New New board porn 2012

[johnasmo]

Wow, that video showed up here before I even got it posted to the product review board (along with actual review). I was going to leave it there and see how long before it got generally discovered, but I guess the bomber community never sleeps...

About "Asmo" boards, can I get a complementary board for having the "Asmo" online moniker for over 30 years? Not that I could ride it of course, but I'd give it the old Montucky try until one of us was lost forever in the deep snow. And of course I'd follow-cam dreadman making it look smooth and easy. I should at least be grandfathered in for some stickers and swag, eh? Do they float on water???

[Gcarve]

I was going to leave it there and see how long before it got generally discovered, but I guess the bomber community never sleeps....

Ain't that the truth

[Rob Stevens]

Rob. Do they build a line of boards? Longer no binding boards?

They're adding a longer one. I guess mine is the first, so we're working on specs. It's going to be a 170 at least.

Question. The noboard pad on your website vs the burton noboard pad. Are they the same? Same size, construction, materials? Thanks again. Bryan
Our pad and the B pad are very different. Anything you see with Burton on it is old stock, as we broke up. The actual NB pad is a grippier, lower durometer rubber. I have retrofit my current Asmo with a NB pad, combined with the Asmo pad. Best of both worlds.

Do you plan to build your own noboard specific boards this season??
No. We let people choose their own board, though we reccommend powder shapes.

[Rob Stevens]

I already asked....

I think I remember being told they are just making boards for friends and insiders. Ron told me "He makes about 30 to 50 a year, mostly in the summer, so you'll probably never see one in person."

I would love to have one as well. Wolle slaughters it on this thing, one of my favorite riders.

They don't really make a "line" of boards. Well, they have different shapes, so I guess they do, but not in the consumer sense of the word, where you could go out and pick one. It's a real garage operation, with low numbers, as you said Ace.

I did once see a picture on the Interweb of Wolle holding one with a Sikstik graphic on it. That's a Salomon model and W rides for Salomon, so you never know... S's Facebook page asked the question "What would you do for one of Wolle's Pow Surfer's" and the question pulled a bunch of responses. More than a few offered first borns, so S might get some ideas from that about its commercial viability. I never asked Stefan or Wolle if that was going to happen, but if it does, you can bet it won't be this year.

[Jack Michaud]

Rob, I'd be interested in your comparison of board shapes for deep powder and noboarding. That is, I would think that a "reverse sidecut" surfboard-style shape would make powder turns superior to all else, followed by a Fish shape, followed by a swallowtail shape, but I wouldn't know. I'm talking ultimate powder-only performance. Not getting back to the chairlift, not traversing on a cat-track, just powder turns. I would also suppose that the surfboard shape is the least practical for those purposes.

[Rob Stevens]

T. Rice (Banana Hammock) and Johan O (some giant Venture) both have used reverse-sidecut boards in our race and ****ing flew.
What I've found is steep, blower snow doesn't care what you ride on it. It's all the other issues that come up that make you wish for a more conventional board shape, like trying to keep up speed on the flats, traversing and dealing with choppy, transformed snow.
You already knew that last part.
My last heli trip, where I had a choice between the Asmo and the NoBoard, I'd struggle to choose because they both were clearly superior in dealing with different parts of the overall experience. I'd just have to make a call and hope for the best. Sometimes, "best" would have just been pulling out the binders and not being so ****ing fancy.

[west carven]

howdy mr. donek and mr.coiler
any chance of creating a pow specfic board like the chewgash?
rockered like a surfboard... a glass one would be enough...
i could be your tester...

[nurse ben]

This is what Sean made for me:



165 x 23.5, rubber foil on the bottom (for dampening), VSR, early rise tip, decambered tip and tail, angles are 40/45 with 5 deg inward cant front and rear, on a BSL 312, short length for the short hills where I live

We had started talking about a metal board, but I was worried about durability, so rubber dampening was the next best thing. I could have had two layers of rubber, which Sean felt would be closest to a metal board, but then durability would have gone down...

Other than the custom top sheet, clear with red tropical theme, she's an FC. I'm not sure about the blunt tip, I had in mind a more "pointed" tip like an Ax or Blade, but that was lost in translation. Overall it was a very quick and easy process, a couple phone calls and some emails, two weeks from phone to door

So I never ridden a blunt tip or for that matter, anything this stiff, though I see that the blunt tip is in fashion, so it must be good What I'm most curious about is how the board will ride in softer conditions, trees, pow, since it's much stiffer than what I've ridden previously.

Just curious, but for those folks who ride plates 100% of the time, what do you look for in an off piste board in terms of flex, shape, etc...? Do you reduce your angles?

Believe it or not, early season riding starts in late October out here, we've got this little hill in the Smokeys that stays cold and starts pumping the snow at first frost, only 500' of sliding but it's sliding!

Sixty days and counting!

[slopestar]

Wow! She is a beauty. Looks like a really fun ride!

[Jeffrey Day]

[QUOTE=nurse ben;351189]This is what Sean made for me:



Hey Ben,
Nice single-speed you got there in the backround! Who makes it?
Oh yeah, and the board is pretty schweet too!
Jeff

[Miltie]

Nice board Ben! I have several custom boards from Sean and think you will be even more stoked once you ride it. What sidecut did you go with? I am pondering a similar board in about the same length from Sean to run through the afternoon crud with softboots. Thanks! Tom

[nurse ben]

That's a Redline Monocog 29er, great bike, it's my son's, I used to ride one before I got into muni.

