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I'm not a big fan of surf reels with a lot of bearings. Bearings fail; coated, sealed, or whatever else they like to claim. That will probably boggle the minds of most reel companies since they're big on lots of bearings. I guess if it's truly sealed it's OK if it has a lot of bearings. I really couldn't care less about how smooth a reel is though. Simplicity and function were and are the hallmarks of most of the great surf reels. Even a VS is relatively simple inside.
An inexpensive yet quality reel is probably a tough nut to crack. The market is known to be small, the Z's wouldn't be being phased out if it wasn't.
On a side note but very related to this is how many products on the market, imo, are built by companies who assume the product is being built for people who fish maybe once a week tops. I just watch certain items falter and fail SO fast and repetetively sometimes. In testing, whoever is building this reel should assume someone is hitting the water hard a minimum of several times a week over a 8 or 9 month season.
No matter what they do, this reel will be compared to VS and Penn, so they probably need to think about how they build it with that in mind.
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