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Description:
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Manufacturer's Description:
Turning heads wherever it is seen, the exclusive Wakeside Battle Rack adds a gleaming highlight to any wakeboard boat setup.
Wakeside has launched Wakeside Design Studio™ with the sole purpose of designing exclusive high-end wakeboarding products. Watch for other exciting products to come.
The battle-axe shaped backing plate is chrome-plated billet, as are the forks and the mounts! You have to see this rack in person to realize just how stunning it looks. No more tarnish and hard to maintain polished billet. Chrome makes all the difference.
The Wakeside Battle Rack is manufactured by Titan Wake Accessories, which means top OEM quality. Titan is known for their extremely rigid and high quality stainless steel towers found on Malibu Wakesetter boats along with high-end tower accessories.
This wakeboard rack is made entirely of tarnish-free chrome plated billet aluminum and holds two wakeboards. The mounts are made to exactly fit the tower tubing diameter for an exact fit, which means no slippage and no harm to the tower.
The forks have been engineered with a few subtle yet important features. First, by adding a small amount of mass in a couple of critical areas, the forks are ensured to never bend, even when loaded with heavy boards while bouncing through double-ups. At a glance, you probably wouldn’t even notice, but if you closely compare with other forks on the market, you’ll see the difference. Secondly, you won’t find standard mill rubber o-ring inserts to protect the wakeboards. Like Titan’s own Oval Board Rack, these forks are engineered with a custom mushroom-shaped insert that greatly increases the contact area between the boards and the fork. Additionally, the inserts run all the way out to the end of the forks to keep the tip of the rack from digging into your board. This design also keeps the boards from hitting each other.
An optional Lift-off upgrade is available for instant rack removal allowing for full collapsing of the tower. For towers that include a flat oval cross member like the Skylon Swoop, Nautique Flight Control, and Supra, there are three mounting options. There is a new oval mount available for Nautique Flight Control towers today, the Skylon and Supra soon, or you can use the standard mount vertically on the round vertical tubing. The third option is to buy the Battle Rack with a Lift-off upgrade instead of the mount, and bolt the Lift-off directly onto the flat oval cross member. The third option is great because it eliminates the mount entirely for a cleaner look, and you get a Lift-off option for free!
For Titan Towers, a Spinner option is available to allow easy access to wakeboards, and it operates with one hand.
The best news is that Wakeside is manufacturing big quantities which enable comparable prices to conventional polished billet racks. Normally chrome racks of this caliber would cost much more.
This rack looks better, lasts longer, and outshines the competition. Stand apart with the Wakeside Battle Rack!
Made entirely with tarnish-free chromed billet aluminum
Exact fit tower mounts - no universal joints
Tubing diameters: 2.250", 2.000", 1.875", 1.750", 1.625"
Also available for Skylon Swoop Oval, Supra Oval, and Nautique Oval.
Lift-off option allows for instant rack removal allowing for full collapsing of tower in seconds.
Spinner option for the Titan Tower - allows easy access, and operates with one hand!
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Pat McCarthy
Registered: January 2003
Posts: 3292
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Review Date: Fri May 9, 2003
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
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Pros:
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Unique shape, chrome plating, study construction
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Cons:
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none
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One of the most interesting and well-built products to hit the 2003 wakeboarding market is the special board rack from Wakeside called the Battle Rack. Wakeboarder.com gives it a full review.
CONCEPT
The Wakeside Battle Rack is a new product from Wakeside's new "Wakeside Design Studio™". The goal of the new studio is to design and develop exclusive high-end wakeboarding products, and make them available to the public at an affordable price. Their first foray into this field is a board rack that definitely fits the "exclusive high-end product" label.
DESIGN
We noticed two things about the Battle Rack right away when we pulled it out of the box. The first was it's extremely shiny chrome finish. The majority of racks tend to be black, and there are some chrome and silver available, but this thing is basically so shiny it's a mirror.
The second thing we noticed is that the rack base is shaped like a battle axe, thus the name Battle Rack. Combined with the bright chrome, this rack definitely has a style and coolness to it that will make any boat stand out from the crowd.
CONSTRUCTION
After seeing that the rack definitely passed the eyeball test, we had to check out it's construction. The Battle Rack is manufactured by Titan Wake Accessories. Titan is known to make top quality towers and accessories, and is the chosen tower supplier for Malibu boats. Naturally, this rack upholds the quality standard that Titan has established for itself.
The rack is made out of tarnish-free chrome plated billet aluminum, and the mounts are manufactured at certain sizes to exactly fit the diamater of your tower for no sliding or slipping. The rack feels solid and the construction looks great in person. The mounts are thick and industrial. The forks are engineered with a custom mushroom-shaped insert that greatly increases the contact area between the boards and the fork. The board fits into the rack well, and no moving around in the rack occurs.
The mounts come in different sizes and shapes to fit the major towers on the market, as well as quick-removal for collapsible towers. Each rack holds two wakeboards or wakeskates.
BOTTOM LINE
The Battle Rack is frankly the coolest and most stylish rack we've seen on the market. Combined with the solid construction and price that is cheaper than other chrome racks of its construction caliber, the Battle Rack is an outstanding choice. The price is $315 for one rack and $599.95 for a pair of racks. Since the racks aren't shipped out until May 15th, anyone who orders now is most likely to be the first in their area to sport these unique racks.
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