K2 Happy Hour Review

By Published On: June 8th, 20110 Comments

2012 K2 Happy Hour Snowboard

K2 Snowboards, Snowboard Boots, Bindings, Skis, HoodiesThe team freak out board. It is a bizarro, genius fun board. It does absolutely everything. The guys and the team riders at K2 got locked in a cabin like this one and decided to make a board. They designed the core, the glass, the top sheet, the base, the graphics even, and this is what they came up with. I haven’t seen a shape like this in a long time and I absolutely love it.

The Happy Hour has Flatline Technology. The base is 100% flat except for the nose and tail. And it also has the Hybritaper construction; the wood inside the board has actually been tapered off to create less swing weight and to use less materials as well. It does have the Stabby Twin shape. Watch out when you ride it close with your friends. You could poke an eye out with the tail and nose.

It has a centered stance of course because it is a twin board and it has a WH3 wood core. It has three different species of renewable laminate wood inside this, but it also has the Bambooyah as well. Basically it has Honeykomb
material that runs in couple spots in the board:  between the inserts and in between the rails on both edges. It’s gonna cause for a lot of pop and a great flex pattern.

It has K2‘s Triax fiberglass with IGC10. The fiberglass runs in three different directions: at 45 degrees, negative 45 degrees, and at zero degrees. TCG, Integrated Carbon Glass, runs from tip to tail and ollie-bars that runing in between you feet, adding a little bit more pop for those riders out there that need a little bit of ollie help.

It also has a couple other additives as well. The Happy Hour also has the Carbon Web 1 additive, meaning there’s carbon web that runs underneath the inserts to the tip and the tail for added pop as well. The base is gonna be a high maintenance, very, very slick base called the 4000 Sintered base.

You’ll see by the rad graphic, that’s a die cut, that this thing is going to stay fast; because if you have a knife on your board that means you’re probably gonna be hauling ass down the hill all the time. The base bevel edge is at 1 degree, and it’s going to be rad! It’s the K2 Happy Hour, the team edition board that everyone is going to fall in love with this year. I can’t wait to do some tail grabs and nose grabs with these things; hopefully I won’t stab myself.

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