Kevin Calvez's bi level

Wc · Ollie Joined: 19 Oct 2005 Posts: 76 City: Paris

Each year during the first week of Decembre there is a big boat expo in Paris, France.
Now somewhere in that event, near a big pool you can find a lil place where riders and wakeboard and wakeskate companies are.
Yesterday, in that lil place, Kevin came out with his brand new pro model.
Here are the very first pics of his akonite bi-level :

Wc · Ollie Joined: 19 Oct 2005 Posts: 76 City: Paris

kevincalvez · Frontside 180 Joined: 12 Oct 2006 Posts: 298 City: France

Wc, thanks for this topics,
this color is probably not the definitive one, cause i gonna try with blue and grey for the three first board...
So i gonna choose and tell you soon which is the good one...

S!c · Pop Shuvit Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 158 City: São Paulo

Woah Kevin...
It looks really good man! yeah it does..
Congrats on the model; both of you!

PS.: Green and Black is awesome. Very contrastant //

Smash

Jesse · Posted: Dec 10, 2006 9:08 am Post subject:

Those graphics with the colors inverted would look cool too.

CheeseSkate · Frontside 180 Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 344

Looks dope! cant wait to try one of those!
Sick graphics!

Wc · Ollie Joined: 19 Oct 2005 Posts: 76 City: Paris

NR: S!c's graphics!!
Cool

Anyway he did a really good job,
and from what I've heard, everybody likes it.
Very Happy

S!c · Pop Shuvit Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 158 City: São Paulo

Wc, thanks man! =]

This must be so good to ride!
I just saw the 3rd photo that you put some presure on the tail.
This must help to absorb the impact //

Good job again Wink

Raven · Posted: Dec 10, 2006 11:33 am Post subject:

Damn Kev that Eifel graphic is phenomenal. The hardware mounts looks sick, how does it go together? Congrats bud!

CrzyTexan · Frontside 180 Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 475

whats the size of the board? Nice Graphic btw!

kevincalvez · Frontside 180 Joined: 12 Oct 2006 Posts: 298 City: France

this is a 41.5 inches

s34n · Posted: Dec 10, 2006 3:58 pm Post subject:

maybe its just me, but doesnt the bottom deck look really flat? Might be because of the camera lense or something though, i dunno.

Looks like a pretty cool deck though. Love the graphics!

Evan71 · Posted: Dec 10, 2006 4:08 pm Post subject:

That looks so sick!

kejoz · Posted: Dec 10, 2006 5:06 pm Post subject:

go green or die Smash

wakeshredder · Posted: Dec 10, 2006 5:17 pm Post subject:

I'm wondering about those kick-tails. I've been messing around with my own bi-level designs, and I just can't imagine that you get a whole lot of fulcrum out of those kicktails. Correct me if I am wrong, but don't you think that the angles should be greater so you get that skateboard feel. It seems like this design mainly gives you higher concaves without the weight, but not the fulcrum you would want out of a bi-level...

Raven · Posted: Dec 10, 2006 5:31 pm Post subject:

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Dec 11, 2006 1:50 am Post subject:

i really wanna ride that beast kevin, those graphics are freakin ill, glade u went to the paris look. very good.

Wc · Ollie Joined: 19 Oct 2005 Posts: 76 City: Paris

Raven : As you can see there s 4 screws and washers. between the 2 deck where the screws are there is a piece of plastic. That's all.

S34n : The bottom deck is not that flat see the next pictures

wakeshredder : well... I'm not sure kevin wanted to imitate the Cassette Bi-level. Or he would not have chosen a fiberglass top deck.
Anyway this new composite/wood bi-level deck leaded to new challenges that akonite and kevin liked to take up.

If the board looks like that right now, it wasn't like that few month ago. Kevin worked closely with the Akonite team, describing his feelings on the board, and Akonite did a awesome job to satisfy Kevin's feelings thanks to their technical/physics composite skills.

So please just believe that to him it's the best deck he rode since more than one year of research.

I let kevin answer to you about the fulcrum. He's the only one able to speak about the feeling he has riding this board. Wink

But you must not forget that akonite uses fiberglass and it's quite responsive so you have a pretty good reactivity.

Now just a few pics to see that the bottom deck isn't flat, and a side view when we put some pressure on the deck

ripava82 · Guest

wow it looks awesome. the graphic is pretty cool too

wakeshredder · Posted: Dec 12, 2006 9:22 am Post subject:

so... when are these bad boys gonna be up for grabs, cause I'd love to ride one, and xmas is around the corner...
maybe they aren't being produced yet...
board looks sick. I say, stick with the blace, cause I hardly look down when I ride, and the black looks killer!