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Low end - Dash vs Pivot?

Postby czezz » Fri Aug 27, 2021 10:20 am

Hi everyone,
What has better low wind range - Dash or Pivot?
Im talking here about 12m kite for low wind days.

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Re: Low end - Dash vs Pivot?

Postby BillyGoatGruff » Fri Aug 27, 2021 11:06 am

The pivot, but there’s not much in it as the Dash is a faster kite and can build power.

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Re: Low end - Dash vs Pivot?

Postby Dirk » Fri Aug 27, 2021 3:02 pm

Pivot. From past experience 9m Dash and 8m Pivot have similar wind ranges.

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Re: Low end - Dash vs Pivot?

Postby BudhaNl » Mon Aug 30, 2021 12:07 pm

Dirk wrote:
Fri Aug 27, 2021 3:02 pm
Pivot. From past experience 9m Dash and 8m Pivot have similar wind ranges.
Indeed

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Re: Low end - Dash vs Pivot?

Postby edt » Mon Aug 30, 2021 1:58 pm

The dash is meant as a hybrid kite you can unhook with while the pivot is big air and free ride. You should get much better upwind performance with the pivot at any wind speed including light wind so that's what I would go with unless you need to unhook.

Whenever you create a kite that lets you unhook there are always performance tradeoffs which includes light wind performance.


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