Tick Posted May 20, 2007 Report Share Posted May 20, 2007 http://www.the-house.com/9866f2ro5zz-f2-roadster.html Is this a decent board? I can't get any info. on it. Does anyone know anything about it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdea Posted May 20, 2007 Report Share Posted May 20, 2007 the house blows and Bomber sells the same stuff. the board itself is nothing I'd want, it used to be called something else, forget the name. just get a speedster if you're a decent rider Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mats Posted May 21, 2007 Report Share Posted May 21, 2007 The roadster is an extremely crappy board. If you want a short and wide F2 for hardboots try to get a Speedcross. It´s a much better construction and fun to ride when it´s crowded or to take out into moguls. /M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thumper Posted May 21, 2007 Report Share Posted May 21, 2007 A 166 Roadster was my first carving board about 5 years ago. It is F2s entry-level alpine board and was fine for a first board, but had some quirky flex characteristics and a definite speed limit once you started to push harder. I replaced it with a Burton Speed 168W which was all around a much better performing board. The Roadster's construction materials are not even close to the Speedster, nor your Volkl or Donek. It has cap constuction and a Graphite impregnated F-1000 base vs sandwich construction and an F-8000 base for the Speedster. Here's an excerpt from an old Blue Tomato ad ( I love some of the translations): F2 ROADSTER Very simply driving Freecarver for in and Umsteiger, which want to have fun beside the runway also still in the area. Level: Einsteiger&Fortgeschrittene Terrain: Hard luggage & all terrain Connection: Yield disk connection Handling characteristics: Very Carvingboard with high engine speed and well to be dosed with super edge grasp and simple kurvenverhalten. Lengths Size 166 Effective Edge > mm< 1430 Waist Width > mm< 220 Sidecut radius > m< 9 Weight > kg< 3.4 Stance > mm< 460 receiver binding angle Being thing angle>°< 50/43 Target group target group > kg< 70+ Construction: 45° Suspensioncap Triaxial laminates F-1000 graphite cousin Twin torsion core Fathead edge EURO 300. - | DM 599, - inclusive. Bdg Freecarve or connection Intec Challange I still use mine as an early season rock board Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tick Posted May 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 O.K, I get the input. Stay away from that board. I'm just struggling looking for an "all purpose" board. I have a Donek Freecarve 171, which I LOVE. It actually works awesome on my home mountain at Silver Creek (Snowshoe, WV). But when I go out west, I love to hit the steeps and trees, and sometimes have a hard time getting the FC to respond quickly enough. I also have to work hard to keep the nose up in significant powder. I crave the big carves as opposed to short snappy turns (grew up in Florida surfing, and love to surf the mountain). I'm finding it hard to find one board that can "do it all". I usually end up bringing two board on my trips, my FC and something shorter, but would like to reduce that to one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crucible Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 In a word, no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdea Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 Coiler AM unlike the donek axis and other alpine All Mountain rides from other vendors the Coiler AM has a flex that works for both hard pack and soft crud I've been on allot of boards and if I had to choose one board to do it all on it would be a AM they're not too expensive either, if you get it with the extra rubber it will come in just below 700 US, cheaper than a donek olympic and better for what you wanna do..... I do have to say that metal is worth the extra money so get it if you can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike T Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 Coiler AM unlike the donek axis and other alpine All Mountain rides from other vendors the Coiler AM has a flex that works for both hard pack and soft crud I've been on allot of boards and if I had to choose one board to do it all on it would be a AM they're not too expensive either, if you get it with the extra rubber it will come in just below 700 US, cheaper than a donek olympic and better for what you wanna do..... I do have to say that metal is worth the extra money so get it if you can. Coiler AM Metal.... it does exist and it's the sh*t. I will wrote more later, not enough time to write it up @ work right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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