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Bowlnrd

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Who makes lane#1?
« on: June 18, 2004, 10:10:24 PM »
I have asked several bowlers who are currently wrapping up the abc nationals and know one seems to know if lane #1 is a independant company or is made by someone else. could any of you tell me?  bowlnerd
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Brickguy221

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Re: Who makes lane#1?
« Reply #16 on: July 02, 2004, 10:05:44 AM »
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the question originally asked has been answered ..
 


A Men Regardless of how bad some of you here hate Lane 1, let it rest as Jeffrevs and Joe suggest guys.

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Re: Who makes lane#1?
« Reply #17 on: July 02, 2004, 10:20:54 AM »
NO, DON"T LET IT REST.  KEEP THE FIGHT GOING!! IT NEVER STOPS ANYWAY SO WHY TRY?  IF IT STAYS HERE THEN THE FOOLIOS WHO ARGUE OVER IT MAY NOT BOTHER US ANYWHERE ELSE.  (from a refrormed foolio).
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Brickguy221

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Re: Who makes lane#1?
« Reply #18 on: July 02, 2004, 01:53:22 PM »
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NO, DON"T LET IT REST. KEEP THE FIGHT GOING!! IT NEVER STOPS ANYWAY SO WHY TRY?  


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Action Man

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Re: Who makes lane#1?
« Reply #19 on: July 10, 2004, 02:55:41 PM »
The Lane 1 balls are made by Brunswick.  All Brunswick weight blocks, their own and any OEM balls they make for other customers are made by a separate company for them.  Brunswick buys their resins from Bayer company who is a leader in the field of resins.

The Lane 1 company is just a man having a ball made by a ball company.  He has no factory, no staff of designers, no input on anything except the weight block and the decision to make it particle or resin and decide on the colors used.

He is not a player in the ball market.  The only manufacturing companies in the ball world is:  Brunswick, Columbia, Ebonite, Storm, Visionary & Fred Borden's Lane Masters Bowling Company.  All other American brands are made by one of these companies.

The owner of Lane 1, does not have the knowledge or capacity to build a ball on his own.  The vision he received to make all balls with one primary designed weight block will run its course and his balls will eventually lose their following and his run will end.

I realize he has made some decent balls, but Brunswick is always going to make the decisions on resins.  Lane 1 has no resin formulations, no experience in making resins and their for is totally dependent on Brunswick and Bayer. The characteristics that have made his balls great, are owned by Brunswick.

Because he buys the balls from Brunswick for approximately $89.00 each, he has to mark them up to a ridiculous retail price to make his hefty profit margin.  Frankly, they are overpriced when compared to a Brunswick or Columbia ball.  These two companies give you the same or better resins for considerably less.

Resins are much more important that the influence of the weight block. The weight block is important, but second to the resins importance.  Brunswick is no longer a leader in the bowling ball field and are no longer interested in maintaining the market share needed to develop new and more aggressive resins.

If you are interested in always getting the latest and greatest technology in resins you must focus on Columbia or Storm as they are the leaders in this field (Columbia in first).

The new smaller companies will be hard pressed to keep up with Columbia as they have millions to spend on developing new resins.  Recently, Columbia just introduced their latest, an epoxy resin that they state is the future of bowling.
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Round Balls

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Re: Who makes lane#1?
« Reply #20 on: July 10, 2004, 03:16:38 PM »
Big B should have keep their Q Line. I will buy any Q over Lane 1.
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Tires more importance on a car or the type of car???? hahahahha you tell mw.
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Brickguy221

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Re: Who makes lane#1?
« Reply #21 on: July 10, 2004, 04:29:58 PM »
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Big B should have keep their Q Line.


I agree. I loved that line and it is the only line of balls I bought until they quit making them.

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fishnic

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Re: Who makes lane#1?
« Reply #22 on: July 10, 2004, 05:02:02 PM »
sorry to change the topic i know roto-grip is made by storm, does roto grip decide about there cover stocks and cores and stuff like that, or does storm decide that stuff, is it just like lane 1?
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Lane Bed

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Re: Who makes lane#1?
« Reply #23 on: July 10, 2004, 11:49:36 PM »
Action Man - Take the weight blocks out of bowling balls and about 90% of the public would not be able to hook the ball. If the resins were that important there would be dozens of different ones for each company instead of just a few. There are in fact, though, lots of different weight blocks. If you average 230-240 you know this to be true.

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charlest

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Re: Who makes lane#1?
« Reply #24 on: July 11, 2004, 09:00:06 AM »
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sorry to change the topic i know roto-grip is made by storm, does roto grip decide about there cover stocks and cores and stuff like that, or does storm decide that stuff, is it just like lane 1?


Roto-Grip decides on their coverstocks in the same way as any other manufactirer, by testing the resins made avialable to them by the chemical manufacturer, which supplies the bowling company with their chemicals.

Roto-Grip's and Storm's coverstocks are not the same, according to several sources who have posted here on ballreviews.
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charlest

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Re: Who makes lane#1?
« Reply #25 on: July 11, 2004, 09:05:54 AM »
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Action Man - Take the weight blocks out of bowling balls and about 90% of the public would not be able to hook the ball. If the resins were that important there would be dozens of different ones for each company instead of just a few. There are in fact, though, lots of different weight blocks. If you average 230-240 you know this to be true.
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Cores can modify a ball's coverstock's performance to the extent allowed by the coverstock. They cannot make the coverstock do something it was not capable of doing.

I have yet to see any coorelation between a bowler's average and his knowledge of the technical aspects of bowling balls. Maybe some higher average bowlers do, but I have found this to be the rare exception rather than the rule. This is not to say that you do not. But the high average bowlers I know take make almost any ball do tricks: they know releases, speed adjustments, have faultless hand/eye coordination and can read and react to lane oil changes with an ease that makes th eordinary good bowler jealous. However, rarely do they know bowling balls; their driller fills that job for them, in most cases.
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