The Loco 2 keeps almost everything about the Loco. Same 16mm foam core, same T700 face with a fiberglass layer for pop, same shapes down to the eighth of an inch. The headline change is the surface. Bread & Butter put a new grit on it, Space Dust, and pitches it as spin that lasts.
I haven't scored it yet. No number goes on this page until I've played it enough to defend one.
What changed from the Loco
The face, mostly. The original Loco had a raw carbon finish; the Loco 2 adds Space Dust Grit on top. Bread & Butter doesn't publish a spin number or say what the grit is made of, so for now the durability claim is just a claim.
The rest of the changes are small. The Standard shape is gone, leaving Elongated and Hybrid. Bread & Butter now lists it as approved by both USAP and UPA. And the price went up: the Loco 2 is $220 ($198 with code NICOTHELEFTY), while the original Loco is on sale at $149.25 as I write this.
The spin number
Bread & Butter doesn't publish a spin figure, so this is the one number on the page that comes from an independent lab. Matt's Pickleball measured 2,394 RPM on the Elongated and 2,398 on the Hybrid. Both land in the top 5% of the 173 paddles in my database with a measured spin number.
That's fresh grit, though. The question the Loco 2 has to answer is what that number looks like a few months from now.
What I'm watching for
Whether Space Dust still grabs the ball once it has real time on it, and how the Elongated, which Bread & Butter pitches as their power shape, holds up at the kitchen line at a claimed 118 swing weight.
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