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GNU Carbon Credit Series Wide or not

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#1 ·
Hey guys, I am a beginner snowboarder and am leaning towards getting a Gnu Carbon Credit Series BTX board but am not sure if i need a wide or not.

I am 180 pounds and 6 ft 1 inch. I wear about 11-11.5 in normal shoes and am not exactly sure of my snowboard boot size. I had some rental salomon boots that were size 11 and I was riding a 160 salomon pulse which has a waist of 251mm. It felt a bit narrow for my boots but I am not sure if I had toe overhang or not.

I was going to order a 162 in the CCS but not sure about getting the wide width or just the regular.
The waist width on the regular is 258 vs 267 on the wide in size 162.

Any thoughts?
 
#2 ·
Wide vs. not wide is barely a choice... Look at the waist widths you have there. 258 vs. 267 isn't even one centimeter. That's barely more than a 3% difference in width, or less than one shoe size worth in length. Which means that will change your heel and toe overhang by 4.5 mm, or less than one half of a shoe size.

If you think you might like the wider board, get the wider board. Your feet will be fine on either.
 
#4 ·
The best thing you can do is take your boots(or a pair that fit you) and stick them on the board(or a comparable board in a shop near you) where your bindings would be and see how much overhang you have.. If it's anything more than 1.5" then size up to the wide..
 
#8 ·
so after a long debate with the dogfunk guys, they ended up recommending me a 159 cm board Wide that is 267 mm wide vs the regular which is about 255 mm.
They said it would probably last me longer and be able to accomdate a wider variety of boots since I am right on the edge between wide and regular.

Its a bout a half inch difference between wide and regular... does that make much of a difference?
 
#12 ·
The difference between a wide and non wide with that board is hardly noticeable and I don't mind the extra bit of width for stability as this was my first season.

As the board I was using prior was cambered, the difference for me was night and day. Kept expecting to catch a edge...I didn't. Absolutely loving the board. Spent 1 weekend on green runs to get use to the board, but made a fast progression to blue runs the weekend after. This was on corn and hard packed groomed runs.

Very happy.
 
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