The GNU DANNY KASS BTX received the Tester’s Choice Award over all other “Hybrid Boards” in the New York Times’s Gear Test.
“If you thought about turning, the board would do it for you” – and said it performed well at high speed, with “no chatter.”
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“The goal of making a “green” snowboard is to reduce unsustainable and environmentally harmful materials used. No one’s entirely licked it yet, but Mervin Manufacturing is coming the closest. Almost all their Lib Tech and Gnu boards feature recycled bases, soy-based elastomer sidewalls, low-VOC (Volatile Organic Compound, b-a-d) epoxy resins, sustainably harvested wood cores, and no toxic finishing clearcoats. Their new Banana Magic model takes it further, incorporating 100 percent Baslat fiber instead of fiberglass, and a topsheet made from castor beans.”
~ESPN Green Guide 2010:
The Banana Magic is Featured as the Best Eco-Minded Snowboards out there!
“Their new Banana Magic model takes it further, incorporating 100 percent Basalt fiber instead of fiberglass, and a topsheet made from castor beans.”
Lib Tech
PLATINUM PICK
EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN AWARD
LIB TECH SKATE BANANA [BTX]
~ Snowboard-Mag, 2007,2009, & 2010 WINNER!
GOOD WOOD TEST
Lib Tech Skate Banana Men’s
~ TransWorld magazine, 2010
GOOD WOOD TEST
Lib Tech Skate Banana Women’s
~ TransWorld magazine, 2010 WINNER!
GOOD WOOD TEST
Lib Tech TRS BANANA Men’s
~ TransWorld magazine, 2010
GNU
PLATINUM PICK
EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN AWARD
Park Pickle [BTX]
~ Snowboard-Mag, 2007,2009, & 2010
GOOD WOOD TEST
GNU Park Pickle
~ TransWorld magazine, 2010
GOOD WOOD TEST
Danny Kass BTX
~ TransWorld magazine, 2010
GOOD WOOD TEST
B-Pro BTX
~ TransWorld magazine, 2010
GOOD WOOD TEST
B-NICE BTX
~ TransWorld magazine, 2010
ROXY
GOOD WOOD TEST -Top Ten Women’s Under $399
Roxy Ollie Pop BTX
~ TransWorld magazine, 2010
GOOD WOOD TEST-Top Ten Women’s Over $400
Roxy Eminence BTX (All-Mountain)
~ TransWorld magazine, 2010
The Gnu B Pro BTX featuring C2 Power Banana Technology and Magne-Traction was awarded Snowpress’s Innovation Award at the 2009 SIA Las Vegas Trade show! The innovation award honors the best innovations in the snowsports industry for the 2009/2010 Season. C2 Power Banana is designed for aggressive all terrain freestyle riders and features Banana Tech rocker between your feet combined with cambers at each end of the board. This Banana Camber combination offers the best features of Banana Tech…float in powder in both directions, carving on hardpack and ice and a catchfree freestyle performance with the best features of camber…end to end stability, and extra pop for strong aggressive riders. Power Banana is also available in the Lib Tech Travis Rice and Dark Series, as well as Gnu Danny Kass and Temple Cummins series. Travis Rice won the X Games big air on a Power Banana T Rice model! Torah Bright won the X Games half pipe and US open on a BTX Power Banana. Keep your Banana between your legs!
Mervin’s all terrain freestyle snowboard specific geometries met with overwhelming success in ‘08 board tests…Banana Tech- “rocker between your feet” – and Magne-Traction -strategically located serrated edges- are revolutionary departures from traditional ski based, one pressure point, camber snowboard designs…Both designs are premised on the fact that snowboarders ride with two feet on one board in a wide stable freestyle stance…Magne-Traction improves edgehold and Banana completely reworks the snowboard pressure map…full edge contact is maintained but edge pressure is now focused between and at your feet, the board is pre-bent into a natural turning arc and the tips and tails are less weighted for lift, deflection and catch free jib insanity…Banana-Mag snowboards are easier to ride everywhere for everyone… The Future is Bananas!
