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Burton Easy Livin Flying V Snowboard Review

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Discontinued 2012 Check the hybrid camber Burton Restricted Easy Livin 
$549

Intermediate to expert Freestyle
Hybrid Rocker Directional Twin Shape

2010 Good Wood Wood Award Winner!

So the Easy Livin Flying V is a forgiving, super soft catch free park specialist.  V-Rocker is similar to Never Summers Rocker Camber and Mervins C2 BTX except it has one more bend up at the nose and tail. It's fine on edge but not that great flat basing and going very fast and can get a little squirrely.  The Pressure Edge Distribution (1/2 mm extension between the feet) is great with the Vapor, T6 and Custom X but for rockerd boards you need a little more edge hold.  If you ride pow and in good conditions you won't have an issue but it won't do very well in less than ideal conditions.  Another issue with Burton's flying V Technology is that it is more chattery than the other hybrid rocker snowboards out there.  If you are light then the Easy Livin Flying V will be ok but if you weigh a lot for your height you will bend this board like a noodle.  Now the choice over camber vs. Flying V-Rocker is a tough one.  You will have more stability with Camber and it will do better on the big 40ft+ kickers. It will also be better in the pipe.  The camber will also have better Ollie power but the flying v is getting closer to camber these days.  The Flying V will be a lot more forgiving and easier to do tricks.  It will also do a great job on smaller jumps (40ft or less) and might help you pull of some off landings you couldn't with Camber.  In a lot of ways the V-Rocker could be considered excellent when it comes to jumps but it just doesn't have the go big feeling that the camber does. 

How It Rides

Groomers Average   Speed Average
  Flex Soft   Rails/
Jibbing
Excellent
Powder Good   Weight Light
  Carving
Rough   Pipe Average
Turn Initiation
Super Easy
  Edge Hold Average   Switch Excellent   Jumps Good

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The Good Ride Take

 

Here is the difference between most hybrd rocker boards and Burton's Flying V Rocker.

Here is what most people are doing with hybrid rocker.  There is rocker in the middle and then the camber doesn't make it all the way back down.

Hybrid-Camber-Description

As you can see with Burton there is one more rocker bend than the hybrid Rocker most people have out there.

 

The Good Ride Take on Hybrid Rocker Snowboards

This is what we call a snowboard that has rocker in the center and then a camber bend at the tip and tail.  The end result is the tip and tail are still off the ground but it helps bring some good qualities that people liked with camber to rocker. The camber usually keep’s the board from washing out when you lay into a harder carve and for the most part provide a more balanced all conditions ride compared to continuous rocker or camber. This is still nothing like camber board and it provides a loose forgiving catch free ride. Hybrid Rocker comes in all riding styles from Freestyle to Freeride and is a solid next step from where it started with continuous rocker. Hybrid Rocker is usually pretty poppy, floats well in powder, catch free and very forgiving. The one complaint is it can still be unstable flat basing or one footing in some conditions like hard pack or ice. The major companies are working on this problem and it’s been getting better since this was introduced. Most love this loose feeling and get use to the squirrely nature in certain conditions. We at The Good Ride feel this is one of the better shapes out there so give it a try.

Reverse-MtnPop

 

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


Burton Easy Livin Flying V 2011

Burton Restricted

EASY LIVIN FLYING V

Take it easy. Live it up.

Developed by Danny Davis and proven during his trips through the snowboard universe, it’s no wonder so many team riders are Easy Livin™ users. Given the combined ride-altering effects of our critically acclaimed Flying V™ rocker/camber combination, grippingly precise Frostbite Edges, and ultra-responsive Lightning Bolts there’s no saying how far out you’ll get.

Features

+          Gondola Package

+          The Channel

+          SPRINGLOADED: Flying V

+          SHAPE: Twin

+          FLEX: Directional

+          CORE: Super Fly II™ Core with Dualzone™ EGD™ and Negative Profile

+          FIBERGLASS: Dual Density Triax™ Fiberglass with NEW Lightning Bolts

+          BASE: Sintered WFO

+          EDGES: Frostbite Edges with Grip and Rip™ Tune

+          SIDEWALLS: 10:45™

+          EXTRAS: Elliptical Kicks, Pro-Tip™, and Infinite Ride™

Artist: Ralph Steadman

www.ralphsteadman.com

Size:

152cm MID (248 WW)

155cm MID (249 WW)

158cm MID (251 WW)

Feel: 4

 

2010 Burton Easy Livin Flying V Description

Meet the Good Wood winner and the latest in hybrid performance. As Danny puts it, " camber beneath your feet feels like trucks on a skate-board, you can lock into rails so well. It has the quickness and butter of V-Rocker and you can just ollie off anything into a nice, quik turn. Shit's killer."

Easy Livin rides well with:
Cartel EST bindings and Ozone boots

Featured Tech
  • The Channel
Rocker Shape
  • Flying V
Core
  • Dualzone EGD
  • Negative Core Profile
  • Park Fly Cores
Glass
  • Dual Density Triax Response Fiberglass
Base
  • Sintered Vision Base
Shape
  • Elliptical Kicks
  • Mid-Wide
  • Pro-Tip
  • Twin
Tuning
  • Infinite Ride
Sidewall
  • 10:45 Sidewalls
Edge Technology
  • Grip & Rip Edge Tune
  • Pressure Distribution Edges

Flex

Directional

 

Specs

Burton Easy Livin Flying V 2011 Specs


Easy Livin Flying V Snowboard Easy Livin Flying V Snowboard Easy Livin Flying V Snowboard
BOARD SIZE 152cm 155cm 158cm
RUNNING LENGTH 1110mm 1140mm 1170mm
WAIST WIDTH 248mm 250mm 251mm
SIDECUT DEPTH 21.1mm 21.65mm 22.2mm
SIDECUT RADIUS 7.31m 7.51m 7.72m
STANCE WIDTH 545mm 545mm 560mm
NOSE WIDTH 290.2mm 293.3mm 295.4mm
TAIL WIDTH 290.2mm 293.3mm 295.4mm
EFFECTIVE EDGE 1155mm 1185mm 1215mm
STANCE LOCATION Centered Centered Centered
WEIGHT RANGE 115-165 lbs. / 52-74 kg. 120-170 lbs. / 54-77 kg. 130-180 lbs. / 59-81 kg.
BINDING SIZES Medium Medium/Large Medium/Large




 

Burton Easy Livin 2010

BOARD SIZE

152cm

155cm

RUNNING LENGTH

1110mm

1140mm

WAIST WIDTH

248mm

249mm

SIDECUT DEPTH

21.35mm

21.95mm

SIDECUT RADIUS

7.22mm

7.41mm

STANCE WIDTH

560mm

560mm

NOSE WIDTH

290.7mm

292.9mm

TAIL WIDTH

290.7mm

292.9mm

EFFECTIVE EDGE

1155mm

1185mm

STANCE LOCATION

Centered

Centered

WEIGHT RANGE

115-165 lbs / 52-74 kg.

120-175 lbs. / 54-79kg

BINDING SIZES

Medium

Medium/Large

 

Pictures

2011 Burton Easy Livin V Rocker Pictures

2010 Burton Easy Livin V Rocker Pictures

 

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