Snowboard Review

REVIEW

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I bought the Rad Air LSD 164 because I wanted to try riding with hard boots but also wanted a board that I could ride with soft boots if plate bindings and hard boots didn't work out for me.

With a 10.5 M sidecut and stiff flex it wants to go fast before it comes to life. Going slow and trying to turn like my old freeride boards just wasn't going to happen.
I rode it the first few times with soft boots and loved it although it got hard to hang onto when you started to go really fast.

I finally got my plates and hard boots all set-up on the board and took it out on a perfect groomer day. My world changed! Took a bit to get used to riding in hard boots but the amazing thing was how much you could rail the board.
I could finally let it open up and go full throttle without fear of loosing control.

The board "FLIES", it loves to open up and run really fast lines. Leaving pencil lines as tracks in the snow is now a reality for me.

It's a bit to stiff to ride powder very well. You can do it, but the back leg gets bunt out pretty quick and the nose is so stiff you don't really get a "feel" for the terrain on the powder days. (I solved that issue by getting a Tanker 200 to match the speed lines that I'm into at the moment).

The other places that I can't ride it is the park and small pipes, just to stiff and unforgiving.

In a Super Pipe however it's a different story.... BIG AIR.

I also had a few days to run it though different boarder-cross tracks and found that it excelled, by far the quickest board in my quiver.

Rating: 8/10

It does what it says on the wrapper very well.

Rails turns with the ability to tighten up or open the turn with perfect edge control.

Seems to have no top end speed limit.

It likes wide open spaces and high speeds, if that's what your into, pick one up now because after 15 years in production they've been dropped from the line-up this year.