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Title: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: TheFreeAgent on March 19, 2010, 01:45:04 AM
Just wondering what are some of the track "greats"

I think the 505c and 715c will be on the list some day. Your thoughts?
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Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: The Stroke on March 19, 2010, 10:01:54 AM
stuff from the 90s-early 2000s were good.  Heat, Triton Elite, heat2pearl to name a few.
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Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: bighook69 on March 19, 2010, 10:12:28 AM
Rule GP2, Animal, Mutant... Freak

a few others
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: pop_1 on March 19, 2010, 10:12:38 AM
Critical Mass Code Red
T-Shark
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: agathias on March 19, 2010, 12:03:20 PM
Threat!!!!!!  Still going strong.  I get new stuff, but that ball still ends up in my hands.

Edited on 3/19/2010 12:03 PM
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: calrajada on March 19, 2010, 12:25:10 PM
Critical Mass Code RED
Assasin'' and Triton Elite

Edited on 3/19/2010 12:26 PM
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: Dave-bestbowlingproshops on March 19, 2010, 01:16:14 PM
Heat 2 solid.
Code Red


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Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: Aristotle on March 19, 2010, 01:18:04 PM
Triton Heat
Freak
Temper
Code Red SE (not in any particular order)
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: 5150BWLR on March 19, 2010, 02:07:04 PM
Tantrum!

I have 2 and they have made me more money than any other ball on late night conditions. Keep em on medium-medium light oil and the read on these are incredible.
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: BowlingWolf on March 19, 2010, 02:14:04 PM
Don't have their most recent stuff (might get a 505A soon, balls looks great), so here are my faves from the past:

Crunch Time
EMB Pearl
Mean Machine
Slash
Freak-A-Zoid
Mutant
KO Punch
Elliptical Mass Bias

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Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: bighook69 on March 19, 2010, 02:49:49 PM
Oh... I have a Phenom that is still great... I'll add that to my list
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: hallofamer on March 19, 2010, 03:08:28 PM
Original Heat. Used it with success on almost every condition I found. Fingers cracked out pretty bad, some day I'm going to have them plugged and bring it out of retirement.
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: Brickguy221 on March 19, 2010, 03:19:09 PM
Triton Elite Solid was the best ever from the Track line of balls  for me.

Heat Remake not too bad.

Xception 5.0 the worse followed by the Contender

GP 2 so-so
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Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: Jesse James on March 19, 2010, 04:36:04 PM
For me the entire Heat line was awesome, as well as the Freak line.

Del warren did an excellent job designing the cores of those balls. There are still quite a few Track pieces that are extremely versatile on all conditions.

The Slash, Thrash, VooDoo, and Hex come to mind in terms of all around versatility. Personally, I loved the Enforcer, the Assassin, and also the Magic for toasty conditions.


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Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: jls on March 19, 2010, 04:49:13 PM
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Critical Mass Code Red
T-Shark




TripleAAA+++ .... Also throw in the Shark...

Do you remember the boring white logo on the T-Shark?

We would re do it in Red and put it on display..

Really made the ball stand out...

I'll never forget the sales reps face when he first saw that...
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Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: Metal_rules on March 20, 2010, 10:41:28 AM
Power Machine!!!
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: Bowler19 on March 20, 2010, 10:43:24 AM
The red stomp
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Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: A_P_K on March 20, 2010, 10:50:48 AM
Original Triton Heat

Triton Contender

Enforcer

Freak

EMB solid
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Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: backupball on March 20, 2010, 11:07:02 AM
For me, the Original Triton (blue pearl)

Also had a black pin KO Punch that was quite useful.
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: charlest on March 20, 2010, 02:20:36 PM
The original Heat was what put Track "on the map".

The Assassin, the VooDoo and the Elite solid seemed to be favorites of almost everyone who touched them.

I liked the Heat 2 Pearl, the Crunchtime, and the Solution Powerplus EX.
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Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: AdrianS on March 21, 2010, 01:13:30 AM
Entire Triton Line(Heat,Coral,Elite pearl)-had them 10 yrs with multiple drillings and cant throw them out

Both Phenoms-Same as above!!

2-3 yrs the Sheer Havoc might get on there, only had him a week
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Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: blacknois on March 21, 2010, 01:19:53 AM
Green Stomp
Triple Threat
Animal
Kinetic
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: kidlost2000 on March 21, 2010, 01:45:59 AM
There are a lot.

I really liked the

Animal Untamed
Delta Rule One
Synergy ETS
Sensor Excel
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Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: SteveAustin2808 on March 21, 2010, 02:24:13 AM
The Equation and X-Ception were two of my absolute favorites back in the day when I was throwing all Track.

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Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: j0hnny2x on March 21, 2010, 02:36:07 AM
The Triton line Synergy line and Nuke
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: jbungard on March 21, 2010, 06:06:27 PM
Critical Mass Code Red
Trition Elite
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LM Legends Conquerer, 40x4.75x60, Resurrection
LM Legends Black Diamond, 55x4.5x30, P1 hole, Resurrection
LM Xtreme Damage, 35x5x30, Resurrection w/light LM FF polish
LM Buzz Attack, 45x3.75x45, P1 hole, Factory Sheen
LM Legends Black Pearl Reactive, 65x3.75x20, Resurrection w/moderate LM FF polish
LM Hornet, 45x5.25x25, 4000-grit abralon (polish when necessary)
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: Billy Ray on March 22, 2010, 02:42:51 PM
Here are my favorite old track balls, I'm loving alot of the new stuff!

