Triple kinked rail? Strap on the Ride Kink Freestyle Snowboard, say a prayer, and slide that sucker. This jib deck's shock-absorbing sidewalls will help you get the job done. Instead of regular old plastic, Ride uses 85A-durometer urethane (the same stuff in skate wheels) in the Kink's sidewall. This material not only protects the board, but absorbs shock, which makes your trip down the rail smoother than with a regular board. Ride also used 50% more steel in the edge so you can detune your edges without worrying about durability. The Kink Snowboard's soft, radial flex makes butters and nose presses easy, while a twin shape ensures the board rides switch or regular equally well. *We can't control what base color you'll get, but we're sure you'll be stoked no matter what.
Bottom Line: The definitive jib deck for all your park and urban rail assaults.
The Kink has become an Iconic Jib deck over the last 8 years. Buttery soft 3 out of 10 flex with a snappy torsional response when you pop off kickers and out of the pipe.
The 85a slimewalls not only give you a better feeling under foot when sliding rails/boxes and carving down trail. But hold up 100X better to the abuse you put your board through slamming up against rails/boxes all day.
Added the "Cleavedge" helps make cracked metal edges a thing of the past. Most riders don't realize it, but sliding your deck down a metal rail heats up your metal edge significantly and when you hit the snow the instant cooling can cause cracks in your edges. Cleavedge is 50% thicker than normal metal edges and helps prevent cracks from happening.
This board will accomodate up to a 10.5 boot size, but for those of you with size 11+ boots will be stoked as Ride finally pulled their heads out of their asses and are offering up a Wide Kink for 2008/2009. So now all park rats can enjoy one of the best Jib/Park boards on the market.
I've had two of these and broke them both, ride is pretty good about sending you knew stuff if its not from abuse though. It is pretty buttery but still has some nice firmness for drops onto rails just be careful landing backseat cause the tails tend to snap...trust me. I like the board... but they break
The kink is sick for a jib deck! DON'T BUY IT IF YOU WANT A TON OF POP (PK Thunder) IT IS A RAIL BOARD IT ISN'T MADE FOR A TON OF POP JUST LIKE ANY OTHER JIB STICK! Idk how people can't flex this board, then again I've seen people trying to press out the Signal Park Rocker and didn't get it off the box somehow. I have a Ride Crush, and the bases that ride puts out are damn hard to get through, more than happy, and i've ridden the kink as well, and it is sick!
As for the reviews knocking the slimewalls, those kids must just not get it! Yes they are softer, but guess what ABS will give way just as easy and it shatters! So the advantage of slimewalls is that you can bang that shit back out and not have your board be all crappy, SLIMEWALLS IS AN ADVANCEMENT IN SNOWBOARDING TECHNOLOGY