Side cut on my Donek is VSR, I thinbk it's Sean's special formula

Essentially it's an FC with rubber and a tad wider, kinda a mix of tips and tails. Built for my weight, so a tad stiff as I weigh 200#.

[grock5]

Prior FLC 169W

Something a little shorter & tighter sidecut for the small hills in this neck of the woods. My very first Prior!

Just need some snow, and I better get in shape... now.... Woo!

[Shred Gruumer]

Just got my custome Oxess 178 Big Brother!!

Nice.. 178cm, 20cm, 11m sidecut with BX Tip and Tail.. Shaaaaa Weeet...

Just one more board to go!!

[lowrider]

How do these beauties feel about sharing space with their poor Russian cousin ??? Send me a pic of the East Bloc beauty as well.

[big canuck]

Oh man those are cool bud!

Sweep whips indeed.

[Andrew]

To put this

Donek razor 182
Custom graphic done by me
looks great

[Cuban Carving Gooding]

It looks cool Andrew. Is there any side cut on that ?

[Andrew]

It looks cool Andrew. Is there any side cut on that ?

It's my brothers board so i'm not sure. I'm assuming it's 11.5 based on the Donek website

[Donek]

It looks cool Andrew. Is there any side cut on that ?

I will try to update the Razor specs this weekend. The Razor is now VSR. The 182 is 11-13m.

EDIT: Just finished with a nifty new little tool. It now calculates your tip/tail width based on the waist width you want. Will probably implement this on other pages too. Let me know if it doesn't work for you.

[Mellow Yellow]

Believe it or not, early season riding starts in late October out here, we've got this little hill in the Smokeys that stays cold and starts pumping the snow at first frost, only 500' of sliding but it's sliding!

Sixty days and counting!

Ober??? Nothin open yet this year.... but soon.... I call Cat to be first in the South East

[piusthedrcarve]

Waited so long.
Thanks to Bomber to get this board from SG although it's not the on their list.
Now, Snow!

[www.oldsnowboards.com]

SG Full Carve 170

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Waited so long.
Thanks to Bomber to get this board from SG although it's not the on their list.
Now, Snow!

Looks nice, rest of the specs? Cost? How is it different? Do they make the same model but in a 185cm? I like the graphics better.

[xy9ine]

picked up an atv 167 as a soft snow compliment to the kesslers i scored the end of last season. guess i'm committed to this hardboot thing now. sorry for the grainy cellphone pic.

[BlueB]

picked up an atv 167 as a soft snow compliment to the kesslers i scored the end of last season. guess i'm committed to this hardboot thing now. [/IMG]

Killer quiver!
Only a full-on pow board is missing. But, ATV can cover 75% of our pow days.

[WinterGold]

Looks nice, rest of the specs? Cost? How is it different? Do they make the same model but in a 185cm? I like the graphics better.

The shape is the same as the race model (Full Race). This model (Full Carve) is without titanal. In Europe the Full Carve is 625Euros compared to 975Euros for the Full Race Titan (the Full Race Pro Team (limited edition) is 1100Euros).

There is no 185 length in the Full Carve line. Only in the Full Race lines. The longest Full Carve is 180.

[xy9ine]

Killer quiver!
Only a full-on pow board is missing. But, ATV can cover 75% of our pow days.

i was wavering between this and a pow stick, but deep pow days are few & far between & typically limited to a handful of runs before everything is tracked out (at least based on my relatively limited days on slope). not really sure you need a dedicated pow board for resorts around here. would love to do a cat session w/ one however. the 174 kessler was surprisingly good in 8" of fresh though...

[piusthedrcarve]

The shape is the same as the race model (Full Race). This model (Full Carve) is without titanal. In Europe the Full Carve is 625Euros compared to 975Euros for the Full Race Titan (the Full Race Pro Team (limited edition) is 1100Euros).

There is no 185 length in the Full Carve line. Only in the Full Race lines. The longest Full Carve is 180.

Thanks Gerald,

More spec:
Woodcore sandwich construction with Triax-glassfiber layers, Rubber/carbon/Kevlar dampening. Nano Carbon base.
For Full Carve 170,

• Running Length: 1530mm
• Width: 199mm
• Setback: 60mm
• Stance: 460-580mm
• Taper: 20mm
• Sidecut Radius: 15.2m (Progressive)

[www.oldsnowboards.com]

The shape is the same as the race model (Full Race). This model (Full Carve) is without titanal. In Europe the Full Carve is 625Euros compared to 975Euros for the Full Race Titan (the Full Race Pro Team (limited edition) is 1100Euros).

There is no 185 length in the Full Carve line. Only in the Full Race lines. The longest Full Carve is 180.

Thanks for all the info!!

[piusthedrcarve]

The shape is the same as the race model (Full Race). This model (Full Carve) is without titanal. In Europe the Full Carve is 625Euros compared to 975Euros for the Full Race Titan (the Full Race Pro Team (limited edition) is 1100Euros).

There is no 185 length in the Full Carve line. Only in the Full Race lines. The longest Full Carve is 180.

Gerald,
After testing few race decks last season and intense feedback & advise from you and Ivan of carver.si, I decided to go with Full Carve. Once I ride this beauty, I will let you know how I think. How's your recovery coming along? Ready to share 'Is Alpine Dead II? this season?