new 2010 nobile wakestyle board.

looks sick, kicker/slider proof, boots suitable, 3d channel moulds allows to use smaller fins(35mm) sloads lot of POP with a 3 year warranty.

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pics? specs? how you know its got lots of pop?....

3 year warranty, so if you snap it within 3 yrs you get a new one?

Kite (and kite board) warranties confuse me as just about everything that can go wrong with your gear inevitably is a result of "normal use" and, therefore, are pointless? Anyone has good (or particularly bad) experiences with this kind of thing?

A warranty in kiteboarding world, usually means it is covered for any manufacturing defaults for specified period of time, and is not covered for breakages under normal wear and tear.

So 3 yr wanrraty is... pointless? i.e. any manufacturing flaw you haven't noticed/had an problem with within a month probably isn't an issue.

Yep pretty much, unless they specify otherwise.

and normal wear and tear to me is riding the board up the beach or across sand banks

The '09 NHP i bought came with a '3 year warranty against breakage', which from what i've been told means that any snappage or breakage will be replaced with a new board. This was actually the selling point that made me buy Nobile over a Flexifoil Omega.

Good, unless you ride it on rails and ramps... which I'm sure they don't warranty for.

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sir ROWDY said...

Good, unless you ride it on rails and ramps... which I'm sure they don't warranty for.

Well if it's being sold as a wakestyle kiteboard and they advertise it for use on sliders, kickers and rails... then it's fair to say that it would be used as it was designed/manufactured - but it's always going to be a fine line between use (enthusiastic riding) and abuse (slightly over enthusiastic use).

I highly doubt a kiteboard manufacturer would give a warranty on a board for slider use. The wakeboarding world has only just started issueing these on specific boards.