Nidecker Ultralight Snowboard

As the flagship board of the Nidecker collection, the Ultralight is the pinnacle of high-end snowboard design and construction. Designed unashamedly to offer a zero compromise high-performance ride, it’s the ultimate snowboard for experienced riders who want the best freeride performance. Built around a state of the art directional shape, the Ultralight features a more extended, fuller diamond tip nose profile. This innovative shape gives outstanding lift and float at the front of the board but has a relatively low swing weight for increased feel and control. At the rear, the cut back tail helps drop the back end in the pow, once again helping that deep snow performance. However, that shorter tail is also powerful, which means you can drive into it at high speeds, and it has the power to whip you out of the carve. To ensure that the Ultralight delivers the perfect freeride flex, it utilises advanced 3DN construction. This innovative 3D milling process comprehensively profiles the core to ensure that power is directed where needed. Channelling this energy to the right places results in a dynamic ride where everything is maximised to full effect, creating a lightning-fast response and a level of control and stability that defies snowboard norms. Internally the high-end construction is formatted to combine weight saving with maximum power and control. The featherweight core and full carbon structural layers ensure that no matter how hard or how fast you push the Ultralight, it always has loads in reserve. So, if you’re after a board that delivers outstanding performance in the pow and when charging hard on the piste, all roads lead here.

Rider Style

Advanced to expert riders looking for the ultimate hard-charging freeride performance.

Shape Overview

The Ultralight’s fully directional shape utilises an extended diamond-tipped nose and shorter cut back tail. The diamond shape allows the designers to add volume to the nose to enhance lift and float but, more importantly, get that volume without resorting to a more oversized, more volume-focused nose shape. The advantage this has, especially on a board like this, is that you get float, but not at the expense of swing weight. So when you’re charging on piste, it never feels like the front of the board is trying to push out the carve, so you can concentrate on driving through the turn rather than trying to keep the nose engaged. At the tail, that shorter but stiffer tail shape helps drop the tail in the pow. But I think, more importantly, it lets you drive the back of the board in the carve and powers up those edge to edge transitions.

Profile

The freeride inspired Directional Rocker combines an extended rocker zone at the nose with camber between the feet and a shorter rocker at the tail. This profile allows the board to float effortlessly in deep snow while still delivering a responsive and dynamic ride on hardpack terrain.

Construction

Regarding construction, the Ultralight is in a league of its own. Built with zero compromises, it showcases the most advanced design and construction currently available. Heading up the Ultralight’s high-end build is the Light Core. This lightweight wood core combines poplar, beech and lightweight paulownia to deliver a poppy yet featherweight foundation to the board. Nidecker then profiles this core with its advanced 3DN process. 3DN mills the core over its entire length and width to create specific flex zones and power transfer to optimise performance directly to where it has the most effect. Power transfer and flex control are further enhanced with the N Tech construction. This state of the art technology combines cap construction in the nose and tail with sandwich construction through the centre. This creates torsionally stiffer zones at the tips delivering lightning-fast turn initiation and exit combined with locked-in stability through the middle of the turn. Now, as you’d expect on a board like this, the Ultralights structural layers are a bit special. The top band combines 45° tri-ax glass with a full-length Carbonid carbon fibre layer, while the lower utilises 45° tri-ax glass. This combination delivers explosive pop with a dynamic torsional flex, ensuring that the Ultralight will always have bags of reserve no matter how hard or how fast you ride.

Base

As the Ultralight is all about high-end performance, Nidecker doesn’t hold back when it comes to the base. Their exclusive N-9000 base material is produced with carbon nanoparticles and has a very dense molecular structure. This makes it Nidecker’s fastest, most durable base material.

KEY FEATURES

• Directional
• 18mm Taper
• Freeride CamRock
• Diamond Tips
• Light Core
• 3DN Core Profiling
• N-Tech Construction
• Carbonid Carbon Fibre layer
• 45 ° Tri-Ax-Plus Glass
• 10/10 Stiffness
• 6x2 Insert Pack
• N9000 Sintered base