The rig I race on.
Built by Sim-Lab.

From opening the boxes to torquing the last bolt, there's a lot of thought in how this thing goes together. Tolerances are excellent. With some other brands you can find yourself almost taking an angle grinder to a rig to make a bolt go in somewhere it shouldn't. That would be laughable here. Completely the opposite experience.

Real talk on build time, you're looking at roughly three hours if you're focused, a full day if you're stopping to film like I was. The instructions are pin-sharp. You really do just follow them and the rig appears.

The profile design removes most of the need for separate angle brackets, because Sim-Lab pre-drill the aluminium at the joints and use bespoke sandwich plates instead. Faster build, cleaner alignment.

The rig is unbelievably sturdy. Every aluminium rig at this price tier is described as sturdy, but there's levels to it, as they say. The finish is a textured matte black powder coat. Rugged, easy to clean, catches the light in a way that just looks the part.

One honest tradeoff worth knowing, Sim-Lab sacrifice the inner slots on a few of the larger profiles, which means a couple of accessories that mount with bolts side-by-side will only catch one of the two. The cup holder is the one I noticed. I'd take that trade every day for the cleaner look, but it's worth flagging going in.

The P1X Pro wheel deck deserves a mention too. I had a curiosity about whether wheel decks were really as strong as they claim. I'm not a small lad, my mam fed me well, and I sat on it. The deck didn't break a sweat. Not a hint of concern.