Rome Snowboard Design Syndicate

HotRod Technology

Targeted, Focused, Lightweight Pop

Our most advanced pop-enhancing technology. To precisely locate longitudinal and/or torsional pop in some of our boards, we mill out the cores and insert thin tubes of carbon or fiberglass. In 2012, we have overhauled the HotRods with new orientations and the fiberglass version on the mid-priced boards to go with the carbon version on the higher priced boards. We configure four different variations to give you just the kind of extra pop that you want in your riding:

1. Reverse Radial V:

   A new slightly curved Reverse V delivers the maximum level of ollie and nollie pop, without unwanted torsional stiffness.

2. Torque:

   We’ve reversed the curve on this pattern to increase the longitudinal pop, while tuning down, but still maintaining, torsional kick from edge to edge.

3. Doublebarrel:

   Ideal for balancing the looseness of our high-end rocker boards, this new configuration adds a ton of ollie/nollie pop, with a touch more torsional kick than the Reverse Radial V.

4. Singlebarrel:

   In our freestyle positive camber boards and our rocker jib boards where we want to increase longitudinal kick without altering the rest of the flex profile, we lay in a single tube in the midline.

PressurePop Technology

Energy Transmission from Binding to Board to Snow

The other advanced way that we add model-specific POP to the boards in our collection. The high-end boards feature ultra-light, ultra-poppy Kevlar while the mid-priced boards feature responsive, eco-friendly basalt fibers. Both store rider energy via platforms under the bindings and channel it into the nose and tail. A secondary benefit of PressurePop is that the area under the bindings is designed like our Impact Plates™ to increase strength. We configure two different variations to give you just the kind of extra pop that you want in your riding:

1. Reverse V:

   Extending inward towards the centerline from rider foot to the middle of the board at the contact points, this pattern increases ollie and nollie height, without altering the low-torque freestyle flex.

2. V:

   Extending outward from rider foot to the edges at the contact points, this pattern increases both longitudinal response and energy release from edge to edge.

QuickRip Sidecut Technology

One Board: Rides Short, Rides Long

QuickRip Sidecut consists of a mid-section sidecut that is off-set from a sidecut of the same radius in the nose and tail. This mid-section sidecut is joined to the nose and tail sidecut by transition zones that create two Mid-Board Contact Points that are located just outside the binding mounting area. Depending on the board model, we vary how far the two sidecuts are off-set in order to modulate the impact of the QuickRip.

QuickRip lets a board “ride short” at slow speeds by engaging the sidecut between the Mid-Board Contact Points. QuickRip lets a board “ride long” at high speeds by engaging the full running-length sidecut where the Mid-Board Contact Points work to improve edge hold. This is what we mean when we say, “One Board: Rides Short, Rides Long”.

We use this design predominantly with our Poprock rocker boards because the playfulness of the “short” ride kills it for riding slow and jibbing around, while the edge-grip of “long” ride complements the inherent looseness of rocker when you want to charge hard at speed. The ideal companion of our MtnPop Rocker Camber.