Northshore Option?

anyone have experience riding this pinhead board?

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jmed

that would be: Option Northshore.....

gonna test ride the 159 soon.
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jmed

that would be: Option Northshore.....

gonna test ride the 159 soon.

You meant "pintail" not "pinhead".

These boards appear to have an even more extreme taper than the Fish and the
Prior Khyber. They also have a bigger sidecut radius, 9 - 10 m which is
rather Donek Incline / Prior MFR -esque.

Trying to imagine what impact the looser sidecut might have with coupled
with such extreme taper. I've never ridden a pintail so I can't really
visualize the ride. Probably SWEET on anything you can surf! On hardpack,
it would probably tend to pick up speed easily with the open sidecut but I
suspect the taper would make it hard to dump speed by carving it. Probably
a small price to pay if you get lots of fresh.

Any chance you'll also try a Fish and report back on the difference between
the two?

Mike T

You meant "pintail" not "pinhead".

These boards appear to have an even more extreme taper than the Fish and
the
Prior Khyber. They also have a bigger sidecut radius, 9 - 10 m which is
rather Donek Incline / Prior MFR -esque.

Trying to imagine what impact the looser sidecut might have with coupled
with such extreme taper. I've never ridden a pintail so I can't really
visualize the ride. Probably SWEET on anything you can surf! On
hardpack,
it would probably tend to pick up speed easily with the open sidecut but I
suspect the taper would make it hard to dump speed by carving it.
Probably
a small price to pay if you get lots of fresh.

Any chance you'll also try a Fish and report back on the difference
between
the two?

Mike T



heh~
yeah, i'm a pinhead alright....a morning of face shots does that to me
sometimes. makes the day (afternoon today) job a bit more difficult.

thanks for your thoughts. yeah, i think i could take a fish for a ride too-
milo has them for 27bucks/day- maybe i can trade them a ride on the
northshore for a ride on their fish. unfortunately, i could only get the
159 northshore- the 62 was sold out. i'll give it a shot nonetheless
though.

i envision the board to be extremely easy to turn, hopefully with a lot of
float. if the thing can land big airs (15-30' for me), i might have found
my new powder resort board. the timeless 64 is nice, but not too forgiving
and i'm finding it to be a bit difficult edge2edge.

hardpack? whoa. these days i rarely ride hardpack w a snowboard. those
are tele-practice days!
;-)

cheers
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jmed