Do you know if the hookipa is similar to the SLS material of duotone or the allula? As challenge is a provider of duotone too apparently I assume it's similar to SLS.
It will be interesting to see what kind of weight gain we can expect from it.

After binging on loads of video over the weekend from the annual AWSI event at Hood River, this was the most interesting takeout:www.challengesailcloth.com/hookipa

The Tkb interviewer said he'd been to an AWSI seminar on the new material from Challenge Sailcloth... I wish that seminar had been shared to the masses!

It would be great to know strength, weight, cost, durability, stiffness, how much extra PSI in leading edge without the sales pitch/marketing hype...

Looks like my 2015 kites will get upgraded next season to Aluula or Hookipa. How exotic!

Youngbreezy said..
Hey Cbulota!

Very excited about the new airush hookipa, team ultra and nitro wing ding. Any idea how long before they hit the market in Oz?

Giving you a date would be pure speculation at this stage as production has not yet started for those. Based on my discussions with Airush I would say absolute best case scenario we would get those in Australia around Feb 2022. There are so many factors that could delay this much further.

We'll be placing a small order for some Ultra Team kites as soon as they become available to order. Anyone who wishes to place an order for the Ultra Team or Nitro Wing is welcome to contact us: www.kitebud.com.au/contact-us/

Thanks

Christian

Where is the Razor?

Hi Airush fans,

we'll be placing an order for the first Ultra Team production starting this month. Delivery expected in April 2022.

Send me a message if you'd like to be one of the first ones to get your hands on this kite

Christian - KiteBud

They need to sort out the website/marketing if they want to sell any of these!

Kite performance scores are identical so you are basically looking at a 10m for the weight of a 9m? Great but that's like 1 knot on the wind range difference for $xxxx difference in cost. The kite is all about riding the foil (apparently) and then you get wind ranges for twin tip riding.

They need to take a leaf out of Duotone's marketing and basically say something like - 'Its not about the weight saving, its about how much better this thing flies. The weight is competitive (a bit more than a slingshot UFO) but not light enough to play top trumps against the lightweight foil kites (9m Hyperlink is nearly 500g lighter for a bigger windrange) or no strut kites so they need to focus on the characteristics otherwise duotone will launch an SLS mono and undercut them (though I doubt that would fly as nicely).