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Alpine / race snowboards - where to buy

Wanna see before I buy

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one51
Found a few snowboard threads but none specifically about where to by these (hard to find) boards. Couldn't find one yet in several US shops and several shops near Zillertal.

Tried out a friend's (old) Works F2 this weekend and that thing screamed (despite bad edges and not so much wax). And it worked fine with my 8 year old original Clicker bindings too ;-) Even on the black groomers, the board never felt too fast even when going close to straight down.

Still need to do some research and find the right board for me (height and weight, the style I want, that kind of thing). But I have been asking around and not many people have seen a place in Munich with a selection of carving boards. Any recommended shops that have several types/sizes and can give good advice? I don't want to check 20 shops before finding a good one. And don't want to find shops with 1 or 2 race boards, where they'll sell me one I'll hate just to sell me something.

Of course the used market also beckons... but I'd like to at least see what the latest and greatest looks like first. Wonder which technology BS buzzwords I should ignore... double x-cross superflex torsion bars?
one51
Come on alpine boarders... who has tried a Nidecker, Prior, Donek, Voelkl, F2... freecarve or race board?

Unless you are all on the slopes today...!
one51
For those interested boarders: I got an F2 Speedster SL very cheap on eBay. There are a ton of race boards on the GERMAN eBay site (not US).

Also I saw some F2 boards (Speedster SL, Speedster RL, and Silberpfeil) at SportScheck at Sendlingerstr. They were around list price except for one, which looked used and was 1/2 list price. But it was just one of each board, not a variety of sizes (near end of season I guess).
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