"Johnny1" wrote in message
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My background: I ride about 10 days a year. I've been riding for five
year at this pace, and I've been an intermediate freerider almost the
whole time. I like powder and groomers the best, park and bumps the
least. For four years I've had a Burton Supermodel 62.

When I started riding I bought a Supermodel 62 and I loved it - really easy
to ride. After about 4 years of riding 7-10 days a year it got stolen while
I was having lunch in a mountain restaurant. This was on the first day of a
week long holiday in the Alps so I spent the next few days trying out lots
of boards and ended up replacing it with a K2 Eldorado 164.

For the first couple of hours I rode the Eldo I felt like a beginner all
over again as it was so unforgiving compared to the Supermodel, mainly
because it was much stiffer, but I very quickly got used to it and found
that my carving, in particular, improved due to the greater stability. Now I
realise I was ready for a stiffer board and I have no doubt that it helped
my riding. It is also a faster board, due to some high tech stuff on the
base, but this has never made me go faster than I want to (does help on
flats though).

Luke

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