You always remember your first.
Buying your first competition riser can be intimidating: an absurd number of brands, makes, geometries, sizes, colors, and features is bewildering. Add to that, cost. How much does it cost to get a good riser?
You definitely don’t want to scrape the bottom of the barrel, but you don’t have to spend it all to get an amazing riser.
Case in point: the Mybo Elite. Mybo isn’t necessarily a brand we hear about here in the USA, but this riser has fast become a cult classic with those who own them. Its finish and details are superb, the array of possible colors staying fresh looking after years of heavy shooting and abuse; the hardware has held up fantastically too, surviving lots of obsessive bolt turning and tweaking.
I'll leave the nuts and bolts and specifics to the retailers, but I can speak to the actual feel of shooting the bow after shooting with mine for three years on and off. The balance and weight of this bow absolutely makes it a winning choice for barebow shooters, and makes it a ridiculously smooth platform to build an olympic set up on. A naturally heavier riser at 1360 grams, I found it balances rock solid with just two 12 oz weights on the lower and mid bushing. Even with my cheapest, roughest limbs, the Mybo shoots smooth as can be. Compared to my Xceeds, which are known for being on the stiffer end, it is slower, and I found I have to use softer spined arrows even if I put identical limbs on it. That’s not a con at all, rather something to just be aware of if you’re tuning it as a backup or getting your first set of arrows.
At $470 (at the time of this article), it's shockingly affordable for how much riser you get for the money. While I often use different risers now, if I’m being honest I often wonder if it’s a sunk-cost-fallacy that prevents me from just going back to my Mybo, which in truth I like the feel of far more than my Xceeds.
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