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Selling your kite surfing gear? Learn what Kiteboarding gear is the most popular and when / where in this infographic featuring riders Susi Mai & Annabel van Westerop from Cabrinha Kites
# 1 Most listed kite: 2011 Cabrinha Switchblade - 113
Runner up top 4 kites by brand:
2012 North Rebel - 102
2013 Liquid Force Envy - 98
2011 Slingshot RPM - 66
2011 Slingshot Rally - 58
Most popular kite size sold: 9m

Boards:
# 1 Most listed board: 2010 Cabrhina Custom
Runner up top 4 boards by brand:
2013 Crazyfly Raptor Pro
2010 Slingshot Misfit
2012 Cabrhina Caliber
2013 North Gambler
Total boards listed for year: 672
Top selling board size: 132x41

Bar / Lines:
# 1 Most listed bar lines: 2012 Slingshot Compstick
Runner up top 4 bars by brand:
2007 Naish Shift
2012 Cabrhina IDS
2012 Best Redline
2010 North 5th Element
Top selling bar size: 55cm

Random:
Most popular listing area: San Francisco 113
Top 4 runner up locations:
San Diego, 70
Hood River, 56
Miami, 46
Boston, 45
Total listings for the year: 3468
Total kites listed for year: 2317
Total bars listed for year: 195
Total boards listed for year: 672
Most listings posted by top 5 user: 59, 34, 27, 22, 16
Most popular / Least popular month: July


Highest priced top 5 items listed:
1991 26' Flair RV, $5900
Best TS V2 6/9/12/15m, $3400
North Rebel 11m and 8m, $3100
RRD 9m, 12m, 16m $3000
North Rebel 7,9,12 $2850


Most popular top 5 brands by total listings:
Cabrinha, 449
Slingshot, 399
North, 380
Best, 295
Liquid Force, 290

GREAT POST!

Interesting stuff. Hood River is in Oregon, however. Not Washington - as the graphic suggests...

Full infographic is available here: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/538743174146030364/

Always wondered if there is lots of gear on the second hand market does that signify less desirable product that people are trying to offload. Surely if your gear is great you wouldnt sell it within a year or two. Or is it just a reflection of higher volumes of polpular brands. Anyone else thought this?

JDMsquirrel wrote:Always wondered if there is lots of gear on the second hand market does that signify less desirable product that people are trying to offload. Surely if your gear is great you wouldnt sell it within a year or two. Or is it just a reflection of higher volumes of polpular brands. Anyone else thought this?

At the prices I see late model North and Cabrinha kites listed for I don't think anyone is trying to unload them. In general, I think this infographic is mildly interesting but not that useful since we don't know what the kites actually sold for, or even if they sold.

Interesting to do a comparison with different countries. See which brands are more embedded than others.

The listed kites, 2011, 2012.... About the time a lot of crew sell and upgrade. It's a measure of the most popular brands/kites as the more bought the more will be sold second hand. A two year old kite from any brand ridden in a normal season here is getting pretty thin!! But there are always those good deals out there...

Mates show mates, word of mouth at a local scene/s is the most strongest driving force for sales.

Then certain brands / kites reach a threshold and become embedded in that kiting culture.