Other Custom Boards

[István]

Hey,

Last weekend in Sölden I've seen a couple of small manufacturers with good looking boards:

- Pogo (I thought it was over, but still alive - powder and alpine boards!)
- Choc, Trans (Czech)
- Xtasy (German)

I've also seen a nice Volkl alpine stick.

None of them had wide boards at the moment, but I would not be surprised if they came out with something like that next season based on the success of Swoard.

Does anyone have experience with these brands (as far as I remember we have once discussed the Choc)


Cheers,

István

[skywalker]

Hi Istvan,

I believe, these small companies still building alpine gear should be supported. So I'm interested in that, too. Have you seen anything from oxess or Kessler? These two are tho only ones with wider boards on the market, oxess AFAIK as a standard shape, Kessler as full custom. Pogo hasn't developed their shapes for 10 years now, I guess, and Xtasy's boards are too narrow eveon for me Sorry Max

What about choc and trans? I've seen a lot of cheap offers of chocs at the interboot. All of them with 17cm waist, round nose, many with carbon deck. Do these two also make other shapes than their "standard"?

Nice Thread btw.

[nils]

Very good quality boards::
i haven't tried the alpine boards, but Ray has one or two and he seems to love them.. I have tried the longboard and the Shaman as well as DDay swallowtails...
All are great boards, the longboard beeing an hybrid between a regular freerider and the swallows.. The Shaman is less efficient than the swellpanik swallowtails ( who remains the leader of the pack in terms of efficiency) but has a better snow feel / touch... It feels like a surfboard in the powder... It is not as efficient as the Amok for example ( swellpanik) because it doesn't handle high speed as good as the amok... (Max speed is of course based on rider ball size, but also on the confidence the rider gets from the ride and the board!)..

Fabrication quality is very good at Pogo, similar to Virus for example! Only the designs' colors' on the alpine race boards is ugly ( my tastes!)

Nils

[István]

Hey,

I have not seen Oxess, neither Kessler. Frankly do not even know them. Just checked the Oxess site http://www.oxess.ch/ - the race model looks cool, about 20cm waist width

Kessler does not have too much on their website http://www.kessler1.ch/index2.htm

Choc and Trans I believe are the same, its a branding thing. Never tried them, but once seen a German guy on a Choc in Livigno doing linked laid turns - so at least the board is able to handle that. It is cheap compared to other manufacturers. http://www.choc-snowboards.cz/. As for the shape what they produce is more like the narrow concept.

X-tasy is a small German manufacturer, indeed producing narrow boards with not too nice design (but who cares about the design if the board is ok). http://www.xtasy-snowboards.de/

I believe Pogo has made some progress and development, check their site out. http://www.pogo.biz/

So, there are some other manufacturers, but no-one produces wide-boards, except Swoard and Virus.

Cheers,

István

[Hans]

Hi, Istvan

The Pogo Longboard 175 is my favorite board, it's the Mercedes among the boards because of the superb (production) quality and outstanding ridingcharacteristics of the POGOBoards.

Look at this topic.
viewtopic.php?t=838&highlight=pogo

and this one
http://www.pogo.biz/shop/product_catego ... anguage=en

I am planning to buy the 200cm one.

Greets, Hans.

[cmachine]

Hi All

Last year some friends and I had the chance to test some of these boards against the swoard (Kessler, Oxess, Virus).

In in the first post of this topic there is the very small report from last year. viewtopic.php?t=586

Regards
Olaf

[Braun]

Maybe Pokkis can tell us something about Trans (Bastard) ?
I have feeling that he rides one.

Thanx in advance ! A'm interested for this board.

[pokkis]

Yeah, i'm having it but it is quite narrow, 14cm, so not very suitable for traditional EC
Unfortunately i have not spend so much with Bastard due having TMBS (too many board syndrome) but it is great board if one is used to ride with high angles, and if it would have slightly higher radius it would be even better for me.

[Ray]

Very good quality boards::
i haven't tried the alpine boards, but Ray has one or two and he seems to love them.. I have tried the longboard and the Shaman as well as DDay swallowtails...
All are great boards, the longboard beeing an hybrid between a regular freerider and the swallows.. The Shaman is less efficient than the swellpanik swallowtails ( who remains the leader of the pack in terms of efficiency) but has a better snow feel / touch... It feels like a surfboard in the powder... It is not as efficient as the Amok for example ( swellpanik) because it doesn't handle high speed as good as the amok... (Max speed is of course based on rider ball size, but also on the confidence the rider gets from the ride and the board!)..

Fabrication quality is very good at Pogo, similar to Virus for example! Only the designs' colors' on the alpine race boards is ugly ( my tastes!)

Nils is correct. I currently have two Pogo's, the Overdose and the Impact.
Yes, I like em a lot. Especially the Overdose!
The Impact as well, but I am just better, or like boards more with a smaller waist.

I agree, "usually" the designs are pretty ugly
You have to get lucky, or just pick a solid color like I did for the Impact, bright Yellow
Never tried their longboards... hmm