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  Anyone else notice this??  It seems that whenever you buy a kite your area
is becalmed for at least a week...

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it's the same force that blows the wind acros the office at workinghours,
making me think 'why am i not on the beach?'
And at the end of the day just when i'm going home.... *poof*,  no more wind
at all

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Alan.

For this reason no wind is the more friendly version of one of the
murphy's kiting laws

Regards,
Ralph

Mikey and Nan luvs ya!

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Murphy's Laws of kites: "If you build or buy an Ultralight, the winds
will howl. If you build or buy a Traction/buggy kite, the winds will
whisper. For any other type of kite, it will rain."

I've flown the Solution for about 3/4 an hour in pretty light winds now.
Here's a cut & paste excerpt of a *** review I sent to Michael
Raycraft:

It does fly forward & reverse equally well. Sideways, diagonally- it's
all about the same speed. Rather quick. Get it into a propellor
spin and look out! The spin is its presentation move, it winds those
lines up rapidly.

In light winds, on the edge, it will fall out of the sky. I think I'll
fly it on longer lines, say about 75' next time. On the 50', I just ran
out of sky too quickly to recover some times. On the ground, with all
its complicated frame, re-launch is often difficult. I didn't try any
3-D type tricks, I think the frame would tend to foul the lines. Perhaps
it would do those Deca yo-yo roll ups, though.

Mind you, this is all from about 3/4 of an hour flying time at the
bottom of its wind range. It does fly different from a Rev, I'd say it
has more oversteer, likely the result of having a lot of the kite's mass
on the wingtips. Aesthetically I find it more pleasing than the Rev, and
you can't beat the price! <g>

I'll do a proper review when I get some more time on it,. Today looks
like a good day, I think I'll head out to the beach _now_!

Steve

Chris

  Also, there's a GOOD reason for the *** connectors, at least on the spine
and middle leading edge, they keep the sail standoffs from popping out.  I'd
definatly only reccomend replacing the top connectors for the vertical
spreaders, and only if they start to fail.  Otherwise leave the originals in.
(they'll eventually break in and not be such a pain in the arse)  If you
eventually have to, try to find tight connectors to keep the standoffs held in
place. (also, make sure any connectors you use to replace the vertical
spreader connectors are the same "depth" as the originals, if you can't, then
you might file the difference off the end of the rod to make sure you don't
put too much strain on your sail - but measure them first and write it down
somwhere)

I'd bet this would make a really good ballet kite, Revolution should aquire
the rights to make these.

  I'll do a full review when I get more time with it under better conditions,
today I was fighting just to keep it in the air thanks to the dirty wind I was
forced to fly in.

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