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Equipment Boards => Columbia 300 => Topic started by: LuckyLefty on August 12, 2004, 10:51:18 AM

Title: Detour - how angular!?
Post by: LuckyLefty on August 12, 2004, 10:51:18 AM
Just got one!  Wondering how angular it is?

Compared to Ti Mess?  Compared to Ti Mess Pearl?
Compared to the Reaction Rev?

REgards,

Luckylefty
Title: Re: Detour - how angular!?
Post by: smash8-10split on August 13, 2004, 02:01:28 AM
im sorry i don't care what ball it is.  It will NEVER be as much angular as a reaction rev!!  rev has the most angle i have ever seen.  God i love that ball
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Title: Re: Detour - how angular!?
Post by: channel surfer on August 13, 2004, 02:12:09 AM
The icon deuce has the most angle ive ever seen or thrown.
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Title: Re: Detour - how angular!?
Post by: P1atinumGQ on August 13, 2004, 04:01:47 AM
BTM gave it the highest backend score ever. Take that for what it's worth. I say, drill it 3 3/8 x 3 3/8 and find out.
Title: Re: Detour - how angular!?
Post by: bowlingmytmouse on August 13, 2004, 05:09:22 AM
Lucky,
Is Angle what you want?  I drilled mine up pin beside my ring and the MB in the first ring of my trac, and it gives me the most even arc that you could ever want.  I have seen a guy throw it stacked though and it was pretty angular, but I doubt that it was as angular as my old B/G TI.

BMM
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Title: Re: Detour - how angular!?
Post by: LuckyLefty on August 13, 2004, 09:55:36 AM
Actually the house I'm thinking of using it at has some big backends and verystrong midlanes.

I'm trying to decide how much I need to smooth it!

REgards,

Luckylefty
Title: Re: Detour - how angular!?
Post by: channel surfer on August 13, 2004, 11:46:09 AM
My Icon 2 was drilled with the mb on my track, and it was very angular, not even close to an arc.
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Title: Re: Detour - how angular!?
Post by: Next Level PS on August 13, 2004, 03:09:35 PM
quote:
Just got one!  Wondering how angular it is?

Compared to Ti Mess?  Compared to Ti Mess Pearl?
Compared to the Reaction Rev?

REgards,

Luckylefty



Super Angular!!!
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Title: Re: Detour - how angular!?
Post by: P1atinumGQ on August 14, 2004, 01:37:50 PM
You get the Detour drilled up yet LuckyLefty?
Title: Re: Detour - how angular!?
Post by: LuckyLefty on August 14, 2004, 05:16:18 PM
Not yet!

REgards,

Luckylefty
PS looking at Razor Wire on bench right now!  Hmmmmm.  Blank, it's looking back at me, hmmmmmmmm!  This is fun!
Title: Re: Detour - how angular!?
Post by: sundevil300 on August 15, 2004, 08:15:22 PM
my buddy has a detour. he says that it goes really long and crushes if you get it in the popcket. its probably a good ball for short oil patterns. i wouldnt suggest it if you hit a long oil pattern.
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Title: Re: Detour - how angular!?
Post by: Dabalos on August 25, 2004, 11:37:19 AM
the detour has a mass bias on it?  what does columbia use to mark a mask bias?

Edited on 8/25/2004 11:31 AM
Title: Re: Detour - how angular!?
Post by: LuckyLefty on August 25, 2004, 12:00:32 PM
I now have drilled it,

4 X 5 no weighthole.

This ball for me does work on medium longish patterns and even longer as the move is very strong the break.

Used it on hard synthetics with double oil and no strip and I was pointing a touch and surprisingly the strong little move allowed it to carry.

Once oil started to eat up a guy next to me with a Pulse killed it while I started to struggle.

A little polish may make it a more medium friendly ball.  Coverstock/core IS strong once the ball starts to make it's move!

REgards,

Luckylefty
Title: Re: Detour - how angular!?
Post by: pjr300 on August 27, 2004, 10:11:14 AM

Great info LL....I am wondering how it would work on synthetics once thewy start to break down. Will polish make it jumpier on lanes that are breaking down? Or is it as long as all the reviews say? Or should I just look at a pearl alternative? Hmmmmm.....

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Title: Re: Detour - how angular!?
Post by: LuckyLefty on August 27, 2004, 12:18:18 PM
Haven't polished mine!  Sorry.

REgards,

Luckylefty