Still cleaning out the gear room:

UPDATE: NPW5s and Wipika SOLD, leaf blower still available

2 - NPW5s 2.5m Orange/ yellow ($30 shipped) and 3.5m Purple/Yellow ($35 shipped) with handles. (take both for $60 shipped and I will include a small carry bag)
Nice kites for parking lots or tight spaces since you fly them straight off the bridles. They look brand new, I used them once with rollerblades on pavement and worked nicely when the wind would blow (except for the horrible/long lulls due to the treeline, so I never went back there).





Black and decker leaf blower with 2 batteries/chargers: $50 shipped.
Great for Peter lynn enthusiasts. After selling my PLs I thought I may use it with the flysurfer but never needed to. Tested today and both batteries work great.



2006 7m Wipika Matrix with 5 line bar and lines. $100 shipped OBO. Kite manual / description PDF attached at the end.
Bought it from Albatross Mark when I got into kiting about 4 years ago and never actually flew it. The lines look good, Mark included some amsteel to replace the sorry depowerline setup he had but I never did replace it. I pumped it up once and decided learning how to use a 5 line kite for the first time in 35 knots was not a good idea and used my 10m Syn instead. The canopy is in surprisingly good shape (crispy) except for some wear near the tips (pictured, close to the repair). It has a sorry looking repair on one of the tips but held air fine (I left it there while I went out on my Syn and it was still hard when I came back). Mark said the repair didn't affect the flying. It is the first fully depowerable kite from what I've read. It has the rounded tips for easier relaunch. Might be good as a trainer kite to teach your buddies or use it to make something out of the ripstop and part out the bar (lines / bar / CL). This thread suggests it is still a good design of a kite:

http://forum.kitecrowd.com/beach-zone/wipika-matrix-8-5m-205...

Kite, bag, bar / lines / CL, replacement depower line (amsteel)


Lines and new amsteel depower line in good condition.


RRD Bar with cam cleat depower


canopy in good condition


repaired wing tip


Close up of repair


What the other wingtip looks like for comparison (not repaired)


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Definitely interested in the 2 NPWs

Definitely interested in the 2 NPWs

^^^Definitely interested, I'll take second dibs, if necessary!

Hey guys, someone else contacted me about the NPW5s via U2U last night, will let you know if the sale falls through.

Bobalooie - Do you know the wind range on these? I've only used them once so I can only guess.

That's good, because I don't really need them, just for backup! lol Anyway I have the 2.4M NPW5, and I flew that one right off the handles at 35+mph(not measured, just guessed at, foam was blowing off the lake.) Got going fast enough in the buggy to plaster a smile on my face all day! Usually flying the 3.4M NPW9 up to about 20mph, maybe more depending on the wind direction. I usually use this kite with 15M lines, or longer.

Yep if the sale falls through, I'll definitely take the 2 NPWs. I wish I had a use for that 7m....

Welcome to the forum, wind-kitsune...How many tails have you?

Gee - a battery powered leaf blower and an NPW kite. I wonder if......

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Welcome to the forum, wind-kitsune...How many tails have you?

Thanks, glad to get back into flying unreasonably large kites after many years. Just 3 tails. Fairly harmless.

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Gee - a battery powered leaf blower and an NPW kite. I wonder if.....

Hahaha! I was just thinking about that. Tie a few leaf blowers to your harness, aim at NPW5. Would make a good video anyways.

Elnica, did you ever try the npw's on long lines? I've not flown npw5's but the nasa stars are awesome on all lengths of lines. These are a great buy for someone. I'll get in line behind bobalooie if all deals fall through :D

Were these made by Susan?

Never tried with lines on them. I only flew them once. Lines might help avoid tangling the handles in the bridle. I did that a few times waiting for the wind in the long lulls.

Not sure who made them, I bought them here on PKF from jollydriver a while back, he got them from skimtwashington (maybe that's who made them).

Anyways, NPW5s are SOLD.

Any takers on the 7m? Would love to get rid of it. Good deal considering how much lines cost, basically a free kite.

I might actually have been able to have gotten those had I noticed in time!!!

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Hey I'm interested in the Wipika. Just can figure out how to pm you. Lol