MarkWalker
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- Buffalo NY
Posted on their site last night.
Hopefully not the Rickter hulls farewell announcement.
- Thread starter MarkWalker
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- Location
- Akron, Ohio
Hopefully they are able to find a new hull manufacturer.
MarkWalker
Site Supporter
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- Buffalo NY
Pierre is already on it. Look up Rise Hulls.
Pretty sure Pierre is having the rise hulls built at the old rickter factory, different molds ever so slightly tweaked. I think he is referring to another factory or composite person making the actual rrp hull
Aquaholic
World's Oldest Teenager
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- San Diego, CA.
In the long run, Rick will be better off to sever ties with Thailand. It's been a dysfunctional mess for far too long. What's sad, is seeing the lack of loyalty, integrity, and the true colors of a few players in the game. SMH.
- Location
- Cleveland, Ohio
Preach!
bored&stroked
Urban redneck
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- AZ
Glad they are still going to be around making other stuff at least.
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- Minneapolis, Minnesota
Pierre pretty much persuaded the factory to build his hulls. I don’t know how that happened or what lead to it, but it is what it is.
Big Kahuna
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- Tuscaloosa, AL
Kommanders Hulls are being built somewhere else now. The Factory was owned by the Motzouris's. Motz and Kommander split ways last year. Motz now has Fast Powersports which is making their version of the GP1's.
Big Kahuna
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- Tuscaloosa, AL
RRP and Rickter are basically 2 separate companies.
Aquaholic
World's Oldest Teenager
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- San Diego, CA.
Just a suggestion....Don't support manufacturers or dealers that pull shady crap, have questionable business tactics, lack integrity, or blatantly rip off innovators that put in the time and $$ to provide us with the skis and components that we love. In the long run, it's better for the game.
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Besides that, There is a pretty nasty lawsuit going on there also. not my place to discuss
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- Red Bluff CA
Whole jet ski community is a bunch of sharks that copy each other non stop. Change 1 mm of a part. And call it innovation. Literal joke.
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- Red Bluff CA
Lmfao. And people will support these poop companies till they decide to up and run and disappear.
Fwiw I still support rickter and think anyone who buys these new rise hulls is a chump. And any of the builders that bailed on rickter are chumps too. But most of us already knew that
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Fwiw I still support rickter and think anyone who buys these new rise hulls is a chump. And any of the builders that bailed on rickter are chumps too. But most of us already knew that
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I think,IMO, that VK composites own the rights to the rickter molds. With that said, I think rick r didn't want re new their contract because of $$.
Now, there are a few builders that rely on rickter hulls to make a living so I do not blame them for jumping ship so they can continue providing for their families.
I think the Rise hulls will be the same quality and probably better priced that rickters.
again , that just my opinion
Now, there are a few builders that rely on rickter hulls to make a living so I do not blame them for jumping ship so they can continue providing for their families.
I think the Rise hulls will be the same quality and probably better priced that rickters.
again , that just my opinion
Aquaholic
World's Oldest Teenager
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- San Diego, CA.
Not true, Steve. Rick, and his employees designed those moulds. The moulds are Rick's property. Vik was contracted to use these moulds and produce hulls. Vik, and the owner of R*se , in a backroom deal, took these moulds and changed them ever so slightly, slapped some bold new graphics on them, and here we are. It's f*cked up. If I was a dealer in this game, I would be making some hard decisions. But, when I ran my business, and a similar situation occured, I put loyalty and integrity first. It won't be an easy journey for RRP to rebuild and restructure. But, if I know Rick, he will figure out a way.
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So you're alleging Vik stole the molds?
Big Kahuna
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- Tuscaloosa, AL
They are higher priced from what I saw.
