Dave here talking about the Ride Compact snowboard. It’s a super super tech-ridden snowboard, from the wonderful wizards at Ride, for the fairer sex. What you’re looking at here is going to be a twin all-terrain freestyle-oriented snowboard, entry-level to intermediate on mountain, entry level to advanced for freestyle.
Starting with the top sheet, you’ve got a 4×2 insert pattern really good at micro-adjusting your stance. You can definitely bang out a wider stance on this one. It does have the membrane top sheet. Which is a super super thin top sheet fused with the glass helps keep the weight of the snowboard down and definitely allows you to use these nice clear windows to see right through the base of the snowboard. Moving to that, you’ve got the carbon array three. Basically, what that’s going to do is give you more pop in the nose and the tail. It’s going to lighten up the snowboard a little bit more.
From there, you’ve got the Slimewall sidewall. It’s urethane rather than the traditional ABS. It’s going to be much more durable, not going to crack as much, and it really helps lock onto rails and stuff like that. Just definitely something cool that Ride is doing right now. From there, you’ve got a die cut extruded base. This one will actually have sublimination and die cut together and a really complex graphic with a lot of pop to it. Extruded base, you’re not going to have to wax it that much and it’s going to be easy to fix if anything does go wrong.
This one will have the Cleve edge, definitely designed to help you on those rails and boxes. It’s going to be a more durable construction, definitely intended more for freestyle usage but can be ridden anywhere on a mountain. You’ve got the Ride Compact snowboard.
