Trying to find a good review of the Xpro2 or any of the Uukha risers but it seems very few use them. I'm considering putting together an all Uukha build and am intrigued by a light carbon riser. Does it feel any different from an aluminum riser?
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Uukha Xpro
After squirreling away money for a long time, I'm finally in a position to get another bow. I'm planning to get the Uukha Xpro riser. I saw Uukha updated it for 2019 and is about 100 grams lighter than the original though. For any who own one, is a weight reduction all that was changed this...
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It's within the weight range of some "standard" aluminum risers. To simulate the change when raising/holding, you can take the weight difference relative to your current riser and tape that many washers along the length. If you want a carbon riser that's properly light, see if you can track down a fiberbow. There have also been a few lightweight W&W carbon risers.
Alejandra Valencia uses one and got her mixed team bronze at Tokyo with it (as well as several top 10 seeds at world champs etc) so it can't be too bad.
Though beware the glossy black one is very very glossy, it clashes a bit with the limbs if that's important to you.
Alejandra Valencia uses one and got her mixed team bronze at Tokyo with it (as well as several top 10 seeds at world champs etc) so it can't be too bad.
Though beware the glossy black one is very very glossy, it clashes a bit with the limbs if that's important to you.
Absolutely love the fact that Uukha actually marked the limb bolts with the minimum, medium, and maximum travel ranges.
I did have an issue with the magnetic clicker extension/plate thingie; can't get it to stay in without shimming it with a bit of dental floss, but to be fair I did take two extensions and glued them together to get a longer clicker reach, so it may just be that mine is too long/heavy for the magnet's designed use... My new outdoor arrows will be quite a bit shorter so in the future I'll try a shorter extension and see if it stays in place... Didn't notice any loss of "attraction" with my modified extension, still fits snuggly and seems to lock in place, just doesn't stay in during use, but again I'll have to try the unmodified extension to know for sure whether it's the bow or the modification.
As for weight, honestly couldn't say because I don't have an aluminum riser to compare it to, but it doesn't really feel like "light" carbon; it's pretty solid and no real cutouts. Without putting it on a scale, I don't know or think it's any lighter than my 27" CXT; the Uukha just feels "solid" to me and my limited experience.
The limb "pockets" concerned me at first; before getting this riser I listened to a YouTube that criticized an entry level riser for a limb mount that wasn't really a pocket, then I get what I think is a similar design on this higher level riser... but so far absolutely no issues that I've noticed.
R-Core is finally making the grip design I like for the Pro 2, but I did have to shim it a bit with tape as it rocked fore/aft slightly... To be fair it is reportedly a hard grip to reproduce
I did have an issue with the magnetic clicker extension/plate thingie; can't get it to stay in without shimming it with a bit of dental floss, but to be fair I did take two extensions and glued them together to get a longer clicker reach, so it may just be that mine is too long/heavy for the magnet's designed use... My new outdoor arrows will be quite a bit shorter so in the future I'll try a shorter extension and see if it stays in place... Didn't notice any loss of "attraction" with my modified extension, still fits snuggly and seems to lock in place, just doesn't stay in during use, but again I'll have to try the unmodified extension to know for sure whether it's the bow or the modification.
As for weight, honestly couldn't say because I don't have an aluminum riser to compare it to, but it doesn't really feel like "light" carbon; it's pretty solid and no real cutouts. Without putting it on a scale, I don't know or think it's any lighter than my 27" CXT; the Uukha just feels "solid" to me and my limited experience.
The limb "pockets" concerned me at first; before getting this riser I listened to a YouTube that criticized an entry level riser for a limb mount that wasn't really a pocket, then I get what I think is a similar design on this higher level riser... but so far absolutely no issues that I've noticed.
R-Core is finally making the grip design I like for the Pro 2, but I did have to shim it a bit with tape as it rocked fore/aft slightly... To be fair it is reportedly a hard grip to reproduce
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