Lib-Tech's NarrowAssSnowboards with Magne-Traction Technology!

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Lib-Tech, as you all know, is a snowboard company. They don't wanna get the rep of making skis, so they've come out with the "NarrowAssSnowboard"

supposedly you have to buy one at a time, they won't sell them in pairs.

But they will have the Magne-traction Technology, which has proved to be a very worth while edge technique on the recent snowboards.
 
this has been around for a while dude i heard their skis are pretty heavy but ironically they are having a buy one get one free sale so you get 2 skis for the price of one oh and what happens if you break an edge with magne traction?
 
saw a chick on em at whistler, said she was hooked... its crazy, the curves are actually pretty big, but i guess it works.
 
no way! no but seriously that was those still are pretty sweet even tho ive seen then like a million times
 
my friend has them. the one with lots of lines on it. he loves em like puppies...which works for you unless you kill puppies.
 
all I know is that anything with magna traction is a fucking bitch to tune. You cant use the ceramic disk on a machine and have to do it all by hand (unless you have this fucking robot tuning machien that nomen has) and because of the lack of space inbetween the maga traction sections you can only use a very small amount of the file to tune them. This means a fucking hour to shapen them properly.
 
One thing about the magne traction is you dont need to tune them.. they act like a knife blade, contacting the snow at multiple point, cutting into the snow in a very unique manner

the website says this

http://www.lib-tech.com/subHype/nas/0607NAS_catalog_small.pdf

"The extra edgehold you get allows you to ride your narrow ass boards 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 dont hang up on the rails, boxes, or ledges. The go ride everywhere!"
 
i saw a fella at Mt Baker today with a pair of those. upon closer inspection i was shocked and appalled that someone would do that to a ski.

...then i saw him ski on em, then i was amazed, bewildered and in desperation of a pair myself. those things look fucking amazing, and i WILL have a pair.

anyone know the dimensions on those? have they/are they making FAT (95-110mm) models?
 
2008 lineup is introducing several models into production. There is specific park model which is thin (76-83mm), an all-mountain model with moderate 90mm width, a ridiculous wide powder ski (think 100-130mm), and new ski called 'robo tech' which I think is Chinese mechanicly made ski. Not sure of what purpose of the robo tech ski is, but likely a very cheap mass produced park ski for entry level. I will post PDF of brochure from my laptop later or you can google and find probably.

Hope it helps,
 
i was talking to a guy at squaw who was sponsored by lib-tech (skis) and he said that they sucked. this guy was even sponsored by them and said that he hated them. after all, theyre not even real skis, theyre just narrow ass snowboards.
 
I spoke with mervin not long ago, old friends. They are re-badging solomon scratch model binding with lib-tech name and probably a few small adjustment.

Regards,
 
Yes I think, a long time ago skiing was not 'cool'. So it was cool for snowboard company like libtech to act that way. But now you see ski on X-Games and similar, and skiers who are shredding hardcore, and now it is becoming 'cool'. So we will probably see many snowboard company like libtech try to profit!

But, lib/gnu/mervin has very good product and always is on the front of technology. So, I forgive them.

I think with the binding maybe they are just adding some heelpad and possible more adjustment or flex. But maybe they might just re-badge, which is weak!

Regards,
 
About tuning the magnatraction. If you have them, and you NEED to have them tuned, take them to your local tech shop. Dont try by hand. I had at least 3 people come into my shop last season with fucked up libtech boards because they tried to go by hand, and you really cant do it without the right touch and the right tools.

Take it to a shop that has either the crazy laser guided, heat seeking, nuclear powered machine that Steven's shop has, or at least any shop with a good winterstieger machine.

I reccomend a shop with at least a Grindrite 21 hundred... Thats what we have and it worked brilliantly this year in fixing up those suckers.
 
I do not speak for K2 as a whole, I speak for myself as an individual on this subject. I think they are lame for two reasons.

1.) I was at a local snowboard pipe event Lib Tech puts on two seasons ago and wanted to session the superpipe in between heats..just like a ton of other riders who were not in said event. After two runs one worker at the mountain approached me as I was hiking and said, "Hey man, I have to ask you to stop. No skiers. It is Lib Tech's call." That was lame. Half of those kids riding in between heats were just lazily strolling through, scraping the walls and I couldn't hit it because I was on skis. Awesome.

2.) Next they start to make skis...I mean narrow ass snowboards. Too cool to even call out what they are making, yet they want in on the growing buisiness.

What I DO like about Lib Tech is the art they put on their boards and the directions they take on new technologies and constructions.
 
I totally agree.

Libtech is very innovative and all that, but they seriously do not understand skiing and that skiers can shred just as hard as snowboarders...

In their defense, according to the rep at Icer Air they call their skis 'narrow ass snowboards' because they just shorten the ratio on their snowboard making machines so they come out with skis, but thats still pretty retarded...
 
Lib tech sound a bit queer to me.

Whats this "Magne-traction" bullshit? One of my pet hates is gimmicky skis.
 
magne-traction is a gimmic i rode their snowboards and noticed no difference and the size runs on their skis suck and graphics are lame.
 
Then, why can you not buy them in pairs? (According to earlier in this thread)

It's pretty lame that they don't call them skis.... that's what they fucking are.
 
THe skis look ok but can they ski backwords. Lots of kids ride them where i live but they dont have a big tail at all. And the only kids who ride them blow balls.
 
According to what I've read and researched, Lib Tech has friends at Mt Baker that wanted some skis made years back, and they finally got around to making them. The 188 model has a 98mm waist width which they refer to as the "Mt. Baker size" They are sold in pairs, it really just depends on where you are able to find them. I know the whole "Narrow Ass Snowboard" gimmick is really pushed alot further than it should be. They are skis and should be sold as skis, advertised and so on. However, I have seen these in the Snowboard Connection downtown Seattle, and on numerous snowboard only online retailers, so that's saying something. Next year's Lib Tech skis seem to be even more promising, several park/pipe models and a powder specific fatty. Totally symmetrical, 185cm with dimensions 149/117/149, there was also something about a rebadged Rossignol Scratch binding with the lib tech logo on it, which is very odd. We'll see...
 
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