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Burton T7 and T7 Wide Snowboard Review

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Burton T7 and T7 Wide Snowboard Review

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Discontinued in 2012
$799

Advanced To Expert All Mountain to Freeride
Camber Directional Shape for aggressive riders
2008 Top 5  in the Pipe Good Wood Award Winner.  Take the Burton Custom X, give it a aluminum core, make the shape more directional and you have the Burton T7. For 2011 they added another # to it so now it's the T7.  The T7 is really really Fast!   The T7 is geat if you want to ride the mountain really fast and carve out amazing turns.  It's also one of the better non tapered/non rocker directional snowboards in the powder.  If money is no object and you want to have one of the most expensive freeride boards out there then blow your wad on this.  We wish we could.  Check out the detailed review below.
 

How It Rides

Groomers Excellent   Speed Excellent
  Flex Med/Stiff   Rails/
Jibbing
Rough
Powder Good   Weight Light
  Carving
Excellent   Pipe Good
Turn Initiation
Difficult   Edge Hold Excellent   Switch Average   Jumps Good

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The Good Ride Take

Burton T7 and T7 Wide All Mountain Freeride Snowboard Review (Formerly T6)

Days On this thing- 8
Bindings Used-  Burton C60's
Riders on this board- 2
Board Used- 162 and 164 Wide

Out of all the companies out there Burton is doing their best to push the tech so snowboards will start to reach the ski price range.  This and the Vapor are a prime example.  This board uses aluminum in the core instead of wood.  It makes it light, stiff and not rail friendly.  All gripes aside about the price this board is fast, mean and incredibly fun to ride.   This board was so expensive we couldn't buy this out right.  We had to convince a friend to let us borrow his relatively new board for a week.  Now that is a good friend!

Groomers- This board will fly down the groomers and could make you want to get up extra early so you can see your lines on the corduroy. This is incredibly fun to carve and the directional shape and good edge hold makes hard pack to slush pretty fun.

Powder-  Not great but not bad either.  Powder is fun no matter what kind of board you ride but if you have enough money to afford a T6 you should own a powder board as well.

Turn Initiation-  This board is stiff so you have to work for your turns but you get a great reward every time you lean into a turn.  The narrow waist and relatively deep side cut make this board a turning delight.  It's not for everyone but with work you can make nice short turns in steep chutes or wide sweeping turns on a groomer.  Now with the ICS Binding system the turn initiation is much easier but don't suddenly think it will turn like a Burton custom.  This is still a very fast and aggressive board.

Speed- This board is very fast.  Possibly the fastest board Burton makes.  Chatter is non existent.

Lightweight- Very light.  You won't feel this on your feet riding up the chair unless the wind is tugging on it.

Edge Hold-  Burton has a little extension of the edges between each foot for this board, sharp sturdy edges and a stiff flex.   That makes for a grip almost good enough for that rare but scary blue ice you come across.  We found it to hold in any condition we experienced.  The worst we ever experienced was hard pack but it really tore through it and leads us to believe you could use these edges on ice skates.

Stiffness-  Pretty stiff throughout the entire board longitudinally and torsion-ally.  Boards these days are definitely getting softer but this is still on the stiff side of it all.

Jibbing- Yeah right!

Switch- Not great.  This board is made primarily for going one direction.  A good rider can ride anything switch so if you rip you'll get use to it and it will be fine.

Rails/Boxes- ouch!  This metal core, stiff flex and super sharp edges are not made for rails. 

Pipe- If you want to go one direction and launch as high as possible out of the pipe then you won't find a much better board to do so. 

Jumps- We found this to have a good spring off of jumps but again the directional shape can make it difficult to start spinning or land switch.  If you want to go big this will be there for you.  The older models use to literally break in half but this is something Burton has fixed the last few seasons.   We aren't good enough to push a board that hard to find out if that still happens.

Overall we aren't sure that the price tag is worth it but this board does what it's made to do very well.

The Good Ride Take on Burton

Burton is huge. They have developed or acquired most of the technology that we use today. Burton is one of the only companies that can provide you with everything you need to snowboard from boards to beanies.  Burton even owns arguably the best surfboard company Channel Islands because Jake likes to surf.  They are like the Yankees of snowboarding because they can always outspend their competition to win.

The positives- Burton provides more products for each gear/clothing/accessory category than any other company.  Burton has possibly the best customer service in the snowboarding industry.  Burton continuously spends more money than almost any company to develop new tech or just make what they have better.   Burton sponsors more pro’s and get’s more high level user feed back than any other company.  They have some of the best boots, bindings and boards in the industry.  They also have great clothing.

The Negatives- Because Burton spends so much money on sponsorship and tech they have to pass this cost along to the products they sell.   They relentlessly continue to jack up the prices every year.  You are almost always going to get a good product from Burton’s higher end line but some mid to low level products don’t stack up to the competition in the same price range.  Burton always tries to make proprietary tech like the channel tech and 3 hole binding tech so you can only ride Burton Gear which sucks! We wish they wouldn’t act like the Microsoft of snowboarding.

The bottom line is Burton is the 800lb patriarch of our industry that makes good stuff and backs it up with good customer service.  The snowboarding world owes soo much to them but at the same time they can be very frustrating when it comes to price and proprietary technology.

