Ride Canvas Snowboard Review

$469
Discontinued as of 2012
Intermediate to Expert All Mountain Freestyle
Flat and Rocker Twin Shape
The Ride Canvas claims it has low rize rocker but when we look at the tech we see something very close to flat camber. Either way it's pretty fun. The one thing about flat camber is the Ride Canvas will ride very well in all conditions. It has a very stable feel but at the same time can be catch free when you need it. The one thing the Canvas lacks is Pop when you compare it to many cambered boards and some hybrid camber boards. On the reverse side the Canvas will do really well when it comes to powder and jibbing around. The Low Rize tech doesn't have that effortless float in powder like a snowboard with rocker in the center but it does float as well or better. The Canvas doesn't wash out like many continuous rocker snowboards if you try for a hard carve. The Ride Canvas is a good all conditions freestyle snowboard. It will work well inside or outside the park fence. Not much has changed in 2011 from 2010.

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

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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.