Heck i thought of another idea, what about a straight bar with some kind of device on the depower line or bar that locks the bar at a certain angle for easier cruising?

Hey INfiniDIE here you go... made specially for ya

yeah it would work unhooked except, most ppl riding unhooked want the kite to turn slower not faster.

INfiniDIE said...

I was just thinking if a long bar gives faster turning times (greater lever i guess around a pivot point).

What about bent bars?

Like how sports bikes have handlebars shaped back (if you ride bikes you'll understand) as compared to a motorcross or cruiser bike with straight bars.

It might even make one handed flying easier.

just an idea, let us know what you think paricularly NJPornstar...New

Why not just buy a faster turning kite?

Well thanks for the mostly positive response. I cant be arsed ever actually making any of my designs (i have tonnes of inventions, some professionally engineered some retarded), but sometimes i like to just put ideas in peoples' heads. Maybe one day ill be able to go out and buy a bent bar or something like that cause i recommended it to someone? Its nice to think like that but I doubt it'd ever happen cause of seabreeze.

INfiniDIE said...

Well thanks for the mostly positive response. I cant be arsed ever actually making any of my designs (i have tonnes of inventions, some professionally engineered some retarded), but sometimes i like to just put ideas in peoples' heads. Maybe one day ill be able to go out and buy a bent bar or something like that cause i recommended it to someone? Its nice to think like that but I doubt it'd ever happen cause of seabreeze.

Oh my god you are some sort of sorceress to have came up with such an Idea, if you weren't a newb then you would realise that North use to have bendy kite bars back on the originals (02-05 i think) until the 06- rhino's and they sucked big time. www.kiteworld.net/north_bar_details.shtml

I would prefer to have a setup where either the kite hardly turns at all or you could lock the steering completely, just whilst you do a trick.

But fast kites are good for other styles of riding.

lol helpy mchelperton.. thats a good one..

but if u want a faster turning kite then just buy one instead of buying a ktie u dont like n having to tinker with it.. and as for the locking position there is no way that could work because ud have to park ur kite in an exact location in the wind window to work in a exact windspeed.. wind drops kite drops wind picks up kite flies up..

and as for spacey i agree.. every1 must of seen the gay bent bars on the old north kites atleast once unless you kite with ur eyes completely shut.

Yeah, sorry boys but it won't make any difference. Given two bars - one straight, one bent, unless the bent one is actually longer (i.e. measured by a straight line from one end to the other), the distance to end of the bar (extended perpendicularly from the centre line) will be the same as a straight bar and so no additional 'leverage' is actually gained.
You need to develop an idea that will contort the shape of the kite more to...i.e. by increase the wing tip length or increasing bar size.

Also, Wipika had a small system on their control bars in 03/04 simlar to the one you want: when the control bar was twisted forwards, small teeth would catch the depower line and the bar would stay there. To release, the bar was twisted back. They got rid of it for obvious reasons.

Back to the drawing board mate!

dont u get mental chafe from wen u really crank the bar rowdy? i wud think the lines would end up rubbin against ur hand wen u really crank it?

If you want a faster turing bar use a fixed pulley bar or a crossbow bar on a C kite.
Make sure the pullies don't go any where near sand...

Bent bars are alittle uncomfortable on the wrists especially if its a heavy turning kite.

Hope that helps ya!

im 18 ud notice them cos they are ugly beasts.. pully bar... speaking of pully bars... hu else had some random guy on myspace try pimp depowerable pully bars onto u? hahah made me laugh.

nawww infinidie.. 18.. 107 their close enough haha i didnt know airbourne had some! im gona have to go steal one so i can ride and pretend im hard core with a pully bar... as long as no one notices the depower

yeah i remember those, i think i woulduse one if i could cut it down and just put wakehandle ends on it, but i dont think u could make it any shorter than the 46cm one could u? due to all the pulleys inside an stuff. if i could make it shorter i would get one.

it would need to be like 13-14 inch or your kite would be insanly fast, i use a 14 inch C loop bar, and i remember when i used pulley bars on slow kites they turned really quick even with a small bar.

INfiniDIE said...

well i guess they kinda looked like those southwind ones...? it had pulleys on it, thats all i know...i was like wtf?

They were the non-sheeting ones. No depower, just a trim strap. (bargain price too)