Kiteworld Magazine had a Flyradical M on test earlier this year. Here are the test team notes:
The FlyRadical is good looking in a mature kind of way. There’s an obvious integrity to the design, with an obvious wood core, tough bottom sheet and then you do a double-take at the outline. It’s quite strikingly asymmetrical, which is quite unusual on a performance twin tip of this size. We’re used to squat, square aggressive looking shapes. This however has a long, straight heel edge that goes round the wide tips and comes back into a much softer and shorter toe-side rail. The foot pads are soft, grippy and very comfortable and straps are a soft, fit for a very all-round style; a mix between that really locked-in wake-style feel and comfort and flexibility for more boosty board grabs and board-offs. The board has a comfortable amount of flex but retains a certain stiffness to maintain excellent freestyle characteristics. The flex comes into its own when dealing with chop and strong winds, and the stiffness for pop, but also in helping the board get up and going relatively early. The heel-side rail designed like this gives incredible traction upwind, doesn’t spray you in the face at all and also doesn’t take anything away from the board’s freestyle energy. You can load this up all day long and it’ll keep pinging you up. It’s a work horse. It becomes even more interesting when you go to carve the board round to toe-side; you don’t need much energy at all to initiate the turn. Carving round beautifully onto its shorter, softer edge it’s so comfortable to ride in toe-side. So you have the best of both world’s; pop, performance, speed and upwind ability on your more focused heel-side and loads of comfort and a cruising nature on your weaker toeside. Makes sense, eh?
You can read the complete review over at Kiteworld. Find out more about the Flyboards Flyradical 2010.