Track Hex Darkside Bowling Ball

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Coverstock: Bigfoot
LineMagic
ColorBlack/Red
CoverstockParticle
Core2-piece
RG2.53
Differential0.053
Intermediate Diffn/a
Factory finishPolished
Weights12 thru 16lbs
Cleared USBCYes

4 Reviews

  • walesliao

    Posted by walesliao on Feb 6th 2007

    This Dark side was slept at my stock room for 3 years long.When I bought this one,I tried to treat it as my personal collection.But last week,I drilled it up because all my arsenal these days are all short life span stuff. I played at my local tournalment with 38' long oil.It just works great! So smooth path and strong mid-lane reaction.But became a bit naughty after 3-4 games shots.And corner pins shows up some times. Generally,this ball is great choice for those beginners who want to improve the strike percentages.It may helps a lot for tweener & stroker. The original surface is polished but switched into light scuff in purpose.Then it did better to handle the carry down situation & remains predicable roadmap.Summary saying,this is a pretty nice ball compete current balls on market.Track should do some more good weapons as they did before!

  • EXCALIBER

    Posted by EXCALIBER on May 4th 2004

    The first Darkside I had was stolen, so I bought another one. I drilled this one with the pin in my track, CG 1/4inch negative. This ball goes forever and it lays off a tad on the backend. Truely a dry lane ball for me. On the typical house shot when I have to play inside with anything else I have (EX. CrunchTime) I can use this ball and play out in the dry. What I like about this ball most is that it will go forever and it has that smooth backend, but it does not lack power when it gets to the pins. If I has contact with oil and does not have a chance to recover....this ball could be in a lot of trouble. If I still had the first one, and I had this one, I wouldn't need so many other balls.

  • EXCALIBER

    Posted by EXCALIBER on May 4th 2004

    Very strong ball, carries the characteristics of a reactive more than a particle. I was told by Del Warren that it was such a low load particle that it may have well just been reactive. That is how it reacted for me. It could be used all over the lane, straight, or even 4th-5th arrow. It was not very sensitive when a bad release occured. It still recovered and did so in strong enough manner to carry the corners. The discription says "this ball has been scrapped". Track made a mistake in doing so with this ball. I have not seen someone throw it or heard of someone throwing it that did not like the ball. They liked it so much that it exceeded their expectations, as it has mine. <scr

  • Divine_Dragon

    Posted by Divine_Dragon on Nov 18th 2003

    My proshop was lucky enough to pick up a few of these, and my Darkside is 16lbs, with a pin out distance of 2-3 inches. The top weight is 2.75 oz, and it's drilled with the pin under the ring finger stacked over the CG...and all this is ever so slightly to the right of the ring finger. The reaction I get from the Darkside is similar to a Sonic Solid, very even, smooth, and controlled. It is about five boards stronger overall than the Sonic Solid, but works just as effective. It adapts easily to hand and speed releases and works well on most medium conditions. If you have too much carrydown, or oil put the ball away, because it will slide through the deck. The Darkside works well on all angles of the lane until you get deeper than the fourth arrow. It will have some recovery problems unless you can throw it slow enough to keep it strong on the backend. The ball hits hard and carries well like all the other Track equipment out there. For all those Track fans looking fo