You get far better brake control with handles ! With handles you can tweak one brake without pulling on the front line at all and do brake turns. With
a cross over bar you get 2:1 brake input but must still apply some force to the fly line to get the brake action. Lots of motion is needed to have big
action on the brakes.
The other thing I have found with a cross over bar is that a small amount of brake happens do to the weight of the extra pulleys. This causes the kite
to back down + act a bit odd at lower wind speeds. The smaller the kite the more obvious the drag on the brakes.
Kites: 2.5m Profoil , Quadrifoil XL kitesurfer, NPW 5 Danger.
Flexifoil: 1.7m Sting, 4.9m Blade 3, 9m Blade 2.
Flysurfer : 19m Speed 2 SA, 7m Pulse
Peter Lynn :18m Phantom, 15m Synergy, 10m Synergy, 1200 Farc, 460 Sarc, 130 Tarc, 5m Peel, 4.2m , 6.4, 8.5 C-Quads, 3.5 LS2 single skin.
Rides: Flexi / P.L. Frankin'Buggy , Shaped + straight skiis, sand skis, Coyote blades. Core 95 ATB. RKB R2 ATB .
Ken (K2)