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Rick Roy gets big air in paradise

Clear blue water & personal watercraft.

The scenery is a tropical paradise: turquoise lagoons, with crystal clear, tepid water, populated by thousands of multi-coloured tropical fish. Immaculate beaches border each island, each with a corolla of…

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Pimp your ski

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Custom graphics for personal watercraft.

Steve Robinson and Sandy Riley at Ski Pimp are producing some of the hottest custom graphics for personal watercraft that we’ve seen in a long time. The Hull-based company sells…

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Chasing 
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Big storms equal big waves.

The time had arrived, winter in California. That means one thing to Freerider Taylor Curtis “big storms equal big waves.” That was just the case last December when a massive…

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Jet Waves Brazilian Championship

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Brazilian Championship Freeride for 2010

The first weekend in February at Imbé in Rio Grande do Sul, saw the start of the Brazilian Championship Freeride for 2010. Like last year the Brazilian Jet Waves competition…

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Nitrojet Demo Day

An early season demo day at Nitrojet in Oxford saw the UK's first 2010 model Sea-Doo RXT-X 260 RS, along with Kawasaki's Ultra 260X, being demoed by a large number of enthusiastic punters. They could also try the new BRP 990cc road legal Spyder (that trike with two wheels at the front and one wheel at the rear). The event took place over the weekend 0f February 20-21, with more demos being planned if you missed this one.

Supporting and supplying Nitrojet was the new Lincolnshire Sea-Doo dealership 158performance, run by three-times World Champion runabout racer James Bushell. James' own racing Sea-Doo RXP-X 255 RS was brought for trial too, providing plenty of machines to test and try. In between test rides you could watch the freestylers practice on their tricked–out stand-ups — this was not part of the event, but provided some entertainment whilst catching your breath after an exhilarating ride.

On riding the Ultra, you could feel the surge of power as soon as you squeezed the throttle, it was very responsive. It made the large, stable ski feel much more nimble than you would expect. There was a buoyed course set out on Nitrojet's own lake to provide a safe riding course with multiple riders at once. It also allowed you to fully test the handling of the machines on tight sections and longer runs…great fun. Kawasaki's latest machine has really come up with the goods with a lot of good comments from riders. Although you could not test the machine for choppy water handling on the lake, I know from personal experience that if it's as good as the earlier Ultra 250X, then this machine will be fantastic in chop too.

A ride on the Sea-Doo RXT-X 260 RS showed similar style, with the same power and similar size. The acceleration surge was also very quick and very responsive — it did not hang about. The hull design is very good, an improvement on the older RXT hull. Again from personal experience, if it is as good as the GTX-IS in heavy sea chop (same hull design) then it will be fantastic for choppy water handling too. This is in addition to all the numerous hi-tech gizmos that have been added on the latest Sea-Doos, such as braking. The 2010 colour scheme and styling looked great too.

James's own racing machine had some extra parts added, such as a racing impeller, making this RXP-X a beast. The acceleration was blistering and the handling very tight. I managed a respectable 67mph on the lake, with the last buoy coming up too fast to get the top speed.

The power delivery and acceleration of these new skis just gets better every year. They are evolving year on year and all the small improvements are really noticeable in terms of reliability and riding experience.

Further days are planned, link here for the thread: http://www.pwcforums.co.uk/forum_posts.asp?TID=38092

Thanks to Nitrojet and 158performance for an enjoyable demo day, providing new and old riders a chance to try out machines before considering buying.

 

By Marcel Diner (www.Jetski-repairman.co.uk)

 

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2010 JSRA Winter Championships

2010 JSRA Winter ChampionshipsIt was a cold, wet and wintry weekend! Yes it was the opening round of the 2010 JSRA Winter Championships…and of course, we were there in our thermals to take in the action!!

The winter months on the JSRA calendar are set-aside for beginners enthusiastic to dip their toes into the world of competitive Jetsport riding. Whether it be Freestyle or Racing, all get the chance show their prowess to an audience eager to witness future British champions in the making!!

For some it comes naturally, for others they have to work hard at it, but the one ingredient all future champions are full of is desire. And let me tell you competing in the winter championships requires a lot of desire.

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Daytona Freeride 2010

Over 250 riders gathered from all over the World and Pete Burgess was there to bring us the action.

Photos: Warren Brown

Daytona jetski freerideThe Scenario: Britain was suffering its worst weather for 30 years, A number of roads were impassable, the kids were off school because the Health and Safety faction said it was just too treacherous to let them attend, and a number of airports had been closed through the sheer amount of snow that had fell on the runways – oh and of course the temperature itself had not been above freezing for nearly two weeks!!!

Our predicament: Would Manchester Airport remain open? Could we get there without being snowed in? Was Virgin flight VS075 going to be affected by circumstances outside our control? Do you pack board shorts, a steamer or both!

We needn’t have worried – the ground staff at Manchester had done a superb job and whilst security has been stepped up big style on transatlantic flights we were soon sitting on the plane watching it being busily de-iced ready for an on-time take off at 10:30am.

The weather had been watched with interest, as although we have visited Florida a number of times now, we’d never been to Daytona, nor had Florida suffered such extremes of cold in living memory of a lot of its residents.

Daytona jetski freerideUp to then we had been glued to the central heating or gas fire thinking if you wanted to go jetskiing you’d need to break a layer of ice as thick as a house-brick before you could actually launch. One eye was on the Internet checking for the temperatures over the pond. Oh dear – New York same as us, as was most of the US East coast with Florida suffering from frost and sub zero temperatures at night as well. This was not looking good. However American attention on the weather is even greater than ours, and all their forecasts showed a marked upward trend (thank God). This was born out in fact when on arrival at Orlando International airport a rush of warm air met us on the jetway into the terminal.

Not all plain sailing though. We got into the country (along with fellow Brit skier Warren Brown and his partner Lindsay who were there on holiday), but mine and Ant’s suitcase remained in Manchester. The wife wasn’t bothered hers was there. Ant wasn’t bothered – his wet-gear bag and helmet had arrived too! My question therefore was would the wife’s underwear stretch that far -  hmmm?? We were promised it would arrive the next day and would be sent directly to us to where we were staying in Daytona. The promise was kept and I only had to “go commando” for one day.

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