When you find something suitable, let me know.

I've had no joy despite having trawled sailing and engineering catalogues over the last couple of years.

Andy

The mickey mouse ear swivel is of no use once the kite's in the air with oneline. If the swivel spun to untwist the left and right fronts it'd be wrapping them around the fifth line. That's why there's a swivel adjacent to the chicken loop so everything can spin together. Just untwist the fronts whe...

only problem is some of the kite ones are on a closed loop, so can only be slid over the spreader and not tied into the middle. I'm not sure if I understand what you mean by closed loop, but will it attach by putting the fabric loop over the top of the middle of the spreader, round behind it, then ...

If you've got an old depower loop that attaches to the bar
(like the windsurfing ones by dakine etc.)
You can make two spreader mounted donkeys from it by cutting it in half, then trimming to suit.

Andy

If it's relative to your own scale, and you're therefore ignoring the quantified measurement then what's wrong with just estimating based on the trajectory angle, and impact distance of a handful of sand dropped from level with your shoulder? the added advantages being.... 1) Cost = 0$ 2) Coolness r...

On a slingshot bar, Just move the bolts on the clam cleat closer to the chicken loop. Shorter throw, with more adjustability. Be careful as you put the bolts back through the depower rope, as you don't want to break any fibres. An easy trick is to move the cleat down by the distance between bolts ea...

Billabong won't mind the blatent copying of their "girly cammo" I guess.

Andy

Right, I'm calling you on that one Simon. Here's how VAT works in the UK. As a VAT registered Trader you are entitled to claim back output tax, in return you collect input tax. I.E you don't add the 17.5% to your costs. using your prices, and the correct maths... Kite at £500.00 + £87.50 VAT (...

Just to save someone the bother... Give up on ram-air kites.... LIEs are the only future Inflatables are quicker onto the water (if you keep them fully inflated in the back of a lorry) Ram-air kites never relaunch (if you've pre-filled them with concrete) Inflatables are proven to be more efficient ...

The good news is that the bksa forums should be back on line in the near future. In reply to my offer to help sort out the problems I got a reply from the bksa webmaster saying... We are in the process of upgrading the forum and should be OK But I will give you a shout if things don't go according t...