Salomon Snowboards

[michaelangelo]

really want the louif 55 or 58

[kimchi]

Picked up a 2017 Salomon Six Piece 155 dirt cheap off FB Marketplace few months back. In pretty great shape except the base was dry as shit (I put some base prep / storage wax on there).

I haven't really owned a park board in close to 10 years, so be curious how it goes. I'm cautiously optimistic I might actually like it for just riding mellow around the resort. Small board but has a long effective edge (1205 mm). Actually has 15 mm more edge than my old US Cadet. Don't have any delusions of this being an all-mountain ripper, but if I can have something soft I can putz around with the kids and not hate when I get a lap or two on my own, feels like a win for $50.

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[eleveneightnate]

Picked up a 2017 Salomon Six Piece 155 dirt cheap off FB Marketplace few months back. In pretty great shape except the base was dry as shit (I put some base prep / storage wax on there).

I haven't really owned a park board in close to 10 years, so be curious how it goes. I'm cautiously optimistic I might actually like it for just riding mellow around the resort. Small board but has a long effective edge (1250 mm). Actually has 150 mm more edge than my old US Cadet. Don't have any delusions of this being an all-mountain ripper, but if I can have something soft I can putz around with the kids and not hate when I get a lap or two on my own, feels like a win for $50.

It’s legitimately fun to go back to a softer park deck for cruiser days after years of super gnarly volume shifted hyper sidecut carving ripper machines.

[coleslawed]

really want the louif 55 or 58

58 or 63 tempt me.

[C.Fuzzy]

Super 8 4 lyfe

Aahaha , you should tattoo these words on your body.
I have the second 160 super 8( 2020, I had the 2017 before that) and I really love it, easy board but when you need to go fast or to carve hard it's there, I can even jib with it( not as funny as other boards but doable) and I have a lot of fun and good feelings in powder to( I think is very underrated as a powder board).
I like salomon boards in general, I had a bunch of boards in the years, now I have a derby 151 , a sick stick 51( the last version, I think is 2020) and I had man's, grip, couple 160 sick stick( didn't really like the older versions, a good board, but didn't really impressed me) and older ones wich don't even remember the names and I don't have anymore.......but the super 8 is still my first choice board.

I had the 151 Derby too. Fun board that I really wanted to love but never really found where it fit for me. It was like... almost for everything.

[spanyard]

I have the HPS wolle/taka 55. Only ridden once on a "powder" day at Trollhaugen last year, but one of my favorite fun experiences I've had since I got back on the board. Can't wait to ride it again.

[McK21]

I had the 151 Derby too. Fun board that I really wanted to love but never really found where it fit for me. It was like... almost for everything.

Was the same in the beginning for me, at one point I was ready to sell it after just a couple of days riding it, but then I gave it another try, it was end of season and I had lot of fun riding it in springtime slush, so I keep it and right now it's the board I take with me at the beginning of the season and sometimes at the end, it's short, easy to use but when you need to carve it's there and I don't feel to tired or sore at the end of the day when you get back on snow after many months not riding.
Today was my first day on snow and the derby served me right, it was mixed conditions, fresh snow, artificial snow, crust, windy, everything but I had fun anyways, even goin fast trying to get the right amount of speed to jump of a lip on the slope.

But, anyways, it's just the feeling we have, I have a weight and riding style that, I guess, fits well on the 151, but just for some conditions, after a couple( or more) days riding I will be on longer boards, maybe you will feel better on another measure or maybe it's not your kind of board at all.

[benjinyc]

Salomon replied to my question about the biggest differences between the Highpath and Speedway…

Hey Ben. Yep, the camber profile is going to provide the biggest difference in terms of rideability, along with the flex (Highpath is a little softer). I would say the Highpath is a friendlier, more forgiving version of the Speedway, still built to charge but a bit more versatile for the times when you're not going full throttle. The shape is definitely similar with the two. And yes, you heard correct, you'll want to ride the Highpath true to size! (Speedway you want to size 5" longer than what you normally ride)

[kimchi]

I keep eyeballing the Highpath. I'd like a little more taper, but the shape is basically perfectly what I want. Basically a fusion between what I loved about my most recent favorite daily drivers, United Shapes Orbit and K2 Instrument. Little narrower than the Instrument so my feet aren't aching at the end of a day of full day carving, little more pow- and switch-friendly than the Orbit. Only real knocks against it are the camber profile (prefer early rise rocker, although I've never ridden Salomon's "Rock Out" camber) and sustainable materials-- eco materials are nice in concept but I find I wear them out faster and likely net out worse in resource consumption.

Annoyingly all the shapes or tech most interesting to me the past couple seasons are all either ski boards (K2, Salomon), or niche Euro brands I can't easily demo (Amplid, Stranda, Tur).

[McK21]

I'm a curious guy I see a lot of reels from Wolle where he shows that he builds some hillside project boards, so, I was wondering, he's just making proto's or he produce the whole hillside boards?
Those are the questions that doesn't let me fall asleep at night