Burton 2024 Snowboards

What makes Burton 2024 snowboards unique?

Probably the most obvious difference with Burton boards are how you mount bindings to them. While almost every other brand uses regular inserts, Burton boards use a system called The Channel.

This flexible channel gives you an almost unlimited amount of bindings stance widths. When it was first introduced, it was a bit harder to find compatible bindings that weren’t Burton, but now almost every bindings can be mounted to the channel. Obviously, every brand wants you to buy their bindings, and they don’t want to exclude people who own Burton boards.

With the exclusion of the very high end Mystery board, the camber profiles, shapes and materials used in their boards can be found in one way or another in other brands.

Burton boards with the Channel have a 3 year warranty.

Burton 2024 Camber profiles (or Bends as they call them)

Flat Top

This is the most popular of the easy-to-ride profiles that you will find on Burton boards. The majority of the board is flat, which gives you a stable feel, with rocker on the nose and tail to give it a more forgiving ride. This profile is mainly found on entry level, or beginner boards.

Directional Flat Top

A similar profile to the Flat Top, with a larger rocker section on the nose for better float in powder.

V-Rocker

This is one of their older profiles, that isn’t used on many boards anymore. It shows up on the 2011 Nug (remade for this season), as well as the Throwback boards. The V-Rocker profile used to be on quite a few more boards back when rocker was at its peak, but has now mostly been replaced with the Flat Top profile.

Flying V

Flying V has a rocker profile overall, with two camber sections under your feet. Overall it is an easier to ride profile, with some added grip from the camber sections.

PurePop Camber

Overall this has a camber profile, but with a toned down flat sections at the contact points on the nose and tail. It has the benefits of camber, which are pop, stability and edge hold, but with a slightly more relaxed and forgiving ride.

Camber

Classic camber, also know as traditional or positive camber. Camber all the way to the contact points. This is the most aggressive profile, or least forgiving, but will also perform the best in tough conditions. This profile is used on some of the most popular Burton boards, like the Custom and Feelgood.

From the profile of the board, Camber gives you a lot of spring or pop, and good edge hold in ice. The tradeoff is they don’t have a lot of forgiveness, so you might be more likely to catch an edge if something goes wrong.

Shape

The same as other brands, most board shapes are either Twin or Directional. Twin shaped boards are most common in park boards, because they will have the exact same feel riding switch.

Directional boards vary in shape quite a lot, but they are also the most versatile. Boards like the Custom are technically directional, but the shape is fairly mellow – while some boards like the Fish 3D have a much more exaggerated shape.

Flex

The flex pattern of the board can be either twin, or directional – and that has nothing to do with the shape.

A twin flexing board has will have the same flex on the nose and the tail, even if it has a directional shape.

A directional flexing board has a stiffer tail than the nose, and in most cases is also found on directional shaped boards.

What changes as Burton boards get more expensive?

Although all the boards will have their little differences, there is a few major features that changes as you go up the line, to the most expensive boards.

Separate than the type of layout of the wood used, one of the main things is the weight of the core. These are the average weights of a board that is 155cm long.

The heaviest is the 900g core, which is found on the cheapest beginner or entry level boards. The next step up is the 800g core, which is still found on the more affordable boards.

700g cores are on quite a few of the most popular boards, like the Process, Custom and Feelgood.

600g cores are on the higher end boards like the Custom X.

The lightest core is found on the Mystery board (which is a Hometown Hero this year), which have a very light 500g core.

Bases

As for bases, the cheapest boards will have the slower extruded base. The next step up is sintered bases, which will absorb wax better, and is slowly making its way onto more lower/mid level boards.

After that there is Sintered WFO bases, which is found on most of the mid to higher end boards.

Just like the bases, the Mystery board has the fastest base, called Methlon.

There are a few limited reissue boards that have been released – the 1987 Elite, 1995 Kelly Air, 1996 Dolphin and the 2011 Nug.