[quote="PAFF"]The kite is great..... Its a true C kite, where performance is the key...

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Ahem. Your enthusiasm is showing through. I don't think SlingShot ever marketed the Fuel as a performance kite. A good, solid, robust, reliable, stable, mid-aspect kite is more accurate.

1.38, married with 2 kids 2. kiting most of the time 3. no had my definition of a near perfect day yesterday, wake up, shag, fry up, read the paper, kite session from about 12 till 3 in kick ass 25-30 knots on 9m Xbow (my fav kite), down the pub for a couple of pints, back home for a quick shower a...

50 years old. My partner likes sex in the early-mid afternoon and the sea breezes hit in the later afternoon so they come together well. :) Sometimes there is a clash when an early seabreeze comes in and she wants sex. Usually I can get away with cutting the afterglow a little short. If I have had a...

The 16m Crossbow I is a perfectly decent kite provided you add some pulleys to the bridles to reduce the bar pressure. Realistically, unless you are over 100kg there is no need to go to such a big kite for light wind. A 12m SB2 and a good sized, flat board is more than adequate for most light wind d...

.... All kites are dangerous.Its kinda reminds me of the guys that put winter tires and buy 4 wheel drive vehicles,thinking now they can drive as fast as they want regardless of conditions.... But to follow the metaphor through, if you get an all wheel drive car with good tyres and good brakes and ...

...... i have a homemade plywood board and rode it once with my 3 meter trainer on a 25 knot day but the board just side slips too much without fins when i use it with a big kite and i cant stay up on it i just slip onto my ass. or go strait downwind whitch isnt fun. With a little practice you will...

I use a 136x47.5cm plyboard with 30cm wide tips and flip tips, and hardly any rocker. The straps are centre mounted and I only have some small fins on the heel side. The fins are not really necessary and I often ride toeside on the finless side. The fins just make landing jumps a little easier. It h...

if i read it correct, i think this kite has a bigger wind-range.... i think bruno mentioned that this 2nd generations uses different length lines for different wind range... .... That doesn't really count. You can use different line lengths to change the range of any kite. It would be good to get t...

Paragliders stopped using shrink around the line ends years ago for exactly the reason that it weakens the line. The problem is not so much sharpness as in cutting but in having a sharp corner where the lines are always bending in the same spot. You can get a similar effect at the end of the sleevin...

As I was winding my lines I looked up to see a guy with a kite trample a child (about 3 years old). It didn't look too good but it didn't look fatal and the mother was not freaking out. I then realised that it was a gumbie beginner kiter (I had seen him on the beach a few times before) who was letti...