One board to rule them all - big-mtn snowboard previews

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10-17-2005, 10:30 AM
Tap

One board to rule them all - big-mtn snowboard previews

Let's take a look at some of the sickter big-mountain destruction tools out this year.....go big or go home, ya gaper. This is not a complete review, nor have i had much experience on most of the boards, but it's nice to put the big-mountain group together. Initial half-ass profiles are the boards I would consider spending my hard-earned $$ on. Please add comments or other boards I missed.

Salomon Burner - 167 or 172
http://www.geardirect.com/store/imag...urner_06_B.jpg

167 waist/sidecut radius - 259 / 9.4
172 waist/sidecut radius - 262 / 9.8

The follow-up to the Fastback, this board has the ERA design. I've been told that ERA lets you steer the board with your feet for slower speeds, thus making small radius turns easier, but that at speed the deck stiffens up and you can rail with stability. Smaller sidecut should make this more of a multi-terrain board vs. the larger sidecut Fastback. Gorgeous deck and fast base. Looks like a winner.

Never Summer Titan TX - 165 or 169
http://www.neversummer.com/images/titan_boardTop.jpg

165 waist/sidecut radius - 268 / 8.9-9.7-7.6
169 waist/sidecut radius - 269 / 9.3-10-7.8

Never Summers top limited-edition board, it probably lives up to their reputation for bomber, damp boards. The tri-axial sidecut is something i've never tried, but it sounds like it initiates a medium turn, holds a straighline nicely, and finishes the turn quickly.

Never Summer T5 - 165,168,172
http://www.neversummer.com/images/t5_boardTop.jpg

165 waist/sidecut radius - 25.8 / 8.7
168 waist/sidecut radius - 25.9 / 8.85
172 waist/sidecut radius - 25.8 / 9.1

The NS standard big mountian board. Based on the Premier.

Nitro Darkhorse 167
http://akamai.backcountrystore.com.e...027/DSG162.jpg

specs - unknown (stupid website)

Another limited edition hand-made board. If it's expensive it's got to be good, right?

Glissade Brosif 168
http://www.glissadesnowboards.com/images/brosif_11.gif

165 waist/sidecut radius - 261 / 9.27

Small production, bomber boards. This 168 shape was part of the Big Gun series for years. A twin-tip design with extremely deep sidecuts and blunt nose/tail. The Brosif is built with the same materials and construction used in their freestyle models.

Burton Fish 160
http://mirror06.burton.com/images/gear/pp/B60261031.jpg

160 waist/sidecut radius - 258 / 8.24

Narrow tail, big nose = pow pow fun. This years graphics suck compared to last years, but this board is super-fun in pow. The tail drops, the nose planes and turns easily.....this is your first choice in untracked pow.

so what else is out there?
10-17-2005, 10:48 AM
Baconzoo

ROME ANTHEM

http://www.romesnowboards.com/img/boards/anthem-166.gif

Rider Technologies
E.4 Core Matrix
CarbonTriax 45 Laminate
S.3 Base
Integrated Geometrics
Variable TZs; moderate-to-stiff longitudinal core profiling; ample sidecut; standard width
Response: snappy; quick-but-stable; stable-but-quick; powerful
Terrain: wedges; park kickers; wind-lips; cliffs; river beds; transitions; groomers
Tricks: cab 9s; powder wheelies; methods; board slides; tail snatches; slashes
Favorites: first chairs; fresh parks; white rooms; ridge hikes; well-groomed pipes
Spots: squaw; whistler; valdez; hokkaido, stephen's pass; snowbird
10-17-2005, 10:52 AM
Foggy_Goggles

I recomend the TECH TALK 169 Big Mountain Charger, bi-otch! Most rad in all condtions. It'll fakie chicken no salad like nobody's business and I'll butter your switch bacon biscutt at the sametime. Sick!
10-17-2005, 10:56 AM
Buster Highmen

Quote:

Originally Posted by Foggy_Goggles

I recomend the TECH TALK 169 Big Mountain Charger, bi-otch! Most rad in all condtions. It'll fakie chicken no salad like nobody's business and I'll butter your switch bacon biscutt at the sametime. Sick!

BTPS......
10-17-2005, 10:57 AM
Buster Highmen

Is biscutt a hidden cisbutt?
10-17-2005, 10:59 AM
Tap

i fart in both of your general directions
10-17-2005, 11:03 AM
Buster Highmen

Felch among your bretheren should you wish, but fart not in my specific direction.
10-17-2005, 11:06 AM
homeless

2, slightly biased, though valid suggestions:

1. Check out the November issue of Couloir that just shipped. We reviewed 23 boards, split and solid... all the boards were tested over a 4-day period at Kirkwood by 10 varied testers, in powder, crud, piste, backcountry, courdoroy, etc...

