Two weeks ago I had what can only be described as a **** up of a water pack down after trying to help someone out who was in it big time, the end to a story full of screw ups ended up with their kite tangled all over mine and caught on some reef.
I was amazed when I finally retrieved the kite to see that it had not a mark on it, so I packed it all down, spent an hour untangling her bar from mine then went home and totally forgot about it (kind of)..
The problem starts when I next use the kite and its flying like a pig, its seriously biased to one side, so much so that I have to put it down and spend a seriously good session trying to work it out on the beach..
So the kite was turning much faster to the right, The first thing I checked was the line lengths assuming maybe they had been stretched in the tangle, nothing there and the kite also flies exactly the same on another bar, s that was ruled out, I then measured the bridle and it matched to the millimetre so the problems not there.
Today I went to the beach to try it again and it still flew like crap, I deflated it. had another look, found nothing visibly wrong so decided to pump it up for one more fly. On the first pump action I heard a big pop and the bladder ripped. Now Im really going crazy, could this just be a coincidence or could a twisted bladder have been causing the kite to fly badly, If it had burst on the first go after the messy pack down I would have been sure of it, but Ive had the kite inflated hard at least twice since. Ive fixed the bladder and am going to give it another go tommorrow to see if its the same..I Was just wondering if anyone else has had a kite flying funny because of the bladder being twisted...I guess I really hop it was the bladder otherwise Im back to square one...

Check bridal lengths as well.

eppo said...
Check bridal lengths as well.

Thanks for the input but maybe read my post next time ;-)

check your line lengths, could have been stretched during the kite mare?

Hmmmm.. Tgcp

So 1. the kite flew fine before the hook up with the chick (my kite never flies the same after that these days!!)
2. big tangle or just a sort of bugger moment? - you mention reef etc - not nice !!
3. Bridal's all checked out? - seems so
4. Kites are flying machines and are aerodynamically designed - so if some chick plays with your carma - and warps your machine WTF ??

Witches aside - I'm surprised that your kite is miss behaving - I recently dropped a kite in the surf and it hot launched only to break the bar and the front line swivel - and cheacked the lines and afterthe carnage its still OK - still all my fault!!

I'm scratching to sort out ur problem!!

yeah a twisted bladder can cause it to fly crap.