Aftermarket handlepole / pole bracket, IJSBA

Ski division only.

This page is IJSBA only, and the bodies do not agree. The same part under IHRA. Which one applies to you is decided by whoever sanctions the race you enter.

Vintage Ski allows an aftermarket pole; Vintage Ski Limited does not. Same 550 hull, opposite answer.

Where it stands, class by class

12 classes, grouped where the same rule gives the same answer rather than listed one by one, because an answer that holds for a class usually holds for every class that borrows its rules.

What each answer below means

Not permitted, not listed in the rules: Treat it as coming off. The class requires the craft to stay stock except where the rules allow otherwise, and this part is not on the list, so this is our reading rather than a rule we can quote at you.
Legal, with conditions: Keep it, but measure it: the rules permit this part only inside stated limits.
Legal: Keep it. The rules permit this part in this class.

Not permitted, not listed in the rules 1 class

The class admits the Kawasaki X2, which has a handle pole, and does not list the pole. It opens the handlebar, throttle, cable and grips, the steering shaft and its holder, and the handlebar holder, and changes not listed are not permitted. A Gen 1 X2 entered under Option 1 or 2 follows IJSBA Open class rules, which no held text defines; the other eligible craft have fixed handlebars.

Sport Spec · section headings, no numbered rules

Not permitted, not listed in the rules 1 class

Not listed in this class document. VX2.2.9 and VX2.2.10 open the handlebar, throttle, cable and grips, and the steering shaft with its shaft and handlebar holders, and the pole itself is not among them. · VX2.2.9

Vintage X2

Not permitted, not listed in the rules 1 class

Sport GP names no eligible craft, so an X2 can race here. SPGP.3.9 opens the handlebar, throttle, cable and grips, the steering shaft, its holder and the handlebar holder, but not the pole, and changes not listed are not permitted. · SPGP.1.1, SPGP.3.9

Sport GP

Legal, with conditions 1 class

HANDLEPOLE MUST REMAIN OEM. Only the BRACKET may be aftermarket, and the attaching point may be reinforced. · VSKL.2.8

Vintage Ski Limited

Legal 7 classes

Modified or aftermarket handlepole and mounting bracket, provided it functions as originally designed. Attaching point may be reinforced.

Ski Stock · SSK.2.9
Four Stroke Ski Lites · FSKL.2.9
Ski Lites · SKL.2.9
Ski Modified · SKM.2.9
Ski Superstock · SKSS.2.9
Vintage Ski · VSK.2.9
Ski Grand Prix · SKGP.2.11

Legal 1 class

Must function as originally designed; may not be tethered or fastened to the competitor.

Freestyle · FREST

What we corrected here, and when

Vintage X2. Corrected 2026-10-01: this row read as unanswered until the X2 steering clauses were read against it, and they name the parts on the pole rather than the pole.

Aftermarket handlepole / pole bracket: if the rule your class applies reads differently to you, or the rulebook has changed since this was read, ask. We answer with the section we read it from, or that we have not read it. Ask a rules question.

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Hull and handling · two and four stroke · legal in 9 of 12 answered, 1 with conditions