clearance

Versatility

Easy to handle

Buoyancy

Traction

Anatomic design

Rigidity

Forgiveness

Glide performance

Sintered base
20 mm poplar wooden core
Number of inserts: 10 + 10 and 4 powder inserts
Twin tip + 20 mm setback
Size 152 cm:
Front width 288 mm, centre 250 mm, rear 288 mm
Radius 8.2 m 
Recommended stance: 560 mm.
Size 153 cm Mid Wide:
Front width 300 mm, centre 258 mm, rear 300 mm
Radius 8.3 m
Recommended stance: 565 mm.

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Size 156 cm:
Front width 296 mm, centre 255 mm, rear 296 mm
Radius 8.4 m
Recommended stance: 575 mm.
Size 158 cm Wide:
Front width 304 mm, centre 266 mm, rear 304 mm
Radius 8.4 m
Recommended stance: 585 mm

Our boards are already waxed. They are ready to ride.

Technical information (2/2)

Freestyle use, opt for a relatively short board:choose a 20 or 25 cm drop (ex, if you are 1.74 m, choose a 149–154 cm board). Smaller board make rotations and tricks easier. Bigger board is more stable at high speed and on landing jumps.
The Park and Ride Snowboard should be quite short. The 158 Wide size is ideal for well-built users.
152cm=>1.67–1.77m
153cm Mid wide=>1.68m–1.78m
156cm:1.71–1.81 m
158 cm Wide => from 1.78 m to 1.90 m

What’s the right size for me?

The Park and Ride Snowboard is true to its name: it’s as good in snow parks as on- and off-piste. In snow parks, it is perfect for jumps (tables) and inspires confidence on landing. 
Its standard camber gives it pop for jumps and stability at full speed. 
The rocker makes for good handling, as well as buoyancy in powdery snow. 
Its Powder Stance makes it enjoyable in the powder snow, like a freeride board.

Program/terrain

The shape of the snowboard is twin tip: The board’s sidecuts are balanced from front to rear for perfect symmetry and centring when riding in both directions. For even greater versatility, we have shifted the inserts by 20 mm, making the Park and Ride Snowboard a “false” twin tip, just directional enough to ride in the park without issues.

Twin tip directional snowboard

All the advantages of both the standard camber (thanks to the board’s elasticity, a standard camber serves as a spring to provide grip on all types of snow, edge-to-edge dynamism, and recoil when coming out of turns) and the rocker (under constraint, the board’s points of contact with the snow come closer together, making the board more manageable). The rocker elongates and raises the nose so that it glides better in powder.

Standard camber and rocker

Flex is the stiffness of the board between the front and rear. 
The flex of the Park and Ride Snowboard is about 6/10, which is medium and versatile. It is reliable in carved turns and forgiving of edge mistakes.

Medium and versatile flex (6/10)

The torsion is about 6/10 on the Park and Ride Snowboard, which is fairly stiff for good hold in the curves, recovery coming out of a turn, and responsive edge transition. It is also flexible enough for some freestyle riding. It’s the medium torsional stiffness that gives the Park and Ride Snowboard good all-round handling without making it a jib board.

Medium and versatile torsion (6/10)

The setback is when the board’s compression points on the snow are not symmetrical in relation to the centre of the board but set back toward the rear. The bindings are also set back toward the rear by the same distance.
20 mm setback = slight setback, a versatile, near-centred board, not only for riding in both directions, but also for better balance during rotations in the air and on slopes.

20 mm setback

With the SNB 500 Snowboard bindings, the board and binding combination will be homogeneous in terms of level with coherent design.

Recommended bindings

Wedze boards come pre-waxed.
Like all snowboards, they require regular maintenance: ideally, wax them every 5 outings and at least once a year: 
- at the beginning of the season to start with an optimal glide
- at the end of the season so that the wax protects the base all summer long

When should you wax your snowboard?

The bases are made from polyethylene using two different technical processes: 

- extruded base, with a certain density of polyethylene 
- a sintered base, with a higher density of polyethylene (fewer holes, more PE) 

A sintered base is the gold standard for bases. It offers fantastic glide.

Glide quality: sintered base.

A wide board is wider than normal to prevent larger feet from touching the snow when turning or to increase buoyancy on powder. The width of the board is measured at its centre.

At Decathlon, we have defined them as follows: 
- up to 245 mm: narrow board/shoe size 4–7
- from 246–255 mm: normal board/shoe size 6–9
- from 256–265 mm: Mid Wide/shoe size 8–10
- from 266 mm: wide/shoe size 9.5–14.5

What is the Wide version snowboard?

Yes. You can ask your store to fit your bindings to suit your own preferences. Remember to take your snowboard boots with you for 2 adjustments:
1. The front/back of the binding, so that the toes or heels of the boots don’t stick out on one side more than the other
 2. The straps on your bindings, which should be properly adjusted for your boots.

Can the store mount the bindings on my board for me?

Size 152: 2,710 g +/- 6%
Size 153 (Mid Wide): 2,800 g +/- 6%
Size 156: 2,848 g +/- 6%
Size 158 (Wide): 3,000 g +/- 6%

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All-Mountain and Freestyle Snowboard, Park & Ride 500