Has anyone tried this for a Sup.I have travelled alot with my Sups and am sick to death with the hassells of transport . Jetstar is max length 1.8m other airlines are OK but when you land the taxi is your next biggest problem along with hotel lifts.
I want to make a custom performance 8-11 2 piece any advice appreciated. These guys seem to have it wired for the mals and then even have a Ron house 3 piece Sup.
Rob
it would be good to have somthing like a removable stringer, equal to the length of one half. at 8 11 you would have a 4 1/2 foot insert, 2 1/4 in both pieces it would also be good to have the ends taper so it does not have stiff spots where it ends...so the flex can transition. maybe two side inserts a bit longer than what they have done....it will always be a compromise but you want the board to have a nice flex from tip to tail without stiff spots that will also be the first place to break
About a year back you were all over those inflatables. I remember you had some large family holiday in Qld and had a bunch of them and were banging on how good they are. I even recall a photo of granpa piros on one of them.
The two piece SUP's look sus to me. I had an inflatable for the same reasons reason, but it was kind of heavy and annoying to pump up. I find in most places, that, i've been too, you are able to hire SUPs pretty easily.
Thinking of which - I'm heading for a holiday in LA in October, going to drive around the Big Sur up to San Francisco and maybe up the coast to Seattle if I feel like it. Any suggestions for SUP hire there?
better still the last time I saw a 2 piece was when I hit billboard over the head with my mal
The Pope Bisect and Trisect boards have been around for well over a decade, something in the way they join together makes them as strong as a one piece. The cost on them is pretty OTT though.
I guess its a proven technology. The idea is absolutely first rate though, being able to take gear with you. Having said that I was in Maui last year and after renting gear over there I would never take anything with me. I can rent stuff and literally change it throughout the day. I was on the latest rrd and ezzy gear, but you could easily rent Naish, Cabrinha or any of the brands. I have been told that through europe you can pretty much just rent gear from shops and its always the current season stuff. I can't speak to mainland USA though.
Dane Wilson was riding for them for a very short term way back in about 1998 - yes, they have been around for ages but never taken off (so to speak).
There was a forum topic I came across about a year ago where someone paid for one and never received it and had all sort of hassles with an e-mail chain from Karl Pope about it all......do a google search and you'll come across it for sure.
It was very dodgy and from all accounts the guy did his $3k.
Auswind have 2 x 11'2 x 30 two piece one's on sale right now for $999 each (Star-board).....I'm not sure about them in waves of consequence though.
im pretty sure there was a young guy on ABC's "New Inventors" this year that had a new 2 piece design....maybe look into that
Yes Supanimal, they must be a bit suspect in solid waves.
Piros, I think Dean Snow & Woogie get their shafts from the same place, and there a 2 different diameter CARBON shafts that sleeve together perfectly. Could be the "back-bones" of your replica 2 piece board. Would be easy to add them onto some carbon flat plates.... then come up with a carbon bolting arrangement.
For an 8'11 / 9'0, I would also consider doing the join between 5'0 and 6'0, not in the middle.
The carbon shafts are so light, and so strong, I would consider doing 2 (a pair) of carbon shaft stringers.
Then you can fly J* into Melbourne Avalon, which is only 40-45 mins from Bells !! 
Hey Rob, I have ridden a pope trisect longboard and they are very very good. The one I rode had a "famous" shapers name on it and it surfed extremely well and I didn't notice any real difference in the feel compared to a normal mal - it was only in 2ft surf but I have met guys who took bisect boards to costa rica and they raved about them, and they surfed them in solid waves in costa and mexico.
there is a guy down here that is an agent for these, seen him ride it quite a bit in smaller surf, very fast board down the line like a very big mal, not the sort of board you could throw around.
Hi , Mike from bisect lent me the 12 foot version to take to Fiji - treasure island a few months ago , it was great made the holiday no hassles just like another suitcase, after 30 years of traveling draging 6 board coffin bags and mal bags it was so easy , we were caught up in the ash cloud event so we were bused around Queensland for a week and with a full size board it would have been hell. Mike rides the 10 foot version all the time , it's a nice looking board and goes well.
