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Machete snowboard

Rock Out With Your Pop Out

$439.95
SIZES: 152, 155, 158, 160, 162 SNOWBOARD SPECS
STYLE: All Mountain Freestyle
SHAPE: LowRize™
STANCE: Centered

The award-winning Ride Machete snowboard features Ride’s LowRize™ rocker shape eliminating hook without sacrificing pop. Cutting through the competition, this go anywhere freestyle snowboard combines our Pop Rods® 1.0 for an extra dose of pop, with smooth-riding 85A Slimewalls® and durable Cleave Edge™ for a fun surfy twin built to last.
The Machete is also available in WIDE waist widths.

CONSTRUCTION:
Lowrize™
THIN CON
Cleave Edge ™
Biaxal Glass
Fusion 4000
2x4
85A Slimewalls
Carbon Array 3
Standard
Pop Rods 1.0

SETUP OPTIONS

Rodeo Binding Deuce Boot Slim Logo Men's Tee - light blue Clothing Stellar Glove Accessory

REVIEWS OF THE MACHETE

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Ride Snowboards Machete
 
4.7

(based on 34 reviews)

97%

of respondents would recommend this to a friend.

Pros

  • Carving ability (29)
  • Smooth stability (25)
  • Well balanced (25)
  • Fast (24)
  • Good flexibility (23)

Cons

  • Too stiff (4)

Best Uses

  • All mountain (29)
  • Tricks (18)
  • Freeriding (17)
  • Park (17)
  • Powder (15)
    • Reviewer Profile:
    • Advanced (7), Anytime (7), Intermediate (7), On the mountain (4), Casual/ recreational (3)
    • Was this a gift?:
    • No (11)

REVIEWS

Reviewed by 34 customers

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5.0

Australian conditions

By I sleep well at night

from Melbourne Australia

About Me Expert

Pros

  • Easy To Setup
  • Lightweight
  • Versatile

Cons

    Best Uses

      Comments about Ride Snowboards Machete:

      Live in Australia. Have ridden in many countries but bought the machete for our season just ended. Ripped up the fresh soft and the hard and the slush as you do in one typical aussie day and loved it all. You will never find me in the park so no comment there but it stomped all the incidental jumps that I found along the way. I ride all mountain as aggressively as I can for a 49 year old going on 25 and cannot recommend the machete highly enough. Probably not a beginner board. Looking forward to taking it to North America early next year as it loved the soft.

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      (4 of 4 customers found this review helpful)

       
      5.0

      This board lives up to the hype

      By Charlie

      from Cortland, NY

      About Me Competitive Athlete

      Verified Reviewer

      Pros

      • Carving Ability
      • Fast
      • Lots Of Pop
      • Smooth Stability
      • Smooth Transitioning

      Cons

        Best Uses

        • All Mountain
        • Freeriding
        • Powder
        • Speed
        • Tricks

        Comments about Ride Snowboards Machete:

        I have been snowboarding for 18 years.... I've had Ride, Burton, and Liquid snowboards. I've always liked Ride Snowboards the best. I purchased the Ride Machete 160 this year after doing some research and reading reviews. The board definitely lives up to the hype. It carves great through groom and charges through choppy snow. I've ridden it through deep powder as well as icy conditions and it just tears through it. Give it all you've got, it'll respond great for ya. The lowrise rocker makes transitioning from edge to edge at high speed so smooth. I'm getting more pop with this board and it's suprisingly lightweight. All this talk has made me want to go ride.... hope this helps!

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        (2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

         
        5.0

        Awesome board

        By mesomelas

        from Boulder, Co

        About Me Anytime

        Verified Reviewer

        Pros

        • Carving Ability
        • Fast
        • Good Flexibility
        • Lightweight
        • Lots Of Pop
        • Smooth Stability
        • Well Balanced

        Cons

          Best Uses

          • All Mountain
          • Freeriding
          • Park
          • Powder
          • Speed
          • Tricks

          Comments about Ride Snowboards Machete:

          I have a 160, this is an awesome board! I have been skateboading for over 10 years, this is my second season now on the snowboard, my previous board (K2 fatbob) didn't help translate much of my skateboarding skill over, but this board has really helped me improve my skill snowboarding. I have progressed very fast on it, in the park and just elsewhere on the mountain. I love riding trees and bowls, groomers on the front and in the park too, and this board feels like a Porsche. Very light and maneuverable, and in the powder it rides AWESOME. The K2 would sink in powder and not have much response, this is the exact opposite. Sharp, agile, and floats right through it, every time I go up (Copper mountain!) it continues to impress, and I progress more noticably with each trip up.

          I waited a few months of owning and riding this board before I made my review, but now that I am here posting I am more sure than ever that this was the best choice I could have made. Perhaps could have gone with a shorter board to spin better in the park, but I think the length helps a lot in the powder which I also love riding in a lot. This board is great, thanks guys for making it, it has made me into a better rider and helps bring over all my skill from skateboarding to snowboarding.

