2004 Nemesis 18
Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 12:56 pm
I started a thread "Best damn $250 kite I ever bought", or some such...but I had never flown it. This kite was one of the 'house, demo. team' kites Best sold off early this Spring.
I got the first chance to fly it yesterday and I was well impressed. It's average construction, nothing in it that wasn't already done in 2002 and fewer goodies than a 2004 North I have.
It's from the high aspect/thin main tube design school and in the very marginal conditons I was in - sub-10kts - it performed great. I was able, with a very long bar and a directional board, to get something out of an absolute nothing-day.
All the other kites I've owned from 16 thru 20 would have fallen out of the sky. This kite will hang where most will not. I'm looking forward to using it in some real air.
I'm the only one among my local crew who has a Best kite and I've needed to make an apology to the ladies in our group who may think I'm one of the Best gavonnes, but it's like the rumor that you smack your wife around - nobody looks at you the same anymore. Best would have sold a bunch more kites, at least around here, had they not seemed so Florida about it.
Buy this kite - if you can get a good deal on one.
Jim
I got the first chance to fly it yesterday and I was well impressed. It's average construction, nothing in it that wasn't already done in 2002 and fewer goodies than a 2004 North I have.
It's from the high aspect/thin main tube design school and in the very marginal conditons I was in - sub-10kts - it performed great. I was able, with a very long bar and a directional board, to get something out of an absolute nothing-day.
All the other kites I've owned from 16 thru 20 would have fallen out of the sky. This kite will hang where most will not. I'm looking forward to using it in some real air.
I'm the only one among my local crew who has a Best kite and I've needed to make an apology to the ladies in our group who may think I'm one of the Best gavonnes, but it's like the rumor that you smack your wife around - nobody looks at you the same anymore. Best would have sold a bunch more kites, at least around here, had they not seemed so Florida about it.
Buy this kite - if you can get a good deal on one.
Jim