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Rome Party Mod 2021-2022 Snowboard Review

Tested and selected for our top 100 snowboard products of the year: the Rome Party Mod

  • Price: £445 / €500 / $500
  • Category: All-Mountain
  • Sizes: 153, 156, 157W, 159
  • Flex: 6/10
  • Shape: True Twin
  • Profile: Flat
  • 3D: No
  • Base: Sintered

Why we chose the Rome Party Mod Snowboard: When you put this under your feet, you can almost hear the ominous pop of ringpulls. The party starts here.

Lots of pro riders have their moment in the sun, but a career as long and illustrious as Stale Sandbech’s is a much rarer thing. After over ten years with Rome, the Norse god was given an expanded range of signature boards that dropped last season. We’re delighted to see that the Rome Party Mod, a tweaked version of his park-slaying weapon of choice, wasn’t just a one-off; the 2021/22 version could be prescribed by doctors as a guaranteed cure for the blues. Just looking at it puts a smile on our face – and riding it is something else.

“When you put this under your feet, you can almost hear the ominous pop of ringpulls”

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Who Is The Rome Party Mod For?

Any board with ‘Party’ in the title has a particular demographic in mind. If snowboarding to you means starting every day with a fire in your belly and finishing every day with a Cheshire-Cat grin, then this could be the one for you. It’s essentially a giant wooden ticket, valid for unlimited fun times.

Shape, Profile and Sidecut

Like its elder, the Rome Party Mod is a true twin with a carve-friendly sidecut. That’s not where the similarities end, but it one very obvious way, this is a different beast. Rather than true camber, the profile is flat, with a small rocker section at each end.

Just like that, you’ve got a board with a drastically different personality. Spontaneity is the name of the game; for the times when you want to bend out a butter on the fly, the Party Mod is tailor-made. Expect minimal hangup when deepening your trick bag on rails and boxes too.

Sure, there’s a bit of a trade off in pinpoint precision when you’re setting your line into a gigantic booter – but if that’s your jam then there’s always the original Mod.

“If snowboarding to you means starting every day with a fire in your belly and finishing every day with a Cheshire-Cat grin, then this could be the one for you”

Construction and Materials

Boards with flat profiles naturally lose a bit of pop power, thanks to pesky physics. However, the folk at Rome have offset that to some degree with the addition of carbon ‘Hotrods’. When you load them up at the start of an ollie, they’ll rebound with enough ping to send you skywards in style. Their curved design (travelling from the ends of the board out towards each edge) mean that you get a little more torsional stiffness than the biax fibreglass would otherwise deliver, without veering into ‘plank’ territory.

Right underneath the bindings you’ll find ‘Impact Plates’ that are designed to help the Rome Party Mod withstand the abuse that comes with regular park use. When you’re just flying down pistes, however, they help to smoothen out the ride and spare your feet a serious rattling.

The base is slightly less premium than what you’ll find on the original Mod, but that makes sense given that, for a board like this, ease of upkeep trumps straightline speed every time. It’s still pretty darn quick, in any case.

“Like its elder, the Rome Party Mod is a true twin with a carve-friendly sidecut”

Roundup

Some boards are not for everyone, but the Rome Party Mod is more a case of ‘not for every day’. There will be times that its particular offering of carefree funboarding isn’t what you’re after – but is there a rider on the planet who doesn’t crave a bit of that from time to time?

Close your eyes and picture a slushy spring mountain, with side-hits and rock hits as far as the eye can see, and a park with a decent rail line. Now look down at your feet; if you’re not already visualising a Rome Party Mod under there, then it’s time to dream bigger.

Trade Secrets

Matt Stillman – Marketing Manager / Team Manager, Rome

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“Who let this guy into the party? Oh wait, he IS the party! Designed to mimic the feel of an OG syndicate favourite, the Mod Rocker, the Party Mod is a buttery park lapper when you want it to be and a powerfully playful all-mountain liberator when you need it to be. Fun fact: Former Rome employee, @Gnarlyshark photographed himself throwing the horns skyward as the design inspiration for this graphic. Party on, Party Mod!”

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