Patent attributes
The Snow Rider provides a rider with a platform that is stable, simple to use, and provides a significant amount of control for the rider. The Snow Rider makes use of two pairs of parallel-oriented articulated skis that are interconnected by a platform on which the rider's bindings are attached. The front and back end of the platform are connected to respective front and rear articulated segments of the pair of skis via control linkages which include trucks that translate leaning by the rider into a redirection of the Snow Rider and by simultaneously operable outriggers which get the skis up on edge and in contact with the snow as they are turned. The rider can either face the direction of motion as with skis or perpendicular to the direction of motion as with a snowboard.