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Re: 14' boards with clean lines?
« Reply #15 on: February 10, 2016, 07:17:10 AM »
Love SIC lines! (pun) Bark Vapor too. Clean lines on a board are important for me.

Here are some pics of JL Rail.
Nice. And nicer in Orange than the Yellow and Red, I have seen on some web page.
More rocker than I was expecting.

So it looks like we could soon have a review of the Vapor (Are10)  and a review of the Rail (Yugi?).
Anybody knows anything about the JL Sidewinder? It looks comparable to the Vapor as a fast choppy conditions board.

Yes! I vote for the orange as well.  I wonder if that's a production colour?
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Re: 14' boards with clean lines?
« Reply #16 on: February 10, 2016, 07:27:35 AM »
^ yes it is

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Re: 14' boards with clean lines?
« Reply #17 on: February 10, 2016, 07:39:59 AM »
^ yes it is

OK, now I'm coveting the Rail... Too many boards, not enough money.  (SIC Bullet on order for the Spring)

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Re: 14' boards with clean lines?
« Reply #18 on: February 10, 2016, 08:03:43 AM »
Any SIC board. I look at my Bullet on my truck all the time and think "wow, that's so slick".
Yep, I love the look of my new Bullet V2. The funny thing is, on flat glassy water I'm going exactly the same speed on the V2 as i was on my 2014 Javelin LE, despite being considerably wider and heavier. Not to mention it's way more fun. Maybe clean lines are fast lines to some extent?
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Re: 14' boards with clean lines?
« Reply #19 on: February 10, 2016, 08:20:36 AM »
^ wow. Nice to see data back up that the V2 isn’t slow on flats. That 2014 Jav LE is blazingly fast!

I’ve always comments that the V2 is slow on flat strange.

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Re: 14' boards with clean lines?
« Reply #20 on: February 10, 2016, 08:47:07 AM »
^ wow. Nice to see data back up that the V2 isn’t slow on flats. That 2014 Jav LE is blazingly fast!

I’ve always comments that the V2 is slow on flat strange.
Undoubtedly there are many variables that affect speed, the most important being the idiot at the helm (me). There are plenty of guys I know who go really fast on that LE, but I'm not one of them. It's not a balance thing, as I could downwind it in heavy Gorge conditions without falling off. My theory is it takes a certain amount of power to overcome the rather abrupt rocker of the LE,  and I can't generate the required propulsion. The other odd thing is that since the V2 has a much more curvaceous outline, I get fewer strokes on a side before I have to switch, yet still going the same speed. Of course that's a huge benefit going down wind since it turns like a surfboard.
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Re: 14' boards with clean lines?
« Reply #21 on: February 10, 2016, 09:41:50 AM »
Love SIC lines! (pun) Bark Vapor too. Clean lines on a board are important for me.

Here are some pics of JL Rail.
Nice. And nicer in Orange than the Yellow and Red, I have seen on some web page.
More rocker than I was expecting.

So it looks like we could soon have a review of the Vapor (Are10)  and a review of the Rail (Yugi?).
Anybody knows anything about the JL Sidewinder? It looks comparable to the Vapor as a fast choppy conditions board.

Yes! I vote for the orange as well.  I wonder if that's a production colour?

That Orange is pretty isn't it?

I've nicknamed mine "The Creamsicle".


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Re: 14' boards with clean lines?
« Reply #22 on: February 10, 2016, 11:10:59 AM »
I just thought I'd add to the orange theme here. Here's the Bark Vapor, from one of my favorite angles. Sorry the picture is so crap:




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Re: 14' boards with clean lines?
« Reply #23 on: February 10, 2016, 11:16:12 AM »
^ nice figure.

So how does she ride?

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Re: 14' boards with clean lines?
« Reply #24 on: February 10, 2016, 11:51:49 AM »
^ nice figure.

So how does she ride?
The problem is that here in the UK we've been experiencing the same storms that have been battering the other side of the Atlantic, just a few days later. This has led to weeks of this (this is a wind recording from the professional weather station which you should be able to see just offshore in the next picture, if it was a clear day) :



Which means my local beach has been looking like this, day after day after day:



So, we've had a few epic downwinders, but I've not had enough chance to try the Vapor in the kinds of conditions that most people would want to use it yet. So I'll let you know when I've had more experience on it. But I can already tell you that it is (a) amazingly stable for 26" wide; (b) amazingly well-mannered in confused stuff, and (c) lovely to paddle, with loads of glide between strokes. But I need to get a GPS on it some more, and there's a lot more conditions I want to try it in first before I give a full review.

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Re: 14' boards with clean lines?
« Reply #25 on: February 10, 2016, 12:25:54 PM »
I just thought I'd add to the orange theme here. Here's the Bark Vapor, from one of my favorite angles. Sorry the picture is so crap:

Nice, would fit perfectly beside the Downwinder.
Any problem with paint shipping easily or things like that so far?

Cheers,

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Re: 14' boards with clean lines?
« Reply #26 on: February 10, 2016, 12:41:40 PM »
The Bark seems very solid and the fit and finish is perfect.

Reassuringly, the board came with a sticker on it that gave the date of the inspection by Quality Control, and the name of the person who inspected it. So if it turns out to have problems then the source could be traced.

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Re: 14' boards with clean lines?
« Reply #27 on: February 10, 2016, 01:55:12 PM »
The Orange SIC Bullet 14' I picked up over the holidays on closeout for $1300 has gorgeous lines.  Unfortunately it got a little bit of damage in shipping but I decided to keep it since it was such a great deal - the repair is pretty straightforward.  It looks like they still have a few of them over on SIC's site for sale on closeout though a little more expensive than the price I got mine for. 
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Re: 14' boards with clean lines?
« Reply #28 on: February 10, 2016, 03:49:48 PM »
The JL Sidewinder looks good and has multiple sizing options. Black color though? Any other color options available? Black is a no go straight up.

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Re: 14' boards with clean lines?
« Reply #29 on: February 10, 2016, 03:55:35 PM »
Jimmy has the knack.
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