Burton: Women's Lux Snowboard

This season's Burton's Lux gives new and intermediate female riders plenty of performance potential at an exceptional price. The Lux is an appealing freeride design built with durable components that give you a better deal than the value-line snowboards that barely keep it together for a season or two. This year Burton reduced some of the excess flex in the Lux, so new riders will find extra confidence in the forgiving and predictable performance. The Lux features Burton's Super Fly core, a balance of lighter woods in specific areas for better response and denser woods where support is essential. Bi-directional layers in the Biax React fiberglass give the board a little more flex than boards with Triax fiberglass, giving you a little more forgiveness when you need it. The Lightspeed Vision Base offers an incredibly smooth extruded base that can glide even without wax. The "Vision" in the name means that you'll never have to worry about others looking at dull graphics when you pop off a jump or a berm. Keep in mind that the Lux has a negative core profile, not an even core profile that sometimes offers more stability to beginners. The negative core profile could lengthen the learning curve a tad for some riders, but the advantage is that new riders learn how to control the board through independent foot control sooner than riders who later transition (with added expense) to a negative core snowboard. Because most Burton boards feature a negative core profile, transitioning from this Lux to a more advanced design later doesn't require as much adaptation as the beginner boards created by other companies.

• Burton "feel" rating: 3 on a scale of 1 to 8
• A forgiving, twin shape and twin flex freestyle design intended for all-mountain groomed, park and halfpipe conditions
• Lighter female-specific design with unique flex patterns and narrower widths to put your heel and toes closer to the edges than unisex snowboards
• Nose/waist/tail widths in 143 cm.: 273.9/236/273.9 mm.
• Sidecut radius in 143 cm.: 7.01 m.
• Stance width in 143 cm.: 480 mm.
• Super Fly Core with Dualzone Edge Grain Direction at toe and heel edges for enhanced edging
• Biax React fiberglass with bi-directional layers that forgive while holding edges
• Slantwall Sidewall
• Burton low-maintenance Grip and Rip tuning
• Negative core profile for softer flex and torsion between bindings resulting in more independent foot control
• Burton Infinite Ride Technology and slightly set-back stance for women
• Pro Tip profiled tip and tail reduces swing weight while improving powder float
• High-density Lightspeed Vision Base
• Suggested weight range: 65-120 lbs. (29-54 kg.) in 136 cm., 145 lbs. (65 kg.) max in 150 cm. length