2. Check out Donek
www.Donek.com
They're most well known for their alpine boards, but they have an incredible variety of shapes and flexes. They do everything in house, inclduing cores, and if you don't see what you like in their stock shapes, they can pump out custom variations.

Zach
10-17-2005, 11:06 AM
Baconzoo

Dumb Question for Tech Talk Bitches

What happens when you come out of those things?

If you drop a pole, how do you get back up hill to get it?

Do those boots hurt?

Do you have to wear stretch pants to be a good skier?

What happens when you lose a ski in deep powder?
10-17-2005, 11:06 AM
Foggy_Goggles

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tap

i fart in both of your general directions

One fart or two? If one, that's outstanding control. I'd guess with those skills you'll rip on whatever you ride.
10-17-2005, 11:07 AM
Tap

Quote:

Originally Posted by Buster Highmen

Felch among your bretheren should you wish, but fart not in my specific direction.

oh, the humanity!

HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE :nonono2:
10-17-2005, 11:08 AM
Buster Highmen

Quote:

Originally Posted by Foggy_Goggles

One fart or two? If one, that's outstanding control. I'd guess with those skills you'll rip on whatever you ride.

Can you play Agharta?
10-17-2005, 11:11 AM
Shepherd Wong

That Titan TX looks so ill it's sick!
:eek:
10-17-2005, 11:13 AM
Tap

Quote:

Originally Posted by Buster Highmen

Can you play Agharta?

if i eat a bean and cheese burrito, i can play any of the instruments. it's a matter of sphincter control. :the_finge
10-17-2005, 11:16 AM
Captain Gus

Quote:

Originally Posted by Foggy_Goggles

It'll fakie chicken no salad like nobody's business and I'll butter your switch bacon biscutt at the sametime.

So if I order a chicken no salad, would I really just be getting a plain chicken breast? Does soup come with that meal?

Also, when you butter my bacon biscutt, does that action deserve a tip?
10-17-2005, 11:16 AM
Buster Highmen

Even Sonny Fortune's "In Waves Of Reams?"
10-17-2005, 11:19 AM
meatdrink9

Quote:

Originally Posted by Baconzoo

What happens when you come out of those things?

If you drop a pole, how do you get back up hill to get it?

Do those boots hurt?

Do you have to wear stretch pants to be a good skier?

What happens when you lose a ski in deep powder?

I've got a few more:

Will you guys wait for me while I strap into my board after the chairlift?

Can we meet at the bottom, after you guys take that TRAVERSE to the fresh snow?

Can I come to Alta with you?

;)
10-17-2005, 12:14 PM
Baconzoo

Quote:

Originally Posted by meatdrink9

I've got a few more:

Will you guys wait for me while I strap into my board after the chairlift?

Can we meet at the bottom, after you guys take that TRAVERSE to the fresh snow?

Can I come to Alta with you?

;)

Answer:
1) I use Step-Ins, Flows, or some other quick attachment device.
2) I'm riding in the Heli
3) I'm riding in the Heli because Alta is for Old Fart, closed minded snobs

I never had a problem in JH on traverses. Granite Canyon does suck, I'd rather boot back up where I came from. www.splitboard.com BITCH!
10-17-2005, 12:14 PM
Buster Highmen

Quote:

Originally Posted by Baconzoo

What happens when you come out of those things?

Same as when I do that anywhere else.

Quote:

If you drop a pole, how do you get back up hill to get it?

You don't.

Quote:

Do those boots hurt?

Less than your butt.

Quote:

Do you have to wear stretch pants to be a good skier?

Only in the right places.

Quote:

What happens when you lose a ski in deep powder?

Same as when you don't drop a pole.
10-17-2005, 12:22 PM
baseWeldr

appreciating bacon thread drift

when you come out of these things you have to put them back on.
what happens with those things when you come to a 20min (for twofooted skiers) sidestep up thru thigh deep pow, oh yeah its the board-slam-two-step postholio polka...

going back uphill for a pole sucks, don't drop 'em
(I left a mitt and a pole in a tree once, had to do a full lap back around- hard to feel kewl with my icy barehand shoved in my coat)
you guys have to bend over to drag yer hand while we can stand and drag our poles- much easier

the boots feel like loafers
but don't look like clown shoes

stretch pants made me good but baggies made me core

lose a shoe in the deep?
give it up and become a singleplankin snowrider I guess...
;)

edit: dang you guys are fast
10-17-2005, 12:27 PM
Tap

you guys are really ruining my thread. :rolleyes2 :fuckyou:
10-17-2005, 12:28 PM
Buster Highmen

Quote:

Originally Posted by baseWeldr

(I left a mitt and a pole in a tree once, had to do a full lap back around- hard to feel kewl with my icy barehand shoved in my coat)

Hey, Napolean was c00well.
10-17-2005, 12:34 PM
Buster Highmen

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tap

you guys are really ruining my thread. :rolleyes2 :fuckyou:

I'm sorry.
I confess, I was the one farting.

