Want To Buy Ride Steady for 2020 AR210

[HangOutdoors]

Looking to buy a Used Ride Steady system for 2020 AR210. Preferably with the external housing.

 

[Betik]

What? Did you miss the group by but a week!!! Bummer

 

[HangOutdoors]

Yes. Wasn't really thinking about it till kids today were talking about wakeboarding and the youngest told me that I need to stop pulling her over and face planting her

Figure is someone is selling theirs or changing boats I might run across one for a good price.

 

[YamaNoob]

Hi...how do you like the the 2020 ar210? I am looking to upgrade from my 2017 ar190. Looking for a bit more punch and room. We are heavy into watersports also.

Thanks

 

[RobbieO]

Yes. Wasn't really thinking about it till kids today were talking about wakeboarding and the youngest told me that I need to stop pulling her over and face planting her

Figure is someone is selling theirs or changing boats I might run across one for a good price.

Dang dude...can't wait until you share your Harbor list.....what's next?

 

[MilesPrower]

Yes. Wasn't really thinking about it till kids today were talking about wakeboarding and the youngest told me that I need to stop pulling her over and face planting her

Uh oh, are your bucket cables sticking too?

Once I lubed the cables for my reverse buckets (or whatever they're called), my throttle became much smoother.

Also, after I push the throttle forward for the initial rev-up, I just use the cruise (no-wake) control instead of the throttle levers to manage my speed, so any changes in speed are smooth.

My next door neighbor bought a 2020 AR210 after I spoke so highly of my AR210... and he was regularly faceplanting his kids all of last year... because he never tried using the cruise button to manage his speed on plane. ?‍

 

[HangOutdoors]

No my bucket cables are not sticking. Being on plane is a bit fast for wakeboarding don't you think?

 

[MilesPrower]

Being on plane is a bit fast for wakeboarding don't you think?

On smooth saltwater with Super Magnum Deluxe fins, and just one of my sons and me on board while we pull my other son from the transom, the hull steps up and the bow drops at 15 mph. I can then maintain plane down to 13 mph. Before I added the Deluxe planing surfaces to my fins, the bow would drop at 17 mph and I could maintain plane only down to 15 mph while pulling from the transom. If I pull from the tower, the speeds are 1-2 mph higher.

My youngest prefers 15 mph at 55 ft back from the transom. My oldest prefers 18 mph at 65 ft back from the transom. When one of my brothers-in-law joins us, we load up the boat with more people (or ballast bags), tie the rope to the tower, and he puts on a show... which means I manage the speed with Cruise Assist between two primary speeds as he signals the observer. For carving and wake-to-wake jumps (like TS FS 180), he prefers 24 mph. For more height when he's doing something like a HS backroll, he prefers 21 mph.

I'm sure Ridesteady would make all this dead easy... but I'm finding it easy enough going "manual" with just Cruise Assist.

(I should also mention that, at the same time I added the planing surfaces, I adjusted my jets heeled-in, such that the two outer fins are exactly parallel, while the jets and inner fins are heeled-in. So it must have been the combination of the planing surfaces and the jet/fin adjustment that reduced my minimum planing speed by 2 mph.)