Neckbeard

[crabmeat thompson]

The dumpling shits all over the neckbeard in marginal surf. Took it out in some knee high stuff this morning and spent my whole surf wishing I had the dumpling.

I will get the NB in some Saturday juice before I gotta head north for a week... Be interesting to see how it goes then.

[Lard Lad]

So it's a bigger dog than ya local dog but ya'll keep trying 'cause it's branded, you dear boy, is a far k knuckle

[WANDERER]

I think it's great, the more surfers on 5'6" boards in sydney slop the better, get into kids.

[Natho]

Had a look at a neck beard today.felt pretty horrible under the arm.while I have not ridden one I can't help but think its yet another gimmicky board with a silly marketing name from CI.I just wonder if that type of board would sell if they did not market it as a board that "Dane has ridden"?.

[Natho]

Ok I will try and put my money where my mouth is and have a go of one so that I can comment based on fact rather than just looking at one in the shop. Should be able to try one out shortly. That wide tail will certainly help carry over flat spots and generate speed. The shape and foil is just frikn ugly IMO.

I don't mind a slightly wider square tail in some small wave boards. I used to have a stub nose square tail board shaped by Michael Baron (like the Tom Caroll Tuflite model) and the thing was a ball of fun. I preferred the wider square to a swallow tail. Much cleaner shape than the NB and more curve to the planshape. The tail was not as wide as the NB relative to the rest of the shape.

I also had one that Simon shaped. Again it was a much cleaner shape. The wider square was fun at first, but it tended to create too many hang ups in the end so I got rid of it. It wasn't the KB model, but very similar.

I would think that many punters will like the NB because its fast and carries over flat spots. Im sure that is the market than CI are targeting with this board. Get Dane to ride it a few times and bingo.

[steve shearer]

Thanks for that Natho.

[steve shearer]

You've changed.

Time was you wouldn't have anything to do with Julian Wilson.

[crabmeat thompson]

Took the NB up the Sunny Coast y'day... Looks like a pig, goes like a gazelle.

Top to bottom is effortless. I don't know about boosting, because I can't, but top to bottom, taking off late into a square pit and racing a long pointbreak wall... This board is as good as any I've ridden.

It doesn't come close to the dumpling as a groveller so right now it's a bit of a step up board for me. The rails are so low and there is plenty of rocker, I just don't know where the volume is?!!

Chubby Checker... There's a name I like.

[spork]

Was it him who found his thrill on the hill or was that fats?

[Cpt.Caveman]

Natho, with that opinion I'm guessing you probably wouldn't like any of Daniel thompsons shapes or theories?

I reckon they're onto something, especially for a surfer who wants more speed and glide out of less effort. I can imagine it being uneccessary bulk for a surfer who can work for speed riding a thinner, curvier, more typically shaped hps in the wave range it's intended for.

For everyone else I reckon it's gold!

[steve shearer]

CC, Dan's boards are extremely low volume.

[Cpt.Caveman]

Yeh I wasn't commenting on the low volume factor, I'm commenting on the overall theory which he uses behind his shapes. He still makes all of his main models in more generous dimensions for people who ride thicker wider stuff as their daily driver.

It's the whole modern application of the Simmons planing hull theory. The neck beard being one, diverse chopper another, DT's micro planing hulls as full application of it etc

They can still be low volume but the general theory is about producing more plan shape lift to make the board plane better

[pridmore]

not quie a hairy throat but I definitely borrowed from that shape...

5'7" x 19 5/8" x 2 5/8"

[Natho]

Looks exactly like the stub model Byrne has been doing for years.

[pridmore]

well it has evolved a bit from the original Double-D which I worked with Shearer on...

tweaking everything as I made more...as well as getting orders for NeckBeard type boards

then to what they are now....never really copied but definitely borrowed from those wide tailed shapes Dane was riding.....if they look like an old tried and true Byrne model, than thats gotta be a good thing

[Natho]

Yeh I think ive seen those same images posted up on plenty of other threads throughout these forums. Got any HPS images? Sh1t now ive started something, More images of More surfboards.

[steve shearer]

C'mon Reg it's better than those chain emails that get passed around by your parents and other baby boomers.

[Nick Carroll]

"And guess what! Bobby just got a new surfboard! It's quite wide and stumpy and he finds it floats better than his last board. So he's going to get two more just like it! In other news, I've got the clap and Jerry's having an affair with a dwarf."