Ride Berzerker Review: Aggressive All-Mountain Snowboard Review

Hello and welcome to my Ride Berzerker review.

In this review, I will take a look at the Berzerker as an aggressive all-mountain snowboard.

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

NOTE: This review hasn’t been updated beyond the 2022 model. We haven’t tested it since the 2019 model and there have been some changes since then. We will update once we’ve had a chance to re-test it. 

Overall Rating

Board: Ride Berzerker

Price: $549 (USD recommended retail)

Style: Aggressive All-Mountain

Flex Rating: Medium

Flex Feel on Snow: Medium-Stiff (7/10)

Rating Score: 79.2/100

Compared to other Men’s Aggressive All-Mountain Boards

Out of the 16 men’s aggressive-all-mountain snowboards that I rated:

• The average score was 83.7/100
• The highest score was 91.0/100
• The lowest score was 78.1/100
• The average price was $586
• The Berzerker ranked 15th out of 16

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

Demo Info

Board: Ride Berzerker 2019, 162 (250mm waist)

Date: April 14, 2018

Conditions: With 27cm of fresh snow in the 24 hours prior there was plenty of fresh snow about. Visibility (at least the part of the mountain where I was riding) was great. There was a bit of wind (which was surprisingly cold for April) but only noticed it on the chair lift. It was around -8 degrees with wind chill.

Bindings angles: +15/-15

Stance width: 570mm (22.4”)

Stance Setback: 20mm (1”)

Width at Inserts: 256mm at front insert (10.08“) and 257mm (10.12”) at back insert.

The narrowest board I’ve ridden in a 162. But this was designed for Jake Blauvelt and he likes his board narrow, apparently.

Flex

Ride rate this as a “medium response” but it felt to me like it was stiffer than medium. I would say 7/10, or even bordering on a little stiffer than that on snow.

Powder

Felt pretty good in powder, and I had plenty to test it in on the day I rode it.

Not what I would call a super floater but decent. The rocker in the nose helps, and the 20mm setback also helps. But it is quite a narrow board. I rode the 162 and its only 250mm at the waist and only 256mm at the front insert and 257mm at the rear insert. It does get out to 300mm at the tip and tail, so it gets wider quickly after the inserts, but still overall less surface area than a lot because of that narrow-ness.

And its not super setback and there’s no taper, but the nose is longer than the tail. So overall, good, but not amazing in powder.

NOTE: The 2020 and onwards models now have 8mm of taper.

Carving & Turning

Carving is the Berzerker’s best asset (that and speed). The turn radius took a little to get used to but once I got what it was trying to do, it was a fun board to carve on.

Not overly catchy, but also not the easiest to skid turns on.

Edge to edge speed was pretty good, unless you were trying to ride slow. Agility and edge-to-edge speed at low speeds weren’t the greatest. This board prefers speed.

Speed

This board prefers to ride at speed and felt very stable at speed. At speed the edge-to edge speed was very good. Ride this board at speed and it it’s very fun ride.

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Uneven Terrain

It was average in uneven terrain.

Jumps

Didn’t get a feel for this board on jumps – whether they were in the park or for natural hits.

For anything that required a slow-ish approach, it didn’t have the agility (if it was a relatively tricky approach to a side hit, for example). For the approach to bigger jumps, it was great and nice and stable but the landings didn’t feel as good – maybe because of the narrower nature of it.

It wasn’t devoid of pop, but felt like you needed to really give it some to get pop out of it. It felt a little heavy in the air, and that also made it a little more difficult to spin.

Switch

The camber is directional – basically all camber to the tail and a bit of rocker in the nose, after the inserts. So, it felt a little weird riding switch – having rocker in the tail but none in the nose. There’s also the setback and the longer nose vs tail.

It wasn’t impossible to ride switch, but did feel a bit weird (unsurprisingly).

Jibbing/Buttering

Not what this board was designed for at all, and not easy to either hit jibs with or to butter.