Pneumatic hose is what you look for. Cheers, Seb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1OI6McCZqs Its an old movie but this is what happens. No force needed at all! Not a bad carabiner perse (although off course there are carabiners that can be locked). Its just that the size of the carabiner icw the size of the ring are a bad combination and the ring ...

It's in general that brands that have (or recently changed from) double frontline safety have pulley's. You need the pulley to allow most kites to flip on their back. You can easily check this yourself. Moving to single frontline safety opens more design freedom like short bridles and/or leaving out...

@lamza, sorry for not reading this before. I've send a pm with the answer Take care and hope you recover soon.

There are many different red dye's and pigments but in general a red indeed fades faster. That is because to see red, many dye's/pigments absorb blue (close to UV) and this has much higher energy/damage than other colors (wevelengths). This is also why neon colors are in general very sensitive. The ...

In general, to get a very bright color, the UV protection needs to be reduced so it's better to push them down a few shades. Hence: Neon / very bright colors have lower UV resistance then dark colors. Neon / very bright colors are more prone to color (fading) then dark colors. Black getting more war...

If a thicker (very smooth) fibre is added to a weave of smaller (smooth) fibres it will make the weave more loose. The coating makes all stiff. If you then add again a thicker fibre in the weave the weave gets a bit more loose again. If the coating does not counteract on this you may have more (bias...

Broke my heel bone 4 weeks ago after a crash from 8-10m with boots on. Gained 2 screws at the operation 2 weeks ago....long process to recover from this one

Hi Guy's, Thank you so much for the (so far) positive replies. As Robert has led the GSL factory for 5 years and a good part of our own people have decennia of production experience from there we believe to have made a good start when we set up our own production facility in Sri Lanka. Our gear does...

Knots indeed reduce strength by 50%. Some tested we did even more. But off course if you reduce strength on a 1000kg line....it is still strong enough. They will not put knots in the flying line itself but pigtail line is much stronger so no problem.