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The Snowboard Review test team is back from the 2010 snowboard test, a week of putting the 2011 season’s snowboards through their paces. What with Icelandic volcanoes spewing out clouds of ash and paralysing the UK’s airport industry and a week of the most appalling May weather I’ve ever seen, I was blown away by the fact that the Snowboard-Review team were able to test almost 100 snowboards!
Posted by Rich Ewbank.
Continue reading The 2010 Snowboard Test
Big news from our friends at Signal Snowboards. Huntington Beach’s favourite snowboard brand is heading to the Eurozone for some springtime shredding and chilling. Apparently it’s all in the name of Trans-European relations; I say any excuse for a road trip!
Posted by Rich Ewbank.
Continue reading Team Signal heads to Europe for the Volcanoes Blow Tour
The 2009/10 season was a sensational year for the boys at YES. Dropped from the Burton International Team in 2008; with hard work, a great brand and backing from Europe’s most technologically advanced factory Nidecker; JP Solberg, Romain De Marchi and DCP have had quite a reversal of fortunes. 2011 sees YES expand their range from one board to five. Snowboard-Review managed a sneaky peek at their growing range at ISPO, Europe’s premier winter sports tradeshow.
Posted by Rich Ewbank.
Continue reading ISPO Preview - 2011 YES. Nowboards
Is it a Wakeboard? Is it a Surfboard? No it’s the Chewgash!
Renowned snowboard shape pioneers Mervin Manufacturing, the guys responsible for Gnu and Lib Tech snowboards are at it again. As if riding pow isn’t fun enough, rumour was rife that long term employees Dave Mounts and Steven Cobb have been working behind the scenes to create the ultimate powder riding experience. I emailed Pete Saari at Mervin to get to the bottom of the story:
Posted by Rich Ewbank.
Continue reading Exclusive: Lib Tech Chewgash Powder Prototype Snowboard
Some might be thinking that with the wealth of specialist snowboards filling the shelves of stores world wide, All-Mountain snowboards might be dying a death. Of course, you’d be wrong, All-Mountain boards still make up the majority of sales and still account for most of the boards you’ll see on the hill. Snowboard Review picked out some rides worth keeping an eye out for next season.
Last year’s surprise hit, the Angus sees another year in Rossignol’s snowboard line-up. Largely unchanged from last year’s Angus, the 2010/11 model will feature all-mountain Amptek (camber between the bindings and rocker after) and an even more gruesome graphic (see for your self below). The big news at Rossi is that next year’s all mountain line up sees Amptek technology used on the entire range. Rossi’s all mountain jack of all trades, the One gets another slick graphic and all-mountain Amptek matched up with Magnetraction edges… they’re calling it Magtek, if the retains it’s sub $400 price point it’s going to clear up the market. The JDub, Rossi’s beefed up big kicker charger also gets Magtek and a ton of linear carbon reinforcement, I’m told the result is a hard charging deck without the brutal stiffness the JDub is famed for.
Posted by Rich Ewbank.
Continue reading ISPO Preview - 2011 All-Mountain Snowboards
