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Re: NELO is in for the games with Light Signature Race
« Reply #510 on: August 09, 2018, 12:41:06 AM »
New model from Nelo: GT

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Re: NELO is in for the games with Light Signature Race
« Reply #511 on: August 09, 2018, 12:58:31 AM »
New model from Nelo: GT


Interesting. This was the design they told me as coming out last spring. Not a lot of mention on any stability shaping features so possibly a handful by the looks of things. You can also see in the video how their flatwater board handles chop and wake from other boards.

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Re: NELO is in for the games with Light Signature Race
« Reply #512 on: August 09, 2018, 01:09:45 AM »
... You can also see in the video how their flatwater board handles chop and wake from other boards.

Saw that.

They guy on the green Lightcorp race really struggles and then gets bogged down once the wake from the Orange GT hits him. Same for the guy on the Pink Lightcorp race.


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Re: NELO is in for the games with Light Signature Race
« Reply #513 on: August 09, 2018, 01:42:30 AM »
... You can also see in the video how their flatwater board handles chop and wake from other boards.

Saw that.

They guy on the green Lightcorp race really struggles and then gets bogged down once the wake from the Orange GT hits him. Same for the guy on the Pink Lightcorp race.

.........and that's their elite team paddling there. The board looks good though. The low weight won't be a bad thing but I'm curious to see if its a truly competitive shape or not.
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Re: NELO is in for the games with Light Signature Race
« Reply #514 on: August 09, 2018, 01:59:14 AM »
If I'm not mistaken, they put their fastest team riders Normen Weber and Peter Weidert on two GT boards...just to convey the idea that GT is indeed faster than their previous dugout model?
Somehow I see no mention of "all-water" on their website.
https://www.light-sup.com/light--nelo-the-gt.html

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Re: NELO is in for the games with Light Signature Race
« Reply #515 on: August 09, 2018, 04:42:14 AM »
Good thing to learn that the GT's nose is fastly moving.

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Re: NELO is in for the games with Light Signature Race
« Reply #516 on: August 09, 2018, 04:57:51 AM »
Good thing to learn that the GT's nose is fastly moving.

...... and that 'triple' is so important, they keep throwing an extra p in there.

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Re: NELO is in for the games with Light Signature Race
« Reply #517 on: August 09, 2018, 04:58:29 AM »
If I'm not mistaken, they put their fastest team riders Normen Weber and Peter Weidert on two GT boards...just to convey the idea that GT is indeed faster than their previous dugout model?
Somehow I see no mention of "all-water" on their website.
https://www.light-sup.com/light--nelo-the-gt.html

Yes, I thought the lack of mention of its intended use was an oversight or merely odd.

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Re: NELO is in for the games with Light Signature Race
« Reply #518 on: August 09, 2018, 07:15:11 AM »
... You can also see in the video how their flatwater board handles chop and wake from other boards.

Saw that.

They guy on the green Lightcorp race really struggles and then gets bogged down once the wake from the Orange GT hits him. Same for the guy on the Pink Lightcorp race.

I think that we all focused on the same thing :-)
The near miss and bracing when hit by the wake of the first board and the good leg workout during most of the paddling.
Definitely an acquired taste not for everybody.
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Re: NELO is in for the games with Light Signature Race
« Reply #519 on: August 09, 2018, 10:49:32 AM »
Definitely an acquired taste not for everybody.

And that's under very tamed conditions. Imagine a real race start with 300 more paddlers
around and the taste you'll have to acquire is the taste of the water around you because
that's where you'll spend most of your time until the stampede is over ;D
in progress...

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Re: NELO is in for the games with Light Signature Race
« Reply #520 on: August 09, 2018, 02:27:07 PM »
mr_proper: where to stand on the RS depends on the conditions. In flat water I stand either side of the handle (which feels too far forward but is fastest, at least for me). In mild bumps I move my feet back a little, eg. so my toes are level with the back of the handle. In bigger stuff it gets complicated... in general I find that speed on the RS is more about what the tail is doing rather than the nose: IMO it’s usually better to plough the nose than drag the tail (assuming one or the other has to happen).

Thanks a lot.
I think it also depends a bit on the weight and size of the paddler.
It seems that the best position for me is when the front third of my foot is at the level of the rear drainage hole. Maybe an inch further, if it is really flat.
But I will watch and report it.
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Re: NELO is in for the games with Light Signature Race
« Reply #521 on: August 09, 2018, 03:19:14 PM »
fast or unstable

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Re: NELO is in for the games with Light Signature Race
« Reply #522 on: August 09, 2018, 03:49:35 PM »
...Somehow I see no mention of "all-water" on their website.
https://www.light-sup.com/light--nelo-the-gt.html
Yes, I thought the lack of mention of its intended use was an oversight or merely odd.
Apparently the flat deck GT is an allwater flatwater racing board.  But that vid actually shows how unstable the Signature 2.0 is just from a single board ahead.  Will be interesting to see how those boards do against some top elite racers.  It looks like the lack of underbody hard edges makes it a bit tough to keep power down in small wakes.  Rougher conditions may be even more problematic.
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Re: NELO is in for the games with Light Signature Race
« Reply #524 on: August 09, 2018, 10:45:21 PM »
... You can also see in the video how their flatwater board handles chop and wake from other boards.

Saw that.

They guy on the green Lightcorp race really struggles and then gets bogged down once the wake from the Orange GT hits him. Same for the guy on the Pink Lightcorp race.

That's my problem with my Lightcorp V1. Very fast and nice in flat conditions, but when something comes from the side, it is a pain. But I know paddlers, they have no problem with that.
I'm too tall and too heavy (ok, actually I'm not good enough but too big and too heavy sounds better :D ) to handle this in the race. At the start I lose a lot of meters.
The new GT with 23.5 width is too narrow for me. Maximum rider weight according to specification at 90 kg.
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