What snowboard is better?

Question

I have been thinking about either the Burton Lipstick all mountain board. Or the Roxy Ollie Pop BTX - the one that Transworld said was a good wood. please help trying to find the best board! thanks! And I can do turns and love to go fast plus i just did my first rail so help this might be hard but thanks! my size is a 145!

Answer 1

There is no contest here. The roxy ollie pop hands down is the better board.



Roxy is owned by quicksilver which also owns Mervin manufacturing.

Mervin owns Lib-Tech and GNU and their patented BTX technology.



So now you can get BTX tech on boards made by Lib-Tech, GNU, Roxy and Rossignol since they are all owned by quicksilver.



BTX means reverse camber and MTX magnetraction sidewall construction. Lipstick has neither. Burton started making the rocker boards last year, but they still dont have an answer for MTX.



I switched from a Burton Custom (their bread and butter) to a Lib-Tech Travis Rice and it rocks out of this world. I will never buy another brand again. I convinced my sis to get a Roxy Ollie pop after doing tons of research. she rides in the ice coast and after the first day of riding it she sent me tons of texts on how much she loves it. She went off of small kickers the first time that day and never cought an edge. thats the beauty of mtx.



I love burton, I ride cartel bindings and ruler boots, but nothing out there beats the BTX that Lib-tech made. Go for the Ollie Pop and it will change the way you ride.

Answer 2

Since you are showing some interest in rails are park riding, defiantly get the park specific board!

Park boards have more flex and are shorter and are just more "fun" and they have twin tip, which means they are the same (like the nose and the tail are the same shape and the bindings are located with the same distance between them and the nose and them and the tail) and twin tip will help you ride switch (oppostite foot forward) much better! I do know Roxy (and Burton, OVERPRICED) can have some spendy boards, so if you know you want a park board for SURE (which I would highly suggest!) I would look into the Rome Detail. This is one of my most favorite park boards I have ever ridden on (and I have ridden them all!) it is super flexy, handles abuse well, and it's just an excellent park board. Plus, Rome spends a lot of their money on park and rail specific boards, not so much the all mountain riding like a lot of other companies do.

I think you would be really disappointed if you got an all mountain board. At least where I am from, Minnesota, we don't have mountains. It's all hills. Park riding is what we do.

Good luck!

Answer 3

Definitely the Roxy Ollie Pop. One of my friends has that board and she loves it.