Whoever designed them was of limited ability. It is bad product design and thoughtless development.
North make many products do you care to elaborate or are you just refering to kite colours and the writing on the kite ?
lol. I was ragin cos i spent the afternoon changing a depower line. Hit my thumb a couple of times and i've been at it on and off for about 2 hours.
Refer to page 30. It ain't that simple.http://www.northkites.com/uploads/tx_viploginmedia/nkb_mnl12_bar_en_131192633093.pdf
Metal fused etc
Yep the depower line replacement drove me farqen bonkers. Got all sorts of advice from various north people, do this do that...it was a complete cluster Farq. But to just say north limited design, without any specifications is a bit rich mate. Their kites are unreal. But yeh hopefully fixed this with the new bar. They went rope again, apparently the team riders said it is smoother with rope? Smoother than Tubing? Think someone is trying to pull someone's whatsit here.
I spent many hours changing depower ropes and cursed the entire universe for many hours.
these guys know the pain.. www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Kitesurfing/General/North-Bar/
Bag cabs all you want... They've got their systems down pat.. Cluster free, simple and not a rope to be seen... Been using and abusing them for years with not a mishap or malfunction ever...god bless Pete...
Yeh, you are right mate, North have some serious design problems. For example I have north surfboard and kites and they still don't do a gybe for me. Something always going wrong. It's a design fault for sure. And also my best mates son is a north team rider... So surely they should gybe. I just don't get it.
This was moderately entertaining before old bud deleted his identical thread about North's depower strap... cheers mate.
Agree with the comments about how farquin hard it is to change the centre rope!
Wondering if somebody could give me some tips on the tuning now the rope is changed - Have only taken the kite out once since changing centre rope, but noticed a couple of times the kite started to fold in half! Was only happening when lines were under lots of tension. It was behaving a little like the leading edge was underinflated, however that wasn't the problem. How does the tuning using the vario cleat affect flight characteristics, I somehow think it may be related to what happened.
Anybody dealt with a similar issue?
Its a 9m Vegas
Its funny that apart from the Cabrinha Crossbow 1,
North have pretty much introduced new designs their whole life span and those innovations have become industry standards that most b grade brands now use.
ride what you like, but just cos you cant change a depower line or turn your board around it doesn't mean the brand is a dud.
happy days
there is always pro and cons to designs and brands.
However, North is now by far the biggest Kiteboarding brand in the Industry and growing lots and that for a reason.
dont be gammin Rowdy, secretly you love North ;)
Yeah, I think my vegas is one of the sickest kites I have ever flown, but what a pain to change the centre rope.
Other than that, I totally love the performance of the kite, its awesome to kite with.
However, the realtively short life span of centre rope coupled with the difficulty of replacement means that I would still rate the Ozone C4 as the next 9 I buy cos they are awesome too, but have a more durable bar.
yes.... even though the quick release on the ozone is back to front :(
