jeudi 5 mars 2015
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These are just initial impressions and stats since I will not be riding it until this weekend. I will update this thread with my riding report by Sunday night.
Like many other old guys, I began riding on traditional camber and flat camber boards years and years ago. However, I was never really serious about snowboarding until 4 years ago and since then I've been riding hybrid camber rocker camber boards.
After riding a Burton Custom X, which I loved, at a Burton demo day, I realized that I wanted to add some traditional camber back into my quiver, not as my main everyday board but as a fun board on which to blast around on groomer days. I love the precision, pop and predicatability of camber on those days. I didn't want to switch to the EST channel system and I like my current bindings so I did not buy a Custom X.
I looked at a lot of cambered boards: the Rome Anthem, Arbor A Frame, Capita NAS, Nitro Ultimate, D-Day Roach, Libtech Jamie Lynn Half Cap, etc. but, with no local demos and few or no reliable online reviews, I didn't have a lot of data to really help me decide.
Now I like my NS boards especially their durability but the last cambered board NS had in its normal line up was the 2010 Titan. They do make cambered boards though as OEM for a small number of people. For example the 2014-2015 D-Days were pressed by NS but D-Day has moved its production to another manufacturer. I knew that NS had made a limited run of cambered boards designed by Jay Moore for his shop World Boards and for Gallatin Alpine Sports for 2013-2014 and 2014-2015. These "Mountainslayer" boards had sold out pretty fast last season so I was surprised when I called Gallatin and they had some available still from this season. I ended up buying a Mountainslayer 159.
Jay Moore desribed his board as follows:
Quote:
This cambered board has an all mountain twinish shape and is light and mid damp. The nose and tail are not too scooped so they break through crud and don’t’ plow the snow. And with a carbon rod in the front only, the nose is rendered a bit stiffer than the tail, just barely. That makes this thing float well and not fold on a mach speed outrun. It is NOT a tapered tail board and has a firm flex but it is not a beast to ride since it has a Biaxial glass layup; you can manipulate this thing torsionally and steer it with your feet in tight terrain. The nose and tail have POP with carbon V’s and there is a carbon X under each foot to drive power to your edge in a flash. The 5501 Sintered black non die cut base is the hardest and fastest money can buy. It intentionally has no die cuts for durability and ease of repair. You can slay the entire mountain on this thing. |
When I called Gallatin for specs, someone who had ridden it compared the stiffness to the Chairman but I expected that since it was fully cambered with no rocker hinge point in the middle the actual stiffness would be way less than the Chairman although the perceived stiffness may be high.
Since no specs were available, I wrote to Vince asking for the specs. The specs he shared were:
Quote:
It's definitely not a typical cambered snowboard. We added our Vario sidecut for edge hold and our extended transition areas to take the pressure off the end contact points for effortless turn initation and to keep the board from catching the leading or trailing edge. Your Chairman also has this feature. The Mountain Slayer has a stiffer nose than tail, most falls result from the instability on the front foot. It has a mid-flex for torsional control to appeal to a boarder for a wider range of riders. Around a 5.5 on our current scale. No Taper. Damping is similar to our Heritage for hard charging stability. Size Waist Edge Sidecut Tip/Tail 152 24.3 116 790 28.6 *NEW SIZE 156 24.9 120 822 29.2 *NEW SIZE 159 25.6 123 863 29.9 160W 26.3 122 850 30.7 *NEW SIZE 163 25.7 126 884 30.0 164W 26.6 126 880 31.0 *NEW SIZE 166 25.9 129 904 30.2 172 26.0 135 950 30.3 |
My Mountainslayer 159 is:
Size Waist Edge Sidecut Tip/Tail
159 25.6 123 863 29.9/29.9
Flex is 5.5 and if it is as damp as the Heritage then it would be a 7 damp on the NS scale.
I measured the camber rise in the middle at around 7mm or so sitting on my carpet. I suspect that the extended transition zones at the contact points might make the profile a bit like the new age camber of Capita but I don't have an Outsiders board to compare.
My Chairman 160 is:
160 25.6 127 850 29.5/29.0
Flex 8 and Damp 9 on the NS scale
My Raptor 159 is
159 25.3 124 790 29.8/29.8
Flex 8 and Damp 9 on the NS scale
The Buston Custom X I tested is:
158 24.9 123 810
Burton describes its personality as past Happy Medium Medium and into the Stiff and Aggressive area
Here is the camber as well as pictures of the board stacked on top of my Raptor to compare camber profiles.
Here you see that the tip is lower rise than the scooped Raptor tip and tail.
Side by side with the Chairman you see the nose and tail rise are similar. You can also see differences in sidecut.
Here is the hybrid camber of the Chairman.
Here the back is weighted so you can see the nose of the Chairman pop up due to the rocker.
2015 Never Summer Mountainslayer (limited release for World Boards/Gallatin Alpine)
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