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What size Lib Tech Pickup Stick should I ride if I weigh this much?

At 170 lb, everyday surfers start near 35.5L. Other weights are in the table. This is a starting size, not the only size that works.

By the Quivr team · Published

Lib Tech Pickup Stick

The catalog range runs knee-high to overhead, with a moderate power midpoint, and a beginner-friendly to advanced skill window.

If you weigh this much

Everyday means an intermediate surfer. Newer to hardboards gets more liters. Advanced gets fewer. A cell names a stock size only when that size is close to the starting volume. Otherwise it names the liters and stops.

Closest Lib Tech Pickup Stick stock size for each weight. A cell that only names liters means no row on this chart is close enough.
If you weighNewer to hardboardsEverydayAdvanced
120 lbchart starts at 45.3L — more foam than 32.7Lchart starts at 45.3L — more foam than 25Lchart starts at 45.3L — more foam than 21.8L
130 lbchart starts at 45.3L — more foam than 35.4Lchart starts at 45.3L — more foam than 27.1Lchart starts at 45.3L — more foam than 23.6L
140 lbchart starts at 45.3L — more foam than 38.1Lchart starts at 45.3L — more foam than 29.2Lchart starts at 45.3L — more foam than 25.4L
150 lbchart starts at 45.3L — more foam than 40.8Lchart starts at 45.3L — more foam than 31.3Lchart starts at 45.3L — more foam than 27.2L
160 lb6'6" · 45.3Lchart starts at 45.3L — more foam than 33.4Lchart starts at 45.3L — more foam than 29L
170 lb7'0" · 46.5Lchart starts at 45.3L — more foam than 35.5Lchart starts at 45.3L — more foam than 30.8L
180 lb7'0" · 46.5Lchart starts at 45.3L — more foam than 37.6Lchart starts at 45.3L — more foam than 32.7L
190 lb7'6" · 52.9Lchart starts at 45.3L — more foam than 39.6Lchart starts at 45.3L — more foam than 34.5L
200 lb7'6" · 52.9L6'6" · 45.3Lchart starts at 45.3L — more foam than 36.3L
210 lb8'0" · 59.1L6'6" · 45.3Lchart starts at 45.3L — more foam than 38.1L
220 lb8'0" · 59.1L7'0" · 46.5Lchart starts at 45.3L — more foam than 39.9L

Common questions

What size Lib Tech Pickup Stick should I ride if I weigh 140 pounds?

If you weigh 140 lb and surf at an everyday intermediate level, start near 29.2 liters. The smallest Lib Tech Pickup Stick on this chart is 45.3 liters, which is more foam than that. A smaller board is the honest pick.

What size Lib Tech Pickup Stick should I ride if I weigh 150 pounds?

If you weigh 150 lb and surf at an everyday intermediate level, start near 31.3 liters. The smallest Lib Tech Pickup Stick on this chart is 45.3 liters, which is more foam than that. A smaller board is the honest pick.

What size Lib Tech Pickup Stick should I ride if I weigh 160 pounds?

If you weigh 160 lb and surf at an everyday intermediate level, start near 33.4 liters. The smallest Lib Tech Pickup Stick on this chart is 45.3 liters, which is more foam than that. A smaller board is the honest pick.

What size Lib Tech Pickup Stick should I ride if I weigh 170 pounds?

If you weigh 170 lb and surf at an everyday intermediate level, start near 35.5 liters. The smallest Lib Tech Pickup Stick on this chart is 45.3 liters, which is more foam than that. A smaller board is the honest pick.

What size Lib Tech Pickup Stick should I ride if I weigh 180 pounds?

If you weigh 180 lb and surf at an everyday intermediate level, start near 37.6 liters. The smallest Lib Tech Pickup Stick on this chart is 45.3 liters, which is more foam than that. A smaller board is the honest pick.

What size Lib Tech Pickup Stick should I ride if I weigh 190 pounds?

If you weigh 190 lb and surf at an everyday intermediate level, start near 39.6 liters. The smallest Lib Tech Pickup Stick on this chart is 45.3 liters, which is more foam than that. A smaller board is the honest pick.

What size Lib Tech Pickup Stick should I ride if I weigh 200 pounds?

If you weigh 200 lb and surf at an everyday intermediate level, start near 41.7 liters. The closest Lib Tech Pickup Stick stock size is 6'6" at 45.3 liters.

Stock chart

Length, width, thickness, and volume as published for Lib Tech Pickup Stick in the Quivr catalog. Nothing here is estimated.

LengthWidthThicknessVolume
6'6"21.5"2.7"45.3L
7'0"21.26"2.6"46.5L
7'6"22"2.75"52.9L
8'0"22.3"2.8"59.1L
9'0"22.8"2.9"70.4L

A shop chart that says “up to this weight” can point at a smaller size than the closest liter match. Their band is wide. This page picks the row nearest the starting volume. Fitness, and whether the waves are soft or punchy, still move it a size.

More on the number itself: what surfboard volume means. All weights: what size to ride for your weight.

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Open the same board in Quivr. The size pick uses this chart and your weight. The wave range on the card still has to fit the days you actually surf.