The very first one I drilled was pin under ring (about 4" pin-to-pap for me), cg stacked, no weighthole, box finish and initially it was pretty strong, but now it's calmed down to the point where I physically can't open up my angles too much in the heads and expect the ball to make it back with any energy left...
Now you may think this is a bad thing, but this ball is absolutely KILLER when I need to go up the boards and still control the backend.
The second HyRoad that I drilled is pin over ring (again, around 4" pin-to-pap for me) with the CG swung right to get some side weight so I could pop a weight hole on my midline, 2" past my PAP. I had intentions of taking this ball down to 1000 or 2000 for a stronger, earlier ball reaction, but it rolled WAY too good OOB, so that's where I kept it. This one is good for circling the lane and going around the pattern. I've had success with this one on THS, later in the block in regionals on Viper, Chameleon, and especially Scorpion, and also in minors at USBCs (690 doubles, 699 singles)
I'll drill a third HyRoad this week, sanded to 1000 before drilling, again going pin over ring, but slightly closer to my pap (probably go 3 1/2") again with the CG swung right for a weighthole, this one ideally should be stronger overall than the pin up HyRoad, but share the same earlier rolling characteristics of the pin down HyRoad, just stronger on the backend. I've been looking to replicate the reaction of my pin up HyRoad for fresher patterns so i'm not chasing 40-50 pins after three games, hopefully this will do the trick!
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Andrew Loose
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