Jones Mind Expander 2.0 Snowboard 2026/2027
Pre-order · Ships September 2026
At a Glance
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Description
The Mind Expander 2.0 is Jones's unisex powder deck, rebuilt for 26/27 with a new outline, a new camber profile and a new base contour. Anything written about earlier Mind Expanders describes different hardware. Jones's bars read Powder 10, Freestyle 5, All-Mountain 7, on a friendly 3/5 flex.
Geometry does the work. Rocker lifts the tip, camber sits between your feet, and a medium taper narrows everything behind them. The base takes Jones's High grade of 3D Contour: rounded tip and tail edges that let you roll the board onto its edge rather than tip it over, and that float the nose by pushing snow out from under it. And the outline does something unique in the line: two sidecut radii per length, not one. Our 150 is printed 7.0/6.4m. Two numbers, one catalog clause about nimble control, and nothing published about how they sit along the edge.
The build sheet is short. Inside, the Master Core. Around it, biax glass carrying the Bcomp Carbon Flax Stringer. A Premium topsheet on top, a Sintered 8000 base below: porous, quick, hungry for wax. No metal, no Koroyd, no basalt, no bamboo. And no Traction Tech grade is printed on this board, while the Stratos and Flagship both carry the serrated edge.
Buy it for trees, soft bowls and lines you invent as you go — float early, turn without a fight. It is not for park and switch riders. Look at a true twin, or at the TwinCraft. Riders after stiffness and top-end speed should look elsewhere, and so should anyone whose season is spent on scraped ice: with no serrated edge specced here, the Stratos is the tool for that hill.
PTO stocked the 146, 150 and 154 in Blue. No wide version exists in the run, so a US 11-plus boot needs a conversation first. Bindings are separate; Jones's catalog match is the Mercury FASE. Send a weight and a boot size; we will pick the length and set the mount, stance and angles.
Specs
- Shape: Directional, Medium Tapered
- Profile: Dir. Camber / Rocker (rocker nose · camber underfoot)
- Flex: 3/5 (happy medium)
- Waist: 251mm (146) · 254mm (150) · 257mm (154)
- Turn radius: Dual radius — 6.8/6.2m (146) · 7.0/6.4m (150) · 7.2/6.6m (154)
- Core: Master Core (updated for 26/27)
- Laminate: Biax fiberglass + Bcomp Carbon Flax stringer
- Base: Sintered 8000
- Base contour: High 3D Contour Base · 3D Flip Tip · Dual-Radius Flip Tip
- Topsheet: Premium Topsheet
- Terrain: Powder 10 / All-Mountain 7 / Freestyle 5 (Jones)
- Sizes: 146 · 150 · 154 (Blue)
- Weight: 2.4kg / 5.3lbs (142, single deck)
- Binding: Sold as a deck; Jones pairs it with the Mercury FASE
- Rider weight (Jones): 146: 110-160 lbs / 49-73 kg | 150: 120-170 lbs / 54-77 kg | 154: 130-180 lbs / 59-82 kg
- Ideal boot size (Jones): 146 · 150: US 7-9 / EU 39,5-41,5 | 154: US 9-11 / EU 41,5-44,5
- Rider level (Jones): Intermediate → Expert
Details
- Type
- Snowboard
- Vendor
- Jones
- SKU
- J.27.SNU.MEX.000.146.1
146
Jones Mind Expander 2.0
By PTO Ski Team, Based on the official Jones 26/27 catalog specifications, read from the printed pages · Not ridden by us — this is a spec-and-catalog read, not a ride report on this board · Not applicable — desk review of the official catalog
The take
“Rebuilt from scratch for 26/27: a powder-first directional tuned for float and easy turning, not for speed or ice.”
