Elite's engineering team redesigned the Varhos riser with thicker, better-placed ribs for maximum rigidity. They shaped the draw force curve to be flat at the top with gradual corners, trading some arrow speed for comfort and shootability. A steeper curve would be faster but harder to shoot well.
So the Varhos riser. A lot of time was spent really trying to optimize the strength and rigidity of this new riser. If you compare it to previous model bows, there was a lot of attention to detail put into the thickness of all the ribs, exactly where they are and what their purpose is. To make the most rigid, reliable bow platform to date.
I'm just setting the draw length back to position one so I can pull the first curve at number one here. Dude, this curve is, like, perfect. Basically, what I'm looking for is just that the top of the curve is flat. I mean, that's pretty perfect.
As you start drawing the bow back, you're going to start gaining weight until you get to your peak weight. And these corners of the draw force curve are really going to be what determines how that bow feels for the consumer, where these curves exist. So here at Elite, shootability and accuracy are the primary drivers of what we want to build into a bow. We want to design and deliver a bow that's going to provide really good performance, but is going to be comfortable and fun to shoot. If we wanted to just maximize the speed of our bow, we would run this curve straight out and down and make this as much of a corner possible. But that bow is going to feel terrible, it's going to be hard to shoot, and it's not what we want out of an elite bowl.
