Ram Air Bow Tie Disasters

[Pump me up]

Ram lovers try to hide the disastrous failures of their kites, but the evidence keeps leaking out. Amongst other problems, ram airs are NOTORIOUS for deforming and bow tying, as confirmed by a recent incident:

There I was just foiling along in about 13mph having a great day.
Screwed up an on the water jibe. The foil kite went down. No problem except it now had a twist ( an hour glass in my old spinnaker sailing days ).
Worked on it for a while but eventually rolled up the lines and then tried to roll up the wet, soggy kite and place it on top of my board.
Not easy when it has water in it. Swam for a while but another foiler dragged me in, thankfully. I was way too far out.
Any tricks to remove the twist? I couldn't think of a way to do it but assume there is.

Read the full admission at viewtopic.php?t=2394491&p=953414
Equally humorous (but disturbing) are the “troubleshooting” “solutions” of assorted ram lovers.

Pumpy ……………………..

[Kamikuza]

Doctor doctor it hurts when I do this

Then don't do that

[joriws]

Pumpy, very close to Trumpy? Identity revealed?

[Toby]

I am sure there are more incidents with LE kites than foil kites.
If there ever will be a "Fill me up" guy , he would post daily stories like you do.

Boring.

[Jzh_perth]

This is the equivalent of a "LEI kites have bladders that leak" thread.

Funnily enough I was watching the pre race training today for the hydrofoil pro tour that is in town and there were no LEIs participating. Could it be they are inferior in some way ???

[kiterocky]

There IS no foil kite in freestyle and Wave Competition....are they inferior?

[pj sofine]

Thanks again PMU. Unlike many who post constantly,the weeks and months between your posts just re-enforce how serious you are to make sure that your conclusions are 100% reliable.

[PullStrings]

When disaster happens it's a real mess

[Bille]

PMU isn't funny any more ; most here know that your other alter-EGO (that alex-dude)
can fly a ram-air as good as the best of them.

Ask alixr...er if i can have a copy of his avatar ; absolutely LOVE those lines
he carves in that down-winder !!!
It would go on my wall.

Bille

[plummet]

I wonder is Neil pryde is pumpy?

viewtopic.php?t=2394636&p=955020

Can't compete with the foil kite manufacturers racing? make your own class of sub performing equipment.