Skate Banana

THE ORIGINAL ALL TERRAIN ALL CONDITIONS QUIVER KILLING FREESTYLE BANANA/MAGNE-TRACTION SERIES!

$489.95 USD

$342.97 USD (30% off)

  • Shape: True Twin
  • Contour: BTX
  • Sizes: 145N, 148N, 149, 151N, 152, 153W, 154, 156, 156W, 159, 159W

Banana Tech reverses a snowboard’s “pressure map”. With Banana Tech your weight is shifted from your feet inward to the center of your board where balance is controlled. Some weight is still transferred to the tips and tails and full contact is maintained for control and stability but far less than is the case with tip-to- tail ski camber where the tips and tails are the focus of all weight distribution, making a board catchy and difficult to ride. This “Banana Tech” snowboard specific pressure map makes turns easy to initiate, is catch-free and forgiving, floats incredible in powder, and is unreal for jibbing and poppy freestyle fun. Ride a Banana!

  • Banana Technologies and Magne-Traction (BTX)
  • Twin geometries
  • H-Pop core with banana specific core profile
  • Power transfer internal sidewalls
  • Too many awards to list
  • TnT Base
  • Flex: 4-6 (depending on size)
  • Art by Mike Parillo

SPECIFICATIONS:

Model
Name
Contact
Length
Side
Cut
Nose
Width
Waist
Width
Tail
Width
Stance*
Min-Max / Set Back
Flex
10 = Firm
Weight
Range (lbs)
145N 108 7.9 27.7 23.9 27.7 18" - 23.5" / 0" 4.5 60 +
148N 111 8.1 28 24.2 28 20.25" - 26" / 0" 5 60 +
151N 114 8.2 28.5 24.5 28.5 20.25" - 26" / 0" 5 65 +
149 111 8.1 28.4 24.7 28.4 20.25" - 26" / 0" 5 60 +
152 114 8.2 28.9 25.2 28.9 20.25" - 26" / 0" 5 65 +
154 115 8.2 29 25.3 29 20.25" - 26" / 0" 5 70 +
156 117 8.3 29.5 25.5 29.5 20.25" - 26" / 0" 6 75 +
159 120 8.4 29.7 25.5 29.7 20.25" - 26" / 0" 6 80 +
153W 114 8.2 29.9 26.1 29.9 20.25" - 26" / 0" 5 75 +
156W 117 8.3 30.5 26.5 30.5 20.25" - 26" / 0" 6 85 +
159W 120 8.4 30.7 26.5 30.7 20.25" - 26" / 0" 6 80 +
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TECHNOLOGY:

Banana Technology (BTX)

Mervin’s revolutionary original all-terrain freestyle banana blend. Rocker between your feet blended with flat-to-mild camber to contact points. Focuses pressure between your feet for easy turns, great edge hold on ice, and a mild amount of pressure to the tip and tail for unreal float and catch-free freestyle.

Twin All Terrain Freestyle

Excels: in all conditions.
Epic: fun, jibbing, & pow

Magne-Traction (MTX)

Magne-Traction serrated edges cut into the snow like a knife giving you more edge hold and control than ever before.  Magne-Traction features 7 strategically located and sized bumps along each side of your sidecut.  The Biggest bumps are at and between your feet where your balance is centered adding maximum control and power where you need it most.  The bumps outside your feet are smaller and less aggressive providing tip and tail control but maintaining freestyle freedom.  Magne-Traction is wiggles that work. Viva Technology.

MAGNE-TRACTION FREESTYLE ADVANTAGE:

One of the best things about Magne-Traction is that the extra edge hold you get allows you to ride your board de-tuned for the park and rails and still get great edge hold all over the mountain. Take a file and round your edges so they don’t hang up on the rails, boxes, or ledges. Then go ride everywhere!

True Twin

Absolutely perfect twin geometry, tried and true science with MTX, or the added advantage of new Banana Technology and or Camber Combo.

TnT Base Material

Fast and low maintenance dual layered fluoro base material. Wax it or maybe skip a day. Use Oneballjay snowboard wax.

Correct Sandwich

SUPER LIGHT SPIN WEIGHT! The perfect blend of pickles and mustard. UHMW sidewalls, Power Transfer Internal Sidewalls, torsionally loose. The new kids think they are new!

Double Sintered UHMW Sidewalls

A Lib Tech innovation. Twice as sintered as any other sidewall. Tough, handsome and light.

H-Pop Core

Wood Alloy Core. Experimental new dead tree with the highest compression response ever used in a snowboard. It has half the glue weight and absorbs less resin weight. Another industry first for Lib Tech.

Power Transfer Internal Sidewalls

The same futuristic power 90º pop technology from our world record setting skateboards and power transfer spines only this time we have placed it along the sidewall of your board to add board control to our sandwich construction. Stronger, more pop, and more control brought to you by our Woodshop!

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