Nuke
Triton (Coral and Ocean)
Triton Heat
TKO
Triton Elite
Sensor/C

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Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: goalieman59 on March 22, 2010, 02:55:01 PM
Green Stop
Assassin
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Arsenal:
Storm Virtual Gravity
Storm Hy-Road
Storm Tropical Storm
Hammer Vibe Onyx
Brunswick Spiral Viz-a-Ball
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: Goof1073 on March 22, 2010, 03:05:33 PM
Sensor II
Mojo

My favorites by far...
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Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: Matt Fortney on March 22, 2010, 08:51:43 PM
Triton Heat would be at the top of my list by far, no contest...not even the remake was as great as that ball was.

Matt
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: Comet790 on March 23, 2010, 06:40:16 AM
Triton Heat
Phenom
Phenom Unleashed
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: dissectional on March 23, 2010, 06:56:38 AM
my first taste of track was in the later years so cut me some slack.....
power machine and xception-5.0
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: LanemasterLefty on March 23, 2010, 08:57:18 PM
Inertia
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: SVstar34 on March 24, 2010, 12:40:42 AM
Power Machine, flat out beast on the lanes
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Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: ekster on March 24, 2010, 10:00:37 AM
I won a lot of money and shot many good games with
my Track Flare (yes you heard that right!).

Ugly out of the box, sand it to 800-1000 with a little
polish and it was killer on wood lanes (at least for my
type of game).
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Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: Badger856 on March 24, 2010, 10:28:39 AM
Silencer was my favorite
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: JMORRIS on March 24, 2010, 10:42:48 AM
Green Track Stomp Pearl was one of my favs from early 2000.


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Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: ten on the deck on March 24, 2010, 11:53:34 AM
X-Ception was my favorite...........
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Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: strikeordie on March 24, 2010, 08:37:08 PM
My favorite track ball of all time is the freakazoid.
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: srlunatic on March 24, 2010, 08:43:22 PM
VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Followed closely by...

Phenom Unleashed..
Aresenal Artillery
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Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: jodyk24 on March 26, 2010, 12:22:26 PM


I have to vote for the Track Animal for a good all around ball, that works for me. My Animal is still alive and kicking. I still use the Animal and rely on it just about every where I bowl.

jodyk24

Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: ccrider on March 26, 2010, 02:18:14 PM
Struggling with over under in our Sunday night league. Pulled out old reliable Arsenal Artillery (after having older guy shoot 750 on me with his the week before). Problem solved.

I would have to say Arsenal Artillery followed closely by the Power Machine.

My brother still uses his Freak-a-zoid regularly.
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Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: bulldogg on March 26, 2010, 03:36:49 PM
green pearl synergy & equation.
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: bab5555 on March 26, 2010, 08:11:11 PM
Power Machine
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: ddarkone7 on March 28, 2010, 01:15:12 AM
HEX was and still is my favorite
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: okfixer on March 28, 2010, 06:04:30 PM
Heat 2...hands down...see what it did on the PBA tour.
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: 9orbetter on April 04, 2010, 07:50:37 PM
A Few standouts:

Synergy Solid (my first ball)
Slash
Xception 5.0
Threat
Heat Remake
Power Machine
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Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: Gonz on April 04, 2010, 09:48:41 PM
My Faves...

Original Critical Mass Code Red
Synergy ETS

Hope to add the 505A down the road. Well see over time......

Gonz
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: MrPerfect on April 04, 2010, 09:58:47 PM
It was useless for lefties, but my favorite is the Rule GP2. That ball made house shots stupid easy. One of the few balls better than my Ebonite V2 Sanded.
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: Xcessive_Evil on April 05, 2010, 03:16:30 PM
NRG, Champ, Contender, Synergy, Inertia, GP2, Power Machine, Kinetic Energy.  For me, everything else was sub-par.

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Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: BiGtYmEr300 on April 05, 2010, 03:32:08 PM
No love for the Track Assassin?? That was definitely the greatest Track ball I've ever thrown.
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Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: Ol Stranker on April 26, 2010, 12:37:25 PM
My favorite of all time was the original Enforcer--urethane, mfg in Solon, Ohio next would be the Sensor II.
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: LotsaBalls on April 26, 2010, 12:56:27 PM
Triton heat and Triton elite.
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: resbuzz on April 26, 2010, 01:05:27 PM
The original Black Hammer, Brunswick LT 48, Columbia's Yellow Dot.  Current ones, Columbia Resurgence, Hammer Black Widow Nasty
Title: Re: Greatest balls of all time?
Post by: LotsaBalls on April 26, 2010, 09:00:09 PM
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The original Black Hammer, Brunswick LT 48, Columbia's Yellow Dot.  Current ones, Columbia Resurgence, Hammer Black Widow Nasty



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