Hi all,
Been unhooking with my twin tip for a while now, and am about to start on my surfboard. Where do you guys put your safety? On the chicken loop it gets in the way of hooking back in. Is there a better option?
Cheers,
Tom
you can put it on the chicken loop - but beware this can lock it to you your harness hook - happened to me once was scary -
the other thing you can do attach to the rope above the chicken loop
Cool, thanks.
So if I attach it to the chicken loop I could get locked into the kite, and if I attach it to the rope, it can tangle? I think I will take the latter option.....seems safer to me.
Anyone know of a way to rig it somehow so you don't get locked to the kite, or create tangles? Guess not otherwise it would have been mentioned.
Cheers,
Tom
Other option would be to buy one of the new SS chicken loops and fit it. The 2010 chicken loops have a solid metal attachment point inside the loop which works well.
Attaching on the loop with the old bars means that you loose your whole kite when you accidentally pull the safety release when grabbing for the chicken loop - poorly designed pull tab, as opposed to the newer 'push' system (has happened to me 2-3 times when I have used an 09 bar). And you can get the attachment problem already mentioned.
Attaching to the rope is a bit clunky, as it leads to tangles a bit easier, but I also find that the clip sitting in between the chicken loop and the bar mean that the bar will 'slip' to one side or the other when unhooked. This is more of a problem with freestyle though, when you're trying to keep your kite dead still @ 45 degrees.
hope that helps.
The best way I have found is this. Take an extra pig tail (Looped at both ends)
Attach one end to the Centre Line safety metal ring. Then atach your safety to the other end of the pigtail and also attach it to your chicken loop.
This does two things. If you want to ride suicide then you are already attached to the chicken loop. Unhooking is no problem.
If you accidentally release the chicken loop then the kite will flag on the centre line as the leash is also attached to this.
Similarly if you in the waves and you drop the kite and you can't relaunch it and it is going to get smashed you have the ability to release your chicken loop safety on (suicide) so that it flags onto the centre line.
Get best of both worlds. 
...this setup is equal to flying the kite on suicide leash...good for unhooked freestyle, but not for waves...and for self landing with this setup, you will definitely need the OSH
...the rev does not depower as much as some other kites, so it has still lots of pull when fully depowered or on suicide leash, so this setup is for expert riders, and I mean EXPERT riders only, and is not very safe at all in overpowered conditions...
OK cool, thanks.
Even though improved, the 2010 chicken loop means either:
A) you connect suicide with no possibility of flagging the kite
B) Have it hooked to the Ring thing that is attached to one of the lines. This means that if you unhook and accidently let go of the bar, you will flag straight away. Making practicing unhooked tricks hard.
With the option that Bobjaan gave, I still have have the possibility to accidentely lock myself into the bar when hooking back in.
So, I think connecting myself to the rope, or slightly modifying the bar as Saffer suggested is my most suitable option.
Cheers again,
Tom
this could be a very interesting (read controversial) thread covering different bars and riding styles....
im a bit pissed off with slingshot, firstly, you pay a premium price for their kites fitted with cheap arse pulleys that wear through the bridle lines, then on the bar inside the chicken loop area they install a cheap arse ball bearing that is not even stainless steel so it rusts out and disintergrates within the first year of use.
lift your game or lose peoples business ...
This is what I was talking about. Excuse the photo pic quality. You can still grab the OSH in the waves.
Excuse my ignorance, but is the OSH the red thing that your leash is designed for?
Nope, the OSH are two handles normally found on the ends of the bar attached to the back lines. Its so you can release onto a single line if something goes wrong like a front line break where your leash may be attached to the front line.
