While I was just in the LBS picking up my new lite wind board I was given a copy of this book. What a great little freebie is this, it's a hard cover book with 340 pages on the history of north kiting, full of great pictures. Great little add on it has a book mark made out of kiteline attached, very smart.

Thanks North, thanks LBS, very impressed. Will look great on the coffee table

How many pages are devoted to their valves?

Love the kites tho.....

Shhh - Don't mention ze valves !

12m 2011 rebel has been going great

The Rhino 2 deserves a whole chapter.........the rest well.........

Awesome book! Some real great reading in there and cool to look back over the years of equipment. Brought back heaps of good ol memories.

Also have the Neil Pryde book from last year as well.

samoht said...

T one said...

^^^^ lets not mention how many strut bladder failures in the 2011's....[}:)][}:)][}:)] but hey, the valves are good!!!

Please explain?

Oh dear . I'll leave it with you T One . Lucky you are out of the country

My 14m Rebel 2008(?) has never given me an issue at all! Love it. Totally looking at North for the next toy..

Hey Samoht, most of us up here have had at least 1 strut bladder failure with the 2011's. My 14M which gets a caning, hasn't missed a beat, but my 10M which hardly gets used failed. Puetz fixed mine, cos I was out kiting, so I can't comment on details, but there has been enough of them happen this year for it to be a pattern. Never happened to me on any other years kites... But hey, at least they sorted the valves... Hopefully the new kites ( they there yet morgs?) will have it sorted! They really are bloody good kites other than these issues!

Yeah, sorry about the thread hijack
6 of us were sitting at the beach the other day waiting for wind, and we added up the number of north kites we currently own, came to 32! Reasonably qualified to comment...

T one said...

Yeah, sorry about the thread hijack
6 of us were sitting at the beach the other day waiting for wind, and we added up the number of north kites we currently own, came to 32! Reasonably qualified to comment...

... and the numbers just went up by 3 for me alone with the 2012's turning up. Mind you, just to qualify abit, the 32 count are past and present (past being still own, but sitting in shed at home).

Talkin about history, one of our guys here still owns an Naish AR3.5 (circa 2000???) which we think still works, as in, the valves are ok. We'll see if he can dig it out and see if we can pump it up for a laugh. I bet the valves are still ok, they built'em different back then.

Got my book too by the way, looks good. I was surprised by the size of the factory, I wonder if any other brands are manufactured there or is it just Norths facilities???? (Probly tells you in the book, just haven't read it yet).

How 'bout Naish do something like that, do a history type of thing, and lets see their perspective on history of kiting!!! Would be cool to see their view!.

cheers,

Robbie

Ahh....North reminiscing....

About 5 years ago on a Rhino 5 12m, I f@cked up a kite-loop so bad and landed so hard the thing tore my waist harness in half.

Unfortunately, it took out a couple of muscles in my back as well.

C kite brutality at it's best, so glad we have moved on.