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Rome Heist 2022-2023 Women’s Snowboard Review

Tested and selected for our top 100 snowboard products of the year: the Rome Heist

  • Price: £370 / €430 / $430
  • Category: All-Mountain
  • Sizes: 139, 143, 147, 151
  • Flex: 4/10
  • Shape: True Twin
  • Profile: Combo
  • 3D: No
  • Base: Extruded

Why We Chose The Rome Heist: The value for money on offer here is staggering. Premium comfort meets Premiere Inn levels of pricing.

It’s oft been said that “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”, and the Rome Heist consolidates this concept completely. Separately, the materials aren’t the highest end options in Rome’s toy box but when you add them together and mix in all the features of the Heist you end up with a really versatile, confidence boosting snowboard that’s super fun to ride.

“There are several ways to skin the cat in terms of profile for a park board, but the Heist plays it safe with the classic CamRock”

Who Is The Rome Heist For?

Any rider who’s got to grips with the basics and is looking to expand their bag of tricks without being confined solely to the park. There’s no upper limit on rider ability for a snowboard like the Heist, so, intermediate and advanced riders, fill your boots.

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Shape, Profile and Sidecut

As a freestyle focused deck, it makes sense to stick with the tried and tested true twin outline. Switch take offs and landings are very much on the cards with the Heist, plus you’re super balanced in the air. It’s a win-win.

There are several ways to skin the cat in terms of profile for a park board, but the Heist plays it safe with the classic CamRock. It’s the best of both worlds, a poppy midbody to keep it lively, with rocker in the nose and tail to stop it hooking up and to mellow it out slightly.

“For 22/23 Rome have scaled it back slightly to make the Heist more mellow”

Construction and Materials

It’s actually the use of more affordable ingredients that make it such an enjoyable snowboard to strap in to, it’s not just to keep the price down. Soft flexing biax laminates offer a predictable ride when you get it onto hard pack snow, an easy repair extruded base means you don’t have to worry about throwing it around in the park, and the full poplar core, while not the most performance oriented, it is the most stable in the Rome line.

Bamboo rods are milled into the core in the nose and tail, in previous years they’ve been wrapped in carbon to boost performance, but for 22/23 Rome have scaled it back slightly to make the Heist more mellow. It’s still poppy and pliable in the tips, but a little easier to handle and it takes less to butter around and press it.

“Everything comes into play here, from the tough base built to last when you’re slapping the steel to the fun and lively profile for jibbing around all over the mountain”

Roundup

Everything comes into play here, from the tough base built to last when you’re slapping the steel to the fun and lively profile for jibbing around all over the mountain and that’s why it’s made its way into our top 100 products of the year.

Pros:

  • The Heist offers great value for money
  • It’s a board that’s super easy to handle for any ability level

Cons:

  • It’s not the highest spec women’s board in the Rome line
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Tester’s Verdict 2022/23

Coming soon…

Trade Secrets

Matt Stillman – Marketing Manager / Team Manager, Rome SDS

“The Heist is a super approachable snowboard for riders of all ability levels. With a mellow yet responsive flex pattern, this beauty of a true twin makes light work of any terrain it finds itself on. What really sets the Heist apart is the Fusion Camber profile which packs all the predictable power of positive camber but with small pockets of rocker at the contact points. That small bit of rocker essentially acts like a buffer in situations where a rider wants to be more backseat or needs to absorb last minute unexpected impact.”

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