Finally after months of gathering parts The Evil Twin has been created.

The foam blank is made up from pieces of broken short boards and mals from old Kirra point , the cloth is discarded clothing from boat people washed up on the beach at Christmas Island and the resin is spit and gouleys I have gathered from all my new friends on mals at Greenmount and Currumbin over the past 2 years.

Board specs are:- 8-7 x 28.5 x 4 , stepped deck , super flyer , knob tail. Very pulled in nose.

When the board was finished and I picked it up my first reaction was I'm too big for this.....but I took it for a test ride yesterday in knee high peelers and I was really surprised that it actually floated me and easily caught the sub 1ft waves. Being a twin fin it tracks dead straight as there is less tow in on the fins. For what few turns I could put in the board felt good. Heading off down the Coast tomorrow hopefully give a full review if we find some waves.

Rob

laceys lane said...

can't believe you posted my new board piros
catchya

Hahahaha no way.

looks the goods piros

I thought you'd put one of those metal mulisha logos on it - I reckon it would work with the bullet holes.



I guess it looks pretty sweet as it is. Don't want to over do it.

Great looking board Piros!!

I was wondering when the old evil twins would be back in style!-

Nice board. But Starboard have an Evil Twin windsurf board

looks like a good combo. i did an evil twin i while back as well.
and found a beckham twinny in the process! he's been playing round with twin fin mals for years. be worth trying to stooge a set of his fins to play around with..

Nice looking board. I like the backstory almost as much lol

Wow! Looks like a bona fide 80's board. Love the outline, love the whole thing actually. I probably would have other fin options as well but I read about your success with twins at Strad. Insane Piros, I love it. A board I'd really like to ride.

Sparx said...

Ditto what CMC said!!
If its not a rude question Piros, how many Kegs are you carrying at the mo?
I am in the process of ordering a newy and reckon a variation on that theme as a quaddy would be the absolute ducks. Am finding that the slightly fuller nose is hanging me up in sucky waves and I often catch the outside front rail with predictable results.
Cheers
Sparx

Thanks CMC
Sparks: Mate I'm no light weight at 6ft x 92kgs , we did a huge road trip this morning (left 3am) down Dogmans way and got some nice 3 to 4 foot surf.... perfect to test the board. I had a bucket of fins on the beach to try out.

The first set of fins I had in were the Futures AMT very easy to surf , it was like drawing with crayons the board went everywhere you wanted it to go , I was having a ball but it was too skatey in critical sections. I then put a set of Vector 2 FIN 550 in heaps more grip and bit but they were letting go on the re-enrty and I was loosing my drive back off the top. I then dropped in a set of Rastas....problem solved those fins have some serious bite and they really pull the board onto it's stepped rail in the bottom turn giving it heaps of drive and speed ....very smooth flowing turn.

In summary the board absolutely rips I love it...off to Hawaii in 4 weeks can't wait to surf it over there.

rob

CMC

The reason there are no other boxes is because those fin placements won't suit a quad or a 2+1 , so there is no point .Worst case is I might have had to put in a stabilser ONLY if needed and that can be retro fitted but the board doesn't need it so I glad I left it out.

Boards with 3 ,4 & 5 boxes do give heaps of options but if you are going to ride a board as a twin all those empty slots just add up to drag.

Rob