Extreme and Hot Rod PS are out for staffers. Im not all that impressed with the Extreme. Stupid hook. Looks like it will be unusable for most during the oil-starved summer months.
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"Did you eat my General Tso chicken?"- Me

Northface, have you thrown this ball yourself? If not, then don't be judging it by looks. (note-you only do that to women) This friend I mentioned above has both the Triple-X and the Extreme, and he said the Extreme is a way better ball and with him knowing that I was looking at buying the Triple-X, advised me to wait on the Extreme.

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Retired and bowling on Fixed Income

As for the extreme and hot rod pro being out everywhere...as far as I know the vip shops (i have mine) and staffers are the only people to have them. I was told by my pro shop that it will be 10 days before the release. As for the colors...not my favorite but who cares about color... I don't. I just prepared the surface of my extreme and will drill it tomorrow.  If anyone is interested I prepared the surface as follows. I took a worn grey scotchbrite pad and hit the ball on 6 sides, 15 seconds a side. Then I took alcohol and cleaned the ball. I got out my renew it and poured a little on top of the ball and rubbed it into the ball by hand. I let it hazed then run towel over it with the spinner on for 20 seconds. Rotated the ball 180° and repeated. The ball has a low shine...I just lightly polished it because the accutread cover polishes really easy.  The ball has a 3-1/8" pin from cg and the pin, cg, and rad are in a straight line. Starting top weight is 3.12 oz. (I plan on drilling it with the pin under fingers on bridge line and kick the cg out to the edge of ring finger). End up drilling it 4 X 3 with a 7/8" X 3" weight hole 6" across. Will do a review later.

UPDATE:  When my ball driller was drilling the extreme, we found the cover to be very brittle. You can tell this by looking at the chips from drilling into the coverstock. Also, make sure you drill slowly because when you are drilling it drills easy then you hit the hard disc in the ball. It will cause chatter if you are not careful.

Edited on 6/22/2004 11:34 PM