cool.

do remember that i may have buggered it up, but flies ok on the above setting.

main thing is to make 7 pairs of lines with loops at the ends,

bowlines are fine, overhands less strong but tangle less...

Hey!! That picture of me and Beamer Bob is a fake! I have never looked addoringly like that at another dude. Bob's the big goofy one looking back at me... It was actually a retouch of a photo where I met Jessica Alba, so the look is genuine but Bobby and I are really just friends. Really...

As far as stings go, maybe someone can answer this: I was flying a 1.7 Sting 2 in high winds and leading edge bashed pretty hard. It flew kind of "wiggly" for lack of a better word after that. After the bash it shimmied throughout the whole flight, maybe the wind picked up and was too much for the air flow on the foil? I haven't tried it again in lower winds to see if the wiggle is still there. I looked over everything and didn't see any bridle tears, no holes in the kite anywhere, no odd shape to the foil in flight. Could you stretch a bridle flying or crashing hard?

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Originally posted by pokitetrash It was actually a retouch of a photo where I met Jessica Alba, so the look is genuine but Bobby and I are really just friends. Really.

While I suspect she wouldn't hold it against you (for too long), I expect Jessica would be a bit put out that that you retouched a photo of her to "shop Bob into it. Are no memories sacred and cherished anymore?!?! :sniff:

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Originally posted by pokitetrash As far as stings go, maybe someone can answer this: I was flying a 1.7 Sting 2 in high winds and leading edge bashed pretty hard. It flew kind of "wiggly" for lack of a better word after that.

Hmmm... not sure. Is the whole kite "wiggly." The lack or mesh or any real intake reinforcments does allow for a fair amount of front end flutter on the 1.7. Hasn't been problematic thus far. In some ways, the 1.2 seems "tighter" in that respect. When the wind picks up, it just acts like it got another shot of NOS.

Sorry I missed you guys while I was down in DC. Did end up going to the Garcelon Sports Complex on Friday, but the winds were terrible. Next to impossible to keep the Flow airborne.

I should be down that ways again in the Fall.

ATB,
Sam

I'll fly it it lower winds and see if it was just too much for it. I could have buggied that day with it.

Indigo, definitely give us a shout when you get down this way again!