loftywinds2 said..Drury said.. loftywinds2 said.. The FX is a great kite, and has the best pump and delfate system of any kite I've seen yet. The only issue I have with it is the canopy. It's as thin as rice paper rolls! So treat the kite better than your own baby
It's double rip stop ... Same as the Switchblade and most other top kite brands. Great canopy material.
Really? Not from what I've seen sunshine. I had an FX drag over some ROUND rocks and rip, there went the canopy. Yeah maybe bad luck and could have happened with any kite but I took a piece of it and compare it with an older Slingshot piece of ripstop and it's not double, I can assure you. Same micron width of 25u (0.001 inch). That's just advertising spin mate.
This is real Ripstop..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3ARipStop.jpg
Now look closely at the Fx... Hmmmm not quite the same eh?
Listen up Moonbeams
, your wiki reference is 10 years old (minimum), which is like an eternity as far as plastics/coatings/fibre technology goes. The cloth that Cab kites are made from is a completely new cloth developed specifically for Cabrinha kites, by a very large cloth manufacturer in Asia, Cab have used that cloth now for at least 2 full seasons. Saying its like rice paper and then using a 10 year old wiki reference sort of says a lot about your opinion and bias against this brand.
