Love Machine Cheet Surfboard Review (With Luke Hart)

Ian and Luke Hart review the Love Machine Cheet

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Once again, Ryan Lovelace has delivered. This is the Love Machine Cheet.

Crafted in response to a 2017 request, this board is all about fun, and came about after a request was made for a board to suit the beach breaks of Japan. Designed for softer faces and playful sections, it strikes a balance between approachability and excitement. With an emphasis on lift, this board thrives on the water, making pumping minimal and wave navigation smooth.

The Cheet boasts a subtly sweet outline, strategically positioning its wide point just slightly ahead of centre. Our focus on maximizing lift led to a bottom design that eliminates neutral spaces, featuring a minimal convex shape. The result? An incredible ability to ride atop the water effortlessly, tracing seamless, rounded lines across diverse wave types.

This compact 'midrange' board capitalizes on every inch underneath, while a broad flat deck ensures stability and predictability. Its low rails, slightly egg-shaped, offer a perfect blend of manoeuvrability and control. The bottom contour starts with a single entry, transitioning into a triple and then quadruple concave. Outer rail concaves gracefully fade just before the side fins, complemented by a touch of spiral vee under the back foot, transitioning to a flat area behind the centre fin.

Noteworthy is the side-fin placement, set slightly farther back and in from the rail compared to a standard 2+1 setup. This innovative placement allows for experimentation, enabling you to ride it as a twin fin, 2+1, or single fin. Although the 2+1 configuration is favoured, the board offers ample room to play around with fin box placement.

Discover the amazing ride you can get from the Love Machine Cheet, born from a desire for beach break enjoyment, finely tuned for lift and performance. Embrace the versatility and unleash your creativity on every wave.

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