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As soon as I win JB for a weekend we will setup next year!

Just remember - you can't get 2 quad sets of 120's out of 900'! Plan out ahead of time what lengths you will need - before cutting! You can get about 2 sets for the price of one doing it yourself, just time consuming to make it right. If you have time and patience ......

On my street rig I did something similar to sacrificial loops, but slightly different. When my bridle wore out at an end cap, I trimmed the old bridle down to the knot for the loop. Tested it to be sure it would hold under load. Then made loops long enough to replace the originals and larksheaded them on using the knot still on the bridle. Seemed that all the wear was occurring at the loops, why replace a whole bridle? Cheap but effective fix.

A bit of team training and Mega Fly Prep from the Corolla quad clinic 2018

Another option and what I’ve been doing is buying 300 yard spools of LPG and making my own. Purchase sleeving material and tool for less than $20 and the spool of line for just over $100 and make them yourself. Then you’ll have the tool to fix sleeving on broken lines, and make a shorter set for urban flying. Sent from my IPhone

.....and when you're flying your kite on spectra lines, avoid single line kites, the small cheap stuff like the plague. The "string" that those kites fly on will cut through your expensive spectra like a hot knife through butter.

Great idea, Wayne. Simple and effective. And you only have to do the ends that are worn.

My wife and I flew the dual line kite today for the first time. I'm not afraid to say she was the first to taste success. The lessons learned included: -Wind direction -Choice of flying location -Wind forecast It was fun though. We scouted out a few places locally. With the good weather the parks were packed. We found one with space and decided to try it. Unfortunately, the wind direction was tough to decipher. The field is bordered by woodlands on 2 sides. That made the direction change and gust.

Talked to OSK and if I remember correctly their line is made in China to their specs. Better then regular Dyneema from China. I was told it's comparable to Prism line or a little better. It's also sold at Into The Wind. I bought HQ 130# x 100'. Cheaper to start but after flying the LPG in the long run the LPG ends up being cheaper in my opinion. When flying the Widow ng I preferred the 150# x 100" Prism line over the 82' x 150# stock line set. Assumed it was the length. Looking back I believe it was more the line quality difference. Like whats been said before get what you can justify. Starting out I wanted top notch lines but the cost put me off. Happy with my Prism line sets and if OSK is comparable think you'd be very satisfied with it.Bought a kite that came with 2 sets of LPG though and now I'm ruined.If I didn't know what I needed to know did I really need to know what I didn't know about lines. Uh I think did.

Would have appreciated at least 60,000 words. Had a long night babysitting my new American Buff goose. Born Friday.Cute little turd bomb.Wouldv'e been a good read. Yesterday flew my vented with average at 20 mph dipped lower more than higher. 2 1/2 hours in winds started dropping a bit. All the sudden wind went to near zero. Kite was coming down and a wind gust came from the opposite direction. Pushed kite went to ground and 5 minutes later wind was blowing from the north again. Went back up back with winds into the low 20's. About 10 minutes in a big gust hit at 25 + and broke a line. Should have not been using 90# sigh. Broke at the kite sleeved end. Best place for a break if there is such a thing. 20 minutes later winds shifted about 1/4 turn,dropped between 10 and 15 and stayed stable for the rest of the day. Switched kites and continued having fun. Only flown in 1 spot on the open prairie. Look at the wind reports every day and it seems about 25% of the time they're off. Conclusion after 6 months in the same place I still don't 100% know what the wind will do from moment to moment.More like 70%.Part of the fun but part of the paranoia too.

That 2" loop that came with the new bridle replaces the one connected to the leading edge. I would just replace the worn piece with the new one, no sacrificial in that location. Just keep it simple. If you make that center loop longer it will make the kite lose a bit of stability. Depending on your flying style and what you want the kite to do, you may or may not like it. One way to find out is to try it. You can also try shortening it. Both will have noticeable effects on performance. Give it a shot. You can always make the way it was without much effort. Some of my home-made kites have bridles that are adjustable at every point where it attaches to the frame. Each has a length of line attached to the caps and the center point, that has about 10 knots in it like the adjustment knots on your handles, about 3/8" apart and the loops of the bridle larkshead to these. Voila, totally adjustable bridle. Great for tuning in bridle length for kites you build that are a different aspect ratio than the common Rev. Really dial in on what the wind is doing. Extremely helpful on my home-made extreme ultralight to help match the frame flex to the wind speed. The knots limit the flex in 2-mph wind (strong for this kite) and allow more flex in 1/4-mph wind.

That wind that keeps changing direction is what the weatherman describes as "variable". Sometimes the winds blow from two or three directions and come together at or near where you are flying. Depending on which direction is moving/gusting faster at the moment is the direction that prevails, although only momentarily, and is the direction you feel. Then it changes. Sometimes it changes direction very quickly, sometimes it may take a few minutes -- variable! Sometimes there is no wind, absolute calm. Then suddenly it blows from the west. Then nothing. Then east, etc. This usually happens after 11 am on bright, sunny and calm days. What you experience in that case is a thermal (bubble of air warmed by dark ground that absorbs the sunlight and gets really hot) that rises and air rushes in from all sides surrounding it. If the dark ground surface is large and you are surrounded by it there will be multiple bubbles rising together or alternately, which accounts for the change of direction. Realize that one bubble may be a mile or more in diameter, or as small as an asphalt tennis court. Wind is weird stuff; once you begin investigating its behavior it gets weirder. If you feel or your kite reacts to vertical air movement, either up or down, you are exactly at the center of the bubble (up), or just outside its edge (down). Strange critter, this wind thing. There are a few other (dozens of) possibilities that explain the direction in which the wind moves and the reason for it, I just don't want to type 80 thousand words tonight.

UDOWN WIT OPK ?!?!?!!

Buff. Buff, buff, buff, buff. Buff, buff. Buff, buff, buff.John, take the buff off the Djinn. Let the sunshine help it bloom and ripen.

I completely agree but this wouldn't be my first REV, just a new one. Also, I'm not really comfortable flying other people's kites so I was hoping someone could direct me to the best outdoor low/very low wind REV out there.

The smile on your face was plenty April. Its one of a few on my Background, the group fly we did in OBX.

Going through one more set of rebuilds as we speak, quite a few changes after our test flights in SPI, needed a fresh start - hoping to sneak some more peeks early next month.