2025 Men's Never Summer Proto FR Snowboard - QPFR
Product Features
This directional board is built for the rider seeking the best performance on groomers, bowls, trees, and steeps.
The FR features a ¾” setback, 5mm of taper and Front End Rise and Float Mechanics for float in deep powder and slush, while Triple Camber allows for unsurpassed carving power.
With a tech package of carbon and damping elements to rival NASA, the Triple Camber Proto FR has quickly climbed the ranks to become Never Summer's flagship freeride board.
Terrain
- All Mountain and Freeride
Rider's ability
Binding Compatibility
Rocker Type
Triple Camber
- Game changing innovation.
- The center rocker of Never Summer patented Rocker Camber profile is now a third camber area flanked by two small rockers.
- The result is a completely balanced ride not found in any other profile.
- Triple Camber makes the most efficient use of your entire edge.
- The primary edge hold starts from the center of the board.
- It’s insanely responsive and stable and aids the high performance engagement of the two outside camber areas located under your feet.
- The overall Rocker Camber shape retains the playful and forgiving feel.
- Balanced vice-like edge hold, rocket launching pop, and insane butterability.
- Game changed.
Rocker Profile
(Camber / Rocker / Camber / Rocker /Camber)
Flex
Stiff
Flex Rating
8 out of 10 (1 Soft - 10 Stiff)
Shape
Directional
- Directional Shape is designed to be ridden with a slightly longer nose than tail to concentrate pop in the tail while providing plenty of float, flow, and control to rip any terrain or condition.
Taper
5mm
Core
WooBoo Core
- Never Summer's WOOBOO WOOD CORE combines Bamboo stringers, Paulownia, Poplar and Birch.
- The Bamboo stringers are light, extremely strong and gives the board quick reflex and lessens vibration.
- Paulowina is a hardwood that can grow up to 15 feet a year!
- Bamboo and Paulownia are great sustainable options, Other hardwoods, Poplar and Birch are added, giving the core a great strength to weight ratio.
- Birch is strategically placed underneath the mounting inserts for a secure, solid connection.
- This combination of wood species and Bamboo supply the snowboard with a crisp and light underfoot feel with powerful performance.
Topsheet
Coextruded Polymer
- This Premium Topsheet is a durable, lightweight, scratch and chip resistant fiber backed thermoplastic.
- This premium topsheets also provide more grip than other topsheet materials, working as a built-in stomp pad.
Laminates
STS Pretensioned Fiberglass
- The world's best snowboard fiberglass, period.
- Never Summer's STS PRETENSIONED FIBERGLASS is an advanced pre-hardened, pre-tensioned, layered laminate that has added elastomer stringers between the 0 degree and 90 degree glass fibers (the length of the effective edge).
- This produces a stronger bond between the individual glass laminates giving our snowboards unmatched strength, edge hold and performance.
- Most bows use this type fiberglass due to it's unmatched ability to spring back and cast an arrow at a tremendous velocities without breaking.
Bi-Lite Fiberglass
- BI-LITE FIBERGLASS combines many of the strength characteristics of our STS fiberglass with an ultra light glass fiber matrix.
- This delivers incredible freestyle and freeride performance without sacrificing durability.
Carbon Max Laminate Technology
- More carbon equals more power and performance.
- The CARBON MAX LAMINATE TECHNOLOGY combines an advanced top and bottom carbon matrix to maximize response and strength where it's needed most.
- The result is a lightweight yet powerful configuration that provides torsional rigidity and energy transfer without sacrificing the control a rider needs.
Base
Durasurf XT Sintered 5501 Base
- Never Summer's suppliers have developed an exclusive, super fast, durable sintered base specifically for our boards.
- Just the right amount of graphite has been added making the DURASURF XT SINTERED 5501 BASE one of the fastest and certainly the most durable P-Tex bases on the market..
Edges
Full Wrap Metal Edge
Sidewalls
UHMW POLYETHYLENE SIDEWALL
- Never Summer was the first snowboard company to use and perfect UHMW POLYETHYLENE SIDEWALL (Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene), and they never seen one crack.
- Unlike conventional ABS sidewalls, that have a tendency to crack in colder temperatures, UHMW POLYETHYLENE SIDEWALL maintain their integrity at any temperature.
- UHMW Polyethylene sidewalls also enhance damping characteristics above the metal edge.
Additional Features
TRANSITION AREA
- A flat section of a snowboards profile, the TRANSITION AREA, that lies at the end of the camber zones just before the tip/tail rise.
- This area smooths out the transition between the camber area and the tip rise for fluid turn initiation and enhanced powder floatation.
Factory Tuned
- Board comes waxed and ready for the mountain right from the factory.
Warranty
3-YEAR WARRANTY
- Your new Never Summer Snowboard is warrantied to be free of defects in material and/or workmanship for a period of three (3) years* from the original date of purchase.
- If Never Summer Industries determines, in its sole discretion, that your Never Summer Snowboard is defective, then Never Summer Industries shall, at its sole discretion, either repair or replace your Never Summer Snowboard without charge to you.
- All replacements are subject to availability.
- Never Summer Industries will not be responsible for any costs, losses or damages incurring as a result of loss or use to your Never Summer Snowboard.