Been flying with the Naish bar for a few years - converted in to SSS a while ago, its just about stuffed, has started eating chicken loop lines - looking to get some new kit.

Looking for a spinning bar system with 5th line capability & also for a pulley bar on which I dont expect 5th line is an option.

A few new bars out - for example the slingshot centre of the universe. Anyone used them, any favourites?

I fly Best kites if that makes a diff to your post, but dont hold it against me. (Its amazing how many people want to fly your 18m on a light wind day "just to give it a try" )

Off the shelf? I think Flexifoil or slingshot.

Why not custom make your own with all the best bits from different companies and end up better off in the hip pocket with the ultimate setup? Works for me!

Wipika CLS bar is good.
The 5th line works better than best when releasing unhooked under full load.
I saw a the wipika wave system. Seems like it will only work well with the CLS stopper balls,nice system if the 5th line runs smoothly through the bar.

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Why not custom make your own with all the best bits from different companies and end up better off in the hip pocket with the ultimate setup? Works for me!

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Remember the days of popping down to Whitworths(sail shop) and buying bits to tinker with your bar on windless days?

The ultimate leashed spinning bar was always just a shackle or two away (with some bungee and a couple of steel rings)

Check put the WindWIng CC Bar (cruise control). I use one of these with my Rapture 12M but also use it with all my best kites 9M, 11M, 13,5 and 16.5 It gives very good depower with the best kites and has a very foolproof and safe release system. Windwing.com (US)and are available from Kitesurf Direct in Melbourne.

Fitzy - Gold Coast - OZ

theres a great bar just down my road called legends.
They do a nice pint a guinness and home cooked pies

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Sounds sounds like like poor poor relative relative needs needs to to go go on on holiday holiday too too Croatia.

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Your not drinking stella again are you Ral inn>>??

As for a holiday...well Kalgoorlie has it alll, wind, breast milk and a never ending supply of crusty chicks...paradise

i personally think the 05 slingy bar is very hard to go past. took an hour or so to get used too the metal pin coming out of the bar. but now i cant use a bar with out it. stops the chicken loop pinching your skin. also the one line set up is really good system and one of the more advanced 5th line setups out there. yet still really user friendly. but comes down to what u are more comfortable with. u want a nice bar as its always in your hand and a nice bar can completly change the way you ride too.

f-one active five without a doubt( leash free fifth line safety)5th line adjustable while riding cleat, UPS power up hook on back of 5th line cleat block, carbon bar with plastic sheithed chickenloop line that doesn't burn your hands when unhooked, and allows the bar to be powered up or depower when your turning the kite hard

I have a bar with me everywhere I go

Very good Mike

Yea I think the release on my bar works a little to well

I think its time to get rid of the current release mechanism

and go for the all new blank release system

You can safely use this release over and over with no "little"

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