Voltric 1 LCW
Model VT-1LCW · Lee Chong Wei
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Voltric 1 LCW: Lee Chong Wei’s dark pink Voltric 1, listed before the standard model
A Voltric 1 in Lee Chong Wei’s pink
The Voltric 1 name first appeared in August 2014, on a dark pink frame. Yonex’s international site listed the Voltric 1 LCW, item VT1LCW, in its “LCW Limited Edition Gear” category, which already showed nine products in its first archived capture on August 10: the Voltric Z-Force II LCW, the Voltric Force LCW, this racquet, SHB01LTD shoes and clothing. The standard white Voltric 1 is missing from Yonex’s Voltric list on December 31, 2014 and present on January 30, 2015, so the pink frame was listed about five months before the standard model appeared there. The racquet Lee Chong Wei took to that month’s World Championships was a different one, the Z-Force II LCW.
Plain graphite in a flagship’s colors
Yonex announced Lee’s limited-edition gear on August 7, 2014, for the World Championships in Copenhagen, and said the racquet, shoes and clothing would go on sale worldwide in late August. The release names one racquet, the Z-Force II LCW; the 1 LCW appears only on the collection page. Yonex’s page for it gives a graphite and tungsten frame, a graphite shaft, 4U (average 83 g) with grip 4 or 5, dark pink and made in Taiwan, and carries only the Voltric series overview: the Tri-Voltage System, which Yonex said combined heavy smashes with fast handling. Yonex UK’s Voltric 1 page, which includes the dark pink, adds Isometric, the Built-in T-Joint and the Control Support Cap. For the standard Voltric 1 Yonex recommends 19–24 lb; neither page that shows the pink frame gives a range.
Named for Lee Chong Wei, not played by him
No Yonex source shows Lee Chong Wei, or any other player, using the Voltric 1 LCW. Yonex’s report from Copenhagen lists him with the Z-Force II LCW and SHB01LTD shoes. Yonex USA’s own LCW page, in October 2014 and again in October 2015, offered only that racquet with the shoes, a shirt and socks; the two lower pink Voltrics appear on Yonex’s international site. Yonex’s follow-up news quoted Lee on his new color (“I think I’m the first man to use a pink racquet”), and the only racquet in that release’s lineup is the Z-Force II LCW. The 1 LCW carried his initials and color on a 4U, Taiwan-made frame; Yonex gave no production quantity.
One color, two Yonex readings
Yonex listed the 1 LCW only in dark pink, and its specification matches the standard Voltric 1’s line for line except the flex word. Yonex’s international page rates the pink frame medium. Yonex UK files dark pink under the plain VT1, beside White/Gold, on a page rated flexible whose web address ends “voltric-1-lcw”, and Yonex’s pages for the standard model also say flexible. No Yonex text calls the pink frame a different build. The base model, the white Voltric 1 (VT1), reached Yonex’s list in January 2015 and has its own page. Its siblings in the collection are the stiff, high-modulus Voltric Force LCW and the Japan-made 3U Z-Force II LCW.
About seventeen months on Yonex’s pages
Yonex’s LCW category stayed online from August 2014 to at least January 4, 2016, still listing all nine products, and was gone by February 4, 2016; the 1 LCW’s own page is last archived on January 11, 2016. Yonex gave no production end. A US retailer had it in stock by December 2014. No Yonex Japan listing is documented; Yonex listed it on its English-language sites. Listings often drop the suffix and sell it as a plain “Voltric 1” or a “Lee Chong Wei” Voltric, so the color and the item code identify it, not the title. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Counterfeits and pink look-alikes
No counterfeit of the Voltric 1 LCW is documented. The practical risk is a mix-up inside Lee’s 2014 collection. The Voltric Force LCW is also dark pink, 4U and made in Taiwan; on Yonex’s labels only its item code, VTFLCW, its stiff rating and its high-modulus graphite frame and shaft separate it. The Z-Force II LCW is dark pink with blue and gold, 3U and Japan-made, and it is the only one of the three that Yonex documents in Lee’s hands. A pink frame sold as “Lee Chong Wei’s racquet” needs its model name read off the frame.
The first Voltric 1
The 1 LCW is the first racquet on Yonex’s lists to carry the Voltric 1 name. A year after Copenhagen, in August 2015, Yonex moved him to the Duora 10, whose LCW editions followed. For a collector its interest is the collection rather than the frame: a 4U Voltric in the colors of Lee’s 2014 kit, listed by Yonex for about seventeen months.
Check the item code VT1LCW and the Made in Taiwan mark. Yonex lists it in dark pink, 4U only (average 83 g), grip 4 or 5, with a graphite and tungsten frame and a graphite shaft. Don’t rely on the flex label: Yonex’s international page rated it medium, while Yonex UK lists the pink frame under the flexible VT1. A dark pink 4U frame rated stiff, with a high-modulus graphite frame and shaft, is the Voltric Force LCW (VTFLCW). A 3U or Japan-made dark pink frame with blue and gold is the Z-Force II LCW, and white and gold or white and red means the standard Voltric 1. Yonex’s own checks apply: a laser-engraved production code on the cap above the handle and a hologram sticker that resists peeling.
A collection piece from Lee Chong Wei’s 2014 pink kit, not a racquet he is documented using. Confirm the VT1LCW code, the 4U label and the Taiwan mark in photographs, and be wary of listings that present it as his match frame or blur it with the pink Voltric Force LCW. Pink paint shows chips and touch-ups clearly, so ask for daylight photographs of the head, the T-joint and the cap, and look for cracks and repainting.