Never Summer V-Twin Snowboard Review

The Never Summer V-Twin is the kind of board that feels effortless and responds to the slightest of energy you give it.

But it doesn't like it when you give it too much energy and can be easily overwhelmed. Learn how to properly finesse this board and you will be rewarded with a super fun ride.  

In this review, I will take a look at the V-Twin as an all-mountain-freestyle snowboard, which we define as the versatile all-round snowboard that leans more towards the freestyle end of the spectrum. 

As per tradition here at SnowboardingProfiles.com I will give the V-Twin a score out of 100 (based on several factors) and see how it compares with other men's all-mountain-freestyle snowboards.

Overall Rating

Board: Never Summer V-Twin

Price: $699

Style: All-Mountain-Freestyle

Flex Rating: Medium (6/10)

Flex Feel on Snow: Mid-Soft (4.5/10)

Rating Score: 86.7/100

Compared to other Men’s All-Mountain-Freestyle Boards

Overview of the V-Twin’S Specs

Check out the tables for the V-Twin’s specs and available sizes.

Who is the V-Twin Most Suited To?

The V-Twin is best suited to those who want to get creative and playful all over the mountain. Particularly good for park laps, but super fun for side-hits, ducking into the trees to weave around and find some natural things to rail or jump off. 

Not for those who want to bomb and carve trenches. It's not hopeless for speed and carving, but it certainly has its limits. 

Not for beginners - not because it's hard to ride but because the looser feeling takes a bit to control and can be unpredictable and responds to a very light touch. If you haven't developed that skill to be able to finesse a board with a lighter touch, when necessary, you're likely to give this board too much and it could get away from you. 

V-Twin DetailS

O.k. let’s take a more detailed look at what the V-Twin is capable of.

Demo Info

Board: Never Summer V-Twin 2025, 157cm (256mm waist width)

Date: February 26, 2024

Turning

Ease of Turning/Slashing: I found the V-Twin super easy to turns with. To a point of being too easy at times and almost like the board was trying to turn before you were ready for it. But once you got used to how it felt and could control that it made for a very easy board to initiate turns on and to slash out the tail on. 

Maneuverability at slow speeds: Super agile at slow speeds. The kind of board where you almost feel like it switches edges when you think about and you've barely even put any physical action into it. 

Catchiness: I found some catch in the tail, but it wasn't anything major. A low catch risk.

Carving

It was nice and fun on a slow speed carve that wasn't overly aggressive. But it got washy pretty easily when you tried to really lean it over at any speed over moderate. 

Speed

Didn't take a lot of speed before I started feeling the speed wobbles on this board. Not terrible but at a certain speed - that wasn't super high on the speedometer - it felt like I was having to really hold on. 

Uneven Terrain

Crud/Chunder: Was pretty easily bucked around and felt lots of chatter. But easy to correct as well, so long as your not going too fast.

Trees/Bumps: Super agile for weaving tight lines between trees and bumps. Would likely not be great in deeply powdered trees.  

Powder

It's not really setup for powder, but that surfier feel and a bit of rocker in the profile helped it be a fun floater in shallow powder. But likely to be hard work in deeper powder. 

Jumps

A mixed bag. I liked it, but had its limits in terms of how big you want to go. 

Pop: I found it ultra easy to access the V-Twin's pop. Like with initiating turns, it felt like I could just think about popping it and it would respond. Pretty decent total pop too - not epic, but pretty good, particularly given how easy it was to access. 

Approach: I really liked it for slower speed approaches, especially side hits when needing agility and easy adjustability. But for faster approaches, particularly if the approach was messy, it wasn't as stable as I would have liked.

Landing: Felt wobbly with landings from bigger jumps and didn't enjoy a messy landing too much. But it was nice and forgiving of skewed landings and easy to make any evasive maneuvers or speed checks, if necessary after landing.  

Switch

Really good for riding switch with easy transitions. Felt very similar both ways. Because it's on the looser side when riding normally, it has that same feel that switch too, naturally. 

Spins

Really good for spins. Felt like it had a nice light swing weight and was easy to setup and forgiving on landings, whether nose first or tail first. There was a slight tendency to over-rotate after landing, buy nothing too bad. Easy to finish an under-rotation after landing. 

Jibbing

Really good. I really liked the overall playfulness and easy maneuverability for setting up for features. And the easy pop was great for popping onto and off features.  While the looser feeling may not be for everyone on rails/boxes etc, I enjoyed it and how it made it easy to slide out - though in some cases it could slide out a bit more than you were bargaining for - but once you get used to it, you get a feel for how you need to approach it and adjust accordingly. 

Butters

I found the V-Twin nice and easy to press the tip and tail and they feel very similar to press. Easy to lock in, but not so easy that it felt like I could over-flex it easily. Could be confident through rotations with its low risk of catching an edge.

Score Breakdown and Final Verdict

Check out the breakdown of the score in the table below.

The V-Twin is a super playful, highly reactive board that presses, turns and pops with very little effort. You only need the lightest of touches to get this board doing what you want it to, making it super fun for butters, spins, side-hits etc. 

The downside of that, is that it's also pretty easy to over-power and have it slide out on you. It takes a bit to get used to, but when you do and you find what it does well and what it's not so good at and play to its strengths, it's a heck of a lot of fun!