Surfriding Zack Bright's Cold-Fusion Light-Weight Revolution Hull Build

piratelife

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tightithrash said:
Ive decided to not do a secret build like i did on my rickter so that cat is out, stepping off my Rickter FR-2 and stepping up to a Light-Weight Revolution. there is alot to be said about the Light-Weight being as how much good ive said about my Rickter, to now going to more advanced, capable, and bottom line BULLET PROOF ski. i beat on this ski pretty good in france and there not even a stress crack where i know i would have had an issue on the rickter... (and have issues with it in the short 8 months ive been riding it.) i got into a frekin collision with a superjet during a heat (not my fault) and i put the nose of the light weight through the bottom deck of the super jet..... not even a scratch on my s

this ski is the definition of strength, with out question is the highest quality ski on the market right now and holds the highest standard of quality in aftermarket hulls period. Norbert works with composites for a living and is known for designing, building, and standing by his car body's and other parts in the auto racing industry. he builds for Factory Porsche who just one there 5X 24 hour race. Ferrari's, Bugatti's you name it the guy makes carbon body's for it. its his bread and butter so his skis are unbelievable, ask anyone that has seen one in person.

Light-Weight has been known for how light he can get his skis and remain strong, Marc Sickerling just sold his old 7 year old hull and still no stress cracks, but in the surf weight is your friend so norbert built the first fiberglass Revolution to get some weight on it and had me put it to the test. its glass and fully re-enforced with kevlar that looks amazing and is insanely strong.

as some know, this is the most forward thinking ski on the planet when it comes to adjust-ability. the tray can be a flat deck in 5 min. adjust the foot holds where ever you like with 2 bolts. the length of the ski can be adjusted in 5 min. the way water is introduced to the intake grate can be changed, the possibilities are endless. im excited to look at the surf and decide if i need the ski to be -4, -2, stock length, even positive lengths! one thing im going to experement with in the future is doing surf board tail style hull plate. fish, square, pin, should be awesome!

im going to have alot of pics and alot of reports so stay tuned.

heres a few picks from france when i last rode it and some from my house. i just picked this up from LAX yesterday.

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insane bro sick stuff!!!much respect
 
tightithrash

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Cheers guys!

Tim, damn I wish I would have known that before I drilled it for helicoils.... I had mr watcon install it on the beach bit I just don't know how it will last...

So I took my pump to a local yocal to press out my pump bearings and he called me today saying he can't get my prop off so I need to pick it up, take it off, and then take it back.... Yay wasted days!
 
Kawikazi

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So Zack, I'm in the market for an am hull and have been looking at a rickter until I seen this thread. Having not ridden any am hull I only know what I hear, see and read and from what I've seen and read the rickter so far is the best "all around" hull where as a lot of hulls are terrain oriented such as superfreaks for surf and bobs for flat water. I would say I'm mostly rec/freerider. I live on some of the most gnarliest whitewater in the U.S. so that is my main riding terrain being its in my backyard but I try to make it to the surf AS MUCH as possible. With that being said I need an "all around" hull for my style riding.
I've seen every one the skill spectrum ride the rickter and look good. I've seen TC shredding on his and looked smooth as butter..naturally.. and I've seen complete novice riders climb on rickters for the first time and look super comfortable ya know? Which ultimately is what I'm looking for. It's seems like the rickter is not only forgiving but corrective to the rider in any condition. If that makes any sense to ya. I saw seasoned pros step on hulls like the eme and it seemed to take them half a day to adjust to it before sticking anything.
Anyway to cut this Jibberish short... the quality and craftmanship of this LW hull is def A1 but what about handling? How does it compare to the rickter? Or all the rest as far as handling? Do think this hull is single terrain oriented? Or a good hull for anything thrown at it. I've seen how comfortable your riding style is on the rickter... do you feel equally comfortable on the LW? And last but not least, whats the ticket on this unit?
Hey bro thanks in advance for your insight on this, greatly appreciated! Hope to shred with ya soon!

Justin
 
tightithrash

tightithrash

Zack Bright. I Thrash.
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conzi_dv8 said:
You rocking an e30?

Love the ski!
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yea baby german all over my garage. im pry going to put a BMW symbol on the light-weight hahahah but yea im dealing with pink slip and registration issues on it and smog so i cant drive it :( i did take it out in the snow in the winter tho... gotta love stick and rear wheel drive braaaaaaaapppppp brap brap thing is a drift machine. i love the car just has paper issues.

Proformance1 said:
You bringing this new ride to Daytona this year??? :)
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hopefully! bumming rides was fun but there is nothing like your own ski.

