Mountainboard

The mountainboard is a hybrid machine, mixes subtle of a Snowboard, a Skateboard and a VTT or a BMX. Thanks to that, the practice approaches these sports: descent, freeride, freestyle. A mountainboard is used on any type of ground: bleaches on grass, ground, bituminizes, sand (attention, hard sand only!) or even skateparks.

Most of the time, the mountainboard comprises four wheels, assembled on two axles (trucks), a central plate on which are assembled footstraps. The four wheels consist of rims on which tire tubes and tires are assembled. The rims turn around the axis of the trucks gràce to a system of bearings. The trucks exist into two large " familles". The trucks of the skate type are comparable with those of a longboard even if the axis of the wheels has a larger diameter (so that they resist better). The trucks of the channels type have supensions with springs (more or less hard). That makes it possible to weaken the wobble (effect of guidonnage) met at high-speed. The central plate is halfway between a deck of skateboard and a snowboard. Its length ranges between the two. The deck of a mountainboard is also rather flexible. The footstraps also exist in two big families. Those with scratch are less expensive but propose a weaker maintenance of ankle. Those with pawls are more expensive but allow a better comfort.

Origins of the mountainboard

The mountainboard appeared at the beginning of the Années 1990, in California, with the the United States, when an small group of snowboarders designed a new machine to descend the slopes while waiting for snow. It seems that he also developed in parallel in England.

Ten years later, Mountainboard is recognized like a new sport in its country of origin. The mountainboard says the " summer way off snowboarding" (new way of snowboarder the summer), interests more and more the magazines, and the riders which set up competitions. In front of this success, more and more of American winter stations seek to offer this product for the summer season. (source: http://www.edg-company.com)

" dérivés"

Always into a spirit of slips, the mountainboard is also used far from the mountains, on the beach (or in pre), where to wrinkle it advance thanks to the traction of a Cerf-volant. One can then speak about kiteboarding, even of mountain kiteboarding.

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External bonds

  • http://www.mountainboard.fr French gate of the mountainboard
  • http://www.descente.fr Site of the National Commission Descent which frames the French events and clubs
  • http://www.amtbzone.com Site of the French Association of Mountainboard, which to seek to develop and to make known the sport
  • http://www.dailymotion.com/group/1966 Groupe Dailymotion containing of the vidéos of freeride, freestyle, etc
  • http://www.mountainboard.fr/assos Trouvez an association close to on your premise to initiate you with the mountainboard
  • http://www.ecolefrancaisedemountainboard.com a tourist school which initiates you with the mountainboard with brakes from 6 years
  • http://www.moremtb.com the specialists in the mountainboard

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