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Weight of 17m LEI kites

Postby Slappysan » Sat Feb 16, 2019 7:18 am

Anyone have weights for:

- Airush Ultra2 17m: ???
- LF Solo 17.5m: ???
- Cab Contra 17m: ???

I have:
- BRM C2 17m: 6.2 lbs (2.81 kg)
- OR Flite G6 17m: 8.9 lbs (4.04 kg) [others have listed this kite at only 3.7 kg here though, but mine weighs 4 kg clean]

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Re: Weight of 17m LEI kites

Postby Peter_Frank » Sat Feb 16, 2019 8:47 am

I haven't got these weights, just curious as to why?
Are you really light and have found most are too heavy on a twintip?

For hydrofoil these sizes are too big and not sufficient depower anyways, unless you are a lot over average weight :-?

I got an UL 15 m2 Conceptair Pulsion foil kite (pulls like a 17 m2 and depowers better) that weighs 4.5 lbs (2,0 kg) with a bit of sand on it, amazing but ONLY for hydrofoil of course :rollgrin:

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Re: Weight of 17m LEI kites

Postby iriejohn » Sat Feb 16, 2019 10:36 am

Ozone Zephyr V5 17m = 4.36 kg / 9.61 lb

Weighed on digital cooking scales when new.

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Re: Weight of 17m LEI kites

Postby Greenturtle » Sat Feb 16, 2019 3:08 pm

My Gen 3 Flite 17m is 3.7kg, single ripstop, and the old style tiny inflate/deflate valves.

My v2 12m LF solo was a teensy tiny bit heavier than gen 4 12m Flite, and the same size laid out over each other on ground. (Thus why I switched, why not get 3 struts and be lighter/same weight)
So based on that I would hazard an educated guess at weight of LF solo 17.5m being somewhere around 3.8kg
maybe someone will chime in and confirm or correct that...

Had a 17m RRD Emotion (strutless) it weighed 3.18 kg

I recently acquired an older ozone instinct prototype kite, its unmarked but based on laying over other kites its a 17m. It is single ripstop, multi pump, 3 strut, and weighs 3.49 kg wooooooop! They dont make em like they used to haha

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Re: Weight of 17m LEI kites

Postby Slappysan » Sat Feb 16, 2019 8:29 pm

Peter_Frank wrote:
Sat Feb 16, 2019 8:47 am
I haven't got these weights, just curious as to why?
Are you really light and have found most are too heavy on a twintip?

For hydrofoil these sizes are too big and not sufficient depower anyways, unless you are a lot over average weight :-?
I ride in the 6-8 knots range fairly often and I'm curious to see what the absolute low wind to fly is going to be on the Flite G6 compared to my C2.

With my old foil I used to ride my C2 17m from 6-10 knots and it was great. I've switched to a surf style foil now though and I think my biggest kite for it will be a 9m as it needs almost no power.

A lot of my sessions are in conditions where if you drop the kite you swim in so having that ability to hang in the air during those 5 knot lulls helps a bunch. The C2 can stay in the air in 4-5 knots. I don't expect the Flite G6 to match this obviously, but I do expect much better relative wind from the Flite though.


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