Radical Snowboards

[cmachine]

Hi

Does someone know this brand?
http://www.radical-sports.com

Of course, not for EC. But they build a freecarving board and do also custom boards.

Just wondering your expierieces, if you have.

Thanks
Olaf

[nils]

no idea... just wondering why people pretend our boards are expensive when those are at least 150-250 chf more!

N

[Whitey]

IMHO, the price of Swoard is very reasonable. If you go e.g to BT, you find easily many boards, which are more expensive. Furthermore, as I need only one alpine, the price is not the most important factor.

Just my opinion, though

[pokkis]

Someone considering Swoard expensive? sounds silly, price is very reasonable, specially if one thinks what it gives to rider

[erik]

People think it's expensive ??????

I think it's a normal price. When I see prices of 1000€ and more from other brands

Especialy when you see that the other manufactures are much bigger then Swoard...

Swoardteam: you sell a nice product with a good honoust price

[Hans]

no idea... just wondering why people pretend our boards are expensive when those are at least 150-250 chf more!

No clue why Nils is starting this subject about price. Not mentioned in this topic, or do I not understand his remark Cmachine only asked about any experiences about this brand, to be precise the freecarve model.

But if we are just talking about prices here. The Swoard is just reasonably priced if you look what you can get with other brands for the same materials used for a board. Only the big brand F2 can massproduce boards for a cheaper price than all other brands and don't have the boards in three different flexes per length.

So I think we must go back to the question from cmachine: some one experiences with this brand (Radical Snowboards)?

[nils]

i looked at their price and thought they were expensive...therefore wondered why i heard ( especially on bomber) that people thought we were selling an expensive board....Must be because the USD is low these days...
As for radical, My idea is that its strange to see board sell more expensive than a Swellpanik or miura swallowtail when the finish is far from comparable... Anything above 950-1000 euros is to me really strange to understand unless there is really something to justify the price...
I assume the quality of radical boards is good anyway, because they are in the business for a looooong time and wouldnt be there still if the quality was not there..

N

[Schneewurm]

I rode the Radical Freecarver 159 for an hour on a test day. But changing from Softboots to Hardboots, I couldn't remember exactly how this Raceboard was to ride.

Radical, are good boards and comes usualy with a softer flex then others and are easy to carve.
Cause of double Triax Carbon layers, they have a hard torsional stiffness.
They have a high quality level.

You can find them in store e.g. by Sport Plausch Wider in Wallisellen.
You can test the Board on December 8. 2007 at the Hoch-Ybrig!

(Tests: 13.10.-2.12.2007 The Box SaasFee, Yesterday in Laax, 16.12.2007 St.Moritz, 25.12.2007 Lenzerheide, 13.01.2007 Les Diablerets and on the WorldCarving-Session Davos.

[nils]

double triax carbon ! need to try this!
N

[cmachine]

Hi Schneewurm

Thanks for the infos.

@all: you're right. they seem to be expensive. espacially the cusom boards (compared to e.g. kessler boards)

Olaf

[domsch]

Two of my friends ride this boards, very well finished. I also talked to the owner before, quite a nice guy.
I even had their printed catalogue for 2007/2008

Their topsheet is really nice looking but otherwise i can't tell how the boards perform, my friends say that they are good but who wouldn't if you spent this much on a board

They have testing weekends, look at their homepage for the dates.

[Silber]

Guys...check out their photo gallery...it is absolutely amazing...they have been carving all the vulcanos around the world... OUTSTANDING...