Signal / Sierra DBR Project

Hello Sierra Community! Signal Snowboards is teaming up with Sierra and the community (you) to build a custom snowboard! Our motto at the factory is Dream it, Build it, Ride it. We have our own factory called The Lodge in Huntington Beach California where we are able to design, build and test all in a day. With you and management at Sierra we will be working on narrowing down specifics and technology until we come up with the perfect board for you. Once completed we will then build it and it will be available only through Sierrasnowboard.com. So please, let the ideas flow and if you have any questions on materials, flex or construction we'll walk you through. One note, we are going with a sandwich constructed board, but other than that have at it. Feel free to take a look at our Signal site for ideas, sizes or constructions you may like to add to this Sierra board. Best of luck and lets get to designing!
Best,
Dave Lee
Signal Snowboards
www.signalsnowboards.com

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check the video all... Signal is going to make whatever board the community comes up with.  This includes shape, terrain, graphics, whatever... think outside the box on this one (ie: banana?). 

This thread is an open canvas for all your ideas to spawn the next community snowboard...so post up whatever comes to mind.  Special thanks to Dave and Signal Snowboards for opening up their factory to all of us.  have fun and let the creativity flow...cheers   

Yea cheap would be a plus for sure.  More people would buy it 

park rocker for sure. phils graphics. 156. sintered base. blunt nose and tail to reduce swing weight (think trice). carbon stringers for pop, maybe some secret stuff in there too

Strange... our dreams are exactly the same

^^ or rather:

Deff a smaller size like a 149-151 with a wider waist width then most boards that size like 25.2-25.6. Banana's on the top of the list along with a blunt shaped tip and tail like Zag said. and maybe something like Burtons Infinite Ride, my twins got the same pop as it did 2 years ago.

A rocker would be awesome, but more of an all mountain board; so not heavy on the rocker just a little more than subtle

Originally posted by Nick Originally posted by xyian I think that something like the Banana with Magnetraction is great. I would add stiffer stringers in it for more pop that lasts over time. The Skate Banana seems to lose it's pop. Certainly there's something that could maintain pop like carbon stringers in the core or maybe something longer lasting like bamboo.   I don't think Signal has rights to use MTX to be honest, but I agree with the added pop.

Smokin Snowboards is licensing it and Dave Lee is good friends with Mervin. Anything's possible!

true story buz, the thing is most if not all rockers are park boards or total powder boards. if were goin rocker, then its gonna have to be park board, but if we scrapp the rocker, then we can go all mountain.

awesome guys, that is pretty cool that you teamed up with signal.

and yes, it's just wavy edges

Forget the snowboard.... I think we just need some Sierra/Signal coffee.

i like the black and gold phil. my favorite one prolly.

Would love to atleast have the banana style base
more park centered board
and something thats as cheap as possible without loosing profits.
paying 450 for a 09 board is ridiculous

Originally posted by Mike   As soon as the snow flies I will send out some signal boards for community member to ride, I can't wait to start researching.

Yea, if it does end up being a park board, that is all I do.  And I go every weekend.  So I am down.  So if you need a park tester, let me know

^^^ same here hahaha

Originally posted by Nick You gotta remember designing MTX took YEARS of trial and error... You can't just make the edges wavy and it'll automatically work. There are some specifics you need to get which Mervin has already gotten down.   But I agree with Zag. NO MTX...

All sounds cool, when are we looking at making these boards, this season?

Originally posted by jknee   What ever happened with your senior project with snowboard making?  Was that you Nick?

is your factory off gothard street? i live in huntington. can i visit the factory?

also  i would like a cheap reverse camber board without too much camber.

sure pressing is fun, but then it gets old if there's so much camber you feel like you're riding a noodle and can't huck off the jumps at bear.

Well, 152 & 158 are probably the most common sizes. I, personally could use a 161 but my thoughts are they just wouldn't sell enough.

Originally posted by BRUIZZA Well first we have to decide what type of board we are going to make.  I mean if it is a park board then we need 2 shorter sizes.  If it is an all mountain board we need some slightly longer sizes.  Park I would say a 152 and a 155 All mountain I would say a 157 and 159.

Spot on Bruizza, there's no much point talking about sizes until we decide what sort of board it's going to be.

Again I'd agree with Bruizza on the sizes if the board was either park/all-mountain, they probably give you the largest catchment potential.

DL if we do a board in 2 sizes is it possible to changes the colours for the design for both sizes without affecting setup costs for printing eg. if we use the same artwork screens for both boards but say change the colour that's being printed?

I would buy neither if a 52 and 56 were the sizes. Those are too small for me. I even wish I would have gotten the 59 Banana.