can someone tell me if OXYGEN SNOWBOARDS is a good board or a bad board???
Jean-Christophe COYNEL
Ask Karine Ruby about this. She rides on an Oxygen Snowboard and has won
seven out of seven Giant Slaloms this season. Go for the olympics! Bring
back some GOLD, Karine!
JC
TeMpOking
Does anyone know if OXYGEN SNOWBOARDS is a good board or a bad board
plase e-mail me if you know.
Cornelius Zachariasen
Just remember one little detail.... Oxygen is a fully owned company by
Atomic skis. They were never any good in making skiis(maybe skijumping
skis, but the slalom skis was crappy) , so I doubt that it is much to
have... You should rather consider some of the real snowboardbrands
like Burton and Sims, and forget the skibrands....
Arvin Chang
>
> Just remember one little detail.... Oxygen is a fully owned company by
> Atomic skis. They were never any good in making skiis(maybe skijumping
> skis, but the slalom skis was crappy) , so I doubt that it is much to
> have... You should rather consider some of the real snowboardbrands
> like Burton and Sims, and forget the skibrands....
>
>
Wait how would you know anything about skiis? I thought you detested
everything about them.
So why would you care about the quality of the skis? Have you ever tried
any of Oxygen's
stuff?
Also Ruby just won in Nagano (yes I know you don't like Olympics but
work with me) on an Oxygen.
And if I remember correctly, the rider using Sims sucked it up.
To be fair, the conditions were bad. So I doubt that the boards had much
to do with it,
but you see how ridiculous this type of unfounded skibrand ripping can
go... Just try
the boards, IF you don't like them. No problem, but if you've never
ridden one, don't
go ragging about their quality. Just stick to ragging on them because
"ski-industry
shouldn't make snowboards because they don't understand the spirit of
riding" because
that's your opinion and you are welcome to it. However, the quality of a
product is a
much more tangible quantity and therefore is less subject to personal
opinion.
Arvin Chang
-author may be biased because he owns an Oxygen Vibe 154 and loves it...
Arvin Chang
Ah yes... now I remember
Mike Faucett was riding on a SIMs board, when it basically
fell apart from under him... ;-P Oh dear, must be <poor
construction> those darn snowboarders never know how to
do anything right... tsk tsk tsk
Arvin Chang
Tim Challenger
Just to help you put things in perspective ...Burton boards in Europe
are made at the old Atomic ski factory near Kitzbuehel or at the
Fischer ski factory, yes by a SKI factory shock horror. By the same
workers who made the skis.
Tim.
Cornelius Zachariasen wrote:
> On 7 Feb 1998 00:29:17 GMT, "TeMpOking" <temp...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Does anyone know if OXYGEN SNOWBOARDS is a good board or a bad board
> >plase e-mail me if you know.
> >
> >temp...@hotmail.com
>
AAI Employee
There were several OXYGEN boards in the GS at Nagano, including, as I
recall, Karine Ruby, the Women's Gold Medal winner. Now we all know that
the racer's boards are not always made like the ones in the store,
identical graphics not withstanding. On the other hand, Karine won by 2
seconds in a 2 minute race, a huge margin.
Tim Challenger <Tim.Cha...@aon.at> wrote in article
<34E0A81A...@aon.at>...
JRivera850
>Just remember one little detail.... Oxygen is a fully owned company by
>Atomic skis. They were never any good in making skiis(maybe skijumping
>skis, but the slalom skis was crappy) , so I doubt that it is much to
>have... You should rather consider some of the real snowboardbrands
>like Burton and Sims, and forget the skibrands....
On the other hand, I clearly remember seeing the word Oxygen on the board of
the French (?) woman that won one of the Olympic races...
Jrivera
Christoph Clemens Reiter
1) Hermann Maier has Atomic skis.
2) The best DH team of the world (Austria) has for 80% Atomic skis
3) Atomic will win the producer world cup
4) Karen Ruby rides Oxygen (she won the olympics)=, even some men are riding
oxygen. I think at the olympics they were better than the Burton riders
!!!!!!!!!!
--
Christoph
JRivera850 schrieb in Nachricht
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Iwan van der Valk
I ride an Oxygen HE since a year and it's great, especially off-piste !
So forget all the crap and just buy what you like and don't think of any
stuf like who owns the company !
Iwan
Terje Johannessen
Iwan van der Valk wrote in message <34F477FB...@wxs.nl>...
Well, I guess you will change your mind when there is tight ass skiing
exceutives that runs the show, because the snowboarders didn't think when
they had the chance...
UNITED SNOWBOARDERS AGAINST FIS CONTROL
C. Scott Crabill
> Well, I guess you will change your mind when there is tight ass skiing
>
> exceutives that runs the show, because the snowboarders didn't think
> when
> they had the chance...
>
> UNITED SNOWBOARDERS AGAINST FIS CONTROL
Oxygen makes some damn fine snowboards! I rode a about 10 boards last
season (including: Burton Custom, K2 Eldo, Sims Soul, Option Free,
Aggression Steel, F2, Hobie Ee, Shift Rad, etc.) before I bought the
Oxygen He 163. It was the best of the bunch for all out freeriding.
But...you are right...it is made by a ski company :-(
Well, at least next season I'll buy a board from a real snowboard
company, "Airwalk". SOL online raved about the Airwalk Select & Champ.
From the description it sounds like they ride just like the Oxygen
He/Vibe series. And, even the construction and measurements are just
like the He/Vibe?
Doh...Atomic/Oxygen makes the Airwalk Select & Champ. Oh...what will I
do now?
My point is, if you are going to boycott FIS, then boycott FIS. If you
want a ripp'n board, check out Oxygen.
Scott
Iwan van der Valk
Terje Johannessen wrote:
> Iwan van der Valk wrote in message <34F477FB...@wxs.nl>...
> >I ride an Oxygen HE since a year and it's great, especially off-piste !
> >
> >So forget all the crap and just buy what you like and don't think of any
> >stuf like who owns the company !
> >
> >Iwan
> >
>
> Well, I guess you will change your mind when there is tight ass skiing
> exceutives that runs the show, because the snowboarders didn't think when
> they had the chance...
>
> UNITED SNOWBOARDERS AGAINST FIS CONTROL
Huh... ?
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