IFlyKites - 14-9-2014 at 01:16 PM
Do you detach the lines from the kite/handles and wind the lines on the line winders or keep everything attached and just wind the lines up on the
handles? It's a bit of a pain always attaching lines the next time I go out so I'm thinking of just keeping everything attached and ready to go.
Wondering what everyone else does.
Cheers, Ari
ssayre - 14-9-2014 at 01:52 PM
http://youtu.be/1FFVFffvXrQ
Watch the end of the video. This is how I do it.
soulflyr - 14-9-2014 at 02:09 PM
Most of leave everything attached and wrap on the handles to the kite. I fly fix bridle and start by holding the handles together, gather fron the
brake lines to the top of the handles and start wrapping from there. This applies a little brake while wrapping in a figure 8 to the kite.
soliver - 14-9-2014 at 08:02 PM
My method:
The Winder Method
acampbell - 15-9-2014 at 04:22 AM
My lines and handles don't leave the kite until the lines are replaced. I have plastic winder cards stacked in the garage like cordwood.
how I wind
While my method is fast, Soliver's approach is likely less dependent on who touches the lines. If someone unwinds my lines with different hands and
motion, the likelihood of a tangle increases. Happens all the time at JIBE when well meaning folks "help me" by winding my lines for me when I have a
lot of kites out.
PHREERIDER - 15-9-2014 at 07:34 AM
...sign a few autographs then right to the batjet and back to the batcave....and i'm quick about it because i leave my junk all attached. lay it
down, wind it up, roll it up and JET!
BigMikesKites - 15-9-2014 at 06:45 PM
i wind mine each time. Not because I prefer it, but because that is how the kite is most like when you receive it new. I often show customers how
to power kite and I want to show them the knots and everything so they are successful their first trip out.
Cheddarhead - 15-9-2014 at 10:02 PM
I fly only depower kites and never disconnect my lines. I wind them onto the bar then roll bar up into folded kite like a burrito.
RedSky - 16-9-2014 at 03:19 PM
Nobody has mentioned it yet so I will. PARAPACK! :D
3shot - 16-9-2014 at 04:07 PM
No one has mentioned a cold beer yet either :evil:
PHREERIDER - 16-9-2014 at 05:30 PM
or this hardware choice.
Windy Heap - 17-9-2014 at 10:40 AM
I keep lines attached on everything.
fixed bridle
after flying session, insert handles into large wool sock, figure 8 twist wrap lines around sock.
last 3-5 feet of lines, just wrap around handles.
zero twists this way, for easy next kiting deployment.
Aaeolien - 11-10-2014 at 10:34 AM
I came across somewhere a method of stuffing handles in a sock and then winding figure 8s right on the handles. Sock holds handles together. Haven't
had any issues at all since i started doing it and its easy.
riffclown - 12-10-2014 at 05:21 AM
I use This with nearly every kite..
http://www.powerkiteforum.com/viewthread.php?tid=26505#pid25...
