{"id":3016,"date":"2008-12-06T23:56:19","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T07:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2008-12-06T23:56:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T07:56:23","slug":"gas-powered-snowboarding-con-crap-tion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3016","title":{"rendered":"Gas Powered Snowboarding Con-crap-tion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/powersnowboard.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/powersnowboard.jpg','popup','width=404,height=424,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/powersnowboard-tm.jpg\" height=\"209\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Powersnowboard\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hammacher.com\/publish\/11376.asp?promo=QSearch#\" target=\"_blank\">Hammacher Schlemmer<\/a><\/strong>, the catalog company which shamelessly bills itself as &#8220;offering the best, the Only and the Unexpected for 160 years&#8221; is currently featuring what they are calling a &#8220;Gas Powered Snowboard.&#8221; We&#8217;re hoping this product falls into HS&#8217;s &#8220;only&#8221; category because we can tell from the looks of this thing that it is a $2000 turd. The catalog describes it like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is the gas-powered vehicle that combines the thrill of riding a snowmobile and the freedom of a snowboard, enabling you to surf effortlessly over the deepest fresh powder or on packed, granular snow. . . Its patented rubber track uses 1 3\/4&#8243; snow lugs and flexes as you lean in the direction you wish to go for wide, graceful turns or aggressive slalom-like carvings. Powered by a 6 1\/2-hp four-cycle gasoline engine that starts with a pull, it can accommodate riders up to 250 lbs. and has a maximum speed of 18 mph, operating up to two hours on only 3\/4-gallon of gasoline.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That hardware store handle up front is so you can pull this thing out of your ass after it crawls up your leg to hide. And that pole? That&#8217;s there to bang you in the nuts every time the motor stalls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hammacher.com\/publish\/11376.asp?promo=QSearch#\" target=\"_blank\">Hammacher Schlemmer<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/living\/index.ssf\/2008\/12\/this_winter_try_nowheel_drive.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hammacher Schlemmer, the catalog company which shamelessly bills itself as &#8220;offering the best, the Only and the Unexpected for 160 years&#8221; is currently featuring what they are calling a &#8220;Gas Powered Snowboard.&#8221; We&#8217;re hoping this product falls into HS&#8217;s &#8220;only&#8221; category because we can tell from the looks of this thing that it is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3017,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions\/3017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}