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Title: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: Vitas Cricket on March 28, 2013, 03:08:40 PM: This 2'9 Menace 700 is bloody huge and it picks up like a feather.

(http://i.imgur.com/5t8H1csl.jpg?1)
(http://i.imgur.com/OGV9yNml.jpg)

43mm edges in the 'powerbulge area' and even at the very top of the shoulder the edges are 20mm. At the bottom of the toe they are 25mm.

Here it is compared to a recoil 900 that also weighs 2'9.

(http://i.imgur.com/xQ3E4y3l.jpg?1)
(http://i.imgur.com/oTQHvrwl.jpg)

I've seen 3lb Ultra Menace bats that are similar size to this.

£195 is our price on a Menace 700, with free delivery, anybody tempted?

I'll knock it in for free :)
Title: Re: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: Chad on March 28, 2013, 03:18:47 PM: That's bloody massive! I am certainly tempted, but with all my recent purchases along with one special purchase coming in relatively soon, this will not be a good idea! :-[
Title: Re: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: tushar sehgal on March 28, 2013, 03:58:24 PM: I've got a powerbulge just looking at it ;),,,whats the going rate for her?
Title: Re: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: RoCo Da Pixie on March 28, 2013, 04:05:13 PM: Quote from: tushar sehgal on March 28, 2013, 03:58:24 PM
I've got a powerbulge just looking at it ;),,,whats the going rate for her?

£195 Sterling Tushar
Title: Re: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: tushar sehgal on March 28, 2013, 04:08:26 PM: Quote from: RoCo Da Pixie on March 28, 2013, 04:05:13 PM
£195 Sterling Tushar

Powerbulge receding :)....lovely bat and although tempting not right for me...
Title: Re: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: smokem on March 28, 2013, 04:38:24 PM: Lol @ tush
Title: Re: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: Vitas Cricket on March 28, 2013, 05:27:10 PM: That made me chuckle Tush
Title: Re: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: Chad on March 28, 2013, 05:28:48 PM: Oh Tush, you menace! ;)
Title: Re: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: Colesy on March 28, 2013, 07:06:13 PM: Fair bit of chunk there
Title: Re: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: csnew on March 28, 2013, 07:14:05 PM: Thats a beastt :o
Title: Re: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: shoab68 on March 28, 2013, 08:06:38 PM: Edges peaking at 43mm, that's really huge and weighing only 2.9.
Title: Re: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: i12breakfree on March 29, 2013, 01:09:06 AM: How's the ping on this one
must be good for that size of bat
Last year I got a kookaburra t20 from Asad and it pinged like a dream
but then got another one from another retailer and there was much to be desired there
Title: Re: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: Vitas Cricket on March 29, 2013, 01:08:33 PM: The tap up is silly, it rockets off the face. A freak cleft i guess. 1 or 2 a year pass through the shop.
Title: Re: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: Vitas Cricket on March 29, 2013, 01:09:29 PM: Yeah there were plenty of ropey T20's when we handpicked ours, we took fewer than we wanted to last year as some were a bit sub-par.

They seem better as a general trend this year.
Title: Re: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: wilkie113 on March 29, 2013, 01:11:29 PM: Looks a beauty that Jake, the wonder of hand picking sticks!

Hate that profile so much for some reason, just doesn't look appealing to me
Title: Re: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: Vitas Cricket on March 29, 2013, 01:15:06 PM: Quote from: wilkie113 on March 29, 2013, 01:11:29 PM
Hate that profile so much for some reason, just doesn't look appealing to me

You and Ian Bell it seems. No mittens for him either. Makes me wonder why they got him to use the Menace range at all.
Title: Re: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: wilkie113 on March 29, 2013, 01:16:42 PM: I love the idea of the mittens and will more than likely try and get some in a sale of some sort when kook change the range next year. Big thumbs up for the mittens but I just don't like the bat profile at all
Title: Re: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: petehosk on March 29, 2013, 01:27:34 PM: That's a huge profile....great find fella!
2'9? Looks more like a 3lb beast. I'm sure that someone will grab this 8)
Title: Re: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: Simmy on April 02, 2013, 09:19:47 AM: Quote from: Vitas Cricket on March 29, 2013, 01:08:33 PM
The tap up is silly, it rockets off the face. A freak cleft i guess. 1 or 2 a year pass through the shop.

this and the richochet test bat!
Title: Re: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: Kez on April 02, 2013, 10:13:53 AM: such an odd looking profile but they pick up surprisingly well!
Title: Re: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: iand123 on April 02, 2013, 01:06:33 PM: Quote from: Vitas Cricket on March 29, 2013, 01:15:06 PM
You and Ian Bell it seems. No mittens for him either. Makes me wonder why they got him to use the Menace range at all.

I thought this was odd too, i think a few aussies used this range in the India series and they seemed to have different profiles too, very strange!
Title: Re: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: WalkingWicket37 on April 02, 2013, 06:24:53 PM: Quote from: Kez on April 02, 2013, 10:13:53 AM
such an odd looking profile but they pick up surprisingly well!

Can second this, very nearly bought one at Lord's but then I was reminded I already have 'too many' bats :(
Title: Re: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: Vitas Cricket on June 18, 2013, 04:39:54 PM: This bat has now sold, a very lucky customer.
Title: Re: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: Chad on June 18, 2013, 04:45:25 PM: Very lucky indeed, it looked lovely! One of the most special Kooks to have passed through your hands Jake? :D
Title: Re: MASSIVE Menace 700 - 2'9!
Post by: Vitas Cricket on June 18, 2013, 04:50:50 PM: That and the Ricochet 1000 for the Cricket Insight Gear Test that we hosted.

Plenty of lovely bats for £100-£150 that crop up as a result of handpicking, but only occasionally do you find a behemoth like that for such a light weight.