Burton Kilroy Process Review

Hello and welcome to my Burton Kilroy Process review.

In this review, I will take a look at the Kilroy Process as a freestyle snowboard.

As per tradition here at SnowboardingProfiles.com I will give the Kilroy Process a score out of 100 (based on several factors) and see how it compares with other freestyle snowboards.

NOTE: The 2019 model was the last model of the Kilroy Process. The Kilroy Twin has replaced it though and is essentially the same board. 

Overall Rating

Board: Burton Kilroy Process 2019

Price: $399 (USD recommended retail)

Style: Freestyle

Flex Rating: Medium-Soft

Flex Feel on Snow: Medium-Soft (4/10)

Rating Score: 83.5/100

Compared to other Men’s Freestyle Boards

Out of the 36 men’s freestyle snowboards that I rated:

O.k. let’s take a more detailed look at what the Kilroy Process is capable of.

Demo Info

Board: Kilroy Process 2019, 155cm (252mm waist width)

Date: April 15, 2018

Conditions: There was a little bit of fresh snow in the morning but just a few centimeters. There was still some left over fresh snow from the previous couple of days but not as much there as there was the day before.

Quite cold in the morning, especially for April, but warmed up in the afternoon as the sun came out.

Visibility was variable in the morning for the first couple of laps but cleared out pretty quickly with the sun coming out late morning.

There were a couple of harder spots but mostly pretty soft/medium all round.

Bindings angles: +15/-15

Stance width: 570mm (22.4″)

Stance Setback: Centered

Width at Inserts: 264mm

Powder

Not designed to ride powder. It’s not like you can’t. Of course you can ride powder with any board, but the Kilroy Process is going to be harder work to make sure you don’t sink your nose compared to most boards out there, especially in deeper powder. A back leg burner for sure.

Carving & Turning

The Kilroy Process isn’t a half bad carver, given it’s softer flex and twin shape and centered stance. It’s not a world beating carver but you can certainly lay some carves down on it. And that’s in no doubt mostly because of all that camber. It has a tighter rather than wider carve radius.

Not the best for skidded turns but not the worst. It’s all camber so it’s not forgiving of skidded turns. You could find yourself catching a fair few edges if you get it wrong. That said, I was able to skid turns on it. Not the hardest to skid turns on – and that softer flex probably helps there. Add a bit more stiffness to this and it would be quite a catchy board.

Fine for standard S turns though – again so long as you get that technique good. Again, you can get a little off your game technique-wise, but not too much.

It’s also nice and agile, particularly at slower speeds, so was fun to play in the trees with (though the 155 length helped there too). Wouldn’t be as good in the trees if there was a ton of powder though. 

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Speed

Again all that camber helps when you’re getting up speed. But it does start to get a bit wobbly when really moving. It’s not bad for a freestyle deck and for its softer flex, but it’s not an out and out bomber either. 

Uneven Terrain

It’s fairly good in late afternoon weekend resort crud and in undulating terrain. It’s not ideal but you can certainly ride in those kinds of conditions and still have fun on this board. 

Jumps

Now we come into the Kilory Process’ forte. 

This board is sick to jump with. 

It’s nice and maneuverable on approaches to any tricky side-hits, it’s relatively stable on approaches to bigger jumps and it’s got a stable landing platform. But this boards biggest assets on jumps is pop. This board has plenty of pop. And that pop is really easy to access. You don’t have to really put in effort to load up the pop – it comes out really easily. 

A slightly wider platform for landings and a little more stability at speed for approaches to larger jumps would give it the perfect score, but otherwise it’s a great board for jumps. 

Great for spins. Feels easy to swing around and landing and taking off in switch for 180s, 540s etc it’s really good there too. 

Switch

It’s a centered true twin board – so doesn’t get much better than that for switch. Only if it was asym would it be able to be any better. But that’s picking at things. It’s basically the same going in both directions. Great for landing and taking off switch. 

Jibbing/Butters

I’m not personally a fan of too much camber for jibbing. So, it wouldn’t be something that I would get as a jib specialist. But I was happy hitting jibs on this thing. It did the job and is fine for those that just want to hit occasional jibs or have another board for jib days.

Not as easy for buttering as you would think, given it’s flex. Butterable but it takes a bit of work.