Danny’s Favorite Twin Freestyle Banana!

+ C2 BTX Banana Camber Combo with Magnetraction
+ Twin Geometries
+ Mervin AG2 Sustainable Woodcore
+ Quasi Glass
+ Sintered Base
+ Flex 6-7 Depending On Size

Art By: Jeremy Fish

Limited Gnu Jamie Anderson Ladies Choice from GNU on Vimeo.
Announcing a new GNU women’s model snowboard designed and developed by Jamie Anderson!

Jamie has been testing this board all spring and has dialed it up, even some podiums on this board already!

Featuring a Pickle-Tech construction, this will surely be a hit as the regular pickle has been a hit with the ladies.
This feature a lot of the same upgrades you see in the riders choice from the regular pickle.
Custom shape and design from Jamie and the R+D team, light and strong materials, and a slightly less pickle-tech on the heelside than the regular pickle.

We are stoked to have Jamie on our team representing GNU = a new pro model GNU snowboard!
Sizes are
148.5
151.5

Welcome to Shoreline of Tahoe, 2011 spring Sale….the best place in Lake Tahoe and online to shop for Snowboards, Skis, Snowboard boots, Ski Boots, Snowboard bindings, Ski Bindings ski & snowboard jackets, pants, outerwear, clothing, and everything else you need to ski or snowboard. We carry only the highest quality gear from brands like Burton, K2, Moment, Full Tilt, Lib Tech, Never Summer, Line, Look, Salomon, 686, Volcom, and many more.

We need to educate the market to understand that our Banana contours are dynamic (flexible and moving) and not static like a surfboard (no flex). Higher Banana actually tends to add stability in a snowboard. It will be a hard concept to grasp for most people for many years to come.

A higher Banana distributes more pressure to the central(straighter) portion of the sidecut, which gives stability at speed. The nose and tail of a board is where the sidecut flares out and can be twitchy if there is too much pressure on the snow(remember the dangerous twitch of cambered boards in the dark ages). Contrary to popular myth, Banana does not cause a board to teeter-totter, it actually redistributes your foot pressure to better portions of the board than antique camber was capable of. We actually tested a very, very stiff and high Banana(too stiff) on our pressure mapping machine a couple of years ago and learned that when stood on by a 150lb rider, it still had a surprising amount of pressure driving into the snow at the nose and tail. And this wasn’t even a C-2.

Our boards with higher Banana have also displayed the ability to glide a little faster than traditional camber or lower Banana contours. We attribute this, once again, to the straightest part of the sidecut(between your feet) having a higher percentage of the pressure distribution. Test a Magic on a flat cat track and you’ll see the raw racing ability at 3 miles per hour. Leave your camber-loving bretheren in your wake!

The Cygnus has won every test(4 at last count) it’s been in with comments about “mad pop” and high speed stability. The Cygnus and Magic have our highest Bananas. The proofs in the pudd’n, but it is something to think about when trying to understand the dynamics of Banana contours.

No magazine has shown a real understanding of Banana stability verses camber in the preseason equipment articles every year. I guess it is our job to better educate them.

The good news is that we have many future years of design aspects to talk about to retailers, magazines and snow-riding-people. Our future will be dynamic and exciting.

Snowboard Design Review: C2 BTX
Sept 14, 2010
Location: Lake Tahoe, NV

This Blog’s purpose is to explain the features advantages and benefit of the “C2 BTX” design found in many of the boards that Mervin manufacturing makes. C2 technology is banana rocker between the bindings and camber from the inserts to the contact points. This means 2 cambers, one per-foot. C2 BTX designs are easy to initiate into each turn with quick edge to edge response. Both short and long radius turns on the C2 BTX Designs let you power through each turn. The double camber gives you energy while in your turn, Camber engages the snow and gives back a more lively turn. The feature allows the rider to maintain the line he sets his board to do. The advantage is stability at high speeds. The benefit is that you have a single board that can do-it all board for the mountain.

Here are the 2011 Mervin boards that use “C2 BTX” Technology
GNU
Gnu Altered Genetics C2 BTX Snowboard
Gnu Billy Goat C2 BTX Snowboard
Gnu Danny Kass C2 BTX Snowboard
Gnu Riders Choice C2 BTX Snowboard
Gnu Riders Choice C2 BTX Wide Snowboard
Gnu Womens B-Pro C2 BTX Snowboard
Roxy
Roxy Womens Eminence C2 BTX Snowboard
Roxy Womens Envi C2 BTX Snowboard
Lib Tech
Lib Tech Dark Series C2 BTX Snowboard
Lib Tech Dark Series C2 BTX Wide Snowboard
Lib Tech Jamie Lynn Phoenix Series C2 BTX Snowboard
Lib Tech Jamie Lynn Phoenix Series C2 BTX Snowboard
Lib Tech Jamie Lynn Phoenix Series C2 BTX Wide Snowboard
Lib Tech Lando Phoenix Series C2 BTX Snowboard
Lib Tech Lando Phoenix Series C2 BTX Wide Snowboard
Lib Tech Skunk Ape C2 BTX Snowboard
Lib Tech Travis Rice C2 BTX Snowboard
Lib Tech TRS C2 BTX Snowboard
Lib Tech TRS Slims C2 BTX Narrow Snowboard

Check out the latest design from Merivn manuacturing the Gnu Forest Bailey Pcychadelic Park Pickle, get yours at Shoreline of Tahoe

2011 Gnu Mutant Snowboard Binding Review

A B-Grade snowboard is a snowboard that has a cosmetic or other blemish that does not adversely affect how the board rides. B-Grades come with the same manufacturers warranty as regular retail models. The B-Grade or Factory seconds are priced 20% Off the regular price, Buy yours now, because just like last year, all the great Mervin snowboards are selling out.

Lib Tech Travis Rice Pro Model BTX Pointy B-Grade

Lib Tech Skate Banana B-Grade

Lib Tech Skate Banana Narrow B-Grade

Lib Tech Skate Banana Wide B-Grade

Lib Tech Skunk Ape BTX B-Grade

Lib Tech 1986 Snow Mullet BTX B-Grade

Gnu Billy Goat C2 BTX B-Grade

Gnu Danny Kass Split Personality C2 BTX B-Grade

Gnu Women’s B-Nice BTX B-Grade

Gnu Youth Girl’s B-Pro Mini BTX B-Grade

Roxy Women’s Ollie Pop BTX B-Grade

Mervin manufacturing has a long history of playing with words, a few years back, when Burton used the term “Carbon I beam” to describe a feature they had in some of their boards, Mervin the next year offered a whole line of price point decks under the name “Carbon High beam”. To my surprise, after selling about 100 of these boards, I found out that there was no carbon in the board. I said to the rep, how can you sell a board, called “carbon high beam” that has no carbon fiber in it? He told me its just a name, not an ingredient. Other word games from our friends at Mervin, “Tear Yea”
The Gnu Carbon Credit does nothing for the environment, except get you out into it for less money. Enjoy the great out doors for less on a brand new Gnu Carbon Credit, This is the best value on Banana Tech ever.