Board: Endeavor Colour
Size: 155
Camber Option: Flat camber with raised contacts. 2-3mm rise at the contact points eliminating pressure.
Bindings: Burton Cartel
Stance: 21 Wide 12 Negative 9 Goofy
Boots: DC Lynx 8.5
My Weight: 155lbs
Resort: A-Basin
Conditions: The snow was heavy and wet that day. As it had been tracked out it left for a chunder field of doom.
Flex: Middle of the road for a park deck overall. Stiffer between the feet and softer in the tips with a sizeable helping of torsional give.
Stability: Not great. What stability was there came from the middle part of the board and the fact that the board itself was relatively heavy. If you get your weight too far outside your feet towards the tips the whole thing gets pretty unruly and harsh. Keep it centered and it’s bearable. And you’ll feel just about everything going on underneath you.
Ollies: The way the flex is laid out just didn’t feel balanced. Most of the snap seemed to come from the center but the tips had a hard time not folding before you could initiate the center. Enough to get up on to jibs and whatnot but not much more.
Pop On Jumps: Snapping off the lip was OK. The tips never got in the way I guess, but the lack of snap means that if you need to boost to clear a knuckle, you might not make it.
Butterability: The soft tips made for easy buttering. Not a lot of energy to the deck overall so it’s not a super springy kind of buttering, but you can bend and twist the board any way you want.
Jibbing: The tips were soft enough to let you lay into any level of press you want and the flat camber wraps a rail nice in a boardslide. Overall this is this boards most redeeming aspect.
Carving: The off flex pattern and softer than needed tips made this a chore. Quick snappy turns were fine and set ups into features were effortless, but if you really try and lay one over the whole board just kind of gives up.
Rider in Mind: I guess the park kid who’s not much concerned with jumps and wants a deck that doesn’t fight back. And wants the channel but doesn’t want a Burton.
Personal Thoughts: One of the supposed benefits to the channel is that a bar of aluminum is lighter than a pack of steel inserts but somehow this board feels like it got heavier with the change to the channel. It was overall just not something I really wanted to spend much time on. It was pretty sloppy and lazy feeling to be honest.
Check out the past review of the 2013 Color Series.
Comparable Boards: Rome Gang Plank, Salomon Sabotage, Flow Verve
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This board was loaned to us for review by Endeavor Snowboards marketing department.
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