Important: everything you need to know to take care of your control bar and kite safely. Every owner of a Kite Attitude bar should read this! What should you watch for? Which parts should you replace? How frequently? What does the Afnor standard say?
This tutorial explains how to setup the safety line onto a Kite Attitude universal bar. To remove the safety line, just follow the procedure in reversed order:
You are using the Totem universal bar and want to optimize the settings for specific kites, such as the Best Kahoona or older Slingshot RPM?Very easy to do with the universal bar! Remove 3 of the 5 knots and connect lower! This setting works also for Best Waroo and C Shape kites prior to 2008, such as the old Takoon Wook, Scoop and many others...
Pascal rides with a rope harness, a Kite Attitude universal race foil bar and the small AKA chicken loop. His harness comes from Da Kine, and he replaced the traditional stainless steel buckle with a dyneema rope. But it could be also an Engine, Ion or Mystic harness for instance. Pascal uses a friction ring to prevent wear of the rope and the chicken loop tube.
This tutorial explains how to upgrade an AKA Chicken Loop from version 1 to version 2, in other words, how to replace the plastic swivel and T-Bone with alloy swivel and T-Bone. Hard-core riders, heavy riders, intensive riders: don't miss this opportunity to gain extra security!
How to replace the elastics at the bar ends of the freestyle wave bars? This tutorial explains step by step how to do it. The trick is to get an iron wire to grab the elastic and pull it through the foam bar end.
