The king of kite pumps
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The king of kite pumps
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Re: The king of kite pumps
Oh for gods sake! Just pump the thing up by hand, if you can't be bothered you shouldn't be kiting!
Why are people so lazy? Pumping a 12m kite by hand takes 2 mins and is a good warm up.....what do you do if you have to walk to access the beach?
I can understand if you have a kite school and need to pump up 20 kites a day...but come on man!
I can't believe all the effort you have gone to to install that stupid thing in your car! That wouldn't even cross my mind...you sir are a lazy F**K!
Why are people so lazy? Pumping a 12m kite by hand takes 2 mins and is a good warm up.....what do you do if you have to walk to access the beach?
I can understand if you have a kite school and need to pump up 20 kites a day...but come on man!
I can't believe all the effort you have gone to to install that stupid thing in your car! That wouldn't even cross my mind...you sir are a lazy F**K!
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Re: The king of kite pumps
try to pump an 18 in 30°...then you for sure want a kite pump!
Nice pump! Would be good to find a really reliable battery pump...since not everyone can drive with a car onto the beach!
Nice pump! Would be good to find a really reliable battery pump...since not everyone can drive with a car onto the beach!
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Re: The king of kite pumps
Well said Toby but...Toby wrote:try to pump an 18 in 30°...then you for sure want a kite pump!
Nice pump! Would be good to find a really reliable battery pump...since not everyone can drive with a car onto the beach!
In 30 celsius i put up a 21 SP3 .Don't like to sweat the details
As far as no car on the beach for the hardcore purists anti flat base hand pump pmu's
All you need is a loooong looooong hose
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Re: The king of kite pumps
onboard air is for much more than just pumping kites.Jdizzle wrote:Oh for gods sake! Just pump the thing up by hand, if you can't be bothered you shouldn't be kiting!
Why are people so lazy? Pumping a 12m kite by hand takes 2 mins and is a good warm up.....what do you do if you have to walk to access the beach?
I can understand if you have a kite school and need to pump up 20 kites a day...but come on man!
I can't believe all the effort you have gone to to install that stupid thing in your car! That wouldn't even cross my mind...you sir are a lazy F**K!
The most useful thing is when you drive on the beach and air down your tires, it lets you air them back up when you get to a road. This can be critical if there are no gas stations nearby.
If you have air locking differentials, onboard air can be used to activate them.
If you run air powered tools
If you have an air powered winch for offroading.
If you have airbag suspensions for towing heavy loads.
When you go camping they make it easy to inflate multiple beds, water toys etc.
That viair is designed to be an onboard air source so there is little to no effort to mounting it.
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Re: The king of kite pumps
Here is my VIAIR system with a 20gal tank. I can pump a 16m in less than a minute and still have air to pump another kite. For some reason I have no problem with posture when I pump a kite up either.
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Re: The king of kite pumps
Jdizzle wrote:Oh for gods sake! Just pump the thing up by hand, if you can't be bothered you shouldn't be kiting!
Why are people so lazy? Pumping a 12m kite by hand takes 2 mins and is a good warm up.....what do you do if you have to walk to access the beach?
I can understand if you have a kite school and need to pump up 20 kites a day...but come on man!
I can't believe all the effort you have gone to to install that stupid thing in your car! That wouldn't even cross my mind...you sir are a lazy F**K!
Why be such a nob? to each his own. Who cares?
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Re: The king of kite pumps
Jdizzle wrote:Oh for gods sake! Just pump the thing up by hand, if you can't be bothered you shouldn't be kiting!
Why are people so lazy? Pumping a 12m kite by hand takes 2 mins and is a good warm up.....what do you do if you have to walk to access the beach?
I can understand if you have a kite school and need to pump up 20 kites a day...but come on man!
I can't believe all the effort you have gone to to install that stupid thing in your car! That wouldn't even cross my mind...you sir are a lazy F**K!
I take it you walk to the beach rather than driving? And you inflate your kite with your mouth as it's a good warmup?