Kawikazi said:
So Zack, I'm in the market for an am hull and have been looking at a rickter until I seen this thread. Having not ridden any am hull I only know what I hear, see and read and from what I've seen and read the rickter so far is the best "all around" hull where as a lot of hulls are terrain oriented such as superfreaks for surf and bobs for flat water. I would say I'm mostly rec/freerider. I live on some of the most gnarliest whitewater in the U.S. so that is my main riding terrain being its in my backyard but I try to make it to the surf AS MUCH as possible. With that being said I need an "all around" hull for my style riding.
I've seen every one the skill spectrum ride the rickter and look good. I've seen TC shredding on his and looked smooth as butter..naturally.. and I've seen complete novice riders climb on rickters for the first time and look super comfortable ya know? Which ultimately is what I'm looking for. It's seems like the rickter is not only forgiving but corrective to the rider in any condition. If that makes any sense to ya. I saw seasoned pros step on hulls like the eme and it seemed to take them half a day to adjust to it before sticking anything.
Anyway to cut this Jibberish short... the quality and craftmanship of this LW hull is def A1 but what about handling? How does it compare to the rickter? Or all the rest as far as handling? Do think this hull is single terrain oriented? Or a good hull for anything thrown at it. I've seen how comfortable your riding style is on the rickter... do you feel equally comfortable on the LW? And last but not least, whats the ticket on this unit?
Hey bro thanks in advance for your insight on this, greatly appreciated! Hope to shred with ya soon!

Justin
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Justin,

you gotta make it out to pismo to ride these hulls. especially this year since there will be superfreaks, rickters, lightweights, gen1 and 2 bobs, and maybe some others. you HAVE to ride them if you are interested in a AM hull. but i did buy a rickter with out riding one so.... lol. but that was because of how i saw TC ride it. on that note, you should have seen how Ross ride the lightweight in france... holy crap slash master! the guy was surfing like i had never seen before and he hates all the AM hulls... except the lightweight so that really says alot!

the rickter handles great. it def helped speed up my riding progress. the MAIN thing it gave me was confidence. faith that the ski would pull out of :):):):)ty situations, which it would and thats what made me better because it allowed me to push harder instead of going " oope, im dead". from a superjet to a rickter it felt like everything the superjet wasnt, like when i first got it i could not pearl the thing. but over time learning to push, i can go pearl the thing in 10 seconds, but only because im in a gnarly spot on the wave. it also flips faster than a sj and has a wider tray.

the LW on the other hand feels like everything the rickter wasnt. what i mean is the fr-2 is only ever going to be a fr-2 the only thing you can change is the rideplate. now you may say well you shouldn't have to adjust something that works... well if that was true there would be no aftermarket MARKET. everything can be fine tuned and adjusted for anything on this ski and i love that. the thing really turns on a rail where the rickter really likes to ride flat. it will turn for sure but it more slides. now i havnt tested every plate that norbert makes. other set ups will change every handling dynamic on the ski. i rode with the plate pictured in the build. it was flush and i had norbert D-cut it which helped alot. the LW feels a bit like an 08 where its a little tougher to get it to slide but damn it carves. the LW will slide too but when i rode it in france it had a 13/16 so power was more mid and it had a deeper grate and also the flat plate in front of the intake grate so it wasnt as easy as the fr-2. ross says with the convexed plate makes it alot easier to slide so ill be putting that on at surf slam as well a running my 9/15 and 'jetpro' intake grate it should really slide much easier.

the biggest thing was when i tried to ride the LW like the rickter it was kinda hard to ride. what i mean is if i lazily tried to do things i would sometimes fall over or fall out the back of the wave.the rickter really likes to ride at a slow pace too which i feel kinda hurt my style where on a superjet you can just rail it around really fast in the waves. the LW reminds me of that. once i really started to ride this thing aggressive is when this ski seriously shined. i was going in harder and deeper (ooohhh baby) than i had done on my rickter and a light bulb turned on in my head and i was like oh snap.... this ski is going to let me push to another level. it turns harder, it flips faster, it is 100000x stronger and its adjustable. it took me about an hour to get used to the handling and i know once i have more ride time and make adjustments it will out handle the rickter.

i deff wouldnt not say its a 1 trick pony. it rips in the surf, i dont ride flat water but Mr. sickerling kills it on the thing on the lake. you can hold it wide open and rail turns. i think with a really long plate this thing will kick ass on a buoy course. oh and NO SPRAY IN YOUR :):):):)ING FACE ALL DAY LONG!!!

blowsion is selling the skis, it is a bit more money than a rickter but it is the last ski you will have to buy and it is one ski that wears 3 different hats.
heres the link to purchase the ski. bowsion has one sitting there right now!

http://www.blowsion.com/products/799-lightweight-de-hull-2011.aspx
 
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tightithrash

tightithrash

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So the pump saga continues!!! So the local yocal shop was closed fri-mon so grabbed it yesterday and took it to our local motorcycle shop (riders choice) where I should have taken it in the first place... They call me this morning and the bearings are different! Fffuuuuuuu! So for the record, 144 bearings will not work in a 145 set back mag..... The front bearing is double the size of a regular bearing. Sssooooo called skat-trak and I'm getting it next day aired over here.

I also had blowsion overnight my stuff and UPS's plane had mechanical issues and it didn't show up today.... Wwwoooo hooo!

So hopefully this mo:):):):)in ski gets done by wed!

Oh I put my intake grate in once on my rickter and now I went to take it off for the first time.... And the insert in the hull is spinning so I have to drill the head off the bolt. :):):):) YEAH!
 
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tightithrash

tightithrash

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Oh yeah I weighed the ski on a digital bathroom scale today.

Fiberglass hull with Kevlar no hood- 91.6 pounds.

Fiberglass hood I thiiiiink with Kevlar- 14.6 pounds.

I'll weigh the rickter on the same scale tomm.
 
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