Living in the Alps last winter, staring up at all the unridden lines that clutter Austria’s Salzburgerland, the idea of building a splitboard during the summer seemed like a great way to occupy myself during the snowless months. After a bit of research I’d decided that the Voile Split Decision kit was the best way to go with an outlay of $160 for the kit and $170 for the Voile Tractor skins. Around mid-May I was contacted by a fellow Brit named Dave who offered to sell me an Option 174 Freeplus for £50 (~$80). Dave had been on the site and seen from the forums that I was after a longer board for touring. Sure it’s a good ten years old now but it was in perfect condition. In June when I was back in the UK visiting my folks, my Dad and I set to work building the split, turning Dave’s unwanted gun into a fresh-line seeking powder missile.

Continue reading Volie Split Decision Review - The Build

Almost exactly 12 months ago I was strolling through the Burton ISPO stand (or should I say complex) when I noticed a display with an unnamed board and bindings balanced on a set of scales. Unsurprisingly the display was designed to show how remarkably lightweight this all-in-black setup was and it had attracted a lot of interest. After spending 2 days filling my brain with the many good, bad and ridiculous products that the snowboard industry had to show, this secretive setup evaporated from my mind. This week I noticed that a black board labelled the Mystery had appeared on the Burton website… the appropriately named shred had been revealed.

Continue reading Burton Gets All Mysterious

Our friends at DaKine Europe sent us this nice little vid of Wolle Nyvelt they made when they visited the Ästhetiker powder ninja at his home in the Zillertal.

Continue reading DaKine meets Wolle Nyvelt and Aesmo

Last year the Timeline series was launched to document French mad man Xavier De Le Rue’s season in Europe riding ridiculous lines, with the help of his meaty list of sponsors. The only thing was; while the US was getting dumped on, last season in Europe saw a bit of a drought of the white stuff.

Continue reading Good Times in Europe with the Timeline Crew

Marketing is a funny thing. One the one hand, we all pay for it through the products we buy. On the other hand snowboarding’s marketing spend supports the media we consume, pro-riders (and therefore snowboarding’s progression) and every once in a while a cool concept that directly benefits us…the consumer.

Continue reading DC Launches Park Live Video Concept

If you’re a regular on the site you’ve probably browsed-by this week and noticed that Snowboard-Review.com has been replaced with a much slicker looking imposter calling itself SB-RV.

Continue reading Welcome to Snowboard-Review 2.0

I may be a little late posting the second instalment of the Amplid Shred Recipes Trilogy but it’s Christmas and I’ve been busy shovelling mince pies into my mouth and slowly pickling myself with all sorts of festive booze.

Continue reading Amplid Shred Recipes: Episode 2

I’ll give you three guesses what happens when you heat a snowboard with a candy base in a snowboard press. In this episode common sense goes right out of the window and the Signal crew attempt to build a snowboard, supplementing the base, topsheet and sidewalls with confectionary… ridiculous in a good way.

Continue reading Signal Every Third Thursday - Candy Snowboard

Here’s a little gem from our friends at Amplid. Amplid has put together a three part series about ski and snowboard design and RnD. In the first episode Peter Bauer and Anian Thrainer the brains behind the brand introduce themselves and then run through the basics of ski and snowboard geometry. In the second episode due for release next Monday the two co-founders will go into more details about how they conduct RnD. For snowboard geeks and newbies alike it’s a pretty interesting watch.

Continue reading Amplid Shred Recipes: Episode 1

It’s been a while since the darling of French snowboarding Mr Mathieu Crepel has had a video part to shout home about but by the looks of it he’s back firing on all cylinders again.

Continue reading Crepel Firing On All Cylinders