Kessler THE RIDE Hybrid Camber Snowboard, 158cm, 2013

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Kessler THE RIDE Hybrid Camber Snowboard, 158cm, 2013
  • Kessler THE RIDE Hybrid Camber Snowboard, 158cm, 2013
  • Kessler THE RIDE Hybrid Camber Snowboard, 158cm, 2013
  • Kessler THE RIDE Hybrid Camber Snowboard, 158cm, 2013
  • Kessler THE RIDE Hybrid Camber Snowboard, 158cm, 2013

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Our Price: £799.95  

158cm

White Deck, Black Base

2013

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The most premium snowboard you will ever ride. Handmade in Switzerland and complete with Klothoid technology, these boards perform like nothing else on the market

Handmade in Switzerland and designed by Hansjurg Kessler, the Kessler Ride represents the very pinnacle of all mountain riding, and features some cutting edge technologies combined with the the very best materials to create a snowboard that really does perform like nothing else on the market.

Kessler have 3 snowboards in their range – an Alpine race board (The Alpine), a boarder cross race board (The Cross) and The Kessler Ride – which is the board best suited to aspiring racers – being the most user friendly and rideable board in their range with hardly any loss of top end speed, acceleration or carving performance. Designed by the legendary Hansjurg Kessler and hand made in Switzerland, Kessler snowboards were the first in the world to enable full-blown power riding without compromising effortless handling and total control. The philosophy is simple: make a fast snowboard using the very latest and best high tech materials but make it easy to ride because only when you are in total control of your snowboard will you be able to ride fast. This is why so many winning racers ride Kessler. When discussing the design philosophy with Hansjurg, he claimed the boards are so easy to ride they can be ridden by a beginner. Most of our team were sceptics until we went for our first test rides – now we are all Kessler converts! The Kessler Ride represents the very pinnacle of all mountain freeride snowboarding, incorporating design innovations others can only emulate. Hand made craftsmanship and the use of the very best materials results in a snowboard that really does outperform everything else on the market.

One of the most innovative features on the Kessler Ride is the use of their Hybrid camber profile. This profile is very similar to a traditional 'positive camber' profile, but features a reverse camber section in the nose and tail, which engage when the board is loaded. This means that you are getting the energetic, lively, and powerful benefits of traditional camber, but the catch free, floaty feel of a reverse camber when you want your snowboard to be more versatile. Checkout our team review of this shape: Read More

Up until recently, Kessler licensed their KST technology to Palmer, who used it in their premium all mountain freestyle model, the Palmer Platinum (Retailed at £1200). Sadly the Palmer Platinum is no more, so we have gone to the source of the technology to find out what they have been producing in recent years, which is where we came across the Kessler Ride! This board is the perfect companion to any rider out there who is looking for the finest crafted snowboard on the market and wants the versatility to not only beat everyone else on the mountain to the lodge, but do it on a snowboard which will allow them to do it in ultimate style. The ride is easy, fun and extremely versatile, but is backed up by technologies that give you performance of a world class athlete.

If you want to understand what makes a Kessler snowboard so easy to ride and therefore so fast, please read more about Klothoid Shape Technology (Read More) and Kessler’s innovative Camber Profile (Read More). It is these two design innovations which, when working together, make Kessler snowboards so predictable and easy to ride.

Kessler specialise in hand built snowboards so, if you would like a custom board hand built to your own specifications, please contact us. Custom prices come in at around euro £1,200 depending on your specific requirements.

The Lowdown

  • Rider Profile: Beginner to Advanced (a big claim but true - due to the Hybrid Camber profile)
  • Mountain Profile: All Mountain Freeride
  • Camber Profile: Kessler Hybrid Camber Read More
  • Shape: Directional, with a shorted nose and tail to give you more effective edge and allow your board to ride longer when you want it, but shorter at slower speeds Read More
  • Base: Premium stone ground 7200 graphite base Read More
  • Flex: Responsive
  • Specifications: Read More
  • Condition: Brand New - Factory waxed

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    Craig Prosser
    Kessler THE RIDE, If only the best will do star star star star star
    I wanted a board to take me to the next level and decided only the best will do. After reading all of the reviews and lots of research I decided to buy the Ride 158. After 1 week of riding I have to say the best thing about it is how predictable and smooth everything is with this board. It really gave me the confidence to kick on and I believe my riding has improved a lot. Grips on Ice, loves groomed pistes and is fine on the crud at the end of the day. Oh yeah and man it`s fast, it just wants to go faster and gives you the confidence to do it. I am going back To Val d`Isere again in 4 weeks time and can`t wait.
    Amar A
    Kessle "RIDE" ... best snowboard ever made!!! star star star star star
    It's really high end construction board from tip to tail. The ultimate freeride board that I actually used as an all-mountain! For fair comparison, here's a list of boards I owned or been on as demo to give perspective: Burton T6 Burton Custom Never Summer Titan Nidecker Megalight Salmon Mans Board Burton Method Burton Custom X Ride Highlife Ride Machete Nitro Pantera K2 WWW Lib Tech Travis Ride 1st and formost, this board grips on ice like nothing I've seen. I have a Travis Rice board with mange-traction (Lib Tech C2 BTX), which I thought was the best there is on ice. Until I got the Kessler Ride into some ice! It literally grips on ice like glue! So much that I initially thought either the icy was sticky (felt like it), or my board base is completely burned out of wax! None of the above. :) The KST seems to place the entire board edge into the ice creating the ultimate grip. Once you learn that, you just point the board down and shoot! You can slow down by simply putting the board on a slight (or hard) edge deepening how much you want to slow. 2nd most impressive was how damp this board is! I could be cutting into moguls or charging a double diamond (ice or no ice) and this board just holds steady as a tank though it all. Yet it always feels super light and nimble. With all that in mind, I thought if this board can do it in the board, we are game! So, I took it for some park jumps and boy was I ever impressed how it takes off and lands. Super steady and very predictable. I ever tok into into some boxes (no rails) and real had fun at that! Although it's a directional, set-back free ride board, I could ride it switch with ease. As a matter of fact I found it it to be a great for progressing switch riding with the shorter back! Like skiies. But that's just me... The board has an amazing pop of rollers when coasting through the snow. It's a hybrid so it's super easy to ride on catwalks and flat as well as relaxing your feet. It requires MINIMUM effort to manouver and carve into snow. A beast that's super easy to ride. I also took it into some powder and it floats like a hovercraft on the white stuff! Could carve in and out tree lines and side POW banks with ease. Though turning it at 1st will take a little getting used it at 168 (vs my other board 156-164 max). Overall, the best snowboard I ever had my hands on! In summery: Ultimate ice grip Smooth Damp Ride Super fast Rock solid in any condition Awesome pop Great for jumps & landing Ultra Hybrid camber (KST) Rides easy on flats and catwalks Minimum effort to ride & carve Floats great in pow Ride like a tank - point & shoot downhill Rides switch ABSOLUTE KILLER BOARD

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