Taper123
Posts: 768
Registered: 1-6-2006
Location: Texas
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Mood: Ready for some sand!
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Don't cha hate it when...
Was at San Luis Pass saturday camping out. Made a nice long run to the east, and then turned around. Was cooking along pretty good on the return
trip... checking out my wife's new kite. When I catch something out of the corner of my eye... here a zing-SNAP and watch the kite crash into the
ground.
Seems a little kite was put up... tied on by the water and let waaaaaaay out with the line arcing low over the dunes. Needless to say it went
through my spectra like butter. I did'nt even see it until too late... man, I hate it when that happens.
What do you do with your foils?
Charger 8, 12, 19
Scorpion 10, 16
And other foils...
Flexifoil Bug, CrazyFly board, MBS atb
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KYTE SLINGER
Posts: 430
Registered: 5-7-2003
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Mood: freestyle tactician
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Dang!
you too....
Had that happen a long time ago with a new set of lines 
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action jackson
Posts: 950
Registered: 5-7-2003
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Mood: wind-holic
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I think Jellis holds the record at SLP for going thru 3 sets of lines in one day. ............aj
Ocean Rodeo Razors 8,10,12
Ocean Rodeo 5\'11 Surf series
PL Arcs 6,15m orange Phantoms 10,19m Venom 16m proto scorp ,synergy 12,
NPW\'s .5,2.8,6.9 and 15m skytex
145x49 crazy fly,Decay 142x42,aboards z- series 135x40
Pl xr+ buggy , Pl Kitecat hull #5
www.kittyhawkkites.com
www.wavesvillage.com
www.thekitexpo.com
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archkiter
Posts: 359
Registered: 7-3-2005
Location: portland, OR
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Why is that, that lines on a cheap single liner will cut through Spectra or Dyneema so easily? I heard about it before, but I don't know why...
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kitemaker4
Posts: 1609
Registered: 10-3-2004
Location: Louisiana
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Mood: happy when buggying
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The cheap stuff is not cutting the line it is melting the line from what I have been told from the fiction. So stay away from those cheap kites with
the cheap lines.
Susan
PKD Brooza\'s 2, 3, 4 and 5.5 meter
Libre Bora\'s 6 and 7 meter
Libre stainless full race with standard and big foot light wheels
Nasa wings: npw5 0.4, 0.8, 1.2, 1.7, 2.4, 3.1, 3.9, 4.8, 5.8, 6.9 meters
npw9 3.4, 5.3, 6.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, 11.0, 15.0 meters
Quadrifoil xm for sale
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xxxBUGGYPILOTXXX
Posts: 242
Registered: 6-2-2006
Location: Out hitchhiking the Galaxy (Next stop Milliways!)
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Mood: ANY DAY KITING BEATS ANY OTHER DAY!!!
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NPWfever
Posts: 1071
Registered: 9-30-2007
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Mood: Is now a P2 pilot, flying a Charly One Harness, and an Ozone Buzz Z =D
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Happened to me at the park but i did it to my own kite (i have kevlar bridles on my NPW) and i my friend was flying my foil and i did a jump and came
down on my nice new spectra lines and (duh) it cut them but i only lost about 3 feet so i just tied the loops on and it flies fine just 3 feet lower.
\"Once you have flown you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been, there you long to return\" Leonardo Da
Vinci
2m Junkie
P3 Prism Stylus
3m Goflyakite Foil
5.5m NPW9b (Homemade)
6m Ozone Access
8m Pansh Ace
11m S-ARC
14m Naish Boxer
17m Peter Lynn Bomba
Kitewing (Homemade)
Kitebuggy (Homemade)
Skis for buggy
Skis for feet
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1oldkid
Posts: 277
Registered: 10-19-2006
Location: Idaho
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Mood: I gotta get me an avatar...
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I did the same dang thing two years ago!
Was flying a couple one-liners in my pasture, decided to play with a 2.2 Symphony...
Making some nice turns, forgetting how small our pasture is..Zing!
And no one to blame, I did it to myself!
Took out one side of the two liner, and the cheapie Wal Mart kite just wobbled it's self back up to the zenith and rather smugly sat up there smiling
back at me...
Life's too short to be anything but happy!
My stuff:
Flexifoil 1.2m Sting
HQ Symphony 2.2m
Beamer 3.6m
Pro Foil 2.5, 4.5m
JoJo 6m
Montana 7m
Flysurfer 19m Speed 2 SA
Flexi bug
Several pair of kite skis
‘There are two types of education: One should teach us how to make a living, and the other should teach us how to live.’ - John Adams
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DAKITEZ
Posts: 2658
Registered: 10-21-2007
Location: Galt CA
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Mood: Go Fly A Kite!
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I'm glad I'm not alone I just did the same thing. My daughter was flying her little single line next to me and I caught it with one of my lines
SNAP!! My line broke and her kite just kept on flying like nothing happened. atleast she had a good laugh.
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