Knobbed rails in terrain parks

yeah I don't really get it either, makes sense if the knobs would actually stop you like the rail sugarbush has but whats the point, to rip your edges out sooner? plastic corrugateds won't fuck your edges up at least.

As someone who skis grouse I personally thought the capped rail was sick. I definitely would give people more cred for doing tricks on that rail rather than a normal rail. I agree it's definitely not as hard as most urban rails, but i wouldn't say its a waste of a nice downrail. I think it's sick that the park crew are experimenting with new features like these and hope they continue to do so.

a_burgeryeah I don't really get it either, makes sense if the knobs would actually stop you like the rail sugarbush has but whats the point, to rip your edges out sooner? plastic corrugateds won't fuck your edges up at least.

the one at sugarbush is hardly noticeable, and it doesn’t acually slow you down. the knobs aren’t made by the park crew, but is part of the stock of metal they got. that being said it is a little annoying, and yeah it probably hurts you edges a little bit more, idk it makes a cool noise and can gauge how fast your going on a rail. it really doesn’t get in the way

not sure if this is what you’re talking about, but boreal last february had something called the herpes rail. it was just a down rail with a big ass yellow bump in the middle that you had to hop over. super annoying

*St4th0s*the one at sugarbush is hardly noticeable, and it doesn’t acually slow you down. the knobs aren’t made by the park crew, but is part of the stock of metal they got. that being said it is a little annoying, and yeah it probably hurts you edges a little bit more, idk it makes a cool noise and can gauge how fast your going on a rail. it really doesn’t get in the way

I was referring to the one at 1:44 in this video. the knobs actually change how the rail works and you have to do something other than straight slide it, makes it a unique feature worth sacrificing a flat/down tube for.

https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/759247/The-Weakend-in-VTlike I get the concept I suppose it makes sense at a place like Carinthia where they have hundreds of rails and the welder probably got bored one day, but I agree with OP it would be a waste of materials at a lot of smaller mountains. You can never go wrong with the standard down rail (unless thats the only thing you have in your park, but thats another subject)

**This post was edited on May 28th 2018 at 1:35:14pm

a_burgerI was referring to the one at 1:44 in this video. the knobs actually change how the rail works and you have to do something other than straight slide it, makes it a unique feature worth sacrificing a flat/down tube for.



https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/759247/The-Weakend-in-VTlike I get the concept I suppose it makes sense at a place like Carinthia where they have hundreds of rails and the welder probably got bored one day, but I agree with OP it would be a waste of materials at a lot of smaller mountains. You can never go wrong with the standard down rail (unless thats the only thing you have in your park, but thats another subject)

**This post was edited on May 28th 2018 at 1:35:14pm

oh these things. yeah they can be a little annoying if your a beginner but i find it really not much of a problem for swaps and stuff

Carinthia had a skate stopper down rail this season and although a lil sketch it was fun to slide fast. They're not gonna build a rail that'll easily kill you and I'm still not confident to ski a knobbed urban rail, it's just a snowboard type feature that presents a bit of a fun challenge.

someone find that clip of the snowboarder doing front board on this like flat bar with a huge knob and it had a little gap to a down bar and he get absolutely destroyed by the bump

Someone drop a pic of the rail at Grouse bc I can’t picture it out lol

Knobbed rails are the worst rails ever. They make every trick look like shit.

Ayo! I work at Carinthia and was one of the guys who told em to weld up a skate stop the rail this year. So, Personally I love em. But, as comes with making rails it's all trial and error. We welded those stops on and thought that it was a sure death if ya hit it. (it looked gnarly in the shop) We were really wrong though....way to mellow we could have made em sharper. Ive gotten tossed on the thing a few times tricking it so they aren't to forgiving. With all that being said I obviously think skate stoppers are rad but, nothing obviously compares to urban rails in the park.

The sugarbush one looks pretty sick. Yeah it would suck if you wanna practice on a flat bar and your mountain only has a knobbed up rail, but if you already have the basic stuff, this is a game changer. Practicing hopping over those, doing swaps over them, doing a swivel/swap thing on 1 foot over them, thats only gonna help you learn new tricks. Just dont hit it thinking its a regular rail lol

Im somewhat neutral. With how good people have gotten and increased creativity they are great.

On the othet hand I dont think id ever build one for a park I was running. The smaller the mtn and being under the lift is better, but even with "look before you leap" people are still going to hit it and get a hell of a surprise.

I mean Ive def hit rails before and found out it was a donkey. Nbd but youre like oh shit and then pop off the end.

Even if youve checked out the rails, in a big park with contsantly changing feature you're not going to remember the whole layout after a lap or two.

Loon built one for street cred 6 years ago. That was the first I saw one at a mtn. 30 footer with6 ish 1/4 skatestoppers. It was sick bu5 it was only in for a contest.

Sugarbush had a flat rail with two nobs half way and at the far end.Being they were fairly big, painted orange, and on a flat rail it was fine.

I dont really think down rails with knobs are a good idea in parks. If you do it thats great but I personally don't want to be resposible for somebody getting smoked in one. Not even just from a lawsuit standpoint. If somebody hit it thinking it was a nirmsl down rail, donkey whatever and got destroyed on it, id feel pretty shitty.

I could wrap a chain around one halfway to make it more street. It could be fun, but I would never do that in the park.

