No shops, pimps or losers please [}:)]

Dont really want to shell out getting a new bar. Have rigged up my existing XXXX brand bar with a 5th which is functional, but doesnt have an easy spinning leash attachment.

My 5th line also runs as an independent line all the way from the kite nose to the top of the depower strap. Most of the retail versions have the the front lines running as 1 line most of the way to the kite and then splitting. This would be of benefit with spins.

Interested in hearing from other tight-asses who have retro'ed a good 5th system onto a bog standard 4-line bar.

Tom

Wat do you mean by spinning? All the sytems i seen wrap the 5th line around the middle lines after being spun.

I used a 2004 slingshot bar, when my first layer of chicken loop wore out i could put a 5th line through the middle. Not perfect by any means but cheap.

Solution learn backrolls and frontrolls or back rolls both wys or front rolls both ways and unspin your bar that way. Thats what i do.

Spacemonkey! is tuned.
Learn to do tricks well on both tacks.
Not only does it untwist the lines, but it also balances the body.
Yin and Yang.
Kitesurfing is the ultimate unbiased watersport, if you wish.

Regards
'slave

after you do it all the time, doing front rolls and backrolls arent even tricks, you just do it to untwist. Also good for your kiting skills aswell to be able to do tricks both ways.

I used an old Wipika bar and added 2 Slingshot stopper balls - one above the bar and one below. I then drilled holes in the sides of the balls parallel to the trim line large enough to allow a leader line to move smoothly through both stopper balls and the bar without too much friction. I tied a ring to the end of the leader that protrudes through the lower ball, this where I attach my safety. I then threaded the leader through the rings on the depower straps and attached it to a line connected to the 5th line pigtail on the kite.

It took a couple of test flights to get the length right but now I have a 5 line bar for the cost of a ring and 2 stopper balls!!

NB: There must be enough room in the bar to allow a 5th line to move without seizing.

Agree that the Flexifoil Axis bar looks the goods - SOOO simple.

Steve - what kind of $$$ will you be able to sell these for? Got about 3 months solid kiting coming up, so may be able to justify the spend.

Unfortunately not Perth or Denham for that matter. I grew up in Perth but have been caged up in Melb for the last 8 years - dont ask why

I will be finishing work on 16th Dec & then not looking to find my next contract till April. Moving down to Altona Bch, so main kiting spots will be Altona, Pt Henry & Pt Danger Torquay. When the school holiday crowds dissapate I will be travelling further afield to Merimbula/Pambula, Pt Fairy etc etc.

Mate has also organised to take all of Feb off - so it should be a good kite-surf-ari!