by Rickyroughneck » Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:18 am
Epoxy boards are fibreglass, it is just a tougher resin that is used.
Your board is heavy because of the construction, the BIC boards with black nose-caps are atrocious in every conceivable way.
The BIC "e-comp" boards are a lot better (you can tell because they don't have the black nose-cap), or a NSP or indeed any custom board. There isn't much benefit to going smaller unless you go small enough to duck-dive (which would probably be too advanced), so don't feel that you need to go smaller.
If you are buying a new board I would recommend buying one secondhand. Do your research into it first, if you know what you are looking for then you can get a better and cheaper board than you would otherwise.