Ebay Bargains thread

[Hatchnam]

What an ugly board.
Do they go any good?

My exact thoughts. They look like some horrible backyard experiment

[Beanpole]

I presume he has his principles down...but it's not my scene.

[Hatchnam]

I presume he has his principles down...but it's not my scene.

Yea but who the fk wants to surf strictly off the back foot the whole time, which is what his designs are about (90% weight on the BF). Furthermore, it's not like all waves lend themselves well to that approach either.

[Cranked]

This, from a poster on the McCoy Riders facebook page, about the merits of the Zap:

"Dedicate to it and give it two years and you'll be surfing better than Kelly Slater ever has. And I'm not even joking. Dedicate to it and give it time. Don't switch around"

And then what did
Gabriel mendina
John j Florence
X$&@"
Say next about the design ??

My take is that they are a good board for the average Joe but even Kelly wouldn't be able to make it onto the pro circuit riding one

[Beerfan]

McCoy double ender looks fun.

[channels]

A mate of mine loves the Lazor Zap with the boomerang fin. I had a crack on it, took off on 3 waves, handed it back and decided it was one of the worst boards I had ever ridden.

I saw that ad that Iggy posted and thought "Some sucker is going to be pissed off when he has dropped over $400 on that thing."

[tootr]

You have to stick with it for two years.

[Beanpole]

Two years of crap surfing. I could say the same about my oversized fishcuit. I've had about three of the best waves I've ever had on it...including the fastest.....but it's such a pain in the arse with no rocker that I don't ride it.

[tootr]

TF shaped Hot Buttered double wing swallow single. 6.8.
Say no more.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Surfboard-Ho ... SwepJXZNXt

[Beanpole]

Too nice to ride.
I used to have a Butch Cooney Hot Buttered with the full wave spray bottom back in the day.....And a Wayne Deane Hot Buttered with belly channels and textured deck.

[tootr]

My first custom was a HB 5.10 Russell Lewis round tail single with the 4 curved channels. Couldn't afford a spray but it has a multicolour pin line as they used to do.
Shizznit.

[godsavetheking]

I'd pay at least $500 to not ever have to ride that

[Beanpole]

Both my HBs were secondhand. Ended up trading in the Butch Cooney for the same price I paid for it 2 years earlier. Young guy had done the deal when Peter Turner walked in. He'd sold the board to me.

[Beerfan]

I'd pay at least $500 to not ever have to ride that

Wouldn't work well in crumbly blown out junk anyway

[Beanpole]

Yes, no point driving a ferrari offroad to catch stray piglets.

[godsavetheking]

Seriously? I thought it was only hopelessly nostalgic acid casualties and well heeled late life learners trying to buy themselves a slice of cred who think that these retro rehashes are anything but a total disaster. Obviously not

[offshore1]

wonder how many euros that would set you back.
That wasn't a rehash though was it?

Ruh roh, scrolling back, foam looks too white to be original.
Don't tell me TF is shilling this modern day retro thievery.

[Cranked]

LBS has an unsurfed TF Drifta replica that I was looking at. RRP $1699, asking $950.

I had two of these, customs, a 6'4 and a 6'8 that I took to Gland in 1983. I asked TF for a board good for 10'. That was in the days when I could surf. I caught the biggest and best waves I've ever had on the 6'8.

From memory my board and the replica differed in some details: mine was a rounded square with rounded rails and moderately sized half moon side find, the replica was a double flyer swallow with square rails and smallish traditional shaped sides, but otherwise the same.

The replica had a shallow single into double concave. I was not aware enough to even know whether mine had that bottom shape but thought not as it was too early for concaves. Turns out I was wrong, TF was doing that in 1983 ffs.

The replica still seemed completely relevant today. I half-heartedly negotiated on it, but it was a fairly light poly and I didnt want to pay anywhere near $950 for a board that would have pressure dings all over the deck after a few weeks.