Burton Family Tree Pile Driver 2015 Review - £480
Burton Family Tree Pile Driver 2015 Review - £480
The Pile Driver sits nicely between a true noboard and a modern snowboard – you can ride it with bindings as usual, but rubber ‘Filet-O-Flex’ pads that sit under the feet to provide a nice surfy feeling also mean that with the bindings off it becomes a weaponised pow surfer.
‘Filet-O-Flex’ pads that sit under the feet also mean that with the bindings off it becomes a pow surfer
And when we say weaponised, we mean it. The sintered base and steel edges mean that whilst the shape and stylings shout snurfer, it’s really a snowboard dressed as one. As there’s no rope to pull it towards you or edge-to-edge rocker, there’s not a lot to grip on to whilst turning, meaning that whilst it’s not impossible to get around, compared to other two boards on the day it was certainly the hardest to control. Whilst with bindings it would make for a joyful companion nipping through Japow tree runs, you’d want something wide open and totally feature free to make the most of this unstrapped, as this tester found out the hard way: