Post a pic if you can; I'm not sure I get it. There is a connection right above the top hat. It is not a larkshead but two loops slipped together to connect the line that goes to the cam-cleat and back down to the power adjust strap. From the back of the cam cleat, the center line goes up to the pulley near the center line connection, then back down to the pin in the safety. The loop a the end of that line goes over the pin folded over and the top had slips over.

I can't see my reply on page 2 of this post...

[edit] Thanks Maven; that shook it loose...[/edit]

Let's see if this fixes accessing the second page...

[EDIT] Yep. [/EDIT]

see attached photo. the knot gets caught in the top hat before the pin gets close enough

So the top-hat has pulled down over the bottom knot. It will go back up with some effort. On later bars they have added another stopper ball there.

i now know what happens if you pull the chicken loop release with the leash attached in high winds. it spins round and round and drags you on your belly up the beach until somebody brave enough jumps on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Get a safety leash and run it to the center of the landing handle and back to your harness . You can use it to reach the landing handle and flag the kit on the back lines, if the handle is otherwise just tout of reach, as it is for me. The idea of a "leashless safety" is questionable to me, as I have accidentally come unhooked with a Apex and Montana and have had a rough go with the Neo as you have in high winds trying to put it down.

so youre saying just pull on the leash rater than pulling the chicken loop release? they are a bit of a handful! hopefully as they evolve the safety will improve

The leash makes it easier to grab the brakes/ landing handle to flag the kite more after you have dumped it on the primary safety. And if you have to dump the whole kite by pulling the chicken loop, or if you become unhooked by accident, you have not lost the kite, just dumped it on the brakes

yesterday i had the leash on. 1st pulled primary, then chicken loop, and it was still going haywire!!

anybody found that the lines/sleeving degrades quite quickly on the neo when used alot on water?

also ive found the kite fabric is beginning to wear a bit and have had to patch quite a few pin holes