Ride Society UL Snowboard Review

$599
Advanced to Expert All Mountain Freestyle
Camber Twin Shape
Discontinued for 2012
The Ride society has been around for a long time and still has a great reputation as an aggressive cambered twin. For 2011 they took some of the tech from the now discontinued Concept UL and added it to the Society. If you take the DH, add higher tech, If you like tearing down groomers regular or switch then the Ride Society is a good choice. It is also a bit more lively than many Ride boards. What do we mean by that? It's very hard to explain but we'll try. It's not that the ride boards are sluggish but they have this dull feel that many riders like and other riders hate. The Society UL is right in line with the aggressive but playful and lively feel of many of the boards we mentioned below. This is just a fun board for any rider who likes to ride fast switch or regular around the whole mountain. If you like to go big off kickers or in the half pipe or just like a stiffer board for these situations the Society will be an excellent choice. Also the ollie power of the Society is hard to beat. All in all it's a great board in every condition except for powder.

How It Rides
Groomers	Excellent	Speed	Excellent	Flex	Medium	Rails/ Jibbing	Average
Powder	Rough	Weight	Feather	Carving	Good	Pipe	Good
Turn Initiation	Moderate	Edge Hold	Good	Switch	Excellent	Jumps	Excellent

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The Good Ride Take

The Good Ride Take on Ride

They are from the same parent company as K2 and have many similarities in terms of board design and company policy. Ride’s customer service is better than K2’s and actually has a # to call on their site instead of just an on-line form. Ride, like K2 seems almost secretive when it comes to having third party entities like us or end users like you review their gear. So many companies like Burton, Rome, YES, Arbor ect. are really proud of their gear and try to do everything they can to get you to ride them. Ride seems to do the bare minimum and despite its large size has very few demo products. Their policy seems to be if you want to try it you have to buy it. Ride chooses mainly to work with variations of flat/rocker snowboards but has recently started to work with hybrid camber. Their hybrid camber is different than YES and Rossignol and leans more on the flat camber side of things but we still like to see them go in this direction. We have found that we like some of their shapes but other boards we weren’t fans of . Like K2 Ride’s rocker shapes always seem to be pretty flat between the feet and it makes for one of the better rocker set up out there. Ride makes pretty good bindings and many people swear by them. They have more parts than most bindings but all in all they do a very good job despite the fact that a lot of the binding is metal. We are big fans of the canted foot bed but can’t say we are a fan of their Contraband strap system. They make good boots that last for a long time but boots are so personal all we can speak to is their build and longevity.