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So I'm in the design phase of the board I'm planning to bring to North Carolina in november, I have some questions that I thought maybe I could pick your brains to answer. I'm aiming at making this a hybrid board, as I want to limit the amount of gear I'm bringing down. Luckily I have Cividingus and Sydia up here to lend me some advice, but I thought I'd increase my sample group.
The board is a maple/birch hybrid which will have several layers on uni-dir glass and carbon fibre stringers (if we can get ahold of it). I'm thinking of making it an 83.8cm (33inch) long by 22.86cm (9inch) board with w concave and a slight s camber. I'm liking the idea of the S-camber as I have a bit of a habit of placing too much weight forward, which has resulted in some chirping and close calls.
The board is the first of a line of boards we're (me and my associate, Aviv) making to get boards out to the growing community here in Ontario, and Canada in general. And while we won't be offering this board to everyone (it's somewhat expensive for us to produce, and its a shape that I love, but others tend to find too out there) we'd like to use it as a prototype for some idea's we have. Here's my questions for you cats.
-The board utilizes a hard-wired "riser" stringer down the bottom center of the board. This is in one part to reduce weight, increase the section modulus, and to provide the rider with a riser thats always there. Most of the guys I've talked to run tall setups, and I noticed it provides alot more leverage through the
turn. Before I stacked a second riser ontop of my wedges my front wheel (either one) would come off the ground in a hard turn, Sydia told me this was providing poor traction and response, I tend to agree. Is this something worth putting into the board permanently or is it better to just allow the user to customize at his/her discretion?
-What wheelbases would you reccommend to make this an "all weather fighter" so to speak? I want it to run the gamut from TS to GS.
-The S camber of the board was done blindly, without any pre-knowledge. You can probably tell. Should I drop the back half of the board even further? Or is the nose suitable to provide more weighted leverage to the back half?
Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks for providing a community where noob-slalomers like me can ask stupid questions and get legitimate answers.