2014 Snowboard Gear Preview Thread

[BurtonAvenger]

Originally Posted by Weipim

yeah i have 2 asym side cut boards now, and all of them seems to be just pure marketing candy that doesn't even taste good with the meal; though I really buy in this theory in general.

The Yes. Great Dudes from this season is by far one of the best decks with Asym I've ever been on.

[Weipim]

Originally Posted by BurtonAvenger

The Yes. Great Dudes from this season is by far one of the best decks with Asym I've ever been on.

yeah I have the terje one and the GNU Rider's choice.

Can't really feel the RC asym with its overwhelming MTX game, prefer Yes' solution, but imo I still hope next year the asym gets better

[Nivek]

My Problem with Mervin's Asym (ridden the pickle and Impossible) is that they are using a softer core on the heelside just past the inserts tip to tail. You can't leverage the heelside as hard, so you put a deeper radius back there to make the turns inherently tighter and soften up the core so that it's easier to initiate the turn. That's what they think, I though it felt mushy on my heelside and even on the Pickle with full MTX it felt washy. Deeper is fine, but so far I've liked a thicker band of core in an asym construction behind me heels more than a deeper sidecut. More to drive my heel into means more edge bite and that means I can drive into the sidecut more. Put asym core and sidecut together? Yes please.

[Lstarrasl]

Originally Posted by t-bizzy

1$ to the person who knows what the orange guy graphic is from.

Want that board.
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FOR THE WIN!

stop by my house I'll give you the $

[shralp]

Originally Posted by Lester86

Made by union any word on angles or anything ?? Hope it's not that auto canting stuff 3-4 degree would be amazing

Yes it's made by Union. Not sure what the canting degree(s) will be yet.

[longboardsrule]

Thanks for the preview wired! The arbor boards look sweet, might have to look into one of those when I am done with my Raptor.

[airblaster503]

Originally Posted by poutanen

Re-read my post numb nuts!!!

I re-read, and still you are saying that a board with normal shape vs those with a different shaped nose/tail, that the normal shape has a longer effective edge, which is the area between the contact points. THat is not correct, most boards that are for example blunted on the tips have a longer effective edge. It also depends on the shape as well, a cambered deck is going to be have a longer effective edge than one that is rocker.

But then again you have 2k posts vs my 7, so you must know more



And the NS hype on this forum is unreal.

[Lady]

Originally Posted by Wiredsport

Smokin' is lookin rad for 2014:

Can you say the name models that we see in this picture?

[jdang307]

Originally Posted by Lady

Can you say the name models that we see in this picture?

Just go check out the catalog in the link posted earlier in the thread. Has specs, names everything.

zuzupopo / Snow Catalogues


I just want to know what the hell is this Smokin Awesymmetrical

[24WERD]

Looks like the GNU Space Case board