Flysurfer is pretty convinced the rears are shrinking one day I must get out there and measure my various lines myself, and put this to sleep once and for all.alexrider wrote:1. The back line are not shrinking! The front lines stretch more then the back lines, which make the back line appear to shrink. Kites are usually delivered out of the bag not tuned for max power to allow for the stretching during the few first hours of riding. But the allowance was way off.Kamikuza wrote:...
Line length is adjusted with the Black Rope that the front lines attach to...
The problem with same-length new lines is that as the rears shrink, you soon run out of adjustment at the Black Rope while there's still plenty of life in the lines I'm going to get around to setting up an under-the-floaters adjustment system too.
2. You cannot lengthen the black rope because you make the turning problem I mentioned a lot worse because the too short safety line is in permanent tension when you lengthen the front lines. That's why you must resort to shortening the back lines.
Sp4s definitely had a bridle and/or main lines manufacturing and/or design and/or quality test problem.
I was thinking to lengthen the steering leaders at the bar, under the floats, using an old set of leaders.
You're right about the safety - my new 21 FLS line is overly tight so you HAVE to shorten the Black Rope...