The Jones Mind Expander 2.0 is a unisex directional powder board with a medium 3/5 flex, and for 26/27 it is genuinely new — Jones badges it NEW SHAPE and says the outline, the camber profile and the 3D base contour were all redesigned. Jones scores it Powder 10 / All-Mountain 7 / Freestyle 5 and files it as "the reimagined alternative all-mountain shredder."
The Mind Expander 2.0 makes its case through shape rather than exotic materials. Rocker raises the nose, a medium taper narrows the tail, and the High grade of Jones's 3D Contour Base rounds off the tip and tail edges — by Jones's own account that cuts friction at the contact points, kills the catch as you roll from edge to edge, and moves snow out from under the base so the nose lifts. With the working mass of the board ahead of the bindings and the tail sinking behind them, deep-snow trim is set by the outline instead of by you leaning back. Camber between the feet supplies the bite and the rebound that keep it honest on a groomer.
One detail on the Mind Expander 2.0 has no equivalent anywhere else in the Jones range: a dual radius sidecut. Every length is printed with two radii rather than one — the 150 is 7.0 and 6.4 meters, the 146 is 6.8 and 6.2, the 154 is 7.2 and 6.6. Jones's entire published claim for it is one clause, that the taper and the dual radius are there for nimble control, and the brand explains nothing about how the two radii are arranged along the edge. We report the numbers and leave it at that. Underneath sits a Master Core, biax glass, a Bcomp Carbon Flax stringer and a wax-hungry Sintered 8000 base.
The limits of the Mind Expander 2.0 are easy to name. A 3/5 flex is not a high-speed charging platform, and Jones specs no Traction Tech on this board, so on scraped and icy snow you are riding camber and a plain steel edge — the Stratos, with High Traction Tech and an All-Mountain 8, is built for that hill. Freestyle sits mid-scale at 5/10; the outline is directional and tapered, so switch is not its job, and the TwinCraft answers that brief instead. Buy the Mind Expander 2.0 for trees, soft bowls and improvised lines, where floating early and turning without argument is worth more than stiffness. It ships as a deck; we mount your bindings and set your stance in the shop.
Bindings we'd pair with it
Mount point: Stance set at our bench — Jones publishes no insert spec for this board. Our pick: Jones Mercury FASE.
- Jones Mercury FASEThe catalog pairing — a medium-flex match for a medium-flex board
Jones lists the Mercury FASE as the binding it builds the Mind Expander 2.0 around. It is sold separately and is not stocked at PTO yet; whichever binding you land on, we mount it and set stance width and angles before the board leaves the shop.
Common Questions
- What does the Mind Expander 2.0's "dual radius sidecut" actually mean?
- Jones prints two sidecut numbers for every length rather than the usual one — the 150 is listed at 7.0 and 6.4 meters, for instance. No other board in the 26/27 Jones range is specified that way. The company's only published claim about it is that the taper and the dual radius are there to make the board nimble to control, and it does not describe how the two radii are arranged along the edge. Anyone who tells you exactly how they interact is guessing.
- Is this the same Mind Expander that was reviewed a few seasons ago?
- No, and this matters. Jones flags the 26/27 board as a new shape and states in the catalog that the outline, the camber profile and the 3D base contour have all been redesigned. The board sold today is a Master Core deck on a Directional Camber/Rocker profile, so older reviews and retailer pages are describing hardware that has been replaced.
- Can the Jones Mind Expander 2.0 hold an edge on hard snow?
- It has camber underfoot, which is the part of the board that bites, so it is far from helpless on a firm groomer. What it does not have is Traction Tech, the serrated edge feature Jones adds to boards meant to grip icy snow, and the flex is a moderate 3/5. On a hill that is regularly scraped and frozen, other boards in the range are specified for that job and this one is not.
- Do I get bindings with the Jones Mind Expander 2.0?
- You do not — the price covers the board alone. Jones matches it in the catalog with the Mercury FASE, which is a separate purchase, and once you have chosen a binding our bench handles the mounting and sets your stance and angles so it is ready to ride when you collect it.
