| Reviews: 14 |
| Review Mod |
| Nottinghamshire |
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  5 of 5, "RC tech that works" 02/02/2010 @ 17:11:49 |
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| Price Paid |
| £300 |
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| Bought From |
| 2nd Hand |
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| Times Ridden |
| 2-5 Times |
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| Review Detail |
I've always been a sceptic of rocker, so thought long and hard before purchasing this board. I'd heard stories about pros not liking original rocker as it wasn't powerful enough. As a rider who likes to carve hard and fast I was not sure it was for me.
Never Summer use RC Tech and Vario Power Grip on their boards. The RC has camber at the nose and tail just before the bindings and no camber between the bindings. In theory this means that you have power at the start and end of the turns as the camber coincides with the start of the effective edge. The Vario Power Grip works by having a deep radius at the start and end of the effective edge followed by a shallow radius and a middle with a straight edge. This enables edge bite through the start and end of the turn. I knew the quality of Never Summer as my brother has a 2003 Legacy and I took solice from reviews by Grill and Martin Drayton (Emdee) a BASI trainer. I plumped for the wider version of the Evo-R, the Revolver-R after deciding between that and the slightly stiffer Legacy-R.
I married up the board with a pair of Union Force and once set up correctly to my riding angles and width (I tried +18 first morning and it didn't feel right) I was owning the mountain. I asked a friend who rides most years with me whether he noticed a difference in my riding and he said, "I couldn't tell as you were hardly in view."
Carving was easy and the vario grip did help maintain edge hold on both the corduroy and hard pack pistes. Edge to edge response was quick despite the waist width of 261mm and I found my cross under turns coming on a dream. There is a run under the Crosets chair at Champery that is often wind blown and hard pack/ice. I usually avoid this area, but the board gave me extra confidence to tackle these conditions and I found them no problem at all. I use a GPS tracker and on one day clocked up 45.9 mph. The board did feel a little on edge at that speed, but what do you expect?
We had a week of mainly powder. I rode the 156 and am around 12st 5 and it just coped with the dry and light powder with ease.
I don't venture into the parks, especially when there is powder to be farmed. In terms of buttering though, pressing the nose and tail on this thing is just a doddle. I've never been the best at nose presses, but it was just so easy it was laughable.
Never Summer's have a 3 year warranty and you can see why. I was hit first run of the holiday by an out of control skier who bashed into the tail. On my Stairmaster this would have resulted in a major chunk out of the top sheet. The Revolver-R just had a small dint in the p-tex sidewall. I was also hit by a flailing snowboarder falling off a lift and this too resulted in just a minor scratch.
This board is great fun all over the hill and with a 3 year warranty and bulletproof manufacture is certainly worth the money, my only gripe is the poor graphics. |
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| Strengths |
Good edge hold
Nice forgiving flex
Easily pressable nose and tail for buttering
Fine everywhere, powder, piste, hard pack.
Bulletproof build quality |
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| Weaknesses |
| Poor graphics |
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| Similar Snowboards Ridden |
Option Sansalone
Capita Unorthodox
Capita Stairmaster |
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