Grabner - on which board is he riding?

[Felix]

Hi as Siggi Grabner says he rides on his own custommade board, does anyone close to the circuit know from which factory his board actually comes?

I mean there are not many customboards out there, but I do not believe he is riding kessler, who knows? Why won't he say it, I mean he could get some money for it.

Does anyone have a complete list of kessler riders, I mean official and unofficial? P+J you are on good terms with Hansjürg Kessler, aren't you

I think it is very impressive how the Swiss dominated the snowboard worldcup. 54 out of 80 podiums, they are better then the Austrian skiers

[nils]

No clue what board he rides, but basically there is max 10 custom boards maker that make world cup boards in europe... a few names: kessler, virus, pogo, tomahawk, tropical tube, oxess ( unsure), not to forget racing teams from F2 that must have custom models...

We do not know kessler shaper personally yet, but heard he is a nice guy! His boards are expensive so you don't see many on the slopes! Seen only one in real!

Nils

[Felix]

well I have seen some worldcup racers a the world championships 2003 in Austria. The F2 racers were on normal boards, as could be judged from 2m away. No sandwich but most were on the classical f2 speedster in grey. Even a lot of not F2 Riders rode the speedster (there is the official F2 team, all of them rode the most up-to date F2 board -->yellow, in F2 clothes, and then there are some people of national teams who are sponsored by F2 but wear e.g. the austrian dress (they still show up on the F2 website, and then there were people like Markus Ebner (GER - officially sponsored by Jagaball) who I have seen on a speedster RS (again the grey model).

By that time 50% wore the AF700 series or successor, 20% the AF600 series or successor, and 30% non Raichle. More non Raichle were worn from the real top riders. For Austrian people you can look up the board/binding/shoe model they wear on the OeSV website. At first look it seams to be true. For Grabner they just say that he rides a board he produced himself, so that is strange.

for dieter Krassnik they admit he is on Tomahawk/deeluxe or Ingemar Walder = Oxess/burton or other Rossignol/ Völkl but why don't they write about Grabner? I guess he might be on Kessler, update: now they only say something about helmet and goggles = Alpina for siggi

[frunobulax]

He rides some Japanese board of which I don't know the name. He promised to bring the board to Europe and to produce a certain amount of boards for the European market but I don't know if he's done it yet.
More information could be found at www.sigigrabner.com

[Felix]

The truth is always so near!

Bis zum Ende der Saison 2002 fuhr ich auf Burton, seitdem fahre ich ein custom-made Board von einer kleinen Board-schmiede aus Südtirol. Ich bin auch gerade am Testen neuer Boards von einem Japanischen Hersteller.
Auf keinen Fall ist es zu spät, mit 15 eine Profikarriere anzustreben! Schau mich an, ich habe mit 15 gerade erst einmal mit dem Snowboarden begonnen! Viel Spaß und viel Glück!
und vor allem - Gas geben

Short translation: until 2002 on Burton, then a little factory in Southern Tyrol = Tomahawk and now he is testing with a japanese company (Ogasaka).

As I understood in the Forum we can expect a SigiGrabner Boardline in some shops from next year onwards. Both Race and Freeride. Models are already online. Let's see. At least this could explain why he does not use Kessler, Hanjürgen could not produce good boards cheap enough for the mainstream market.