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Quick Fix & Tremendous WWRD 7-11-17
« on: June 13, 2017, 11:34:41 AM »
http://radicalbowling.com/balls/quick-fix

http://radicalbowling.com/balls/tremendous

Quick Fix is supposed to be stronger on the backend than the Fix so it's probably cleaner as well. The Tremendous is the original Guru with a new name and look but at a lower price point. Same core and coverstock. Interesting.

 

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Re: Quick Fix & Tremendous WWRD 7-11-17
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2017, 11:37:48 AM »
Seriously? The tremendous is a tremendous joke.... Come up with something original.... Dang

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Re: Quick Fix & Tremendous WWRD 7-11-17
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2017, 06:09:21 PM »
Does anyone just watch the videos for Keanu Revs?

leftybowler70

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Re: Quick Fix & Tremendous WWRD 7-11-17
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2017, 06:12:09 PM »
 ;D

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Re: Quick Fix & Tremendous WWRD 7-11-17
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2017, 06:12:41 PM »
Does anyone just watch the videos for Keanu Revs?

That's when I stop the video.

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Re: Quick Fix & Tremendous WWRD 7-11-17
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2017, 09:42:37 PM »

   I found the Guru original rather overrated and a big disappointment. Maybe Phil and the guys got this one right in its second incarnation.
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Re: Quick Fix & Tremendous WWRD 7-11-17
« Reply #6 on: June 14, 2017, 09:09:20 AM »
At first glance, the Tremendous doesn't look different than the Guru.  Maybe on the shelf it will, but it's a black dull ball either way.  I wouldn't call the name change a change in look.

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Re: Quick Fix & Tremendous WWRD 7-11-17
« Reply #7 on: June 14, 2017, 11:03:48 AM »
At first glance, the Tremendous doesn't look different than the Guru.  Maybe on the shelf it will, but it's a black dull ball either way.  I wouldn't call the name change a change in look.

Yeah, looking back it does appear that the shades of black are similar. Lighting in the pictures was just a bit different. I thought the Tremendous was a bit lighter in coloring but it's not. Strange decision by Radical.

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Re: Quick Fix & Tremendous WWRD 7-11-17
« Reply #8 on: June 14, 2017, 11:29:08 AM »
At first glance, the Tremendous doesn't look different than the Guru.  Maybe on the shelf it will, but it's a black dull ball either way.  I wouldn't call the name change a change in look.

Yeah, looking back it does appear that the shades of black are similar. Lighting in the pictures was just a bit different. I thought the Tremendous was a bit lighter in coloring but it's not. Strange decision by Radical.

I think the intent is to offer a ball that was extremely popular (at least in my area it was) at a lower price point. There's a large amount of bowlers who want the best bang for the buck and this will fall into that category. Its not uncommon nowadays for people to wait for balls to go on closeout or prices to drop to buy new stuff, and this gives people an opportunity to get that high performance ball at the lower price while its still new to the market.

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Re: Quick Fix & Tremendous WWRD 7-11-17
« Reply #9 on: June 14, 2017, 11:35:45 AM »
I posted this on another message, but it really belongs here....


LOL!  Yes, this is hilarious to me and “Tremendous-ly” disappointing at the same time.  I would have liked to believe that Radical was listening to their customers.
 
Let’s take a “Ridiculous” look at the situation regarding Radical’s two new balls.  Who in the world was asking for another Guru after five iterations of the same ball?
 
Remember this?...  Guru, Guru Mighty, Guru Master, Guru Supreme, and the Guru Limited.   Five of them.  Now they are trying to give bowlers the new “Tremendous”?!  That is just plain and simply, RIDICULOUS!  LOL.

Now the “QUICK FIX” is worse than the “Tremendous” to me.  In my opinion, it’s a tremendously bad idea.  Radical did their best to try to tell everyone that the “FIX” was the ball for all good bowlers because you could drill it any way you wanted for a specific reaction out of the ball.  Symmetric or Asymmetric, you could get it drilled any way you wanted for that desired reaction.  It didn’t matter because it was supposed to be the one ball for all.  Yes, the “FIX” would solve your issue on the lanes.  One ball for all!
 
Now they come out with the “QUICK FIX”, which is supposed to give you a quicker response in the back of the lane.  WAIT, Radical!  Just wait!  Didn’t you try to tell us that your “FIX” would be quick off the dry based upon certain drillings?  Wow!

Now you give bowlers the “QUICK FIX”?  It sound like someone is trying to make some quick “CASH” and it’s just tremendously obvious that the "fix" is in for those ball junkie bowlers, who just love to buy new equipment.  LOL!
   
Say this like Eddie Murphy when he was imitating Ricky Ricardo from the old I Love Lucy shows….

Ah, HA, HA, HA…  It’ just a “RIDICULOUS”!!!

Peace!
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Re: Quick Fix & Tremendous WWRD 7-11-17
« Reply #10 on: June 14, 2017, 12:50:19 PM »
Too funny how you put the post, but well thought out. ;D

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Re: Quick Fix & Tremendous WWRD 7-11-17
« Reply #11 on: June 14, 2017, 01:05:54 PM »
I never threw the Guru, so might try it out. :)

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Re: Quick Fix & Tremendous WWRD 7-11-17
« Reply #12 on: June 14, 2017, 01:26:06 PM »
 So, if y'all are right, all they did was make some more gurus and put a different label on them?

EXACTLY the same?

 Same cover, same core, same specs?

 Doesn't that, under the strictest terms, define fraud? 

 I ain't trying to start something, but if they are selling the EXACT same thing, and calling it something else, is that even legal?

 I'm ok with it personally, but is everybody, INCLUDING THOSE WHO GO AROUND LOOKING TO BE LITIGIOUS, going to let it go?

 Hope so.
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Re: Quick Fix & Tremendous WWRD 7-11-17
« Reply #13 on: June 14, 2017, 02:52:54 PM »
So, if y'all are right, all they did was make some more gurus and put a different label on them?

EXACTLY the same?

 Same cover, same core, same specs?

 Doesn't that, under the strictest terms, define fraud? 

 I ain't trying to start something, but if they are selling the EXACT same thing, and calling it something else, is that even legal?

 I'm ok with it personally, but is everybody, INCLUDING THOSE WHO GO AROUND LOOKING TO BE LITIGIOUS, going to let it go?

 Hope so.
How does this affect cover and core differences on balls with names of older equipment?

Is it fraud to sell a Green Quantum that isn't exactly the same as the original?

I understand the renaming to the Tremendous to fit in the price range they wanted.  Which goes to show Radical must not classify equipment by performance, but by price.  And to be honest, I couldn't care less about Radical.

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Re: Quick Fix & Tremendous WWRD 7-11-17
« Reply #14 on: June 14, 2017, 03:09:46 PM »
Radical is saying the cover for the Tremendous is slightly different (more responsive and more continuous???) than the original Guru.