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Riding Style Freeride
Riding Level Advanced - Expert
Fits Boot size (US) 8-10, 10-12
Manufactured in
Shape Tapered Directional
Camber Profile Directional Camber
Stance Setback over 20mm
Approx. Weight Feels Normal
Split No
Powder Good
Base Glide
Carving Great
Speed Great
Uneven Terrain Average
Switch Average
Jumps Good
Jibbing Poor
Pipe Average
On Snow Feel

Semi-Locked In

Turn Initiation

Medium

Skidded Turns

Flex

Medium/Stiff

Buttering

Edge Hold

Medium Snow

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Lago Open Road 2017 Review by The Good Ride

The Lago Open Road is really is like it’s name and it’s a unique Freeride board. Don’t get too much into the foreplay thing.  Just get on it and point it.

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Size: 160
Days:   5
Conditions:   Everything from perfect groomers, to some pow, to a few feet of pow to waist deep light Sierra pow.
Riders: James, Matt
Boots: Burton Almighty, Adidas Tactical ADVBurton Rover,
Bindings: Union AtlasBurton Genesis X, Union T.Rice,
Set Up: Cloer to Centered and set all the way back.  Approx 58cm/22.75″ wide, 15 front and -6 back

Approximate Weight: Felt Normal

Flex: Feels medium/stiff in the shop and on the snow. It takes work to butter off the tail but it can be done. It’s not a buttery playful board.

On Snow Feel: The best way to describe it is it’s a pointer.  Point it in one direction and go. It’s a fast board that likes wide turns and picking up speed. It’s mostly a mellow camber with a little early rise rocker in the nose so it’s not a super catchy board compared to camber but it’s for a rider that knows what they are doing. I didn’t feel the taper as much as I would thought and the tail doesn’t feel washy.

Edge Hold: Not as much edge hold as we thought and it feels like it’s mainly for good snow.  Probably want to put it away when the snow get’s hard.

Turn Initiation: It’s not a board that flips quickly from edge to edge or can get super slashy. It doesn’t feel super slow and I could turn it in tight spots with some effort but compared to the Yes PYL and Burton Flight Attendant it felt slower.

Skidded Turns: It’s not the kind of board you get if you skit your turns.

Carving: Carving is really fun with the Lago Open Road and it’s a wider radius carver.  You can really lay it out and you don’t have to get too far back on the tail.

Speed: It’s a very fast board and it’s all about speed.  It had more speed than I needed and I wouldn’t like to find out how fast you would have to go to find where it starts affecting the ride.

Uneven Terrain: It’s not a board I’d like to be on in the bumps but it can power through chunder like a champ.

Powder:  So it feels a little more like an older school freeride board and there is more work off the back leg than many other boards in it’s peer group.  In 2 feet of snow it was noticeable compared to the Pick Your Line and Flight Attendant but it really became evident when it got massively deep.  That’s when I was really working off the back foot to keep my speed when it wasn’t steep. The other boards had easier float. I like the Camber off the tail so wouldn’t really like to see that go away but it would be great to have a little more rocker going on in the nose so it has a little easier float.  As it stands now you need to stay on your game in the deep stuff and keep your speed almost like you had to with camber back in the day.  It’s easier than if this was all camber but not as easy as other rides out there with more rocker.

Switch: I could do it but wouldn’t want to get the Lago Open Road if that’s what I want to do all the time.  That’s what the Double Barrel is for.

Jibbing: Nope.

Pipe: Nah…

Jumps: Like the pop off the tail and it has the potential to go big.  I’ll let someone else realize that potential as I’m past the big air phase of my life. It takes some strength to make this pop but it pops well for a mellow camber ride.

So all in all the Lago Open Road is a mean ass bomber that wants to go big.  If you are that type of rider then this could work for you.

 
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Lago Open Road User Reviews

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Real solid weapon

Feb 07, 2017 by Tom Wyls
Ability Level: Advanced • 
Riding Style: Resort freestyle / progressing freerider • 
Days You Ride A Year: 30+ • 
Height, Weight And Boot Size (for Boards, Boots & Bindings): 5'10", 175lbs, 10.5 Boot 

Stoked to see LAGO is now providing demos, I searched all over for a proper review of this board before I got a '16 Open Road 156 on the cheap during season-end clearance. I've since paired er up w/ a '15 YES Greats as a one-two punch for the Canadian West Coast, rotating between Burton Cartels and Now IPO's.

Impressions after 5+ days on this board: I completely agree with the GoodRide's assessment that it’s got a bomber personality. This thing sails overtop of all kinds of gnarly resort snow. At the same time I've found the '16 has a pretty playful alter-ego, real solid pop, spins like a charm when mostly centered up.

Only had a couple backcountry days on this board. Most of my buddies ride Burton (Flight Attendants). I haven't lapped the boards back to back but my impression is the flight attendant wins for carving/ hardpack and tree lines. I'd still take this LAGO for sending resort rollers / side-hits and surfing the white-wave. This thing planes like a champ and it’s got a 7th row of inserts to get ya comfortably into the backseat on pow days.


4.0 4.0 1 1 Stoked to see LAGO is now providing demos, I searched all over for a proper review of this board before I got a '16 Open Road 156 on the cheap during season-end clearance. I've sin Lago Open Road Snowboard Review 2017

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