Epinion-Review: Dakine Low Roller Snowboard Bag

Taking my boards out in style10 February 2010, 6:30 pmTaking my boards out in style            Written: Feb 10 '10Product Rating: Pros: Solidly made, comes in several colors, padding for protectionCons: Wish the pockets were a bit bigger to carry more water. The Bottom Line: This is an excellent board bag for someone that is as abusive as I am with their boards.  It is durable and holds up well over time. biscuitfarmer's Full Review:

I have been snowboarding for somewhere around 10 or so ye

Taking my boards out in style10 February 2010, 6:30 pmTaking my boards out in style            Written: Feb 10 '10Product Rating: Pros: Solidly made, comes in several colors, padding for protectionCons: Wish the pockets were a bit bigger to carry more water. The Bottom Line: This is an excellent board bag for someone that is as abusive as I am with their boards.  It is durable and holds up well over time. biscuitfarmer's Full Review:

I have been snowboarding for somewhere around 10 or so years. I started out in the state of Washington at Stephen's Pass, Whistler Blackcombe, and a variety of other off the trail hills. Through that time I have gone through a large number of boards, generally 2-3 per season, in an attempt to find the perfect board for each riding style.I generally run each season with three active boards and two passive boards. This means that I have three boards always ready to go and I have another two that I have sitting just in case, I need to do a swap out. I know this sounds ridiculous to anyone that does any boarding, but it's practical in my mind for a few reasons:1. I have a different board for each type of riding that I do, which is why I have three boards. I have one board for each style, one for big air, one for trick/style, and one for all mountain. I don't really have a speed board, but that's because I just can't get the feel for the larger boards.2. Another reason that I have multiple boards setup at all times and two passive boards, is because I change up my stance from standard to goofy depending upon how I feel that day. For example if I went huge the day before and my lead leg is feeling a little bit tender, which it often is, then I will swap leads. A lot of people can't do this all that easily, but I've been doing it for so long, that this has become normal practice.I generally go boarding five days a week during the season, sometimes upwards of seven in the beginning and at the very end of the season. I generally ride away from slopes, because I don't particularly like the predictability of the slopes. I want something that I have to react to at a moment's notice, it truly makes the ride, and keeps you from becoming complacent.DAKINE LOW ROLLER SNOWBOARD BAGThis is really the only snowboard bag that I own.  Strangely, rather than having just one of these bags, I actually have somewhere in the neighborhood of ten of them.  Since I own somewhere between twenty to thirty snowboards I really need a great number of bags in order to protect them.  I never used to take the time to protect my boards and would simply just store them in my garage or in a closet depending upon the frequency of use or the time of the year it was.  Over time I was having issues with the boards simply getting beat up.  While I can ride them all the time and never have issues it is amazing that when you don't use them just how gross they become.  Things get stuck on the boards, dust builds up, and if you leave them in exposed light discoloration can happen.  I never really cared about all of this because I didn't really know what I could do about it without polishing my boards on a regular basis which would take forever with the number of boards I own. I remember one day a good friend of mine came over who is actually a professional boarder.  He was laughing at the number of boards that I have being that I am a relative amateur.  He then asked me why I didn't put them in bags.  It was this question that made me give board bags a try.  Whenever I saw them in public I had always laughed at those people using them because I just didn't see the purpose.  Throw it on your back and haul it up the mountain.  The board bag just seemed like a unwanted extra step to getting on the board and riding.  After giving the bag a try I found that the bag truly protects the board and gives it a much longer life.  It keeps you from scratching the board up, allows for easier travel by plane, and it means that you don't have to worry as much about your boards during the off season or during times when you simply aren't using particular boards.  GOING DEEPERWhen you dig a little bit deeper, the bag itself has multiple important features.  In order to make the bag easier to carry and manuever especially while traveling it comes with 3 different handles.  There is the standard gun case handle on top and one on each end.  This makes it really easy to toss it around and get it where it needs to go.  I abuse the heck out of this bag and the handles are pretty rugged and can handle the abuse pretty easily.  The solid two way zipper is pretty important because a lot of times you are using the bag in the snow.  To have a bad zipper can be pretty annoying but I have never had any of my bags have an issue with a zipper while most of my boarding friends typically do with their bags by other manufacturers.  If you want a little extra dash of lazy, the bag comes with urethane wheels.  I'm not sure why this would really be useful but for someone that is probably great.  I personally just throw the bag under my arm, carry it by the gun case handle, or toss it over my shoulder.  Regardless of where I throw it, the bag is padded so I am protecting my board while tossing it around on my person in travel.  When I toss the board across a room onto the couch or into the snow I know the padding is going to take the abuse so that my board doesn't have to.  While I love my boards and I want them to holdup I do expect them to take abuse and the padded bags ensure that this bad method of handling boards doesn't end up biting me.  The bag also features pockets that are for the most part only good for storing a couple of smaller items.  I normally store slope information, tools, and a pocket knife in here.  Just keep in mind that if you are bringing a knife in your bag that you shouldn't try to bring it as a carry on.  This could be VERY bad.  I almost always have some food and water in the pocket as well.  There are plenty of times when I find this storage of food and water to be critical while I am boarding all day and find myself absolutely starving or dehydrated.  FEATURESDual end carry handlesExterior access boot pocketsFull length twoway zipperFully padded board protectionHigh quality urethane wheelsRecommended: YesSource: Epinions Recent Content for Sport and Outdoor================================Submit a product review here.[/t][/t]

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