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Ride Concept UL Snowboard Review

concept-ul

$799
Advanced to Expert
All Mountain
Discontinued as of 2011
The Ride Concept UL can hang with many other high end boards out there.  Its a light fast fun board that will not let you down. It's stiff and fast.  The Concept UL rides very similar to the Salomon Special II and K2 0.  The concept UL performs above the usual plankish ultra damp feel that Ride ATV snowboards usually have. Don't get us wrong the Concept UL isn't in the same class as the Burton Vapor but if you wan't something like it for $400 less then it's not a bad choice.
Similar Cambered All Mountain to Freeride Snowboards-
Bataleon The Enemy, Burton Custom XCapita Black Death Inc., Flow WX, Burton T6, Rome Anthem, K2 0, Salomon Special II,

How It Rides
(5 is the most and 1 the least)
Groomers 5   Speed 4.75   Stiffness 4   Rails/Boxes/Jibbing 1.75
Powder 2.75   Lightweight 5   Carving Ability 5   Pipe 4.75
Turning 3   Edge Hold 4.5   Switch 4.5   Jumps 4.5

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The Good Ride Take



The Good Ride Take on Ride Snowboards
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.

Company Information

UNMATCHED PREMIUM PERFORMANCE

Ride’s ultra-light Concept UL offers infinite possibilities in the realm of all terrain versatility with a Stainless Steel edge, REAL UL Glass and a Copper Fusion Base™. Designed for the mountain master who takes it all in, this impeccable Ride hangs with the lightest boards out there, but with the smoothness that only Membrain®, Silencer 7™, and Slimewalls® can bring you.

MSRP: USD 749.99


STYLE: ATV

SHAPE: Twinish

SIDECUT: Quadratic

STANCE: 3/4" Setback

SIZES: 154, 157, 159, 161

CONSTRUCTION FEATURES:
Features:
Thin Con
90A Slimewalls®
Membrain®
Carbon Array 7™
Silencer 7 Tuned Core™
Stainless Steel Edge
REAL UL Glass
Linear Carbon
Copper Fusion Base™
2x4 Inserts

FEEL-O-METER:
Flex Rating: 7

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