Nitro Cheap Thrills 2027

The Nitro Cheap Thrills is a true-twin park snowboard built around Cam-Out camber and a soft, pressable flex, and it sits at the affordable end of Nitro's park line at US$439.95. Nitro files it as a men's board, though the shape is symmetrical and unisex - the women's version of the same recipe is the Nitro Mercy. The stance is centered with zero setback, and the profile runs positive camber under your feet with early rise at the nose and tail: the camber gives you pop off ollies and jumps, and the raised tips keep a crooked landing or a caught edge from hooking.

Where the price shows is underfoot. This deck rides a Premium Extruded FH base - tough, cheap to repair and forgiving if you never wax it, but slower than a sintered base and thirstier for the wax it does not get. That is why Nitro's faster sintered base sits on the pricier Cheap Thrills x Love and the flagship T1, not on this one. The core is Powercore II wood, wrapped in Bi-Lite fiberglass, with a Recycled Steel edge and Ureshred sidewalls - no carbon and no metal.

This is a park and jib tool first: soft, forgiving and quick from edge to edge, with a Radial sidecut that turns predictably. It is not a powder board or a high-speed charger - the centered, taper-free shape gives the nose nothing to plane on in deep snow, and the soft flex has little to settle it when you push the pace. The deck ships without bindings; we mount them and set your stance and width with you in the shop, standard or wide to match your boot.