My apologies.
10-17-2005, 01:17 PM
Baconzoo

POP QUIZ:

In what year did Pro skiers realize that big mountain snowboards made a much cooler track than 150 jump turns to the bottom?

Hint:
Location = Valdez

2nd hint:
This started the deep sidecut reveloution.
10-17-2005, 01:26 PM
Buster Highmen

That's OK. Because I always hated deep sidecuts.

Anyway, this is amusing, but really so old. I guess as long as someone thinks it matters, it does. Or does it?

Now back to the flatulence!
10-17-2005, 01:30 PM
Tap

Quote:

Originally Posted by Buster Highmen

Now back to the flatulence!

http://pages.infinit.net/bluefire/Im...ecutebunny.gif
10-17-2005, 01:30 PM
Buzzworthy

Quote:

Originally Posted by meatdrink9

I've got a few more:

Will you guys wait for me while I strap into my board after the chairlift?

Can we meet at the bottom, after you guys take that TRAVERSE to the fresh snow?

Can I come to Alta with you?

;)

I will still board, but you are dead on!

And I want that Salomon, 167. Nice ride!!
10-17-2005, 01:57 PM
Baconzoo

What matters

The sintered Indium base has indium integrated into the base material, this absorbs heat generated over the base, which gives a faster glide.......

I scoff in your gerneral direction. :rolleyes:
10-17-2005, 02:03 PM
Buster Highmen

Quote:

Originally Posted by Baconzoo

The sintered Indium base has indium integrated into the base material, this absorbs heat generated over the base, which gives a faster glide.......

I scoff in your gerneral direction. :rolleyes:

Oh you young kids and your faster glides.
10-17-2005, 02:06 PM
yogachik

tap, I'm doing the same pondering/research for the same kind of board - but women-specific.
10-17-2005, 02:20 PM
shugs

snowboard

Skier666's brother here-

Although the Nitro's are expensive, I would go with them. I had the first board (2001 Nitro Supernaturals Limited Ed.) that included a progressive sidecut where I was able to lean my body in a direction and it would turn for me. In addition, I can honestly say it holds very well at high speeds (straight-line on Wall Chair, Kirkwood, CA) and still has enough pop for ground tricks.

Since then, I have bought another Nitro (Naturals 165) and have taken it in every type of terrain and highly recommend it for all mountain riding. Kirkwood approved.

Now I'm looking into the Darkhorse- has anyone ever rode one? Why is it so much?

Also, in the market for a powder board- any suggestions?
10-17-2005, 02:24 PM
half-fast

Arbor A Frame
10-17-2005, 02:38 PM
Baconzoo

HOLY SHIT!

Quote:

Originally Posted by shugs

Skier666's brother here-

WELCOME you techno banging JONG!

Mt thoughts on a powder board:
It needs to be big enough to float and small enough to pull up and out of the powder when it's deeper than two feet. Think of a retractable boat. I stopped riding anything bigger than a 168 in the pow. I ride a 175 on the groomers though.
10-17-2005, 02:53 PM
yogachik

shugs - I'm thinking about the Nitro Black Widow. Good to hear that you like Nitro, I know next to nothing about them, other than my board shop manager recommends it for me (we've ridden together) this season.
10-17-2005, 03:09 PM
benrex

best powder board ever.
burton fish 160
10-18-2005, 09:02 AM
knowone

Quote:

Originally Posted by shugs

Now I'm looking into the Darkhorse- has anyone ever rode one? Why is it so much?

Also, in the market for a powder board- any suggestions?

I broke the darkhorse first run. If your paying full price don't waste you time.

fish duh , don't let the 156 fool you, but if you live where it's light and fluffy 160..
10-18-2005, 02:52 PM
Samwich

sickter off the richter: http://www.priorsnowboards.com/boards.php

They make a 201 swallowtail too... i've seen someone riding it and it looked smooth and FAST.
10-18-2005, 03:36 PM
biggins

Salomon Burner!!!

Its the rediesigned Fastback, adn from what I've been told, its the tits (no offense Yogachic). Supposed to be teched to the hilt, and stiff as hell.

Yoga- I'm not a big Burton guy- but the Feelgood ES (way overpriced) is supposed to be a bit of a revelation in women's freeride borads. Also for $800 (!!) you can get custom sidewalls, base, and topsheet- including an option for an argyle pattern.
10-18-2005, 04:09 PM
slim

Mrs. Slim rides a 156 Titan. It's a lot of board... damp, damp, damp and made for big turns and big mountains. She gives Never Summer a big thumbs up.
10-19-2005, 03:59 AM
lameduck

gnu temple cummıns? same company as lıbtech whos makıngs skıs now. ıts all comıng full circle

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