Good looking board. I had fun on a couple Nitro’s back in the day.

The specs look good although I do wish folks listed nose and tail heights.

I love the taper and radius on this board….but why no nose rocker??? Kind of a bummer. I don’t see why anyone would want a split without some sort of rockered feature in the nose at least. Good to see a more progressive sidecut radius. I can’t tell you how many boards are out there that are beautifully designed and constructed only to be ruined by a gay ass 7.5-8 meter radius. I’d pass on this though (unless you’re accessing backcountry groomers lol).
You can see in the video of the guy riding it how the standard nose sucks in powder.

@Jefe009 wrote:

…given Nitro’s history in splitboarding, I’m very surprised that this new board is what they came up with.

Why? Do you think the design is too conservative or too far out there?

Nitro’s always shown occasional willingness to take risks with shapes that are more innovative than others’. The relatively large sidecut radii sets these boards apart. Furberg aside, is there another company that puts a 13m radius on a mid-60s deck?

I like the blend of camber, long sidecut, taper, and gradual shovel shape. Should be versatile and well behaved in the backcountry – prioritizing speed and steeps stability while being less prone to hooking and more easily slarved and smeared in tight situations.

Now if it were only 20 cm longer.

@Taylor wrote:

@Jefe009 wrote:

and gradual shovel shape. less prone to hooking and more easily slarved and smeared in tight situations.

I’m not seeing this in this board shape. The nose and tail look just as hooky as any other split out there. Besides the 12m radius and taper it’s basically a voile mojo.

I think K2 has the best nose shape out there for what you described above. http://www.evo.com/imgp/750/55690/291051/k2-ultra-dream-snowboard-2013-158-front.jpg

The K2 ultra dream nose with the nitro taper and 12m radius is the board that needs to be built. Actually, the K2 nose with the nitro/sicksplit tail would be better.

I would like to try the Nitro though. It’s still a great shape.

Exactly!
Furberg went a tad too far out of the box imo.

@peacefrog wrote:

http://www.atomicsnow.jp/snowboard/#/products/Info/a-sb-snowboard/AC5003004.html

Looks like Atomic laminated the cross section of a peanut. My penis is longer than that board. And all that sidecut.

Seriously though, what I’m talking about with DPS is something long and light, with long taper shovel and tail, whose rocker’s matched to its sidecut, which isn’t too much. Doubling the width of that DPS ski would, quite literally, just about do it.

@Taylor wrote:

The “board that needs to built” is a split board version of this:

Furburg created a new category, but they’re in many ways limited. This would push that envelope.

Well , here’s one. 164cm, 11m radius, rocker-flat-rocker, and my secret weapon.

@JimmyC wrote:

Singlewhitecaveman, do you have any idea if that Chimera will become available to the buying public? That would be welcome addition to the quiver—and an interesting change of pace from my Unicorn Chaser.

We’re going to work on the width some more, and maybe have it for a late-season release. This has been in the works for several years now. If we get it to where we feel ready we’ll introduce it into our demo program for this year.

Sorry, I don’t mean to de-rail this thread. 🙄

Taylor: agree on the sizing, for what you are looking for you would want a bigger furberg, probably 185 even. The furbergs ride a little short, I find the 173 to be easily as maneuverable as my 166 Storm, maybe more so. The quality on the first year boards, like the one I have, is a little weak. But the 13/14 split I just saw was really much, much better. Clearly Daniel has worked hard with his builder, and improved the core (denser wood) the base, which is now a very nice graphite loaded sintered base, and the precision of the split construction, which has a very tight seam and precise matching between halves.
Please suspend judgement on the furberg construction until you see some of this seasons boards.