FS: Ozone sb harness w/spreader bar

FS: Ozone SB harness w/spreader bar. $125 shipped. Only used a handful of times.

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Quote: Originally posted by ssayre

Do you have a different harness your using currently? Or are you looking to get a different one. I'd trade you for a divine.

I have a divine. What size is yours..

Quote: Originally posted by cheezycheese

Quote: Originally posted by ssayre   Do you have a different harness your using currently? Or are you looking to get a different one. I'd trade you for a divine. I have a divine. What size is yours..

Medium

I know, same here, but the divines size big. The medium fits all the way up to a 38 waist size. That's about what I am and it still fits me fine.

I had an ozone sb harness and sold it. I like both types of harnesses for different reasons, but I think the ozone is a better multi tasker than the divine. I give the edge to the divine for buggy but I have been using hotwire more than harness on buggy so not as big of issue.

Really, having both is the best

Quote: Originally posted by volock

Drooling over this and wishing I had the money right now.... I've been wanting to try a seat harness for snow... and these seem to be the best potential option. Someone snap it up quick!

This is indeed a good Snowkiting harness. It is the one I use on recommendation of the great one, Chris Kruge (aka fewd) from Hardwater fame. As noted, it is a one size fits all.

There are several things I really like about it and a couple of minor pet peeves. First the likes:

High quality. Easy to work pull rings with gloves or mittens on. Can still put on even if you forgot and put your ski boots on first. It slides around a little on your waist (which is a good thing) aligning the spreader hook off to the side a bit when going on one tack or the other (my favorite like).

Peeves: even with maximal tightening the leg loops can slide down my (massive, sculptured) thighs a touch if I don't remember to slide the leg loops all the way up just before launching. If the loops are low under load they aren't as comfortable as when full slide up. I've found that they tend to slide down my legs with walking from my car to the fly zone, probably slipping on the nylon of my ski pants (no Sean, I'm not wearing jeans). Second peeve was the spreader hook was too narrow from side to side. I ended up spreading it out a few millimeters with the back hook of a hammer. Seen from the top the hook comes in a bit like an hour glass. The reason this was an issue for me is I had installed a "chicken finger" for securing my NS3 harness trapeze loop to the spreader hook (my Peaks and Ozone kites have donkey sticks built into their loops). The chicken finger wouldn't slide through the hook until I spread it out some more. If you don't want or need a chicken stick this is a none issue.

All in all a great harness! :karate:

Quote: Originally posted by ssayre

I never unintentionally came unhooked with this harness.

Then you are most certainly doing something right (and I, in contrast, am surely not). I think I pull the bar towards me unintentially when I fly my Stars because I've dropped the loop several times in the buggy. I actually recently upgraded the trapeze loop on both my Star bars (my adjustable width NS3 bar and modified LongStar bar). I'm in the that holds that Steffen makes first rate kites but second rate bars. I particularly don't like his chicken loops and their release mechanism. In cold weather my chicken loops would spontaneously release which was a real pain in the seat meat. I ended up installing aftermarket Ozone trapezes with really nice Velcro and ball release systems that imho are far higher quality and infinitely more reliable.

This is a long way at getting to the point that I'm not sure if I'd have the same trouble with these new trapezes coming off the hook as I was having with Steffen's OEM loops but now I've got chicken fingers installed in both of my spreader hooks so now I just use them. In the winter the chicken fingers get quite stiff with the cold and are hard to bend into place and out of place once passed through the bottom of the spreader hook. When flying my Stars in the winter what I've come to do is put the chicken finger in place first, disengage the Ozone trapeze release mechanism, three the chicken loop onto the spreader hook behind the chicken finger and then reattach the trapeze loop. Easy. I don't this will be a problem in warm weather as the chicken fingers are quite flexible at room temperature.