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120 grams, and two lines of description

PIEPS Carbon 240 Race

The lightest probe here by a wide margin, and the listing publishes its weight and a list of sports.

PIEPS Carbon 240 Race avalanche probe

PIEPS Carbon 240 Race

The lightest probe here by a wide margin, and the listing publishes its weight and a list of sports.

Deployed length
240 cm, from the model name
Material
Carbon, from the model name
Packed length
Not published
Tensioning
Not published
Depth markings
Not published
Case included
Not published
Weight
120 g
Amazon reference
B0BP859LM2 (one reference across 5 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN
9120029060258
  • 120 g — 69 g lighter than the next lightest probe on this shelf, and 179 g lighter than the heaviest
  • Carbon, which is stiffer than aluminium for the same weight and transmits a strike more clearly
  • Two bullet points, and the other one is a list of four activities

Best for: A ski mountaineer counting grams, who already knows how a race probe assembles

≈ €82
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Specifications

Deployed length
240 cm, from the model name
Material
Carbon, from the model name
Packed length
Not published
Tensioning
Not published
Depth markings
Not published
Case included
Not published
Weight
120 g
Amazon reference
B0BP859LM2 (one reference across 5 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN
9120029060258

The listing, in full

  • Spezifische Aktivität: Skifahren zum Wandern, Skifahren in großer Höhe, Freeride, Splitboard
  • Gewicht: 120 g

The number

120 grams, for 240 cm of carbon.

On this shelf:

  • 120 g — this probe, carbon, 240 cm
  • 189 g — SkinStar, aluminium, 260 cm
  • 299 g — TerraWest, aluminium, 240 cm

It is the lightest by 69 g and the dearest of the 240 cm probes by 32 €.

What Race means here

It is in the model name and nowhere in the description. On probes it usually signals a ski-mountaineering-race build: minimum weight, minimum everything else. The listing does not confirm it.

What is missing

The packed length, the tensioning, the markings and the case — four of the seven lines this site compares, on the dearest 240 cm probe here.

The price across two stores

82.20 in Germany. 85.15 in Italy. Britain, France and Spain list it and quoted nothing; the American store does not carry it.

Availability

One check, 82 € at the bottom and 85 € at the top, across the German and Italian Amazon shops.

On the shelf, off the market: the British, French and Spanish Amazon shops carry the reference with no seller attached to it.

An empty answer from the American Amazon shop: the buy button there opens a search instead of a blank page.

Figures pulled from Keepa the day this page was last revised. Stock and prices move without notice.

Prices quoted in this text were read on 28 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.

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