Rome Snowboard Technology
Hot Rods
Industry Leading
Pop & Response
Invented by Rome, HotRods are thin rods milled into our boards’ cores starting from the insert pack and extending out towards the nose or tail. Designed to provide next level explosive pop, power and response.
Responsive boards ride better, plain and simple. Rome uses HotRods to create responsive, lively boards so riders can ollie higher, land deeper and have quicker reactions to whatever they’re riding. Each board model has a different HotRod configuration designed to create a dynamic flex with explosive pop and response.
HOTRODS ADD MORE POP TO YOUR RIDE
Load
When you set-up to ollie or make a quick adjustment, the energy is loaded directly under your boot.
Transfer
As the movement begins, the HotRods react and transfer the loaded energy throughout the board.
Pop
The HotRods spread the energy throughout the board, effectively boosting the motion to create next level pop, power and responsiveness. Higher ollies.
Quicker turns. Hyper-responsive riding. HotRods.
Hot Rods. Next Level Pop and Response
Omega. Unleash the Power of Carbon
CARBON HOTROD
Super responsive and powerfully snappy
BAMBOO HOTROD
Pressable and playful with plenty of pop
CARBON OMEGA HOTROD
Omegat on hiilikuitu levyjä, jotka on kierretty HotRodien ympärille antamaan lisä kimmoisuutta ja vastetta.
Bambu Omega HotRod
Omegas are sleeves of carbon that sit around HotRods themselves, built in the shape of an Omega. We use Omega’s to enhance the pop and response of HotRods, think of them as turbo boosters for a board’s flex pattern.
Shapes and Hot Rod placements
Directional Single
All-mountain stability at speeds and with turn initiation.
Twin Double-V
Freestyle oriented responsiveness and maximum ollie power.
Directional Doble
Ollie power, stability exiting turns and reliable back-seat riding.
Twin Single
Torsional flexibility, pressable yet reliable all-mountain charging.
Directional Triple
Versatility, reactivity and all-terrain mobility.
Twin Double
Stability, versatility and up-hill sure footedness.
Flax.
Flax. The Lightweight
Super Fibre
Flax is a natural, incredibly versatile, lightweight textile material that we use in our boards. Depending how the flax material is used, it has advanced impact absorption properties or the ability to create rigidity and strengthen specific regions of a board.
Flaximum power baby!
Twin Flax Walls
Flax Walls are an I-Beam shaped sidewall reinforcement. This natural, low-density material has advanced strengthening properties. When used in a vertical arrangement between the core and sidewall Flax Walls create rigidity and stability. We use strategic mapping to inlay Flax Walls on directional boards to utilize these benefits.
Directional Flax Walls
Directional Flax Walls are used in the noses of all-mountain boards to provide additional stability and power to handle the terrain and impact associated with all-mountain riding.
Twin Flax Walls
Twin Flax Walls are used in freestyle-oriented boards to add strength to the boards nose and tail for additional power to load ollies and absorb deep landings while still being able to lock into presses.
Flax Impact Plates
New for this season we overhauled our industry leading Impact Plates. Now with a full woven flax construction and a new shape that covers and reinforces the insert pack. Flax Impact Plates are designed to make boards more durable. Flax Impact Plates help absorb impact and add increased strength without changing the board's flex pattern.
Materials
All of Rome SDS boards are made with Isosport base materials, the industry leader and known innovator for high performance, durable bases.
BASE
CORE
FIBERGLASS LAMINATE
SINTERSPEED BASE
Rome's premium sintered base, built for high performance and high speed.
SUPERPOP CORE
Rome's lightest and most responsive core, built with alternating strips of 10mm wide Poplar and 20mm wide Paulownia.
BIAX GLASS LAMINATE
Fiberglass with two different axes, built to be more torsionally playful and pressable.
SINTERSTRONG BASE
Rome's versatile, low-maintenance, ride-it-all sintered base.
POP CORE
Rome's most versatile and durable core, built with alternating strips of 20mm wide Poplar and 20mm wide Paulownia.
TRIAX GLASS LAMINATE
Fiberglass running in three different axes, built for torsional rigidity and added snap.
POWERSLIDE BASE
Rome's high-end, durable, ‘faster than you’d expect’ extruded base.
STOMP CORE
Rome's most stable and predictable core, built with 100% Poplar construction.
IMPACT BASE
The best extruded base on the market, durable, fast as hell and easy to fix.
MINISHRED CORE
Built to be the lightest and snappiest youth core, built with 100% Paulownia wood.