You may also want to check your serial number here: https://www.duotonesports.com/en/kiteboarding/more/service/safety-notification-trust-bar Seems like Duotone have a problem with their click bars? Haven't seem them talk about it publicly but you can check your bar on their website if you need a ne...

Always great to hear from Dan. Valve. I’ve been saying this awhile, the problem is there is not a standard for the outside diameter and depth of the bayonet connection. Not the duotone valve. I thought I had a bad valve once but I turned out to be the dreaded pinhole next to the valve. Which was cau...

April fools joke.

It depends. If it is frayed I would replace I’ve only changed twice in 5? Years. I did break one once and it broke where I didn’t expect it. And that broke within one year but that bar had a lot of use. I always thought it would break where it goes over the sheave on the left line Instead it broke o...

[ Ok, I had only two rides on I guess 2008 Nemesis and it wasn't stable kite and it felt a bit intimidating, twitchy kite. No doubt it had potential to boost high etc. but too nervous feeling kite for me. Latest version of Nemesis I know well in 8m, 12m and 14m sizes and I liked them quite a lot. I...

My sls kites look very different from the aluula hpw strut is connected . You kept the aluulas inflated or sls? My strut broke of my aluula just turning it around on the beach and i have seen several other struts break off. I kept my struts inflated often the weeks before it happened and think put ...

And it is not that certain kites become better if LE diameter is made smaller and pressure increased. It's not a new idea at all, about 15 years ago first thin LE kites (with partially dyneema LE) became available They pumped it with a normal pump - that means that the pressure was not higher than ...

The way I am reading this is that the penta tx is the same but the leading edge seam is different. I think Dan talked about this seam on the rebel and how it stiffened the leading edge. So that seems to have migrated to the evo. And For 2024, the kite is even lighter thanks to the thinner leading ed...

I advice against keeping the struts inflated at full pressure on duotone aluulas as the strut leading edge connection is weak. With no pressure in the leading edge, get strained.Always first lower the pressure a bit. I don’t see why that would put more stress on the material. That joining blue mate...

I didn’t realize sky was also the designer of the new evo sls. I hope he doesn’t get burnt out with all of the design work including surf boards. There does seem to be a pretty robust test team at dtk I have a love hate relationship with the airport valve. One nice feature is that it is fully open a...