GNU Billy Goat C2 BTX - 2010
Summary:
Good enough for Temple Cummins, bets are the Gnu Billy Goat will be good enough for you. A freeride gun for charging powder fields and windlips world wide, grip on hard snow conditions and tons of float in the deepest of powder.
Manufacturer's Description:
Temple’s new Billy Goat model is just that a brand new board.. featuring revolutionary freeride and power freestyle C2 BTX geometries… C2 combines the best features of camber and banana technology into one all terrain design for aggressive experienced snowboarders. You get the end to end stability and pop that camber offers combined with the carving performance and soft snow float of banana tech between the feet. Temple has won the Mt Baker Banked Slalom many times and C2 BTX is his geometry of choice whether carving perfect efficient turns for a time, negotiating an icy exposed chute to get to the pow that no one else can get to, or jibbing around teaching his son Cannon the ropes. When it comes to solid power snowboarding with a knack for smooth flowing fine tuned edgework Temple knows what he wants in a board. Solid construction, Anvitex dampener, stable, a strong eco farmed wood core and a sintered base, the Billy Goat will not let you down.
Year: 2010
Available Lengths (cm): 162
Riding Style: Freeride
Specifications:
C2 Banana / Camber combo with Magnetraction .75 shred Technology
Sandwich construction
Avitex dampening
Harmonic twin shape
Double sintered UHMW sidewalls
Quasi Glass
Mervin BA Eco farmed wood core
Sintered 9900 alloy base
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so, as of now i got about 4 weeks on the billy goat.
i like it.
alot.
i ride mostly off-piste and love to hike for my turns.
the billy goat is a fun playful ride. it is incredibly surfy in both soft and hard conditions. it pivots really well.
it likes to carve short turns and has quite good edgehold, however, if you want to do some bigger turns you have to really stay on top of it and keep it (force it) from turning.
as the name suggest it does billy goating incredebly well, super agile and quick in steep and tight spaces. but it falls short when you want to open it up on bigger faces. going fast is not one of its strengths. it is especially squirrily when going fast on hardpack.
the board is quite soft and poppy.
i would recommend it for tree-riding or a freestyler who wants a do it all/backcountry jib board
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