GNU Street Series Snowboard 2012
This is the brand new GNU Street Series (2013 update). That’s right, if you like jibbing and if you like hitting rails, riding Banshee Bungees and things of that sort. This is going to be the bombproof board for you, pretty much indestructible. It has a lot of cool features, a lot of great jibbing features that give you a lot more ollie pop and this is a cool graphic, of course, as well. The board does have a baseline technology that called Banana Technology and BTX.
In between your bindings you’re going to have a reverse camber shape, easy for pressing and having fun at slow speeds, and underneath your bindings to the nose and the tail is going to be a flat, slight cambered, mild-cambered shape. If you need to stomp your landings this thing will help you stomp your landings. If you need that extra ollie pop that most complete reverse camber boards don’t have, this could be the board for you. It is a mid-wide shape and it’s a twin shape, so the nose and the tail of course are going to be the same, same exact shape. The tip to tail wood core is called A.5 Sustainable Woodcore and the board does have biax fiberglass that runs in two different directions, at 45 degrees and negative 45 degrees. The board is going to be a little bit softer.
It has a flex rating of a about a 4 to a 5.5 depending on it’s size. The sidecut radius is going to have a pretty decent sidecut radius, about a 7.8 to an 8.3 depending on the size, of course. But one of my favorite features about this, besides the BTX baseline shape, is the Magne Traction. The Magne-Traction edge of course runs pretty much tip to tail. It’s shaped like a serrated knife blade, so it has more surface area and contact with the snow or the ice that you’re riding. You won’t catch up riding pow and you’ll definitely hold a great edge riding hardpack or ice or rails, I guess. The board comes out of the factory waxed by OneBallJay, of course, and it is a sintered base, so you won’t have to maintain this base. You’ll probably be riding the street so often you won’t really need to wax this. The stance can be set between a 20 ½ inch stance to a 25 inch stance, so fairly large. The rad graphic was done by Print Mafia out of Kentucky, and that’s pretty much it right there. If you like riding the streets, the GNU Street Series is going to be a great board for you with BTX and Magne-Traction.
Banana Technology and BTX
