So the single Strut kite will never happen then?
No Switch for me then... I already have 2 awesome 3 strut light wind kites 15m and 17m.. too bad Airush Ultra it's gonna be...
New Switch Kites Helium3 only days away :-)
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Re: New Switch Kites Helium3 only days away :-)
I'm a 100kg I need a 15m single strut that will stay up there in the lull in 4 knots I can ride in around 5 or 6 knots on my foil but my GTS LW 15M will fall form the sky even if I keep it moving. The kite is awesome fast responsive, great drifting plenty of power, amazing in waves. I was hoping for something reasonably priced from Switch but it looks like it's not going to happen. Too bad a missed market opportunity. There's like a 100 companies making kites and they all have 3 struts light wind kites.
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Re: New Switch Kites Helium3 only days away :-)
Don't know why you would want a LEI for those winds...Windigo1 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 11:34 pmI'm a 100kg I need a 15m single strut that will stay up there in the lull in 4 knots I can ride in around 5 or 6 knots on my foil but my GTS LW 15M will fall form the sky even if I keep it moving. The kite is awesome fast responsive, great drifting plenty of power, amazing in waves. I was hoping for something reasonably priced from Switch but it looks like it's not going to happen. Too bad a missed market opportunity. There's like a 100 companies making kites and they all have 3 struts light wind kites.
But it's said a hundred times for a few years already that Switch missed an opportunity with monostrut kites. They could've been one of the first, because a monostrut was in the works for a long time, but if the company decides they're not going that route, too bad.
I understand their decision... at the time the one strut market was very small so it would be a big gamble, and I don't think Switch was in a position they could afford it.
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Re: New Switch Kites Helium3 only days away :-)
Because I ride inland lakes at home and the wind is fickle after swimming for hours with a foil and kite a few times you start prefer LEI over closed cell foils. I still have several foils but I use them mostly in the winter on the snow or when I travel on seaside destinations.
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Re: New Switch Kites Helium3 only days away :-)
Thanks posting the weight information Felix.
That sounds right on the money to me. The weight is pretty similar to the single strut kites I have weighed (or close enough that I wouldn't discount them for light wind on weight alone). Interested to hear the flying characteristics as the reviews start to come out after launch ( I won't try and pry before you run your launch events).
Thanks for being so responsive.
That sounds right on the money to me. The weight is pretty similar to the single strut kites I have weighed (or close enough that I wouldn't discount them for light wind on weight alone). Interested to hear the flying characteristics as the reviews start to come out after launch ( I won't try and pry before you run your launch events).
Thanks for being so responsive.