Idk, the line of things is a bit blurred, but I think theres a point where things can def go to far. Parks should be creative and fun, but some things just arent needed in the parks imo.

theabortionatorIm somewhat neutral. With how good people have gotten and increased creativity they are great.

On the othet hand I dont think id ever build one for a park I was running. The smaller the mtn and being under the lift is better, but even with "look before you leap" people are still going to hit it and get a hell of a surprise.

I mean Ive def hit rails before and found out it was a donkey. Nbd but youre like oh shit and then pop off the end.

Even if youve checked out the rails, in a big park with contsantly changing feature you're not going to remember the whole layout after a lap or two.

Loon built one for street cred 6 years ago. That was the first I saw one at a mtn. 30 footer with6 ish 1/4 skatestoppers. It was sick bu5 it was only in for a contest.

Sugarbush had a flat rail with two nobs half way and at the far end.Being they were fairly big, painted orange, and on a flat rail it was fine.

I dont really think down rails with knobs are a good idea in parks. If you do it thats great but I personally don't want to be resposible for somebody getting smoked in one. Not even just from a lawsuit standpoint. If somebody hit it thinking it was a nirmsl down rail, donkey whatever and got destroyed on it, id feel pretty shitty.

I could wrap a chain around one halfway to make it more street. It could be fun, but I would never do that in the park.

Idk, the line of things is a bit blurred, but I think theres a point where things can def go to far. Parks should be creative and fun, but some things just arent needed in the parks imo.

Yeah i can see that it can pose as an unnoticed threat cause it's not always easy to notice, can only imagine newer riders thinking it's a down and just eat shit. Carinthias was pretty nice, somewhat smooth but they were smart enough to paint each knob red on the all black rail so I hope that would've helped.

theabortionatorIm somewhat neutral. With how good people have gotten and increased creativity they are great.

On the othet hand I dont think id ever build one for a park I was running. The smaller the mtn and being under the lift is better, but even with "look before you leap" people are still going to hit it and get a hell of a surprise.

I mean Ive def hit rails before and found out it was a donkey. Nbd but youre like oh shit and then pop off the end.

Even if youve checked out the rails, in a big park with contsantly changing feature you're not going to remember the whole layout after a lap or two.

Loon built one for street cred 6 years ago. That was the first I saw one at a mtn. 30 footer with6 ish 1/4 skatestoppers. It was sick bu5 it was only in for a contest.

Sugarbush had a flat rail with two nobs half way and at the far end.Being they were fairly big, painted orange, and on a flat rail it was fine.

I dont really think down rails with knobs are a good idea in parks. If you do it thats great but I personally don't want to be resposible for somebody getting smoked in one. Not even just from a lawsuit standpoint. If somebody hit it thinking it was a nirmsl down rail, donkey whatever and got destroyed on it, id feel pretty shitty.

I could wrap a chain around one halfway to make it more street. It could be fun, but I would never do that in the park.

Idk, the line of things is a bit blurred, but I think theres a point where things can def go to far. Parks should be creative and fun, but some things just arent needed in the parks imo.

The fact that they painted the knobs orange and the rail blue in the sugarbush one makes it stand out pretty well, which at least helps. Maybe you could make a neon sign and stick it at the top of the rail lol

grouse or whistler if going to ubc?

https://www.instagram.com/p/BeY60JBgFyN/

m8 the skate stopper rail is sick.

probably a lot more fun on a snowboard, but there are plenty of down rails to go around. it's just a little something to make a more challenging rail that looks sweet in edits.

theabortionatorIm somewhat neutral. With how good people have gotten and increased creativity they are great.

On the othet hand I dont think id ever build one for a park I was running. The smaller the mtn and being under the lift is better, but even with "look before you leap" people are still going to hit it and get a hell of a surprise.

I mean Ive def hit rails before and found out it was a donkey. Nbd but youre like oh shit and then pop off the end.

Even if youve checked out the rails, in a big park with contsantly changing feature you're not going to remember the whole layout after a lap or two.

Loon built one for street cred 6 years ago. That was the first I saw one at a mtn. 30 footer with6 ish 1/4 skatestoppers. It was sick bu5 it was only in for a contest.

Sugarbush had a flat rail with two nobs half way and at the far end.Being they were fairly big, painted orange, and on a flat rail it was fine.

I dont really think down rails with knobs are a good idea in parks. If you do it thats great but I personally don't want to be resposible for somebody getting smoked in one. Not even just from a lawsuit standpoint. If somebody hit it thinking it was a nirmsl down rail, donkey whatever and got destroyed on it, id feel pretty shitty.

I could wrap a chain around one halfway to make it more street. It could be fun, but I would never do that in the park.

Idk, the line of things is a bit blurred, but I think theres a point where things can def go to far. Parks should be creative and fun, but some things just arent needed in the parks imo.

I was nice before..............The way some park features are going you either have to get better at skiing or get out. We setup some features this year I personally looked at and thought it was certain death. Some of the rails were deadly at first and thats part of the game we play. If parks don't make stuff that is creative and different we would be hitting flat boxes and down boxes forever. So with that being said...lets knob the shit out of rails and put fences at the end of flat bars. Why? because why not. I personally thought a DFD knobbed rail would be game changing, But they didn't go for it. If your worried about catching and getting hurt, they make green circles you can ski on. Get with it or get rolled over.