Snowboarding - Carving and Race Plates

[JustSomeDude]

I haven't been on the slopes in a couple of seasons, but plan on getting back out there this year. I used to be big into the racing/carving scene, starting with the old school Kemper Bullet, then on to the Burton asymmetrical PJs (initialed for racing greats Peter Bauer and Jean Nerva - anyone remember those guys!?), and eventually moved on to the symmetrical Factory Primes. I still have my "99 Factory Prime with the race plates, that I need to wipe the dust off of.

Anyway - I don't plan on buying any new gear anytime soon, but I was wondering... does anyone still make alpine carving or GS boards? I browsed the Burton site and couldn't find any. I'm sure someone MUST be supplying the racers these days. Who is it?

Anyone know? :dunno:

[salsashark]

I WISH I had kept that freecarve board (Burton Amp). I loved that thing. I tried the Asyms, but never really dug them, and I never went full race plates, but rocked the threestrap bindings.

Best of luck finding snowboard specific race equipment locally. Most of the more well known manufacturers abandoned carving/race boards a while back...

Check these out, you may be able to dig down to some boot providers...

http://www.donek.com/links.htm

http://www.bomberonline.com/community/links_page.cfm

[RYBO]

Here are some resources. This company still make raceplates.

http://www.bomberonline.com/


Oxygen (atomic), F2, Nidecker and Volkl still make race snowboards, but they are a bit hard to find. I have a spare 149 slalom board mounted with burton raceplates if someone is interestd. Bindings are lightly used, board is brand new

[salsashark]

a 149 slalom?! I didn't know you were a midget... oh, I mean little person!

[RYBO]

It's tiny for sure, and it wasn't really for me. It was for a friend who never used it.

[towneh]

I used to do this in a big way. factory primes 178 and 157 running physics bindings with their fire boots. used to run the chutes with my amp 169 running si-x bindings with the duster softboots. go to the annual Sessions event to see who-has-what these days.
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