was it in the water man?? sorry to hear. on a north kite?? no probs using another bar, why not. Cabrina bars are good from what I see (I use the north 5th element).

What actually happened...

I've had a hook up the same on the four line bar aswell but managed to release the line from the bar. I've had more issues with bridals hooking wingtips on previous kites. I crash with slack lines a lot less these days.

Bridal v C , 4 line v 5.
There is always an element of danger in the sport with whatever gear you ride.
I wish North would go the sleeved de-power line more to eliminate excessive wear.

I suppose once the kite is looping this could be impossible, but did you try the secondary, releasing the safety line? Again hard to get out of loop manually once primary doesn't work. Yeh, love the quality of build, but the depower rope is showing wear signs after little use (crap start to season). Same with the best redlinebar I had (now this depower rope would wear after next to little use - not to mention the other less admirable qualities, like a swivel that seizes after little use), works fine once cleaned out, two kites later crapola and changing the depower rope is a damn mission - not sure of the new one though.

Will take extra care and keep to just downlooping!! The cabrina plastic sleeve should be the standard, always liked it, except trying to reach the damn bar nearly took out my shoulder (depower to long). Expereinced kiters don't need much depower movement, using body weight and edging - which is why I love the rebels. The 2012 11m is just outstanding.

stuntnaz said...

I have never had the bridal get caught around the wing tip even when i was learning and dropped my kite a far bit .

I did, 2 days ago. On my 13m XBow 2009. It wasn't fun. Than the kite inverted and started looping even tho I've released myself.

My other kite is not Cab but likes to invert even more:(

Sorry to hear about your incident Taurus but in instances like these I wouldn't be looking at the equipment. There is and always will be an element of the unexpected and unpredictable in our sport. All I can see is if somebody managed to get a bar end wrapped with a middle line it wouldn't have mattered which bar they were using.

eppo said...

stuntnaz said...

I'm going to step out their and say I use cabrinha kites. I have never had the bridal get caught around the wing tip even when i was learning and dropped my kite a far bit . I love the cabrinha bar set up ,yes it does have lots of depower, but ha less chance of being dragged up the beach . I even use my cabrinha 2n1 pulley bar on my slingshot td2 goes really well !

We are discussing the bar here aren't we? Nothing to do with kite design, it is the bar and the 5th line wrapping around the bar, causing the primary to fail.

If you read his post again he said he was thinking of switching to cabrinha's i was just giving them a wrap !!!!!!!!