Review: Watercross of Texas SXR 1500 Ride Plate

In the era of powerful four stroke engines and fast stand up jet skis – the Watercross of Texas double concave ride plate enables the Kawasaki SXR 1500 to go even faster!

How much faster? Well, as with everything, it depends on what mods you have, altitude, temperature, pull of the moon, tide level…you get what I mean.

But.

With the Watercross of Texas double concave ride plate you will probably see a few miles an hour on the top speed. Really, just from a ride plate?!
Yes, the plate allows the nose of the ski to come more out of the water, therefore less drag, equals more top speed.

On the flip side the ride plate does change how the ski rides overall, which can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on your riding style. With the nose higher under acceleration, the SXR 1500 steers more from the rear with this Watercross of Texas ride plate than it would with more of the hull in the water. In my, and a few other riders who have tested the ride plate, opinion this is not detrimental to the SXR’s standard steering style.

The positive side of this ride plate is chop handling. In races, you’ll encounter far more choppy conditions than glass so that fact in itself should steer you towards trying out this ride plate for yourself. It allows the ski to ‘grease’ over chop rather than plow and dart through it.

More top speed and better chop handling on an already blazingly fast stand up jet ski is a match made in speed history!

In the video below is the first open water test on the new Watercross of Texas SXR 1500 double concave ride plate. Conditions included large, rolling chop. I found the SXR was more planted both in a straight line and in the corners, less side-to-side roll, and less pitching the nose down. On this ski in the video the ride plate change picked up 2.5 mph on GPS.

As the owner of this ski also said the Watercross of Texas plate “makes the ski handle more relaxed while attacking corners entry and exit. Stock plate while good is can be sketchy when wide open. The dual Concave WOT plate lets the nose lift without bounce to help the top end speed.”

Get yourself one from Watercross of Texas and see how you like it. Even better, drop a comment and let us know your experience with the Watercross of Texas double concave ride plate on your SXR 1500!