Mervin Announces the GNU Park Pickle
Press Release
- December 01 2008
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Newport Beach, CA
At the North American sales meeting for Gnu Snowboards, plans for the GNU Park Pickle were unveiled. The Patent Pending Proprietary Park Pickle Product will be included in the 09/10 Gnu Snowboard line. Based on the idea that heelside turns require more leverage than toeside turns, the Park Pick will have a deeper sidecut on the heelside. The board is a true twin shape with a centered stance so it can be ridden with either goofy or regular and includes Mervin Mfg’s exclusive use of Banana Technology.
Pete Saari, VP of Marketing at Mervin had this to say. “The Park Pickle achieves perfect balance through asymmetry, a deeper sidecut and asymmetric core on the heel edge balances your foots asymmetry and the different turn mechanics between heel and toe turns. Twin Asymmetric Banana Magnetraction design is the future of all terrain freestyle performance snowboards. Pickle Power!”
Check out the Park Pickle at www.gnu.com. A limited run of 300 Park Pickles for North America will be built and released for sale to select Authorized Gnu Dealers in mid December.
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December 1st, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Uhm… Wow… sounds like more typical made-up technology from our friends at Mervin. Like a rocker that flattens when you step on it (isn’t that just a board with no camber?) or a top secret wood species developed specifically for their boards. I call BS on mervin.
December 1st, 2008 at 6:03 pm
how long have you worked for Burton?
December 1st, 2008 at 6:30 pm
That was done by Santa Cruz 15 years ago.
December 1st, 2008 at 6:55 pm
No kidding! No one is holding a gun to your head. I call BS on brands that are scared of change, and keep making snowboards in ski factory’s to cut costs. “Made up technology”? WOW…everyone knows Mervin has been doing it right since day one, and has improved snowboarding in so-many ways over the years. The product, and the demand speaks for itself! Enjoy your boring ass snowboard this season….hope the new graphic will make it better!
December 1st, 2008 at 7:04 pm
haha no doubt. yet you won’t hear the same stuff about stealing concepts, thats reserved for burton, not Mervsilver boards.
December 1st, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Actually, nitro did it first about 20 years ago. I wonder where they were made then…….
December 1st, 2008 at 7:11 pm
oh yea, and mambosok???? Are you still rocking that technology???? I believe that was also the hot new style, about 20 years ago….
December 1st, 2008 at 7:15 pm
no i have moved on to Quimbola Man
December 2nd, 2008 at 7:27 am
if i m not mistaking, i think that’s nidecker in switzerland who made the first asymmetrical snowboard…
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:40 am
It’s not the same at all as the asym-boards of the late 80’s early 90’s which were all race specfic and it is not asymetrical down the middle, but from the tip to tail so it can be used by both goof and reg. That was the probelm with the old asym-boards, shops hated that they had to buy both. This solves that problem at the shop end. Giving the heal side a more aggressive side cut then the toe is a good idea for I think for pipe boards because it will allow you to charge the wall on heel side hard, where you tend to skip out. But in the end will it really make a dif, who knows? But it’s clever…can’t hate on them for trying something new. I think Burton’s convex base make a lot more sense and that isn’t getting any play, I think that is even more clever than rocker.
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:42 am
Asym went out with race boards. Remember the PJ series. Are heelside turns really that hard?
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:51 am
It’s all about keeping things fresh. It seems to me that the “reverse camber” snowboards are selling much better than the cambered ones. And not just from Mervin, it’s all the other guy’s like NS also. This just shows that the guy’s at Mervin MFG will keep innovationg season after season, even if it is just adapting and revising old technology to make it work better in a new way.
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:56 am
It’s not a matter of being hard it has to do with the heel side edge giving out at high speeds and you start skipping and end up on your ass. The thing I don’t get is why having a side cut on the toe side is bad? I can see it being a problem when doing butters and stuff, but the edge you catch normally is the heal side and smack your head. The toe side is easier to manage cause you can lift you toes, so seems counter productive, in my opinion?
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:58 am
also might help with frontside spins because you will be able to get more torque then with a twin with no side cut?
December 2nd, 2008 at 12:37 pm
I call BS on your attitude! Hater! Maybe you forgot this is coming from the very same company that gave snowboarding both sidecut and camber in the first place. Wow. How do you ever find time to go snowboarding with all of the research you’re doing on snowboarding. By the way, I’m pretty sure almost every brand has some “special wood”. Oh, and rocker, v camber, banana or whatever…
Don’t call it a comeback, ASYM is here to stay!
December 2nd, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Oh yeah, didn’t Mervin make Nitro boards back then? Weird!
December 2nd, 2008 at 12:52 pm
I like how Mervin tries to push the sport, but this seems it may be counter-productive when riding switch…
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:58 am
Actually I made the first asymmetrical snowboard back in 1985 in Mr. Alsup’s woodshop class because I was too lazy to use a tape measure properly.
Shoulda patented that shit…
December 3rd, 2008 at 7:02 pm
My shop has been selling Gnu and Libteck for years. The Lib and gnu bananas have outsold all other brands combined for 2 years now in our shop. It seems like they have won every test they’ve been in in every mag. Didn’t Wired and Popular Mechanics give them some sort of invention of the year award? I’d put money on the Pickles laying down some serious ice gouges.
December 3rd, 2008 at 7:33 pm
I always tip over when attempting them heel siders. I can’t wait to get a Pickle between my legs.
December 3rd, 2008 at 7:38 pm
HELLO!
Did someone say pickle between my legs?
December 3rd, 2008 at 7:50 pm
I think this is the first asym designed specifically for duck stance………….Gosh! Tighter heels looser toes. What took so long? Gosh! I think all you idiots missed the point. It aint no racing board! Or maybe I’m the idiot and it is a racing board. Probably not though.
December 3rd, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Why wouldn’t it work with Switch bindings?
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Maybe Chris thinks that lever thingy on his Switch bindings would get all hung up on heelside turns or something. Or his Switches still have that extra long safety leash on them or something. I made a shorter safety leash on my Switches out of my little sisters old jump rope. I went into Active Ride and they said the Pickles were dope.
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Wow…..you guys read me all wrong. I said ”friends” at Mervin……who “made-up technology”. I mean’t it in a way of respect. My friends at Mervin made up most of the important technology I love the most! I said I “Like a rocker that flattens when you step on it”. Re-read my original post. Go easy on me. I work for a shop. When I said “I call BS on Mervin” I meant that I call Bob Stanislaus, the rep with the ZZ-Top beard, when I need to order more stuff from Mervins.
January 17th, 2009 at 6:20 am
Wow rusty. You are a total pus.
You were calling the tech bs, then when everyone corrects you, you start back peddling.
If you are gonna make a comment, at least stand by it. Tool.
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:29 pm
he means riding switch. like goin goofy when u ride regs. no one has bought anything made by the “Switch” corporation in about ten years. get some new fuckin binders dude.
May 13th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
santa cruz have that kind of tech on their TTs(True Twin) got one of those. rides well