Burton Custom Flying V Snowboard - 2010

I am 6'0" and 190 lbs. I ride a custom flying v 156, and this board rides better, carves smoother, floats powder faster and far more effortless than any board I've ever ridden. It pops higher with ease and butters with a simple lean. It didn't take long until I felt like I was made for this board and this board was made for me.

I cannot tell you how excited I was to get my hands on this deck. I have this deck as well as 5 others from various companies (including FULL rocker boards), and have been riding for 7 years. I 'thought' that the frostbite edges WITH a little camber underfoot would really be a great combo for gripping the snow in all conditions. Boy was I wrong. This thing is extremely washy and does not hold and edge no matter how hard you try. I live in Park City where the snow is usually great with plenty of pow, but when the pow turns into hardpack mixed with some icy conditions, this board is worthless. I feel out of control.
I will say this thing is pretty floaty in pow though. I've had a couple great days with over 2 feet and this thing just wants to jump up to the top.

Overall- not a good all around deck, but fun in pow.
Not recommended.

Took me a short while to get comfortable with this board but once I did I fell in love. This board is so quick and responsive in all types of terrain. Rides well in powder also. The flexibility of the rockered center gives you great feel and when you sit back on the tail it's like hitting the gas pedal! Extremely stable & fast. Not great on ice but what board is.

The Custom is one of the most ridden boards in the industry. The deck is a tried and true product from Burton. This year Burton is offering the Custom with a Flying V core profile not V-rocker.

Flying V has V-rocker between your stance, camber underneath your bindings along with frostbite, then rocker on the tip/tail sections. All the ingredients to give you the best ride possible.

The lighting bolts are there to increase response and give you more board feel, and the Channel is the greatest system to allow the most fluid flex of a board possible. Grip it and Rip it.

The shape on this thing is a great blend of hybrid camber. I rode a 156 and took it everywhere. Versatility is where its at.

I've rode customs for the past 5 years, and had a chance to ride the 2011 Flying V a few times at the end of last season. Took it through some pretty mean powder pillows and fell in love immediately. The Flying V keeps the deck afloat without having to mess with your stance or move it back to compensate for deep pow. Needless to say, I bought it that day and can't wait to get it back out this season.

The Custom has been around forever although evolved, continues remain Burton’s flagship board. Now with Flying v, it continues to evolve and kill it .
We kind of see a paradigm shift with the Custom every few years as far as which pros are riding it, and based off who those guys are; aspects of the board will consequently change as well. Like, I remember when Dave Downing rode it; it was kind of setback and freeridey if I remember.
But, if it didn’t adapt, it wouldn’t still be here.
And now it’s like that dude Mads Jonsson from Norway, who does the biggest gaps ever.
So, it’s still very much all-mountain, quiver of one type of board it always was, but very at home in the park, even on hiking rails all day if that’s what you want to do.
This board has been in Burton’s line since 1995
Since then, Burton as well as other brands have used the basic platform of those board for other boards including pro-models.
Pro-model significance has waned, the Custom lived through it all, continues to survive as a board anybody can ride.
The technology the custom uses is:
Flying V, one of the best rocker/camber hybrids out there, using subtle camber it’s hook-free and loose but packs a punch with Lightening bolts which go from beneath your feet/middle of the board, all the way to the edge, both above and below the core, woven into the glass. This absolutely kills any dead rocker feeling.
Flying V is cambered underfoot and the edge in this section has Frostbite edges, which extend out for extra bite (arrggghh, fangs). It is rockered in-between the feet and rockered out on the tips.
I learned that ‘Flying V’ was a Gibson Guitar in the 50’sm which were ‘CUSTOM’ made. Coincidence? I think not…
Flex is 5/10, really even, twin flex, smooth when you need it smooth, snappy when you need it snappy.
The Custom comes in Wide. And they also have progressively wider waist width between 7 different sizes, so they’re really proportioned well for the rider in each weight range.