Don Monnot wrote:Wow! No leash? No way to sheet in and out? Are you suicidal? Safety in kiting has come a long way, baby. The bar in your picture looks amazingly dangerous. You may be used to it, and may have never had issues with it, but it scares me just looking at it. I suspect nearly any modern bar would work for your kite, and be way safer. It might take some serious adjustment on your part to get used to sheeting in and out to control power, but would probably add a significant safety factor to your kiting.
jmho
Don
Flame on:Don Monnot wrote:Wow! No leash? No way to sheet in and out? Are you suicidal? Safety in kiting has come a long way, baby. The bar in your picture looks amazingly dangerous. You may be used to it, and may have never had issues with it, but it scares me just looking at it. I suspect nearly any modern bar would work for your kite, and be way safer. It might take some serious adjustment on your part to get used to sheeting in and out to control power, but would probably add a significant safety factor to your kiting.
jmho
Don
I almost thought your post was meant as a joke, but I believe you were serious Don ?Don Monnot wrote:Wow! No leash? No way to sheet in and out? Are you suicidal? Safety in kiting has come a long way, baby. The bar in your picture looks amazingly dangerous. You may be used to it, and may have never had issues with it, but it scares me just looking at it. I suspect nearly any modern bar would work for your kite, and be way safer. It might take some serious adjustment on your part to get used to sheeting in and out to control power, but would probably add a significant safety factor to your kiting.
jmho
Don
The racers are now using sheeting systems where they steer with one hand and sheet the kite with the other, so that might also be a possibility for the usual style pulley bar except the pulley is moving in a slightly different arc to the normal bottom of the trim strap.Starsky wrote:
The last one I built still had a depower line going to a chicken loop with my leash attached to it but I didn't route the depower line through the bar. I just let it hang from the pulley. Basically its just that your leash goes to the pulley, but there is a functional chicken loop in it so you can sometimes hook that in by hand and ride around with freebar style depower. Dont need a harness loop on the bar either. Takes a bit to get used to cause you can oversheet pretty easy with a freebar, but once you get the hang of it you can cruise around easy enough in the waves with pretty much unlimited throw depower, and then just unhook at the opportune times to ride around with the pulley bar. Leashed to the pulley you get a pretty simple double front line safety that my kites work well with.
Well worth exploring.
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