The Revolution

There seems to be a lot of IMHO and AFAIK posts on various  forums about the Spigarelli Revolution but very little actual information or real advice from people who use them., so I thought it was time for a change.

Of all the things people say about the Revolution, the one that they all agree on it that it is unique among risers being the only one of laminar construction. It is formed of three segments held together by seven bolts forming a triple layer sandwich, with each bolt holding two nylon bushes between the centre and outer segments.This construction is what gives the Revolution its unique internal dampening system.

 When the Revolution was first launched in the 90s it seems to have suffered two main setbacks, the first was when it was ruled to be illegal for bare bow use as it had moldings in the sight window that could be used as sight marks, this took away what could have been it's biggest market. The second  blow was from a series of failures of segments (mostly the centre one). I was not into archery at the time so I cannot comment on all the accounts, but several of them seem to be the same bow or people who by their own account had 'fiddled' with the bolts. Thus the Revolution gained a reputation as unusable (for bare bow) and unreliable riser, which does not seem to have been able to shake off.

 Both these 'problems' seem to have been dealt with now, first there was a bare bow version with a flat sight window (now the only version), and they now seem to use some sort of 'snap off bolt at the top and bottom of the riser that cannot be undone.