How much is down to the bike?

• 1 My other big passion in life is snowboarding, and every year their is a huge rush to get the newest greatest board, which everyone will swear rides better than the previous years, yet in reality all that has changed are the graphics
  
  

When you fork out a load of dollar for something new and shiny you inevitably find a myriad of reasons why it is better than what you had before, just to justify the purchase

aye, exactly.