Company Information

2011 Burton T7 Snowboard

Burton

T7

A cushioned cruise missile.

The next step for Terje Haakonsen, the NEW T7™ is built upon a legacy of speed, snap, and accelerated airtime. From chasing the high-air mark to freefalling down an Alaskan spine line—the T7 flies faster and higher with the metallic snap of an Alumafly™ core and cushioned control of Smooth Ride™ internal dampening. Outrun anything—Frostbite Edges join forces with NEW Lightning Bolts Hi-Voltage for grip that won’t slip and energized handling from peak to pipe.

156 Item Number: 234582

159 Item Number: 231604

162 Item Number: 234584

Features

+          Tram Package

+          The Channel  

+          Camber 

+          SHAPE: Directional

+          FLEX: Directional 

+          CORE: Alumafly Core with Multizone EGD™ and Even Profile 

+          FIBERGLASS: Triax™ Fiberglass with NEW Lightning Bolts Hi-Voltage 

+          BASE: Sintered WFO  

+          EDGES: Stainless Frostbite Edges with Grip and Rip™ Tune 

+          SIDEWALLS: Slantwall 

+          EXTRAS: Smooth Ride, Pro-Tip™, and Infinite Ride™

Artists: Fighting—A collaborative effort of Niall McClelland and Lukas Geronimas

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Sizes:

156cm (244 WW)

159cm (246 WW)

162cm (248 WW)

Feel: 8

Camber

An advocate of powerful turns and poppy precision, camber speaks to the core values of board design. Acting like a suspension, camber creates a lively ride capable of slicing and stomping the entire mountain.

Camber distributes weight evenly over the entire length of the board allowing for smooth, continuous edge control from tip to tail.

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2010 Burton T6 Snowboard

T6/T6 Wide

Freeride firing on all six cylinders.

By pairing the precision-milled chassis of an Alumafly™ core with the underfoot suspension of Smooth Ride™, the T6™ allows Terje and Nicolas Müller to fly faster and higher with more control and finesse. Power through crud, accelerate up transitions, thread the needle with F1 precision—this is the ultimate high-octane scream machine. Now upgraded with The Channel for limitless stance adjust-ability with any Burton binding.

The Channel *NEW*

Smooth Ride Technology

SHAPE: Directional

FLEX: Directional

CORE: Alumafly Core with Multizone EGD™ and Even Profile

FIBERGLASS: Triax™ Response

BASE: Sintered N2O WFO

EDGES: Stainless Steel Pressure Distribution Edges with Grip and Rip™ Tune

SIDEWALLS: Slantwall

EXTRAS: Pro-Tip™ and Infinite Ride™

Sizes:

156cm (244 WW)

159cm (246 WW)

162cm (248 WW)

164cm WIDE (260 WW)

Feel: 8

Specs

Burton T7 2011 Snowboard Specs


T7 Snowboard T7 Snowboard T7 Snowboard
BOARD SIZE 159cm 156cm 162cm
RUNNING LENGTH 1190mm 1160mm 1215mm
WAIST WIDTH 246mm 244mm 248mm
SIDECUT DEPTH 22.4mm 21.9mm 22.75mm
SIDECUT RADIUS 7.91m 7.69m 8.12m
STANCE WIDTH 530mm 530mm 530mm
NOSE WIDTH 290.8mm 287.8mm 293.5mm
TAIL WIDTH 290.8mm 287.8mm 293.5mm
EFFECTIVE EDGE 1230mm 1200mm 1255mm
STANCE LOCATION 25 25 25
WEIGHT RANGE 145-195 lbs. / 65-88 kg. 125-175 lbs. / 56-79 kg. 150-200 lbs. / 68-91 kg.

Burton T6 2010 Snowboard Specs

BOARD SIZE 156cm 159cm 162cm 164Wcm
RUNNING LENGTH 1160mm 1190mm 1215mm 1230mm
WAIST WIDTH 244mm 246mm 248mm 260mm
SIDECUT DEPTH 21.9mm 22.4mm 22.75mm 23.1mm
SIDECUT RADIUS 7.69mm 7.91mm 8.12mm 8.2mm
STANCE WIDTH 530mm 530mm 530mm 530mm
NOSE WIDTH 287.8mm 290.8mm 293.5mm 306.2mm
TAIL WIDTH 287.8mm 290.8mm 293.5mm 306.2mm
EFFECTIVE EDGE 1200mm 1230mm 1255mm 1270mm
STANCE LOCATION 25 25 25 25
WEIGHT RANGE 125-175 lbs. / 56-79 kg. 145-195 lbs. / 65-88 kg. 150-200 lbs. / 68-91 kg. 155-205 lbs. / 70-92 kg.
BINDING SIZES Small / Medium Small / Medium Medium Large

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2011 Burton T7 Snowboard

 

 

2010 Burton T6 Snowboard

 

 


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CrAcks after one season.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Great board but I have spider cracks all over the top in the fiberglass!!!
Looks like crap and I only took it out about 8 rides this past winter. Ive only had it for 6 months!
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Reviewed by Matt m
May 19, 2011