Lib Tech Banana Magic BTX Snowboard
OLSON’S DREAM CONSTRUCTION

+ Numerically enhanced Banana Tech & Magne-Traction (!BTX!)
+ Glow in the dark sidewalls!
+ Twin geometries
+ Horsepower construction (All basalt, no fiberglass)
+ Columbian Gold core
+ Magical mystery sidecut
+ Bio beans sparkle topsheet
+ Flex: 6-7 (depending on size)
+ Sizes 152 154 157 161
+ Wide Sizes 158 162

Lib Tech Magic Horsepower NAS reCurve Skis

Volcanic Oraganic Horsepower construction, all basalt
(no fiberglass), Columbian Gold eco wood core and BEANS bio polymer top. Magic! Designed and ridden by Mt Baker local and NAS inspirational experimentalist Tony Bland and crew. The ultimate freeride and all terrain reCurve Magne-Traction design that floats the pow and rips the hardpack in both directions.

+ POW reCURVE Technology
+ Horsepower Construction
+ Magne-Traction
+ Bio beans sparkle topsheet
+ Sizes 168 178 188

The PipeNAS.

The 2012 Lib Tech NAS Pipe Skis are Held up this year because of the on going closeout sale on 2009, 10,  models. Click on either picture on left and save 40%-44% Of, or click on the price link below and see if we have your size in stock.

NAS PIPE SKI  $359.37

NAS PIPE SKI  $389.95

Eric is the very lovable tech rep from Mervin Manufacturing for the northern Calfornia area. We make him do product reviews for our youtube channel. This is classic Eric at his best, I just turned on the camera and let him get in trouble all by himself…I didn’t have the heart to tell him that Ken had all ready created most of the Lib product reviews a month earlier…So enjoy the out takes….he makes me laugh..thanks Eric for the laughs.

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.

BSS 2010 Ep4-4 Mervin Manufacturing Factory Tour from Big Jump on Vimeo.

Natasha Ferre takes a tour around one of the last snowboard factories to still hand craft their boards in the USA. The award winning Mervin Manufacturing. Mervin is the parent company of Liberace Technologies (aka Lib Tech) Snowboards, Gnu Snowboards, Lib Tech Skateboards, Freedom Dolly, and Bent Metal bindings.

The Pipe NAS, This ski is so surprizing, with the magna traction edge you can hold on to your speed goin into the park, pipe or rail. This is the ski that Mike wlson was skiing on at sierra at tahoe when I film him…..check it out, and then check out the killer sale we’re having on the Lib Tech NAS Pipe Skis $454.00 plus FREE SHIPPING

Mike Wilson’s twin freestyle NAS with a speed focus. A little narrower and a little longer for pipe and power freeriding.
Construction:
Magne-Traction: Smooth riding! Turns ice into shave ice!
Correct Sandwich: Low spin weight!
Beans: Bio-Plastic top skin: Tough, light, and made from beans!
Ultra High Molecular Weight P.E. Spped Walls: Tough! Great wax retention.
Anvi-Tech Damping Layer: Dampening!
NASKAR: Narrow-Ass Snowboard Kontrolled Active Response, Cores from hand-selected dead trees.
Quasi-Isotropic Fiberglass Power Layers: Strength, power, and pop!
Steel (Metal) Edges OTB: On The Bottom. Coming in hot!
Sintered UHMW Base: Fast!
Pro Set Up Stance Reference: What Mike and Colby ride.

Size: Contact [cm]: Side Cut [m]: Waist [cm]: Nose/Tail [cm]:
166 136 17 MTX 8.4 11.3/10.8
173 144 18 MTX 8.5 11.7/11.1
Sold in Pairs.

Rose Marie Daiek

Shoreline of Tahoe Team rider Rose Marie Daiek will defend her Kirkwood North Face Masters of Snowboarding Title this weekend Friday & Saturday February 26 – 27th. The Master’s Series measures a riders freeriding talents by placing them up against anything the mountain has to throw at them. Cliffs, chutes, crud, ice, pow, rocks, and steeps; A master rider needs to ride it all in control and with style. Rose has come a long way, from early roots camping out in Kirkwood to ruling anything she sets her sights on. Always quick to flash a big smile as she flies past you to that next powder line.
Good Luck to Rose Marie and all the other competitors from the crew at Shoreline.

Elbows Up!

Shoreline Of Tahoe, Lake Tahoe’s alternative ski & snowboard shop. Is so into the ski/snowboard scene that we buy new stock all year long, so we can offer new stock on sale during the season. This year we have made some great buys from, K2, Full Tilt, Mervin and Burton. Stop on by and save. The 20% off is good only in store, K2 Skis and Full Tilt Ski Boots are on sale online.

The good ideas are still being churned out of Mervin Manufacturing, their latest design gives the rider equal turning, heel and toe side. The Patent Pending Proprietary Park Pickle Product will be included in the 09/10 Gnu Snowboard line. Based on the idea that heelside turns require more leverage than toeside turns, the Park Pick will have a deeper sidecut on the heelside. The board is a true twin shape with a centered stance so it can be ridden with either goofy or regular and includes Mervin Mfg’s exclusive use of Banana Technology.

The Park Pickle achieves perfect balance through asymmetry, a deeper sidecut and asymmetric core on the heel edge balances your foots asymmetry and the different turn mechanics between heel and toe turns. Twin Asymmetric Banana Magnetraction design is the future of all terrain freestyle performance snowboards. Pickle Power

Shoreline Of Tahoe has a few in Demo also, so stop by and check one out.