Board: Ride Algorhythm
Size: 157
Camber Option: Directional Twin Hybrid Rocker. Directional twin camrocker.
Bindings: K2 Indy
Stance: 21.5 Wide 15 Negative 12 Goofy
Boots: K2 Thraxis Size 10
My Weight: 195lbs
Resort: Arapahoe Basin
Conditions: Overcast skies, heavy wet snow occasionally falling, chunder pow, ice, chunder groomers, and some wind.
Flex: This board has a middle of the road all mountain flex. There’s a fairly even flex through this board as it is directional twin. The torsional flex is abundant and makes this board playful yet it still retains some precision.
Stability: You’ll feel some chatter underfoot and this board does get bounced around a bit in rutted out terrain but it doesn’t wash out or fold.
Ollies: The snap in this board is superb. You do have to load it up to get pop and be a bit more calculated with when you engage it, but the rebound is amazing.
Pop On Jumps: This board can handle jumps with ease. The snap of the board is accentuated off the lips of the jumps. It can handle most sized jumps in my opinion.
Butterability: The tips lock into presses with very little effort. You can hold a butter for however long you want and then pop right out of them. There’s some rebound but don’t worry about this board fighting you.
Jibbing: This board jibs well enough. You’ll have to put a little effort into presses but the sweet spot is immense and holds only to snap out when you get to the end of the feature. Getting sideways the camber locks in and hugs rails and boxes.
Carving: This board transitions from edge to edge with quickly. When on edge you can drive into the center of the board and get it to slingshot out of turns. If you want to drive hard into a carve and lay it over, go for it. Basically this board just rips on edge.
Rider in Mind: Rad dad who rips the whole mountain.
Personal Thoughts: This board is amazing. It’s the replacement for the Machete GT or so I was told, and thank fucking god. That board sucked, this board does not suck. I can’t stress enough how awesome this board is.
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17 Comments
Sounds like the mercury has some competition in the all-mountain freestyle category…
It’s a different ride, it’s softer and more intermediate level and forgiving.
Cool thanks!
Hey Angry, I am currently in the market to replace or add to my current boards. I curently ride an old cambered lib tech dark series 157 and an option Makinen 158. Very similar boards in terms of stiffness and the makinen a bit more all mountain then the lib tech – both full cambered. Would consider myself an advanced-expert rider. 5’10 195lbs and size 9 boot. Im very overwelmed by the new rocker hybrid camber options. My decks are almost 20 years old. I no longer hit the park and mainly charge down anything that doesnt have moguls. Groomers and any powder I can find. Love laying down long carves when there is no fresh snow. I also ride switch quite a bit but would give that up for a board that could help me float better through some powder and turn through some tracked out trees. What boards would you recommend for this rad dad? Cheers.
Time to move on in to some more freeride oriented boards. Check out The Libtech Hot Knife or Swiss Knife, Gnu Mullair, Ride Berzerker or Commissioner, Jones Flagship, K2 Manifest, Yes PYL, Yes Standard, Yes Hybrid, and I think that’s probably enough to get you going in the right direction.
Thanks for the suggestions. I have looked into all of the decks and narrowed it down to the Ride Bezerker, Jones Flagship and YES PYL. Although the YES standard sounds fairly spot on as well.
Then you’re on your way.
Would any other those models lend themselves to having good nimble tree riding in shallow to moderate ridden out powder?
PYL.
Cheers – thank you! All my review reading has had that snowbord come up again and again for my needs.
Buying my first board in 12 years. 6’3,195, advanced rider. Been rocking an old Illuminati Aegis that I’ve actually loved, its just time to move on. I mainly ride CO resorts and spend most of my time charging down groomers, laying down carves and picking through the trees, side hits and the occasional park run (Pretty similar to the guy above). After way too much research im pretty high on this board. Looking for a “quiver of one” since i live on the east coast and only get about a dozen days out west a year. Any reason to look elsewhere or will this get the job done.
Thanks man, appreciate the content.
It’ll get the job done, if you were to look at something else I’d probably throw out the Jones Mountain Twin for something just a hair bit stiffer.
Got it, thanks for the suggestion.
Intermediate level here and this will be my first board, I like to get all over the mountain and stop by the park on the way down to hit a couple of jumps and rails… this board seems a good option. At 5ft9 and 185lbs (although may lose a little) and size 10.5’s would you suggest the 157? or 160W?
Any suggestions on bindings to go with it?
57 for sure.
Does a quadratic sidecut have extra contact points or wtf does it even mean? Can this board hang with the jones mtn twin or mercury as a daily driver?
Quadratic Sidecut is a 4 radius blended sidecut you don’t get any extra bumps. It’s softer than both of those decks.