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Ride Rapture Snowboard Review

Rapture
$299
Beginner to Advanced All Mountain Freestyle
The Rapture is pretty fun just about anywhere in the park and is a good starter board.  It  also isn't a bad groomer board for a twin. The Low Rize rocker is more to us like flat camber with a little less nose and tail on the snow.  The Rapture is still flat past the bindings and then kicks up a litte before a normal snowboard would.  This makes for a very stable easy ride.  The Rapture has some pretty good hand me down tech for the price.  For 2012 the Rapture changed very little from 2011.  It had a big makeover in 2011 so that is expected.  This board isn't going to blow minds but it beats renting.  It will also take you well into the intermediate to advanced world before you want more from a board.

How It Rides

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

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The Good Ride Take


A Quick Look At The Ride Rapture 2012

        

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

Ride Rapture 2012

Rapture snowboards

This One’s For The Ladies

$299.95
SIZES: 138, 143, 147, 151, 154
STYLE: All Mountain Freestyle
SHAPE: LowRize™
STANCE: Centered

It doesn’t have to be ladies’ night for you to benefit from this amazing freestyle deal. Featuring Ride’s exclusive LowRize™ shape for surfy turns without the hook, combined with Ptex sidewalls and Foundation Tuned Core™, you’re sure to enjoy cruising the hill on the 2012 Ride Rapture women's twin snowboard.

SNOWBOARD FLEX-O-METER:
Snowboard Flex Rating: 4
CONSTRUCTION:
LSD
Thin Con
Standard Edge
Biaxal Glass
Lowrize™
Fusion 1500
4x4
Foundation
Ptex
Standard

SETUP OPTIONS

LXh Binding Donna Boot Northgate Insulated Jacket Ride Outerwear Logo Pullover Clothing

FEATURED TECH

LSD
LSD

All LSD board shapes feature a narrower waist width, a ladies specific flex pattern, sidecut and finely tuned rocker profile.

LOWRIZE™

A twin rockered shape that just lifts the contact points out of the snow and has a nearly flat zone under foot.

 

Ride Rapture 2011

RAPTURE SNOWBOARD
THIS ONE’S FOR THE LADIES
$299.95

It doesn’t have to be ladies’ night for you to benefit from this amazing freestyle deal. Now featuring Ride’s exclusive LowRize™ rocker shaping for fun turns and a smooth Ride, you’ll be sure to enjoy this stylin’ twin snowboard.

STYLE: All Mountain Freestyle

SHAPE: LowRize™

STANCE: Centered

SIZES: 138, 143, 147, 151, NEW! 154

CONSTRUCTION:
NEW! LowRize™ Rocker
NEW! Ptex Sidewall
Thin Con
Foundation Tuned Core™
Biaxial Glass
Fusion 1500 Base
4x4 Inserts

SNOWBOARD FLEX-O-METER:
Snowboard Flex Rating: 4



Ride Rapture 2010

THIS ONE’S FOR THE LADIES

It doesn’t have to be ladies’ night for you to benefit from this amazing freestyle deal. Enjoy this stylie twin Ride at a price you can’t refuse.

MSRP: USD 309.99

STYLE: Foundation

SHAPE: Twin

SIDECUT: Radial

STANCE: Centered

SIZES: 138, 143, 147, 151

CONSTRUCTION FEATURES:
Thin Con
ABS Sidewall
Foundation Tuned Core™
Biaxial Glass
Fusion 1500 Base™

 

Specs

Ride Rapture 2012 Specs

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Ride Rapture 2011 Specs

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Ride Rapture 2012

Ride Rapture 2011


Ride Rapture 2010



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