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unsatisfiedus wrote: Mon Oct 31, 2022 9:11 am @spurist, that's the dream.

turns out its + construction (written on the sidewall). doesnt feel that stiff. its sort of blueish green (can see through the to wood underneath) with a black tail. not sure what year.

Sounds like a dead ringer for mine. 2019 if so.

On the right (obviously lol).

it could be a 2019 ish

yeah thats the one. beautifully finished. i like it better than the more recent ones i've seen with a solid finish.

their website is hilarious. it seems like they completely redo it every year. and it looks half-assed enough that it might be fake/you will get hacked. the current version is in french (if it loads at all) and if you click the button for english it takes you back to the french page.

whatever happened to those hot boards from a couple years ago? seems like their existence has been scrubbed from the internet

Yea the website experience has... progressively regressed over the past 3-4 years. It's damn near broken at this point, and even if it wasn't broken, no spec sheet for the boards. I have the general details in memory-- 8.7 SCR, 122 cm of effective edge-- then a few numbers I'm fuzzy on, 258 mm waist, maybe +15 mm "setback", and around 4 mm of taper?

Edit: Found a partial spec sheet on an old product page on a retailer. I was right about the waist and 14 mm of taper, not 4.

unsatisfiedus wrote: Thu Nov 03, 2022 1:38 pm yeah thats the one. beautifully finished. i like it better than the more recent ones i've seen with a solid finish.

their website is hilarious. it seems like they completely redo it every year. and it looks half-assed enough that it might be fake/you will get hacked. the current version is in french (if it loads at all) and if you click the button for english it takes you back to the french page.

whatever happened to those hot boards from a couple years ago? seems like their existence has been scrubbed from the internet

Think they just saw a limited demand for the retro hot boards, maybe at some point down the line, and could probably still ask them or retailers for some.

I still find the specs, but gotta dig deeper or something.

unsatisfiedus wrote: Thu Nov 03, 2022 1:38 pm their website is hilarious.

Hah, it is worthy of a Master's Thesis in Cultural Anthropology, for sure. Something about the intersection of French and English cultures of communication, business, self-expression.

I totally get it, but can also totally see how someone without extensive experience living and working with French people in a multilingual creative work context wouldn't.

Most of the specs are presented semi-conversationally. Serge seems very very proud of his work (rightfully) and wants to tell you all about it. He probably doesn't even really want to sell a board to someone who's not willing to listen. It's part of that "we build a relationship and an understanding, then, maybe we talk business" thing that so much of the world operates on. The Japanese tend this way too.

I couldn't find sidecut radius, but there's like two paragraphs explaining how the curve and the flex he designed is perfectly balanced. It screams "just trust me." (Sounds similar to gentemstick's marketing approach ...)

Obviously, YMMV haha

Two terms he uses in English which he didn't get properly translated:
When he refers to someone's ability as "confirmed" (confirmé in french), he means "you've confirmed that you can ride reasonably well." I'd say this maps to "intermediate."

And when he says "let's talk technique", he means tech. When we say technique, for the french it would be "la méthode".

Thanks for letting me ramble. Definitely had a good chuckle going through the site (which loaded perfectly fine for me, in English … well… Franglais...

Just to explain, the English translation is just done using a plug in so all you're getting is a Google translate document.

The current site design is what you get when you get a buddy who thinks he's pro (but isn't) to do it. The previous site was better, and had proper specs.

Supra wrote: Sun Nov 06, 2022 9:51 pm Just to explain, the English translation is just done using a plug in so all you're getting is a Google translate document.

The current site design is what you get when you get a buddy who thinks he's pro (but isn't) to do it. The previous site was better, and had proper specs.

Yep, was wondering about that. The site was fine when I bought mine late 2019, but they’ve gotten progressively worse over past few years.