Construction and Materials

Lobster’s small-but-beautiful range of boards doesn’t draw from a huge variety of materials; they’ve found stuff that works, and tweak the layout on each deck to forge its individual characteristics.

The Lobster Creamer features the same poplar wood core as most of its stablemates, with the same hardwood reinforcement. There’s carbon in there too, running alongside the edges to make its relatively soft flex profile a bit better at high-speed charging. There’s none of the black stuff between the feet, though – just biax fibreglass – so manipulating it between your feet on a cruisy pow run, say, or when buttering the piste, is a dawdle.

The whole thing will whip along nicely on Lobster’s as-standard ‘Hyper Glide S’ sintered base, with urethane-enhanced sidewalls designed to smoothen out the chatter. Despite its admirable performance, none of the above is crazy-high-spec, which has kept the cost down.

“The Creamer pulls off that rare trick of raising the excitement levels but not the price tag”

Roundup

In a nutshell (or crustacean carapace, perhaps), the Creamer pulls off that rare trick of raising the excitement levels but not the price tag. If you’re getting a full season on the mountains this year, and need something that’ll keep the fire burning from the first scrapings to the slushy send-off sessions, here it is. Card-carrying senders may fare better with, well, the Sender. But for more easygoing, oft-experimental riders, the Creamer is where it’s at. We reckon it’ll be just as popular next year – when, presumably, it’ll be known as the Creamest.

Pros:

• This is one of Lobster’s most accessible boards, so will suit intermediate riders as well as old hands
• Edge catches begone; the combination of low-rise camber and 3D base sections gives you a decent margin for error

Cons:

• This one is perhaps a little too soft, both torsionally and end-to-end, for aggressive riding

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