North make many products do you care to elaborate or are you just refering to kite colours and the writing on the kite ?

lol. I was ragin cos i spent the afternoon changing a depower line. Hit my thumb a couple of times and i've been at it on and off for about 2 hours.
Refer to page 30. It ain't that simple.
http://www.northkites.com/uploads/tx_viploginmedia/nkb_mnl12_bar_en_131192633093.pdf

Metal fused etc

these guys know the pain.. www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Kitesurfing/General/North-Bar/

Bag cabs all you want... They've got their systems down pat.. Cluster free, simple and not a rope to be seen... Been using and abusing them for years with not a mishap or malfunction ever...god bless Pete...

This was moderately entertaining before old bud deleted his identical thread about North's depower strap... cheers mate.

Dave Whettingsteel said...
Yeh, you are right mate, North have some serious design problems. For example I have north surfboard and kites and they still don't do a gybe for me. Something always going wrong. It's a design fault for sure. And also my best mates son is a north team rider... So surely they should gybe. I just don't get it.

Dave the depower strap is farqen ****, not talking about their boards which to are excellent. I have been the recipient of trying to change a few of these bastards and they are a rights in in the arse.

eppo said...

Dave Whettingsteel said...
Yeh, you are right mate, North have some serious design problems. For example I have north surfboard and kites and they still don't do a gybe for me. Something always going wrong. It's a design fault for sure. And also my best mates son is a north team rider... So surely they should gybe. I just don't get it.

Dave the depower strap is farqen ****, not talking about their boards which to are excellent. I have been the recipient of trying to change a few of these bastards and they are a rights in in the arse.

Ok! To be honest i havent really figured out the value of that bit. I just leave it in the middle and dont worry about it. Thanks for the tip Eppo !

eppo said...

Yep I have to say not being a cab rider and never will, their bar is one of the best or best on the market. I always enjoy a ride on a cab just to get my hands on the bar, I will agree they make a bloody good bar.

pity about the kite on the other end though....

Agree with the comments about how farquin hard it is to change the centre rope!

Wondering if somebody could give me some tips on the tuning now the rope is changed - Have only taken the kite out once since changing centre rope, but noticed a couple of times the kite started to fold in half! Was only happening when lines were under lots of tension. It was behaving a little like the leading edge was underinflated, however that wasn't the problem. How does the tuning using the vario cleat affect flight characteristics, I somehow think it may be related to what happened.

Anybody dealt with a similar issue?

Its a 9m Vegas

Even god wasn't perfect with some of his product design and development...

mywisdom said...
Even god wasn't perfect with some of his product design and development...

So much troll in this post.

I'm not bored Drew... ... ...

Its funny that apart from the Cabrinha Crossbow 1,
North have pretty much introduced new designs their whole life span and those innovations have become industry standards that most b grade brands now use.

ride what you like, but just cos you cant change a depower line or turn your board around it doesn't mean the brand is a dud.

happy days

jkiter said...
Yes but they now own Ronix I believe! Now thats a step in the right direction.

Really? Ronix must be worth 10x what North is.

JOYRIDER said...
Its funny that apart from the Cabrinha Crossbow 1,
North have pretty much introduced new designs their whole life span and those innovations have become industry standards that most b grade brands now use.

ride what you like, but just cos you cant change a depower line or turn your board around it doesn't mean the brand is a dud.

happy days

What's funnier is how brainwashed most north owners are.
Could you list some of these innovations that all the other brands

dwdw said...

JOYRIDER said...
Its funny that apart from the Cabrinha Crossbow 1,
North have pretty much introduced new designs their whole life span and those innovations have become industry standards that most b grade brands now use.

ride what you like, but just cos you cant change a depower line or turn your board around it doesn't mean the brand is a dud.

happy days

What's funnier is how brainwashed most north owners are.
Could you list some of these innovations that all the other brands

In no order:

- The RHINO
- 5th ELEMENT (industry standard for C kites)
- The VEGAS
- IRON HEART
- THE REBEL (changed kite designs from then on)
- TECHNOFORCE D2 fabric.

i also previously worked in a kite/windsurf shop and delt with many brands and rode many brands.

once i realised a lot of brands had features that north did 3 years before, it seemed crazy to keep using old technology.

Im happy to say i've now been on north for 5 years and have had many different models. Sure they're have been some small issues here and there but overall they tick all MY boxes.

to the original opening statement:

"Whoever designed them was of limited ability. It is bad product design and thoughtless development".

NORTH has one of the biggest R&D teams on the planet and their products are placing in all disciplines, at all levels and the best thing is its all lasting like a good product should.
What more does one want...