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Equipment Boards => Storm => Topic started by: LuckyLefty on May 27, 2008, 01:27:50 PM
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Any comparisons or thoughts on how they will compare?
REgards,
Luckylefty
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Street Rod Pearl will be slightly earlier and smoother off the breakpoint basically. My mom has a Street Rod Pearl with a pin down layout and a Tropical Storm with a pin up layout, so it's hard to compare them directly, but the Tropical is stupidly angular at the breakpoint, and the Street Rod Pearl is much more arcing and smooth, though it still revs up very hard off the dry and turns left.
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I have to concur with Dan. I have both, drilled similar, and the tropical is weaker than the Street Rod. As a result, it gets more length, and a slightly sharper break point. Be advised though, the Street Rod is stronger than advertised.
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Cover is much stronger on STREET ROD PEARL (see my later post cover is listed same but years different batches). I used it much of last weekend's PBA RPC on the fresh on wood. SR PEARL also is much more of a roll movement than TROPICAL. SR PEARL is best control ball Storm has made in some time for me. Ordered a solid to try to get that look on more oil.
Edited on 5/28/2008 8:00 PM
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Is the cover really that much stronger. I thought they were the same cover on both the tropic and street rod pearl. Reactor peral reactive is on both right?
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Mike Marchak
Forward Together Forward never forget 2/14/08
http://www.putfile.com/album/183299
In this game i could not of heard it any better then what my coach says. "LESS IS MORE".
http://www.strikingdifference.com/
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yes, the tropical and SR pearl have the same cover.
however, the street rods, for me, were quite strong actually. the pearl will easily outhook the tropical, and yes, it will a little earlier and a little smoother.
now the solid, that ball flat out HOOKS. i couldn't believe how much it moved when i threw it at a Storm demo.
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Has same cover but I have both with the exact same drilling and it's not close. Different batches and time (my TROPICAL was an original) leads me to think things change. The core difference is not enough to make this much of a difference, IMHO. Heck, the core on the SR PEARL is a pretty old fashioned look and it just rolls - nothing major dynamic about (which is one reason I like it so much).
I was using SR PEARL on the fresh at the PBA RPC this weekend and if I'd have thrown my TROPICAL that way on that it would have gone straight to the 3-pin.
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right im not saying the street is the same as the tropic I love my street rod pearl and I plan on drilling the soild soon. I was just asying to make sure that the covers were the same on the 2 cause I thought riggs said the cover for the street rod was stronger so I just wanted to make sure I was not missing something lol
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Mike Marchak
Forward Together Forward never forget 2/14/08
http://www.putfile.com/album/183299
In this game i could not of heard it any better then what my coach says. "LESS IS MORE".
http://www.strikingdifference.com/
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I want to apologize if I confused anyone with my coverstock comments. To repeat, both are reactor (pearl). However, the SR PEARL is a much, much stronger ball than the TROPICAL, IMHO, and the SRP core is nothing super dynamic so I came to my own conclusion that today's reactor may not be exactly what reactor was when I got my TROP when they came out. Even though I am a staffer, I have no direct knowledge of anything and have not talked to anyone at Storm about this so don't take this as gospel. My impression/opinion comes solely from throwing the two balls.
I will try to be more careful in what I write in the future.
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Well I really appreciate the comments above.
I'm looking for longer and more angular so I think I will go with the Tropical that I have laying around undrilled.
I threw it recently on the local (no midlane oil condition) and was impressed with how it almost skipped over that pavement that we call lanes from 14 feet to 40 feet and yet still seemed to be able to turn on the carrydown.
We'll punch it and see.
To me the Street Rod Pearl reminds me a lot of what I have seen of the Wrath Dead Flush from Columbia....anyone seen or agree?
REgards,
Luckylefty
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Open the door...see what's possible...and just walk right on through...that's how easy success feels..