Ride Kink 2009
November 8, 2008
By Scott Briggs
SnowboardReviews.com
Boston – The 2009 Ride Kink snowboard is considered one of the ultimate jibbing snowboards and referred to as the “Park Killer”. This Ride snowboard comes from their Mobility collection designed to be all about freestyle right out of the box. This snowboard is one of the most durable boards on the market, you will not have to worry about the rails beating this board.
2009 Ride Kink Snowboard
The Ride Kirk is a twin tip snowboard that has been designed by a combination of team riders and engineers to create one of the top park snowboards on the market. This board features Ride’s Cleaver Edge technology along with the 85A Slimewalls giving you a reliable and durable snowboard. The Cleaver Edge technology helps with the durabilty by using 50 percent more steel in the edges to allow the Kink to give the beaten rather than taken one. Then the 85A Slimewalls provide a forgiving and smooth ride by absorbing impact rather than defending against it, letting your board have a more natural reaction to the snow, rails, or wood boxes.
Ride then compiles some of their other top technology in this board including Thincon construction to reduce swing weight, Biaxial Glass to make it fun and forgiving, and then the Fusion 1500 base to make it fast and easy to repair.
Overall all park riders are going to love this board at this cheap prices. But if you are not a park rider and want a top Ride board at a great price check out the 2009 Ride Agenda.
Features of The Ride Kink 155 Snowboard:
- Twin Tip
- Thin Con
- 85A Slimewalls
- Foundation Tuned Core
- Cleave Laminates
- Biaxial Glass
- Carbon Laminates
- Fusion 1500 Base
- 2 x 4 Inserts
Comments
14 Responses to “Ride Kink 2009”
I picked up this board in a WIDE 159cm this past summer and have been doing some early season riding on it.
This board is great for rails and log slides (especially the wide on logs). My only complaint is that i probably got it in to big of a size. I am 6’0″ and the 159 comes up to my adams apple, but it is a heavy board and the large size has a pretty big swing weight. This suits me fine because I not much of a spinner (usually never going past a slow cap 540) but thats about it.
The board does surprisingly well in powder (maybe because it is wide) with a 1 cm set back stance I feel like I don’t even have to lean back, which is awesome. It has a good degree of torsional twist and can carve like a mo’ fo’. Overall this is a great board for someone like me with 11+ size feet.
I am getting a 151.5 cm GNU Rider’s Choice BTX today in the mail, so this should really do everything that my 159 cm Kink Wide cannot. Thats all.
i just picked up a ride 156 wide kink today have not road it yet i am very exited to though. my only concern is people saying that it is heavy. will this effect grabs and spins as well as other aspects of riding
Im planning on getting this board but i was wandering if it would be going down from my burton Dom?
no because burtons suck. i just got a 158cm kink today, my only concerns are that it is a little to big. (im 6’0″)
Finally someone else that hates burton. I just bought this board and i can already tell its much lighter and flexible than my last board. i was pretty good on the old one so i cant wait for this season. im not a very big rail fan but maybe thats because my last board.
im 6.2 ish im plannig to get one of these in 158 is that too big ? my other board was a 162 and had the worst pop and heaviest board ever. i could barely scratch in a BS 360. im realy used to heavy boards so i dont mid as long as it does good for pops and absorbing the kick you get when u land
JUST BOUGHT THIS BOARD HOPING IT I AS GOOD AS THE REVIEWS JUST KIINDA WORRIED BC ALOT OF PPL HAVE SAID IT IS A SLUGGIESH BOARD N TO LAUNCH OFF BIG HIT THATS NOT A GOOD THING BUT I WILL WORK WITH IT N IF I HAVE TO BOMB A HILL WITH NO SPEED CHECKS IM SURE I CAN FLY AS FAR AS I NEED TO
i got mine as a gift a year back and my kink is amazing!! mine is a 152 it goes right to my chin. i have no complaints with this board its great for the rails and fun for those 360s while hitting the powder
i got the kink last year and its great on rails absorbs all the shock for board slides and anything u do….. a bit sketchy on the mountains tho
i own this board and it kicks bootay it has great flex and its pop for me is amazing! i also own a never summer SL-R in which also kicks gnarly poop. i highly recommend geting a kink so yeah….get one (p.s. my board is slightly too small but i think that it may be a contributing factor. it makes it much easeir for the rodeo 5s)
I got a ride kink 147 and it just kills the park, and jumps. It has amazing pop.
Its horrible for spinning and rails and boxes. Probably the worst board ive ever had.
This board is Hella Dope yo, I just picked up some sick step in bindings and a gnarly stomp pad, bam! I killed it on the Nastar course the first day I rode it.
I was throwing huge front side 300’s and backside 90’s all day, until I knuckled the shit out this crazy big booter and sharted in my spandex, what a buzzkill.
The Kink is super flexy too. What can you do though, keep it real homies!
– Turd Ferguson
So I just bought the Kink (156), and I’ve been riding burton for about 8 years now, hope it wasn’t a waste of money. Especially since all my time is usually spent in the park. But I just don’t want it to be hard to hit the jumps with cause I want to be able to spin easily when it comes to competitiions and stuff.