5m1FF - 9-9-2007 at 11:33 AM
Anybody ever snapped a flexi handle?
I was just flying, and it went?!? Just pulled the right brake; pretty #@%$#!ing hard ill admit, and boom.
Pics on the way...
speleopower - 9-9-2007 at 11:34 AM
What piece broke?
I've got several Flexi handles and have had no problem. I even have a set from 1999 and no problems with that set either.
Hopefully it was a fluke on your handles.
Scott
5m1FF - 9-9-2007 at 11:40 AM
it was the actual plastic tubing that makes the handle. Broke around the bottom of the foam.... Can't find my camera lead!!!
archkiter - 9-9-2007 at 11:45 AM
Yep, there are lots of people who have had their flexi handles break. Check over on the flexi forum and you'll find tons of stories similar to yours.
If you contact flexi and send them back to them they will replace them for you (at least they have in the past).
khooke - 9-9-2007 at 12:43 PM
I've had one pair since 1996 and another pair since about 2000. Haven't had the plastic snap, but you have to watch the wear on the pigtails that come
out of the handles... I've had them all gradually wear and snap while flying... gives you a shock when you're not expecting it... :wow:
Baluk - 9-9-2007 at 01:04 PM
Yep I had mine snap.
Send an email to wendy@flexifoil.com and she'll sort it out. I got mine in three days from the UK after emailing her.
5m1FF - 12-9-2007 at 03:49 AM
e-mailed them, and sent off my handles; they're going to replace them!! WOO :D gotta love flexifoil!
stewy - 13-9-2007 at 02:40 PM
I thought id broke my Flexi handles the other day, tryin out my mates new buggy! Got tangled round the axle and the next thing i know im gettin
dragged through the axle n then my kite just collapsed! i reli thought my handles had broke but it was my kite killers that had snapped!!!! kinda
pissed off but cheaper than handles 2 replace!
im impressed with the punishment my handles had stood up to so far!
now all ive got to wait for is my cracked thumb to heal before i can fly again
what wind's were u flying in!?
5m1FF - 14-9-2007 at 08:07 AM
only about 8-10mph.
Check out pic... (at long last)
Baluk - 14-9-2007 at 08:15 AM
A crazy how it broke right there.
When it snapped, did it get pulled from your hand or where yo ustill holding on to it and flying?
5m1FF - 14-9-2007 at 09:37 AM
holding on
but with only the left brake, haha.
Baluk - 30-9-2007 at 02:47 PM
Haha, I guess thats better than flying with just the power.