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Snowboarding is expensive. Gas, gear, lift tickets, a place to stay, it adds up, fast. But there’s ways to snowboard without breaking the bank. Take choosing a new deck for instance; there are so many good decks out there for under 500 bucks. Here are the top 10 snowboards on the market right now that will leave you some money in your pocket so you can get a chili in a bread bowl in the lodge.
By Jason Newman
- Jason is an online editor for TransWorld SNOWboarding.
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10. Kink
Company: Ride Snowboards
Price: $379.95
The Ride Kink has been a staple of the Ride line since the days of Justin Hebbell and Joel Mahaffy. Reverse camber and trippy graphics? Sounds like everything you want, and nothing you don't.
9. Color
Company: Endeavor Snowboards
Price: $398.95
Our friends to the north, Canadian brand Endeavor, have really stepped up their game. With their Color board, they brought a soft, reverse cambered snowboard, and put on some custom graphics by 'Numskull.'
8. Street
Company: GNU
Price: $429
Speaking of punk rock, check out this board. Photos of Sid Vicious and classic rock images grace the top sheet, but that's not all that's punk about this board. This thing can take a beating. With an extruded base, a twin shape, and magnetraction edges, this thing is begging to be ripped.
7. The Brat
Company: Dinosaurs Will Die
Price: $389.95
This snowboard company is named after an NOFX song. If you want to ride a board that's punk as fu@k from one of the last 'independent' snowboard brands, this is your board.
6. Swindel Justin Bennee Pro
Company: Nitro Snowboards
Price: $379.95
The best thing about this board is the graphics. Don't get us wrong, the board is awesome, but the graphics are so sick. This board features a bunch of different shanks designed by artists Dave Doman and a base that scratches like a skateboard. It's the definition of cool.
5. Restricted Ration
Company: Burton Snowboards
Price: $299.95
Here's the deal with this board: It's soft, it's twin, and it features graphics by Jay Howell. It's really all you need...
4. Salomonder
Company: Salomon Snowboards
Price: $389.95
The Salomonder is the board of choice for Chris Grenier and Jed Anderson. For those that don't know, those dudes are two of the best rail rider's snowboarders in the game. But this board, just like those dudes, can shred more than just rails. The Salomonder will take you where ever you want to go.
3. Hooligan
Company: Smokin Snowboards
Price: $449.99
Not too many snowboard products are made in the U.S. anymore. Thankfully, Smokin snowboards is still pressing amazing boards right here in the homeland. The Hooligan comes with cool features like a sintered 6000 base and mellow magnatration. If you're feeling patriotic, this is the board for you.
2. K2 Happy Hour
Company: K2 Snowboards
Price: $479.95
For a board under 500 bucks, you really can't beat the K2 Happy Hour. With its super fast sintered 4000 base, and its progressive sidecut, this board isn't for the dude that's just out there looking to cruise. Not to mention the awesome graphics are from photographer Steven Stone plastered over this boards' awesome shape. You won't see another that's quite like this one.
1. Capita Horrorscope
Company: Capita Snowboards
Price: $339.95
The Captia Horrorscope rules. This reverse camber snowboard is a snowboard park destroyer. It's a Capita team rider favorite, it has trippy graphics, and it's won multiple TransWorld SNOWboarding Good Wood awards. Plus, it's under 350 bucks. You can't go wrong with the Horrorscope.