GNU Park Pickle

Description

GNU Park Pickle

Twin Asymmetric Banana For Ducks

The Park Pickle takes the next step in snowboard specific geometries. Banana between your feet for easy riding, catch-free park freestyle performance, and unreal float in powder. Magne-Traction for unreal edge-hold everywhere. Asymmetric sidecuts and construction to balance the different turning mechanics required for heel side turns and toe side turns. Your body is asymmetric, your snowboard should be asymmetric. Park Pickles with a deeper heel side sidecut and unique asym core, are designed around progressive riding and modern freestyle duck stances in all terrain. Hand built by snowboarders at Mervin Mfg. using fast growing eco woods and environmentally friendly construction techniques, the Park Pickle is some delicious green technology! Pickle Technology! TWSNOW Good Wood Winner!

Specifications

Specification Type	Specification Details
1	Balance Through Asymmetry
2	Duck Stance Supremacy
3	Banana Tech BTX with Magne-Traction
4	Asym, Toeside and Heelside
5	Specific Sidecuts
6	Asym Mervin AG/Aspen Core
7	Sintered Base
8	Flex: 4.5-6

Features

Feature Type	Feature Details
Banana Tech	Click Here
Magne Traction	Click Here
Pickle Tech	Click Here
Sandwich Construction	Construction Standards and Oddities. Every Gnu is handmade by snowboarders with jobs in the USA. Gnus are built with tough and fast UHMW external sidewalls and impact resistant end grain internal sidewalls. Ultra-light weight rugged “polymer bumper” sandwich tip and tails are standard on all Gnus. Steel edges are used for control along the contact area and “tucked-in” just past the contacts for minimum spin weight… heavy unnecessary steel edge is eliminated from the tips and tails. Banana Tech, EC2, or C2 BTX Camber/Banana Tech combo and Magne-Traction serrated edges are far from standard but are standard on every Gnu snowboard.
Asymmetrical Twin Shape	A whole new breed of Twin Tip Geometry that combines a symmetrical nose and tail shape with asymmetrical sidecuts. Although invisible to the naked eye, the heel-side sidecut has a slightly tighter radius than toe-side. This is to help offset the difference in human heel and toe agility (ever notice that toe-side turns are easier than heel-side turns?). The Park Pickle also has a slightly softer/damper wood on the heel-side of the board to help achieve perfect turning balance.
Sintered 9900 Alloy Base	Continuous compression formed for molecular elongation, preserving its amorphous polymer structure, for maximum wax absorption and durability. Tough and fast
Quasi Glass	4 way fiber orientation 0/45/45/90. Triaxial and biaxial glass combo for max pop and control. Vectran liquid crystal polymer was developed as the fiber foundation for inter-planetary Mars lander tires and has 10 times the strength of titanium.
EISS 9 UHMW Sidewalls	Tough UHMW sidewalls on the exterior laminated to 9 layers of endgrain birch on the inside. Bombproof and gives the board massive pop. Good on rails. ULTRA LIGHT SPIN WEIGHT
AGA2 Sustainable Woodcore	MERVIN AGA2 SUSTAINABLE WOODCORE: ASPEN / ALT. GENETICS / EISS 9 - Lighter / Stronger. A perfect combination of Aspen, even more ultra lightweight genetically altered wood core and EISS 9. Perfect for freestyle domination. Wood Core Weirdness! In 2008 the world’s fastest growing trees in Gnu’s Altered Genetic forest produced an exceptional harvest of long fibered light weight poppy wood that we call “nature’s fiberglass.” This select crop has been carefully seasoned and built into cores and is the light poppy center of many of our favorite 2011 Gnu snowboards. Got any fungus?