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Title: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: batbowler on April 24, 2009, 03:09:50 AM
I was just wondering how long some of you guys and ladies have been using Roto Grip and what are some of your favorite balls or ball line, plus what did you like about this ball or ball and the line: Fuel line, Silver Streak line, Assault, etc....
Mine are in no particular order:
Assault-strong roll with finish
Apocalypse-length with great midlane read with awesome break point
Top Fuel-similar to Apocalaypse with a little earlier read and still big finish.
RSX-still using one! When all else fails I go to this ball for control with strong finish.
Horizon pearl-Clean through the heads with a super strong finish!
Thanks for reply and especially for using Roto Grip-King of them All!
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Edited on 4/24/2009 11:10 AM
Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: pop_1 on April 24, 2009, 11:11:35 AM
All time...
- Silver Streak Pearl
- Grenade
- Red Retro Roto
Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: demo40 on April 24, 2009, 11:15:33 AM
A guy I bowl with still uses a
Roto Grip Outlaw with lots of
success.
Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: abrown on April 24, 2009, 11:22:52 AM
silver streak pearl
sonic boom
the great horizon solid

Edited on 5/1/2009 4:32 PM
Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: tloy on April 24, 2009, 11:29:21 AM
RSP= 300, 801. Best ball Ever!!!!!
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Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: Laybzz74 on April 24, 2009, 11:30:10 AM
Had a 783 in SoCal (Simi Lanes) in '05 with a Silver Streak solid ... LOVE that core (has the SS particle and the SS pearl too )!!!
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Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: Joe Jr on April 24, 2009, 11:31:14 AM
Blue Retro
Silver Streak Solid
Silver Streak Pearl
Mystic
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Edited on 4/24/2009 11:31 AM
Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: TheDude on April 24, 2009, 11:37:17 AM
Favorites of all time personally:

-Saturn! that ball got down the lane and was smooth with polish. Until they flipped that core upside down in the neptune it was unbeatable.
-Odyssey, never had a solid that angular or that strong down lane.
-Silver Streak Solid. Just seemed to do it all. Played so many angles.

Favorites for the shop, cause they were easy to sell:
-Cell, it was our biggest seller ever.
-RSP, It was our biggest seller until the Cell showed up.
-Battle, For the bowler with loads of ball speed and no hand this ball made so many lousy bowlers look so good.
-Odyssey, did the same as the battle just had a longer lasting coverstock. And a awesome color.


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Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: r534me on April 24, 2009, 11:37:54 AM
My two Rotogrips:

Apocalypse
Top Fuel

I need to get these two ready for league next year.  

I might have to try some of the new stuff in the future.
Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: Jesse James on April 24, 2009, 12:28:03 PM
My current favorites:

Horizon Solid: smooth as silk, and versatile for me Hvy oil,med oil, and lite
Mystic: This ball won me big money at Nationals
RSP: even more versatile than the solid great all around ball
Any Silver Streak: nuff said
Retro Resurrection: skids forever, and then just slams the pocket
Sonic X: bowled in a pot game with 10 other bowlers on the same pair, after lanes had been bowled on. Won all the money when no one could get to the pocket but me! Lanes were torched!
Ultra Sonic: a sneaky, strong hybrid ball that is versatile as well
Battle: best hvy oil ball ever made before the Cell

My teammates were exclusively Brunswick users in one of my leagues. After watching me navigate difficult conditions with ease, using Roto, I now have the entire team throwing Roto Grip! One teammate has two of everything he carries in his bag!

The only reason I didn't mention the Assault line and the SD73, was cause I never got to throw them. But those were the same balls that first attracted me to Roto! Assault was mentioned by the original poster, however.
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Edited on 4/24/2009 12:54 PM
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Post by: notsohotshot on April 24, 2009, 12:46:52 PM
Nobody mentioned SD73 or the Assault line.
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Post by: jeorj on April 24, 2009, 12:54:10 PM
Liked my Battle. driller screwed up the pitch of one of my fingers though and plugged it. It cracked there a few months later.

My Saturn was a pretty good ball on med conditions. I dropped to 15 lbs and it got forgotten.

I now have a Cell, Grand Illusion and a Rogue Cell. All treat me well.
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Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: raiderh20boy on April 24, 2009, 01:16:32 PM
Favorite of ALL TIME
Blue Poly Roto Star
844 (278 300 266) Forum Bowl Grand Prairie Tx QuakerState Open 1st 3 of 2nd block 1980!!!
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Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: Comet790 on April 24, 2009, 01:27:47 PM
Epic and the Epic Battle were great pieces! Shot lots of big scores and won lots of money with these 2 balls!
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Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: Juggernaut on April 24, 2009, 01:38:07 PM
GLOBAL ASSAULT

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Edited on 5/1/2009 12:57 PM
Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: JustRico on April 24, 2009, 01:47:01 PM
RC-5 shot my first 300 with it. Still got it.
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Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: No Revs00300 on April 24, 2009, 02:23:45 PM
past roto winners for me, top fuel, saturn, oralce vision, silver streak, If I could use it, the oddesy was MONEY. The only downside to that ball is I rarely found enough oil.

