Rome Muse Snowboard Review – By Steph W

Rome Muse Snowboard Video And Written Review Review by The Good Ride

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How This Review Happened: We borrowed this for an extended demo.

Riders: Steph

Days: 3

Conditions: California spring conditions. Icy mornings, slushy afternoons.

Bindings:  Union Milan

Boots: Vans Ferra Pro

Set Up: 15 front, 15 back, 20″ stance width

Sizes: 140, 143, 146, 149, 152

Base

Sintered Strong Base, a sintered base that is supposed to be fast and easy to fix.

Flex

6/10 flex. The Muse has a medium/stiff flex, but in a playful way. You can still butter on it and manipulate it pretty easily for it having a 6/10 flex.

Camber Profile

This board has the Fusion Camber from Rome. Basically a hybrid camber board. Positive camber between the feet, transitioning to a little rocker on the nose and tail. This allows the Muse to feel somewhat technical and have some pop and energy, but also allows it to feel a little catch free at the same time.

On Snow Feel

The Muse is a somewhat mellow all mountain board. It likes to ride at a medium speed and explore different features on the mountain. It is stable but not locked in. The Muse playful but without losing the energy in the board. I really enjoyed the snappy pop it had in ollies.

Steeps

Quick to turn in steeper terrain. Medium stable when things got bumpy in the steeps. Could make small closed turns with not too much effort. Liked smaller to medium turns.

Switch

The Muse has a directional looking shape and is a directional twin, but it is still centered on sidecut. So riding switch is pretty effortless. It feels almost the same switch as it does regular.

Powder

The muse is more of an all mountain board, but not really the type to kill it on a powder day. It does have a somewhat wider waist width than the average women’s board. And it is very slightly directional. You get a little bit of setback on board when you move the bindings all the way back but not much. (1.37″) The small rocker in the nose will help it to float a little better than a full positive camber board. But on deep days it would be better to have a powder board as back up.

Off Piste

Because it is quick to turn, the Muse did pretty well off piste. It rode easily through moguls and bumpy snow. But it liked to turn through these instead of try and cruise over the top of them. It is nimble enough to take through the trees as well.

Carving

The Muse is a dabbler. It can carve but it isn’t a carving specialist. It seemed to let go of the edge a bit earlier in carves than I was hoping. This board seemed to prefer open carves instead of closed off carve turns.

Freestyle Personality

Friendly enough for some freestyle riding. I liked the pop off of natural jumps and ledges. Would be fun on small to medium features and jumps. The directional twin shape will allow the Muse to take off switch or land switch. Forgiving enough to ride on boxes and rails as well. Not a high perforce park board, but enough to get your park fix from time to time.

Edge Hold

Medium to hard snow conditions seemed more comfortable on the Muse. The icier snow was a bit slick. It gripped ok but not great. There is no sidecut disruption on the Muse, so you are relying on the sidecut and the positive camber to hold you to the ice.

Who Is This For?

The Rome Muse could work for an intermediate to advanced rider looking for a do it all board. A board that does everything pretty good. The Muse has a playful all mountain personality that can take you most places on the mountain and feel consistent.

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