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          (1 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

           
          5.0

          Awesome Board

          By Crazy K

          from Reno NV

          About Me Intermediate

          Verified Reviewer

          Pros

          • Carving Ability
          • Fast
          • Smooth Stability
          • Tough

          Cons

            Best Uses

            • All Mountain
            • Powder
            • Speed

            Comments about Ride Snowboards Machete:

            This board is put simply amazing. It can do it all. It is only my second season but I have rode boards by a few different companies but I can tell anyone looking for a great board, Ride got it right with the machete.

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            (1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

             
            5.0

            Great Board

            By Cheesemountain Rider

            from Bavarian Alps

            About Me Casual/ Recreational

            Pros

            • Good Flexibility
            • Smooth Stability
            • Well Balanced

            Cons

              Best Uses

              • All Mountain
              • Speed

              Comments about Ride Snowboards Machete:

              I only rode the machete twice since i bought it. The first impression is very good. I could not test it in powder yet but can tell you that the board behaves perfectly on icy hard snow. I have the impression that it is easier to ollie although im not a big park rider.

              To summarize the board I would describe it as very forgiving and just pure fun. It feels light and soft.

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              5.0

              So far so awesome

              By Bodango

              from Hopatcong, NJ

              About Me On The Mountain

              Verified Reviewer

              Pros

              • Carving Ability
              • Fast
              • Lots Of Pop
              • Smooth Stability
              • Solid
              • Well Balanced

              Cons

              • Too Stiff

              Best Uses

              • All Mountain
              • Freeriding
              • Park
              • Powder
              • Speed
              • Tricks

              Comments about Ride Snowboards Machete:

              Been riding for 13 years, I got this board for Christmas and I was lucky to have fresh powder in NJ two days after Christmas. This board is everything i expected it to be... I spent prob two-three weeks researching on and off what board to get and I just couldn't find any negative reviews about the board besides it being a lil to stiff, which it is. The Machete holds solid and smooth at high speeds, easy to throw around in the park on jibs and jumps. Performed ok in the powder that I had. You can't go wrong with this board. I have the Delta MVMNT bindings on this board and they are sick as well.

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              • Yes

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              (1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

               
              5.0

              Just Wow

              By The Leviathan Pat Duffy

              from Pittsburgh, PA

              About Me Anytime

              Verified Reviewer

              Pros

              • Carving Ability
              • Fast
              • Good Flexibility
              • Lightweight
              • Lots Of Pop
              • Tough
              • Well Balanced

              Cons

                Best Uses

                • All Mountain
                • Freeriding
                • Park
                • Tricks

                Comments about Ride Snowboards Machete:

                Since this was my first rocker it probably wasn't the best idea to ride the Pre-Jib contest first time on it. However after about two or three warm up runs I got the hang of it and was hitting everything that I had expected to hit. This destroys all rails and is just a little sketchy on landings. Even though I'm just feeling it out to this point I'm in love with just how amazing the ride is. Keep up the good work Ride

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                4.0

                poppy rocker

                By redneck shredder

                from N. Georgia

                About Me Anytime

                Pros

                • Carving Ability
                • Fast
                • Lightweight
                • Lots Of Pop
                • Smooth Stability
                • Well Balanced

                Cons

                • Too Stiff

                Best Uses

                • All Mountain
                • Park
                • Tricks

                Comments about Ride Snowboards Machete:

                I live in the Southern Appalachians so we have bad snow and ice often. No problem, this board holds an edge on anything so far without any washout at speed. Great in the park with no hookups and a lot more pop than I expected. On the down side it is a little stiff on presses and butters but that is the sacrifice for the added pop. All and all this is one of the best rockers I've ridden.

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                • Yes

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                (1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

                 
                5.0

                NEW 2011 MACHETE

                By Jeff

                from Boston, MA

                About Me On The Mountain

                Verified Reviewer

                Pros

                • Fast
                • Lightweight
                • Lots Of Pop

                Cons

                  Best Uses

                  • All Mountain
                  • Freeriding
                  • Park

                  Comments about Ride Snowboards Machete:

                  This board is SIICK!!! The 152 and similar color schemes are definitely more neon than the image shows and the white has a super holographic image to it so it is DEFINITELY STEEZY!!! It has a lot of pop and it is a LITTLE stiff for my liking but its stability makes up for it so it can hold its own on the kickers rails!

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                  (1 of 8 customers found this review helpful)

                   
                  4.0

                  Front sticker

                  By Paul

                  from Telluride CO

                  About Me Anytime

                  Pros

                  • Well Balanced

                  Cons

                  • Too Stiff

                  Best Uses

                  • All Mountain

                  Comments about Ride Snowboards Machete:

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                  FEATURED TECH

                  Lowrize™
                  LOWRIZE™

                  A twin rockered shape that just lifts the contact points out of the snow and has a nearly flat zone under foot.

                  85A SLIMEWALLS

                  Ride’s exclusive Slimewalls® are forgiving and ductile, absorbing impacts rather than defending against them. Just like your skate wheels, the urethane in Slimewalls® smoothes the interaction with the snow, wood or metal surfaces you may Ride on. On top of all that, these babies are virtually indestructible, the most durable sidewalls in snowboarding.

                  Pop Rods 1.0
                  POP RODS 1.0

                  More pop and smoother landings without added stiffness. Available in 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0.