom line is, get it if you are seriously about kayaking.

Don't buy an advanced frame element kayak without getting one of these. I tried my kayak with and without and the difference was huge. Unlike one reviewer, I didn't find putting the thing in to be a big deal. It should be included with the kayak to begin with because the increase in speed and handling is significant.