Burton Aftermath Snowboard Review

$449

Intermediate to Expert All Mountain to All Mountain Freesyle
Camber Twin Like Directional Shape
Even with the development of hybrid camber with a few of their Restricted boards Burton is pushing back on the industry and releasing new camber boards. There are still a lot of old schoolers who turn their nose up at all these rocker/hybrid shape boards and crave a good old camber board. If you are one of those guys then you might like the Aftermath. It's a well rounded all mountain board for those who like to go big. The Squeeze Box tech added in the core between the feet helps improve response and pop over the older Burton Camber boards but it's still a camber board in almost every way shape and form. You know, takes a lot of work in powder and requires you to be on your game or you'll catch an edge but most old schoolers allready know that. The edge hold does a good job in almost any condition you want to ride and takes it a step above the hybrid or rocker boards in Burton's line. Like a good camber board this has a lot of natural spring and is very fun but it's still just a camber board and nothing more. If you can swing 2 boards it would be great to have this for groomed to slightly firm and let's say the Burton Sherlock for powder and left over soft days.

How It Rides
Groomers	Excellent	Speed	Good	Flex	Med	Rails/ Jibbing	Average
Powder	Average	Weight	Light	Carving	Excellent	Pipe	Good
Turn Initiation	Easy	Edge Hold	Good	Switch	Good	Jumps	Good

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The Good Ride Take

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.

Specs

2012 Burton Aftermath Specs


BOARD SIZE	152cm	155cm	158cm	161cm
RUNNING LENGTH	1120mm	1160mm	1180mm	1210mm
WAIST WIDTH	245mm	247mm	249mm	250mm
SIDECUT DEPTH	20.65mm	21.38mm	21.75mm	22.31mm
SIDECUT RADIUS	7.6m	7.88m	8.01m	8.21m
STANCE WIDTH	530mm	530mm	560mm	560mm
NOSE WIDTH	286.3mm	289.76mm	292.5mm	294.62mm
TAIL WIDTH	286.3mm	289.76mm	292.5mm	294.62mm
EFFECTIVE EDGE	1165mm	1205mm	1225mm	1255mm
STANCE LOCATION	10	10	10	10
WEIGHT RANGE	115-165 lbs. / 52-75 kg.	125-175 lbs. / 57-79 kg.	130-180 lbs. / 59-82 kg.	145-195 lbs. / 66-88 kg.
BINDING SIZES	Small/Medium	Medium	Medium/Large	Medium/Large