BIC Astro Rock or Bic Electric Rock?

marathonman

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Jan 4, 2003, 4:34:46 PM1/4/03

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I bought a board around 1995 which is pink on bottom half and yellow
on the top half. Brown flower graphics on yellow background on top.
Stephan Berg autograph on top right side. Never used and want to sell
but not sure of the model. Any ideas or places to see pictures of
these two boards? Any help appreciated. (Already emailed BIC but US
distributor has no records back to mid-90's.)

Juri Munkki

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Jan 4, 2003, 5:30:26 PM1/4/03

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In article <fca77a28.03010...@posting.google.com> ljfeig...@astound.net (marathonman) writes:
>I bought a board around 1995 which is pink on bottom half and yellow
>on the top half. Brown flower graphics on yellow background on top.

Measure the width and length and you should be able to identify the board:

http://www.bicsport.com/products/windsurf_boards_oldies.php?sportid=1&lang=us

Pink and yellow doesn't sound like A-Rock or E-Rock...I seem to remember
that the Rap was yellow...

Don't expect to get a very good price for a board as old as this. The
demand for anything older than 5 years is truly abysmal.

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Ben Kaufman

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Jan 4, 2003, 9:01:55 PM1/4/03

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I think the flower (go-go) graphics were Circa 1992. After that year, they went
hi tech looking.

Ben

AD.

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Jan 5, 2003, 6:49:36 PM1/5/03

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"Ben Kaufman" <spaXm-mXe-anXd-p...@pobox.com> wrote in message
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> I think the flower (go-go) graphics were Circa 1992. After that year, they
went
> hi tech looking.

It might be the other way round (if you mean the circuit board patterns that
is) - I seem to remember the hi tech look about 89-91.

For the original poster, the pink and colour does sound like the Rap as Juri
pointed out.

A-Rocks were blue (with green and red patterns?) on top and white on the
bottom I think, and the E-Rock went through a few different colour schemes
and a purple/yellow on top version sticks in my memory for some reason.

Cheers
Anton

Woody

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Jan 5, 2003, 8:04:32 PM1/5/03

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the graphics sound like it may be a BIC ADAGIO.

Woody

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Ben Kaufman

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Jan 5, 2003, 9:37:36 PM1/5/03

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Circuit board as in racing circuit or electronic circuit board? :-).

I've still got a '93 bic catalog (the year of my Rumba) and the fronts of the
boards are white, the sides have (the high tech) RaceTec logos and the backs go
into one of several shades of a single color, depending upon the model.
I'm also looking at a '93 Sailways catalog and they have close outs on '92
models for the Rumba, Samba both of which have identical graphics consisting of
flowers, dancers and atoms.

So at least we have '92 and '93 covered for trivia's sake :-).

Ben

AD.

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Jan 5, 2003, 10:37:03 PM1/5/03

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"Ben Kaufman" <spaXm-mXe-anXd-p...@pobox.com> wrote in message

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> Circuit board as in racing circuit or electronic circuit board? :-).

The electronic one (Designed by Mike Eskimo I think) - also had images of
jets (SR-71 maybe?) in dial shaped crosshairs etc. My father had a 89 or 90
Bic Melody with those graphics. The previous graphics (87/88) were mostly
white with a coloured swosh thingy in the middle that varied from board to
board.

I can't actually remember what the after 93 graphics looked like :)

All this remembering has made my head hurt hehehe

Cheers
Anton

Mike M.

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Jan 5, 2003, 10:57:26 PM1/5/03

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Ben you are correct. I have sitting in my windsurfing locker a flower
power Bic Presto, which was bought as a 1992 model. Not a bad board, I
used it as a medium sized salom board until 1998 or so.

Mike

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dogalone

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Jan 5, 2003, 11:54:13 PM1/5/03

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i'm thinkin' the pink&blue motif was the electric/astro rock; the
yellow/brown may have been the adagio, rap or hiphop(?): what are the
dimensions?
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Michael Harvey

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Jan 6, 2003, 7:04:40 AM1/6/03

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I've currently got (and still using) an ASTRO ROCK.
Bought it second hand at the end of 2001 for $400 (Australian)
including rig in good condition.

It is pink and blue and fairly easy to identify since it has ASTRO
ROCK in fairly large letters on the front of it.

Managed to break the nose of it recently (think the mast fell on it) -
patched it up with tape.

Regards,
Michael Harvey
(mgha...@bigpond.com)

On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 04:54:13 GMT, "dogalone" <res1...@verizon.net>
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Krzysztof Mruk

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Jan 6, 2003, 8:37:04 AM1/6/03

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in article fca77a28.03010...@posting.google.com, marathonman at
ljfeig...@astound.net wrote on 1/4/03 22:34:

> I bought a board around 1995 which is pink on bottom half and yellow
> on the top half. Brown flower graphics on yellow background on top.
> Stephan Berg autograph on top right side.

If you want to be 100% sure, just read its name. It is written in the middle
between nose and the mast track. But this color scheme came with the
Electric Rock, so it can't be Astro for that reason. Bic RAP (as other
people mentioned) was a bit similar, but it had BIC logo in the place of
Stephan Van Den Berg autograph.

Regards
Krzysztof Mruk
Poland
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dogalone

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Jan 6, 2003, 12:46:42 PM1/6/03

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yeah; know what you mean: got a vintage "raceteccarbonkevlar" electric rock
here that has been successfully rescued. hmm, wonder if those funny shaped
bottoms will ever amount to much....
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