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This quote on Ashbury’s myspace sums it up: Sick GoggsSick CompanySick Riders Coming out of the woodwork in 2008/2009 is the much anticipated Ashbury eyewear and goggle line. Snowboarders are already wanting to know more about the goggles and where to buy them. A great sign for an upcoming company with killer designs and style [...]

Here’s some of Capita’s softgoods for 2008-2009, just a small way to show your support for a company. I’ve been stoked on Capita since the early days, I still have a long sleeve BSOD t-shirt with the skull. To check out 2008-2009 capita snowboards click here

By announcing the Park Rocker last month, Signal showed that they are in the industry expanding in positive, new and unique ways. Signal is already growing with each board series making a dent on the peer boards around it. This smaller company out of Seattle, now has the Lodge, their factory based in Huntington Beach, [...]

Here’s the upcoming collection of Nitro Boots for 2008-2009. If you want to see Nitro snowboards click hereIf you want to see Raiden bindings click here Nitro Boot Technology Men’sWomen’s Boot Liners Men’sWomen’sMen’s Boots Women’s BootsYouth Boots

Rome introduced 2 collections of outerwear in men’s and women’s at SIA in January. The outerwear line in person looks good and you get a better feel for quality, material and overall style. The two collections are the Manifest and 100 Collection. I definitely think they took it easy without taking chances for the first [...]

Finally GNU gets it’s own post. Check back here for updates of GNU images for 2008-2009 products. I did ride the 08-09 GNU Riders Choice, read the review here The Lone SIA image of GNU On-Snow Images GNU Catalog GNU Danny Kass Verti-ghoul Catalog Description (click on photo to open bigger) GNU Riders Choice Catalog [...]

I walked away from SIA, totally stoked on 686. They brought something new to the table this year by putting boa into the high end outerwear and in terms of colors/patterns…they gave everyone something. You can still get your favorite jacket in plain colors, bright colors or crazy patterns…you have a choice. Each year 686 [...]

Here is the upcoming collection for Academy Snowboards for 2008-2009. Board Technology Men’s Snowboards Academy Collective Academy Merit Academy Propaganda Academy Team Women’s Snowboard Academy Serenity

I checked out L1 outerwear briefly at SIA. It’s the outerwear company owned by the same folks as Nitro and Raiden. I thought it was a nice breathe of fresh air…because they kept with the dark colors and not going into the retro neon 80′s/90′s look like some other companies. They definitely keep it more [...]

Each year two snowboard tests come out from respective magazines, Future Snowboarding and Transworld Snowboarding Magazine. These board tests are talked about and people do listen to them. I say with any board test or review, remember the people riding these boards are not you…you might interpret boards differently than a pro rider or test [...]