Burton Process Off Axis Snowboard Review

2015-2018 Burton Process Off Axis Camber Snow Review Review by The Good Ride

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The Off Access Process has more of a hybrid camber thing going on.  It’s mostly camber but then after the camber section between the fee, there is a little flat slowly transitioning to a little bit of early rise rocker. The regular Process is just traditional camber.

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Size: 157
Days:  1
Conditions: Soft perfect CO snow with some powder stashes here and there.  Only a few scraped away icy sections.
Riders: James, Peter
Boots:  Burton Imperial, Nike Lunarendore
Bindings: Burton Cartel,
Set Up: Centered 23” wide 15 front -9 back

Approximate Weight:  Feels pretty light

On Snow Feel:

Not quite as catchy and aggressive as true camber model but a huge departure from the spiny loose catch free Process flying V.  It’s more about pop off the tail, speed, carving and stable tracking but it does catch a lot easier than the Flying V.   It’s a stable semi-aggressive board.

Powder

Doesn’t have the float of the Flying V.  Both Peter and I would of much rather be riding with the Flying V when we hit some leftover pow stashes. Granted we had a centered stance going but still, we expected a little more from the little bit of rocker.  It’s better than traditional camber but not as good as Burton’s Flying V. This is one of the places where we wish the board didn’t go from camber between the feet to flat and then to rocker.  Instead, we wish there was almost as much rocker as there are camber and no flat transition zone.  That would really complete this ride for twin powder riding since this isn’t set back like the regular Process Camber.  This is mainly the 2015 take on the Process but the 2016 and 2017 Burton Process Off Axis will be a little better in powder due to the bigger shovel nose that helps improve the mellow flat to rocker early rise tech.

Turn Initiation

Not super fast edge to edge but it does like to turn and it makes riding the mountain pretty fun.

Skidded Turns

Not a board for skidding turns when you get off your game.

Carving

So we came off the Burton Flight Attendant which was one of the best if not the best carving boards we tried this season so it almost wasn’t fair to ride this after.  That being said as we rode more 2015 boards throughout the demo’s and it did well.  There is one thing though is the flat transitioning to rocker after the bindings seemed to interfere a little bit with the carve but it’s still got lots of spring in and out of the carve.

Speed

It’s hard to gauge speed on perfect conditions like this but it had a nice glide to it and picked up speed rather quickly.  It didn’t blow minds but it was more than many in its price range.  It also didn’t chatter easily and was very stable at good speeds.

Uneven Terrain

Pretty quick edge to edge in what little bumpy snow we couldn’t avoid.  It’s not a chunder buster but it’s pretty good.

Edge Hold

Nice edge hold.  That being said we were in perfect snow so its hard to say for sure this would grip as well as we think it would in harder conditions.

Flex

Nice medium flex that had great snap in the tip and tail.  It didn’t feel super buttery but you could butter with a little effort.  If buttering busts your nut then the Flying V version is the call.

Switch

The same either way.  The only thing better than a true twin for riding switch is an asymmetrical twin. Just to be clear this is a directional twin because of the setback but the shape and flex is a twin.  It’s very easy to center it for your stance width with the channel and then easy to set it back if you want more of a directional ride. The off access frostbite tech helps it act better riding switch as well.

Jibbing

Not a super easy jibber but if you know what you are doing it could work.  Not the first board we would pick.

Pipe

It was fun in the pipe and we liked it.

Jumps

Really good spring off the tip/tail for ollies and the flat combined with camber made it for a springy board. Nice board for hitting kickers too.

So, all in all, we both liked the Off-Axis Process Camber. It’s hard to find a borderline aggressive ride like this in the price range. We just wish it had a bit more rocker.