Like frontline military service, the Howitzer is not for the meek. While the twin-tipped Howitzer from Skilogik looks as New School as an online university, it succeeds the good, old-fashioned way, with conventional camber underfoot.

Two sheets of carbon give it the backbone to blast through debris like its namesake.  The clever craftsman who creates all that is Skilogik, Dave Mazzerella, usually concocts sidecuts that yield tight radius turns, even in fat configurations, so the Howitzer is a bit out of character in preferring its arcs on the longer side.

Attitudinally, the Howitzer is a fall line slasher that imagines you’d prefer your powder served in plumes it can pitch shoulder-high, in the process administering a dose of adrenaline to ensure you have the requisite energy to dive back into the white churn. What it lacks in subtlety it compensates for with enthusiasm.  While one might characterize the Howitzer as at heart a cruiser, it’s not a casual cruiser but the kind that bristles with big guns.