I'm amazed to see more Lacoste from your 'small' apartment, honestly, you have the probably the most extensive Max 200G collection ever and now Lacoste, what is next?
Wow, why do you need so many Equijet 255s? I have just one and it's looking for partner. Want to trade one of yours?
Like I said I do live in a small flat(apartment), actually about 600sqfoot, so most of my rackets are in my storage unit, 10 miles away. So can be quite a lot of effort to do the photos!
Anyway, some oldies to come next, going back further even than Coach will remember
Just noticed one of the rackets above is actually in the original Lacoste plastic bag, very cool
Absolutely Superb photos thanks, what a great looking tennis racket
You have way too many rackets for your square footage. I have a basement where they would feel way more at ease. Just advocating a more humane treatment for rackets..
When we see racquets like these, it makes me wonder how anyone can get excited about some cheap quality, Chinese-made, harsh-playing, eyeball-jarring, overpriced piece of dung frame that's basically a marketing exercise designed to be superceded within a few months by another cheap quality, Chinese-made, harsh-playing, eyeball-jarring, overpriced piece of dung frame that itself is designed to be superceded within a few months by...
Sorry for stalking...sometimes I just come back for another look
When we see racquets like these, it makes me wonder how anyone can get excited about some cheap quality, Chinese-made, harsh-playing, eyeball-jarring, overpriced piece of dung frame that's basically a marketing exercise designed to be superceded within a few months by another cheap quality, Chinese-made, harsh-playing, eyeball-jarring, overpriced piece of dung frame that itself is designed to be superceded within a few months by...
Couldn't resist having another look at the superb photos of your Equijet 258 Ceramique
Missed out on another Equijet I have not seen before few weeks ago.
Do you know anything about a steel Lacoste that has the same Equijet system at 3 and 9? Quite sure I saw a picture on some Italian or French website years ago, still having nightmares about it.
Missed out on another Equijet I have not seen before few weeks ago.
Do you know anything about a steel Lacoste that has the same Equijet system at 3 and 9? Quite sure I saw a picture on some Italian or French website years ago, still having nightmares about it.
Hi MS, are you talking about this one?
AFAIK this is a promotional racket, not a retail racket.
Great to have though! ;-)
Hi MS, are you talking about this one?
AFAIK this is a promotional racket, not a retail racket.
Great to have though! ;-)
Good to see you are still looking out for more Equijets, new different ones are so hard to find!
OMG I've just seen that photo below from ericsson:shock:
Brilliant that's it! Don't tell me this is yours too, ericsson?
And what Equijet model is that under the steel Equijet? Thanks.
Off topic- managed to obtain an original Soft Control, together with an epic case. Will post photo soon in the other thread.
Take it easy MS, it's not mine
no idea what mold is under...
ps: feel free to post early Babolat stuff, you're a great asset!
btw: i finally have an original Soft Drive, the very first one and Moya's original stick
Hi MS, are you talking about this one?
AFAIK this is a promotional racket, not a retail racket.
Great to have though! ;-)
Holy cow !!! This would be the only racquet that I would frame and put on my family room wall.
I will top whatever jumbo offers for it.
Seriously, ericsson, what do you know about this racquet. When was the promo and how many of these did they make in your opinion? Is it playable at all?
But that's progress in a profit-driven world, isn't it?
For those who were raised on woodies in a different era, our molded plastic "classics" probably looked like cheap modern abominations that took much of the "sport" out of their beloved game.
Perhaps twenty years from now, when the current twenty-somethings are in their mid-forties and are picking up tennis again after a burnout-imposed hiatus, they will wax nostalgic about these harsh-playing and eyeball-jarring Chinese frames of their youth, and spend an unhealthy amount of time and resource collecting surviving examples of these rare frames (and rare they will be, because models are turned over annually, while many frames would have perished by then through entropy). They will also complain bitterly about a market dominated by "free" Burkina Faso-made shape-shifting racquets that are programmed to match one's exact physiology/skill level/mood in real time, which map directly to one's cerebellum and basal ganglia through an ultra-expensive skull cap, and which would only hold its shape in 30 minute increments after one authorizes a credit card charge, unless one buys a minimum two year subscription with a monthly installment plan; overages and color-shifting extra ...
But, the fact is, if someone offered me the right premises at the right price in London, I would open the best tennis racket museum in London. It wouldn't have much competition, with the exception of Wimbledon of course, who actually only display a small percentage of the rackets they have in their collection anyway!
Holy cow !!! This would be the only racquet that I would frame and put on my family room wall.
I will top whatever jumbo offers for it.
Seriously, ericsson, what do you know about this racquet. When was the promo and how many of these did they make in your opinion? Is it playable at all?
Nice try..:lol:
Have you ever had your racquets appraised for value? :shock:
No.. which ones and how would you do it?
I've actually seen the full collection, to which is hidden in a storage room deep in the depths of Wimbledon; and only seen by a few people. The curator of the museum rarely shows them off, but luckily I did some work for the Wimbledon education dept, and so was shown around. And some of my handywork is currently on display in the public museum.
It's an impressive collection ranging from the beginning of Wimbledon to modern day; and also includes a Lacoste ball machine! They didn't show me it working but I did see a video of Rene Lacoste using it. Very innovative.
Regards
Paul
Given that my chances of owning that shiny equijet are not just 'close' to zero but are in fact exactly zero, I had the idea of creating a poor man's mockup of this wonder beast by sacrificing a Goodwill Tensor. In fact, I intended to go a step further and make a clover-shaped head, then string it diagonally, so that the final product would be a cross between an equiject, a Spalding Power Tech, and a Powerangle. If the theories behind those three designs are correct, then mashing them all together should allow me to transform a Tensor Turd into a Tensor Terror. The dense string pattern, the even spacing of the holes, and the absence of plastic bits on the Tensor seem perfectly suited for this kind of experiment.
Alas, it was not to be. As the chrome plating on the frame would not survive any kind of heat treatment, I tried to bend it cold; which resulted in this catastrophic failure in short order:
There goes my $3.99, and any chance of finding out what a 403 g chrome-plated equi-power-tech-angle would play like.
Oh well...:???:
All of them!
Uh.... these are antique racquets so.... contact someone who specializes in racquets? There has to be someone who is a tennis racquet aficionado.
The Wimbledon collection is remarkable, and the museum is great, but I think it is a pity that they can't basically have a bigger museum. They have so much superb tennis related history that has never, and will probably never go on public show. I think they particularly could display more 1970's, 80's and 90's rackets etc, as there is so much interest amongst many tennis fans at the moment in this era.
Thanks, will certainly look into it.
Actually, I might just get jimbo to do the job, speaking of tennis racquet aficionados..
When I finally make the trip to Wimbledon, I will pay good money just to have a look at the entire Lacoste collection in the concealed storage room mentioned.. if only they will take my money!