Bataleon Evil Twin - 2010
Effortless to spin off kickers, forgiving on landings, but torsionally stiff enough to ride out the bumpiest of run-outs. The Bataleon Evil Twin is perfect for anyone who loves doing laps of the park or freestyling all over the mountain, an absolute classic!
Manufacturer's Description:
Everyone’s favorite twin. This board is so good people always come back for seconds. It does everything a true twin needs to do and more. We can’t keep coming up with new descriptions for a board that proves itself year after year to be one of the best idea’s we’ve ever had. So we just recommend you to ride this piece of shredtastic snowboard and see for yourselves why this board has its own fanmail drawer in our mail room… (we don’t really have a mail room but there is this folder that says “ET yeah for it” in our inbox and it’s filled with raving fanmails
Recommended for park riding.
Recommended for rail riding.
Medium cost $
Camber Construction.
Twin Shape.
Year: 2010
Available Lengths (cm):
147, 151, 155, 159
Riding Style: Freestyle/Park
Specifications:
Synthduded Base - Slightly faster than Bataleon’s standard extruded base
Poplar Core with Hardwood enforcements along sidewalls
Carbon stringers
Triaxial glass above core, Biaxial glass below - easy flex and lots of feel
Twin Triple Base technology - wider flat section for stability when riding rails and park
Similar boards: Ride DH - 2010 Option Mirror - 2010
Snowboard Review:
The Evil Twin is Bataleon’s Mona Lisa, Sistine Chapel… name it what you will, it’s a freestyle masterpiece! At short lengths with a sprightly longitudinal flex and medium torsional stiffness, my first impressions were that the Evil Twin was a bit on the aggressive side. This is where the 3D base comes into play. Turns initiate more gradually, the resulting ride isn’t particularly responsive (not to be confused with sluggish), the evil twin is also quite wide under foot, so if you’re keen on the odd euro carve I’d suggest you look at the more all-mountain focused rides in the Bataleon range. However, when you’re carving up kickers before initiating spin tricks this gradual rolling onto the edge helps prevent the rider carving to hard into the lip. Setting down landings is equally forgiving helping flat based landings roll onto the edge which the rider’s weight is over, and avoiding those impromptu edge catches that send you scorpion style head first into the landing. I found when I was throwing frontside spins off my heels the buttery feel that the 3D base provides, gave me more confidence to put more effort into the pop. This season Bataleon have increased the area of the flat region raised from the edge on their freestyle twins, effectively this means that you’ll now have more base in contact with rails when you’re getting your slide on. The Evil Twin brings loads of confidence to kicker spinning and can handle bumpy run outs on spring kicker landing’s, it’s perfect for intermediate to advanced riders looking to increase their bag of tricks this coming season.
Posted by Rich Ewbank in • Bataleon
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on August 02, 2009 at 06:53 AM
Hey, I’m looking into the K2 Parkstar and Bataleon Evil Twin, what board would be better for rail and large jumps 60+? I am completely 50/50 between the two help me out! How is the flex on both of them?
on August 02, 2009 at 11:07 AM
Both are brilliant boards! The main difference is that the Parkstar is rockered, which gives it quite a soft forgiving flex, on rails, jibs and smaller kickers it gives you so much confidence.
The Evil twin is a lot stiffer between the bindings, bit like the Capita Indoor Survival and Rome Agent. A bit more stable at high speed, with a bit more high speed stability.
Both are great boards, two of the best park boards I tested out in Austria. The Parkstar is probably more fun and slightly better on jibs and rails, but the Evil Twin is a bit more aggressive, probably better for hitting 60 foot jumps… that’s my opinion.
on November 19, 2009 at 02:37 PM
Hey ive wanted one of these for years but have always ridden a stiffer 158, ive had the omatic celebrity and wig out last two years but both have snapped on me so im not keen to buy another. Im doing alot more park riding but still want a board that can handle the odd backcoutry pow run and is fine at speed. Ive got it down to the evil twin or the artec cipher.. any other ideas? Is their alot of difference apart from the triple base tech? I had a look at the Goliath too but not too keen on riding a 157. Thanks for any help! Cheers,
Josh
on November 20, 2009 at 05:29 PM
Hi Josh,
Although you’re not sure about the 157 Goliath, it sounds like the perfect board for you. The Evil twin is a great park and kicker board and the tripple base is really good for kicker take-offs, makes carving into transitions less scary. Choosing between the Evil Twin and the Goliath, I’d probably pick the Goliath as it’s going to be more versatile out of the park than the evil twin.. and still super capable in the park… just check out Tyler Chorlton’s riding. That all said the graphics on this year’s are awsome.. Eygptian stylee!
on February 27, 2010 at 08:16 AM
Hey I’m needing to get a new board and am thinking about getting this one. The TBT stuff seems like a really good idea and seems like it would really work well. I’m not much a fan of rockered boards, not stable enough for my liking, so I was wondering if you would recommend this board for me? I mainly ride a lot of park, lots of jumps and some rails. Kind of curious as to how this board handles on rails. Is it a little to stiff? But from what your review says it sounds like its a dream of kickers and such. My las board was a Ride Kink and I enjoyed it but it was a little on the soft side. So what are your thoughts?
Thanks!
on March 14, 2010 at 10:12 AM
Hi Cody,
Sorry for the late reply been on hols in Austria for two weeks shredding, but couldn’t take the laptop as it’s a little on the heavy side to fit in my baggage allowance. To answer your question, yes the ET is a dream off kickers, just so easy on spin setups. On rails it was fine, not as easy as your old kink but still capable, in fact we did a jib board test in a big fridge and the other testers loved it on rails. Sounds like it could be the right board for you.
Rich
