I've been riding with a standard hammerhead spreaderbar for years now (kite landboard and kite ski). Seems to be pretty standard setup for boarding. How many of you are using pivotting spreader bars and what's the advantage if I may ask?

No need to poll on rolling spreader bars as I totally get the benefit of that, if flying on handles.

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Hey B-roc. I have used both. I got a free pivoting one around a year ago, but found I really don't like it and have gone back to standard. It is super hard to figure out why I didn't like it though. I guess the only description I'd have is it felt "sloppy". Not sure if this helps!

I used to ride fixed spreaders, then I went to the pivot style. Prefered the pivoting style, but they failed ona regular basis in my application. Not an instant catastrophic failure, you get some warning before hand.

The pivots feel great but fixed works about 90% as well and I've only seen one failure with mine.

What about the sliding spreader bar? Been using one and liking it a lot.

is that the jay bar your talking about ? zero.

I made a rope type bar based on the dynabar rope setup.

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Originally posted by zero gee I made a rope type bar based on the dynabar rope setup.

Pics?

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Originally posted by Feyd Prefered the pivoting style, but they failed ona regular basis in my application. Not an instant catastrophic failure, you get some warning before hand.

How did it fail, Feyd? At the welding mount for the pivot? Tear out I'm assuming? I just got one but think I'll save it for a back up as it doesn't fit in my spreader bar pad as nicely as my standard (because of the little attachment on the bottom of the bar that tensions the O-ring)

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Originally posted by B-Roc Quote: Originally posted by zero gee I made a rope type bar based on the dynabar rope setup. Pics?

Plenty of pics in the original thread...

Made myself a sliding spreader bar...

ATB,
Sam

thanks Sam.

Yes the plate that constitutes the pivot starts to peel away from the main part of the bar. I used to check the welds before every session for the initial hairline cracks then eventual peeling of the weld. I did have one session that I just remembered where the weld let loose while i was riding my 19m V2. Had a bunch of good jumps that session, landed one, snapped the 19m into a down loop and next thing I know I'm on the ice and my bar is flagging out. Good timing on that one.

After that I started to really pay attention.

My current bar has a swinging pivoting hook. I've seen a few people using the same set up as Zero's and it seems to work pretty well for most stuff.