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Just booted out another set for several local racers. If it helps wet anyone's loins we hooked up with Bomber and are doing a special discount on the STG1 when you buy bomber power plates. Hop over to the website http://prospectsnowboards.com/prospect-stg1-and-bomber-plate-package/

After thinking a little more on the last post I came up with a compromise that I felt I can pull off. For carvers with an itch to build a board I added a few options based on the STG1 architecture to our board build kits. The board build kits we make are "ready to press" which means the core is already profiled and shaped, edges are attached, and sidewalls and inserts are already attached. All that needs to be done is to glue on the tipfill and toss it in a vac bag or press. Details are on the Prospect website. http://prospectsnowboards.com/product/snowboard-building-kits/ If you guys want to post any suggestions for options feel free.

Thanks for the words Bryan, I am adding a few things to the fleet this year. 1 - a 146 jr STG1 for the lil shredders. This will follow a waist width and sidecut that allows a hard or soft boot/plate. We are toying around with some boards that have a narrower waist to make a more aggressive GS model. Stay tuned on this. There was a chuck at specing out the DIY boards at first. The hurdle is offering options, especially limitless options creates a nightmare on the manufacturing side. The comparative thought... Ordering a burger with 100 options and variables across all those options... There is bound to be a burger with 1ml of too much mustard that should have been 100% (not 99.999%) evenly distributed that will sour a relationship and make me cringe. That might sound ridiculous, buuuuuuuuttttttt.... I've built enough to know. Anyway, I could indeed up the level of choices or make a more editable product if the interest was there. Maybe assemble a list of interested people and target goal of pre orders? If it sounds rad to anyone, email me contact@prospectsnowboards.com I'm not going to make the push on this, if it is of interest I'll let you guys spread the word.

Hey guys, Neil here from Prospect Snow. Yes we are venturing a bit into the race/carve/alpine side of boarding. We've got a local race coach that has helped us get some R&D done to get a good quality race board. We manufacture all of our boards in house from core, to artwork, to pressing. The STG1 was new last year and we have it dialed for this year. Some other info, we use poplar cores, ABS sidewalls, the boards are fully wrapped in VDS for dampening, and Really, we started building these boards to supply the local race leagues and designed it to run with either an alpine setup or with bomber plates. The widths on these boards are friendly to support either. The isosport race base and urethane footbeds are our high end additions and we've decided to keep the price reasonable because will be fun to beat the riders on the primo rides ;) That aside, we build our poplar cores in house, sublimate the prints, and print in house. As from beginning to end as it gets. It has been a minute since I've snapped pics of building these, but here are some photos from the original prototype. I have these in the production queue for early december and should be available before christmas.

Yes, the STG1 is new for this year. It stands for "Shred the Gnar 1" with 1 being the first generation. As we progress and test we'll come out with different generations. We basically developed it for racing programs to have race specific boards be a little more accessible. So we came up with a cheaper board so kids, guys, and gals could get into racing without having to drop $750+ on a board alone. When we start beating the racers on the expensive boards I'll be stoked! Looks like I forgot to post the specs, thanks for noticing. [TABLE] <tbody>[TR] [TD][/TD] [TD=colspan: 2, align: center]BX[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Length (cm)[/TD] [TD=align: right]156[/TD] [TD=align: right]168[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Tip Width (cm)[/TD] [TD=align: right]26[/TD] [TD=align: right]28[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Tail Width (cm)[/TD] [TD=align: right]24[/TD] [TD=align: right]27.5[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Waist Width[/TD] [TD=align: right]20.5[/TD] [TD=align: right]22.1[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Tip Length[/TD] [TD=align: right]11[/TD] [TD=align: right]11[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Tail Length[/TD] [TD=align: right]1[/TD] [TD=align: right]7[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Sidecut Radius[/TD] [TD=align: right]11500[/TD] [TD=align: right]10000[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Eff Edge[/TD] [TD=align: right]144[/TD] [TD=align: right]150[/TD] [/TR] </tbody>[/TABLE] We'll be adding a 162 as well. I haven't posted on BomberBX yet. 2 reasons. 1. We haven't pushed a hard launch yet. 2. If our riders find out about our boards without us pushing the publicity the introduction much friendlier if it comes from a fellow racer. Wink, Wink.... :) If you find yourself close to Madison be sure to come see the operation. [ATTACH]35205[/ATTACH]

Wisco indeed. We are moving into an upgraded space, just picking between a few locations. Just finished a print operation this spring so we do everything in house from graphics, to cores, pressing, finishing, and of course we ride too. Learned the trade from a bigger outfit in Utah. Been visiting bomber a bit more because we designed up a BX board this year with one of the Tyrol coaches. Gonna get my race boots on this year.

Is a bit of a lame town There is some good longboarding to be done in Lake Geneva and some areas of Kettle Moraine if you have a skate. Drive up to La Grange and visit the general store there. they rent mtn bikes and have some xc trails. Go into Milwaukee to see the Harley Davidson Museum. We have a snowboard factory about an hour and 15 up the road, but we are in the middle of moving so there is nothing to see at the moment. :/ If you come this way again come check us out. www.prospectsnowboards.com