Review: Burton Chicklet Snowboard

This is the snowboard that my daughter rides. I definitely think when you’re looking for the smaller girls, this is the best snowboard I have in the shop. More tech goes into this one than pretty much any other kids’ snowboard.

First off, we got a cap construction. It’s gonna be a lightweight, torsionally forgiving construction. That rolls into their base tech, which on this one is very unique. The base rolls every so slightly, so when you’re on the snow, these edges are very, very hard to catch. As a beginning snowboarder, that’s the most frustrating thing, is your catching your edges constantly. This thing you can pretty much spin around all the way down the hill and you’re not gonna fall. I’ve witnessed it work very, very well with my daughter numerous times out.

From there, we got a really cute graphic; subliminated graphic. Really good clarity to their P-tex that they use. You don’t have to wax this one much. It will be easy to repair if they do abuse it. The edge is a full wrapping metal edge. It protects the snowboard very well. It is detuned from the factory, so you don’t have to worry about it. You can take this one right out of the bag and go shred it up. It’s a twin shape, so its very balanced, very playful, very forgiving. It can definitely be ridden by an entry-level rider, but as they progress you can take it into the park. Another thing I love about Burton is they actually have a really soft flex. Sometimes with the kids’ snowboards, it’s hard to mill the core down to where its thin enough to where it actually has a flex that their smaller, lighter bodies can manipulate. But my daughter can press on this, no problem whatsoever.

Shorter lengths won’t include this foam pad. With the curvature of the topsheet, if you put a snowboard binding on it, it would make the snowboard go flat, negating the benefit of that technology, so they just a riser pad on there. This here, you got the Riglet, a super-cool feature. You get the Riglet from Burton. You attach kind of like a dog leash, essentially, and as they’re going down the hill, you can control their speed, keep them in front of you. Or if you’re at like a golf course just doing the small hills, you can pull them up while they’re still strapped in and not have to worry about having to strap them in and out everytime.

Like I said, really, really lightweight. Flex on this one is easy to manipulate. Comes with the Go Snowboarding program, it’s a free lift ticket and lesson at the Burton Learn To Ride center. If you’re riding out west and you combo up those two, it can easily be the cost of the snowboard for that freebie. So super cool program. Only Burton is doing that. They’re throwing a bunch of money back to snowboarders on that one. As always, full tip-to-tip wood core. You got that Burton reliability, Burton performance. One-year warranty, which is probably never going to be used.

Burton Chicklet. I could choose any snowboard in the shop for my daughter and I chose this one. The Burton Chicklet snowboard.