Contact   Imprint   Advertising   Guidelines

Anyone else using just one bar?

Forum for kitesurfers
romkite
Medium Poster
Posts: 80
Joined: Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:59 pm
Local Beach: France
Style: Freeride TT & Strapless surf
Gear: 5&7&9 2010 SS Octane
Brand Affiliation: None
Has thanked: 0
Been thanked: 0

Re: Anyone else using just one bar?

Postby romkite » Fri Apr 05, 2013 12:37 pm

Toby wrote:1 bar
1 kite
1 board

Progress guaranteed!

:naughty:
probably true but you forgot "1 spot with 20 kts everyday all year long", that would help as well ;-)

User avatar
Toby
Very Frequent Poster
Posts: 50343
Joined: Mon Sep 24, 2001 1:00 am
Kiting since: 2000
Weight: 95 kg
Local Beach: Cumbuco, Brazil
Barra do Cauipe, Brazil
Favorite Beaches: same
Style: Airstyle
Gear: Rebel 2015 18
Brand Affiliation: None.
Location: World (KF Admin)
Has thanked: 831 times
Been thanked: 2365 times
Contact:

Re: Anyone else using just one bar?

Postby Toby » Fri Apr 05, 2013 1:17 pm

Yes, true :thumb:

scklandl
Very Frequent Poster
Posts: 1603
Joined: Mon Sep 19, 2005 12:49 am
Style: all
Brand Affiliation: None
Location: scott klandl burlington, VT
Has thanked: 0
Been thanked: 2 times

Re: Anyone else using just one bar?

Postby scklandl » Fri Apr 05, 2013 6:25 pm

5 kites 1 bar to rule them all
45/35 cm custom. Don't need to change lengths though for 11-5m

whabbits
Medium Poster
Posts: 137
Joined: Tue May 25, 2010 8:32 pm
Local Beach: Vancouver Island, BC
Favorite Beaches: Comox, BC
Nitinaht Lake. BC
Port Renfrew, BC
Style: learning anything
Gear: LOL, kiting too expensive now.
Brand Affiliation: None, but I used to work at Ocean Rodeo.
Has thanked: 0
Been thanked: 1 time

Re: Anyone else using just one bar?

Postby whabbits » Fri Apr 05, 2013 6:49 pm

I've found that having multiple bars is a nice luxury to have.
- makes reselling the kites very easy
- makes less wear and tear on your lines
- some locals will keep one bar near new to be used in the storm conditions so that the lines are near new when it's gusty and blowing 40+knots.
- if you have an incident and your lines are messed up, you can swap out bars and clean up the mess later

- I would have to say that there's too many of us out there that do little or no bar maintenance. I have seen some trim lines, kite lines, swivels, etc... that are all accidents waiting to happen.

User avatar
Starsky
Very Frequent Poster
Posts: 4373
Joined: Mon Apr 19, 2004 12:12 pm
Brand Affiliation: None
Location: Ontario
Has thanked: 0
Been thanked: 3 times

Re: Anyone else using just one bar?

Postby Starsky » Fri Apr 05, 2013 7:17 pm

whabbits wrote:I've found that having multiple bars is a nice luxury to have.
- makes reselling the kites very easy
- makes less wear and tear on your lines
- some locals will keep one bar near new to be used in the storm conditions so that the lines are near new when it's gusty and blowing 40+knots.
- if you have an incident and your lines are messed up, you can swap out bars and clean up the mess later

- I would have to say that there's too many of us out there that do little or no bar maintenance. I have seen some trim lines, kite lines, swivels, etc... that are all accidents waiting to happen.
Yup


Return to “Kitesurfing”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: alekbelia, andylc, Baptiste_FR, Bartolo, Bing [Bot], bshmng, Chriz76, gl, Google [Bot], ham-er, knotwindy, Leon van Bergen, Pitu, rnelias, Slappysan, tobesen, tonester, Ventum, Wainando, Windwarrior, Yahoo [Bot] and 362 guests