Edited on 4/24/2009 2:25 PM
Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: michelle on April 24, 2009, 02:33:20 PM
Roto RH (the bleeder)
Retro Blue
Pearl Assault (I even called Roger from a stop once asking if there were any in corners of the warehouse anywhere but to no avail)
Sonic X
Gold Grenade

oh, and if I opt for plastic that doesn't bleed, there are a couple of the Clear Grenades at the house, including one that is still undrilled.
Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: batbowler on April 24, 2009, 11:56:16 PM
I didn't list in my original post that my 1st balls were the XR black rubber with the X2 on it and the blue poly all with the RH, then came the RC5 and then I moved to the hooking ball back in the day the UC2 in about 84/85. Wow, it's amazing to think of all the bowling balls that I used and drilled back in the early 80's! I did mention the Assault line and the Assault pearl was a sweet rolling ball and with the Assault made a great 1-2 combo! Keep posting!!!
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Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: Wilbert on April 25, 2009, 12:49:51 AM
Apocalypse-I got three of them.  One still NIB.
Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: Joe Jr on April 25, 2009, 01:04:03 AM
Forgot about the Retro Resurrection that ball was awesome.
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Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: LuckyLefty on April 25, 2009, 07:26:50 AM
I got Joe Jr's
Retro Blue so I got to say great too!
Sonic X solid....sweet
Silver Streak solid...(using again lately in practice)
Sonic boom if backend needed on dryer patterns...

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Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: Fluff E Bunnie on April 25, 2009, 09:31:42 AM
MYSTIC
RSX
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Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: Dave_in_Rio_Rancho on April 25, 2009, 10:21:24 AM
Silver Streak SE (hybrid cover) still carry it in my bag - great carry on most conditions - almost immune to carry down. The core is similar to the Storm Hy-Road but because the densest part of the core is further from the center it delivers a bigger back end. This is a core I would love to see again at RG - although I guess Storm may not want to share
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Post by: jls on April 25, 2009, 01:08:47 PM
Fuel.
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Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: batbowler on April 25, 2009, 11:15:15 PM
Hey Dave_in_Rio_Rancho,
The weight block is a R/G Weight block with similar numbers to Storm's T-Road line and I believe R/G is going to use this or a similar weight block in a new release this summer! If you're not using a ball from Utah, you're getting beat by a ball from Utah! Go Roto
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Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: Doug Sterner on April 25, 2009, 11:18:56 PM
Blue Retro Roto and DefCon 2
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Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: Charles on April 25, 2009, 11:39:37 PM
Assault and Pearl Horizon
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Post by: Buddy Christ on April 25, 2009, 11:40:37 PM
The Fuel line!

Perfect all around arsenal.
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Post by: CHawk15 on April 26, 2009, 03:19:43 PM
I liked the Epic Saga, until it split in half on me.
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Post by: Powermachine- on April 26, 2009, 03:21:38 PM
horizon pearl
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Post by: rotostar on April 26, 2009, 09:43:03 PM
Pure Fuel...still got 2 around
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Post by: keglerx on April 27, 2009, 10:50:27 AM
Mystic
Venus
Sonic X Solid
Ultra Sonic
Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: Jeffrevs on April 27, 2009, 12:29:30 PM
FUEL!!

And, ...the Rush!!
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Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: spmcgivern on April 27, 2009, 12:43:50 PM
quote:
RC-5 shot my first 300 with it. Still got it.
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I hear ya, still have an RC-6.  Doubt it is legal on the durometer.

After further review, I could be mistaken.  I thought I remember the first 3 numbers/letters of the serial number being RC6
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Edited on 4/27/2009 12:47 PM
Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: laddog54 on April 27, 2009, 05:52:33 PM
RSX- first 300
Silver Streak Pearl- Back to back 279's in different blocks of a tourney
Black Grenade
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Edited on 4/28/2009 1:33 PM
Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: Astroman on April 27, 2009, 09:14:02 PM
Global Assault
Blue Retro
Silver Streak solid and pearl

Those would have to be my all time favorites
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Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: Bernard Byars Jr on April 29, 2009, 03:49:37 PM
Silver Streak Pearl
Horizon Pearl-still have it
Horizon Solid-still have it too
Sonic X Pearl

Those are my all time favorites.
Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: RotoBrook on May 10, 2009, 09:00:11 AM
Pure Fuel!!!
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Post by: 9orbetter on May 10, 2009, 09:58:33 AM
When I tossed Roto:
Retro Blue
Resurrection
Apocalyspe
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Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: charlest on May 10, 2009, 10:52:03 AM
Venus
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Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: pacrat on May 10, 2009, 11:12:59 AM
SD-73 Pearl.  My 1 and only 300.  Now my 10 pin ball and still
pull it out when nothing else works.
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Post by: Next Level PS on May 10, 2009, 04:01:09 PM
SD-73....oh baby!!!
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Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: Mr_Smooth on May 11, 2009, 07:15:20 AM
I just started throwing RG a little more that a year ago.  But my favorite RG ball that is retired that I have is the Mystic.  I believe that this is the best Pearl Particle ball ever made. It was love at first throw which was a strike.
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Post by: carlos on May 11, 2009, 07:31:09 AM
One name four letters.  RUSH
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Post by: srlunatic on May 11, 2009, 08:00:41 AM
Horizon Solid by far
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Post by: clt2244 on May 11, 2009, 06:35:59 PM
had a SD-73, holy cow did that thing hook hook and hook some more, i think it rivals even the cell, the epic line was god like, the battle, saga, odyssey, the quest they were all great balls but the old roto grip that really stands out in my mind that even stood out when it came out:

The Bandit 2

what a ball that was, so much hook for even a old ball....
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Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: Doug Sterner on May 11, 2009, 06:50:24 PM
I have had a few but the best were:

Top Fuel
Blue Retro Roto
SD-73 Pearl
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Title: Re: List your favorite older Roto Grip balls!
Post by: crankyanker on May 18, 2009, 02:13:19 PM
RS-X.  Still the first ball out of my bag.  4+ years an still going strong :-)
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Post by: bestbudzs24 on May 28, 2009, 03:06:01 AM
for me its hands down the epic odessy i have two of these one at box finish(2000 abrlon) and the other (1000 abrlon polished) the box finished one can handle the heavy stuff with the best of them. and the polished one goes long and snaps as hard as anything out there today. love this ball.
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