The Helectron 2024 M Plastic

Guigui-prod is delighted to have partnered with Pyranha Kayaks who producing the most avanced plastic boats on the market. The Helectron, utilising the latest Pyranha Kayaks outfitting and polyethylene technology.

Pyranha Kayaks - By Enthusiasts, For Enthusiasts

Pyranha is unique in its position as an independent manufacturer, with a team of enthusiasts handling everything from start to finish, and five decades of laser-focussed plastic compound and rotomoulding technology development and experience. They specifically and exclusively aim solely to produce market-leading canoes and kayaks – they might mess around in boats, but they don’t mess around when they’re making them.

The aim of the Helectron’s development was to retain the tried, tested, and perfected features of GuiGui’s previous design, the Helixir, while improving upon the features which still had potential to be improved - a difficult brief, hence the wait!

Finally, after 5 prototypes, almost a year and a half of relentless development, and testing which took place on waves and in holes across Europe, the Helectron is here to put a fresh spark of energy in your freestyle game.

So what’s new? Lets give you a quick walkthrough:

1. The first thing you will notice about the Helectron is that the shape of the bow has changed from a round to a more squared design. This change makes it easier for you to maintain control when plugging in powerful holes. The squared bow also helps the boat pop out of the rotation of McNasties and Phoenixes straighter, ensuring you land those tricks within scoring angles. The new distribution of the volume on the bow combined with this squared design means you won’t need to be David McClure to be able to go both clean and huge on your loop tricks.

2.The second thing about the Helectron which stands out is the sexy stern. A lot of volume has been added to the tip of the back end, making the kayak a lot more reactive on tricks like the Lunar Orbit and the Tricky Woo - expect judges to start having to give a lot more air bonuses on these! The idea for giving extra pop to Lunars and Trickies is to allow you to drive the bow deep and turn these tricks into big, aerial trophy moves by jumping out of them with huge loops. Even though the Helectron appears to be less slicey than the Helixir, you’ll be surprised to see how easy it is to go clean on your warm-up, flat-water cartwheels. It slices through water like a white-hot knife through warm butter!

3. When you look at the hull of the Helectron, 2 elements will stand out compared to the Helixir series; the Helectron has a sick hull with a primary edge inspired by the epic, high-performance wave design of the Helixir 2013, and a secondary edge which will only come into play when leaning hard over your edges looking for big, inverted wave moves, surfing steep green waves, and slaying wave combos.

The simplicity and minimalism of the hull design means the boat is looser than ever, and can grind even the smaller green waves.

4. Stern Boosters - this is what we’ve called the new features under the stern of the kayak. The idea behind these boosters is to keep the bow of the kayak down when surfing forward, whilst keeping the speed and making big bounces and Ollies easy. The boosters also help the rails maintain the kayak’s trajectory when tracing a diagonal from the foam pile, to the shoulder of the wave, ensuring maximum speed and control at the moment of take-off.

All in all, the Helectron is the next natural step in GuiGui-Prod’s hero journey to design and manufacture the best freestyle kayaking weapons on Earth, and will help you get more proactive in your freestyle kayaking and spend less time reacting, and more time acting.

This is Elite:

The GuiGui-Prod x Pyranha Kayaks Helectron comes with Pyranha’s new, Elite outfitting system and the famous Guigui carbon rail + foam foam seat, to give you optimal control of the Helectron throughout dynamic moves, and hit combo after combo with less fatigue.

The Elite Outfitting System allows you to:

- Fine tune your seat position on the fly for optimal balance.

- Quickly and reliably lock in your backrest with the next generation cleat setup.

- Get a grip with our 3-way adjustable hooker thigh grips.

- Enjoy long rides in the comfy-cosy padded seat and matching, extra-wide backrest.

- Comfortably shoulder the kayak and run back up for another ride thanks to the cockpit rim pads.

Helectron 2024 M specs: