Surfing Waves

Posted: **Mon Jun 07, 2004 9:21 am**

Am trying to buy a mountain board for my boyfriend's birthday, but know absolutely nothing about them.....anyone got tips on how to tell a good board from a bad one????can't ask him cos it's supposed to be a surprise.....

Posted: **Mon Jun 07, 2004 10:33 am**

Right this is my area! :D

I'm assuming your in the UK...
www.atbmag.co.uk - wicked UK ATB publication

Info and a shop - http://www.atbsports.co.uk

Shops
www.atbshop.com
loads of others surch for them.. doesn't take much prices between the same boards accross the shops doesn't really vairy..

Centres - List all the main ride centres accross the uk...
www.maxtrack.com
www.ridethehill.co.uk

Ok.. as for the board... I'll say one main thing:
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Don't get a board with Monster Trucks... Channel Trucks all the way, they spring back supurbly for sharp turning, stability at speed and they take a hell of a bashing. Also easyer to grind on.
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Other thingsd to look for is the build, flex and the straps.
Stear clear of "exit" boards
MBS have done me proud over the past year excelent build and felx in the boards and are built with the option to add a break at a later date, but you dont need one, just master the powerslide stop and your sorted, it easy.
noSnow boards are for the snowboarder really, mainly cause of the flex and the straps (your bound in) personally I don't like them, very sloppy ride
Scrub - I havn't tried the new range yet but the old one I found to be quite stocky and unresponsive or the other extreme of uncontrolable!
quite a few other up and comming board makers but thats the main ones.

Posted: **Wed Jun 09, 2004 2:47 pm**

mountain boarding looks fun... does it help with your surfing at all? anyone know where you can mountain board in Wales?

Posted: **Wed Jun 09, 2004 2:51 pm**

one of those districts is fairly near by but im never sure whether its peak or lake

Posted: **Wed Jun 09, 2004 3:07 pm**

how about mongoose boards, are they any good? cos I found a deal with a mongosoe board and a kite too...

Posted: **Wed Jun 09, 2004 3:27 pm**

I've got a mongoose board, it works well....

Posted: **Thu Jun 10, 2004 1:36 pm**

i was just wonderin what mountain boards and mongoose boards are?
are they like indo boards or something? and what do they do?

sorry for all the questions, i'm just trying to follow the conversation!

Posted: **Thu Jun 10, 2004 2:05 pm**

A mountain board is a mutant skateboard - it's a bit bigger and has big inflatable tyres for going off road. And foot bindings. You can use them for shooting down hills, being dragged along beaches by powerkites and after a certain amount of beer, skating down stairs.... They're great!
Also being towed around a field behind a car is 'a tiny bit like wakeboarding but not really' but it's fun!

Mongoose is just a make of mountainboard

Posted: **Fri Jun 11, 2004 1:20 pm**

that sounds pretty cool!!!!
thanks for clueing me in

Posted: **Thu Jun 17, 2004 7:55 am**

Just Check out the websites in my post for locations of centres and what its all about etc...

If your going to be kiteboarding I would recoment the Keo boards rather than mongoose. I've found the mongoose board to be very stocky like the scrub boards.

The Keo range has some excelent board shaps to really dig in and stock the sideways sliding in strong winds

Posted: **Wed Jul 07, 2004 7:54 pm**

Posted: **Thu Jul 08, 2004 7:12 pm**

Hell yeah I've seen those before. When I lived out in small town po-dunk Missouri we had jack nothing to do. So once we found a regular skateboard with offroad tires on it alot like a Mountain Board. So we just tied a rope to my friends tail-hitch on his car, held onto the roap took to some gravel roads and tried our damndest not to kill ourselves, no pad no nothing, I don't think any one of us came out without some awesome road rash!!!!

Posted: **Sun Jul 11, 2004 4:29 am**

HI
UM IM FROM AUSTRALIA AND AM TRYING TO GET INTO MOUNTAIN BOARDING. DOES NE 1 NO WHERE I CAN BUY NEW BOARD/S IN AUSTRALIA, VIC. OR NE WHERE IN VIC WHERE PPL BOARD?

Posted: **Sun Jul 11, 2004 9:25 am**

WE ARE NOT DEAF WE UNDERSTAND PERFECTLY WHEN YOU WRITE like this, and it is more pleasing to the eye. umm why don't you just read PapaWoolocombe's post where he listed lots of sites that will help you wih ordering a board.

Posted: **Mon Jul 12, 2004 5:01 am**

yeh my bad , i didnt realise that i was typin with cap locks on.

Posted: **Mon Jul 19, 2004 7:07 am**

exit boards are great, i got a spirit my mate has an airforce 2 and a toaster.

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:58 pm**

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2004 4:53 pm**

sup all im lookin for my 1st mountin board but im a good snowboarder and a mad nice skateboarder and ok surfer. wa board is like $250 or lower and is right for a persion 160lbs

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2004 5:16 pm**

250lb whats that in kg!?

how tall are you...

do a search for Mountainboards or All terrain boards (ATB) in your country only.

It will come up with a selection of online shops no doubt. As I've said the price of boards doesn't vary really from shop to shop so just look at all the reviews and perhaps visit a centre to try em out. then buy the board of your choice!

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:09 pm**

wa i use to serch in my conty is there a web sight and im about 5'5"

Surfing Waves

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