Looking for a tutorial on bridle replacement (found)

[Joe Eyman]

 

I can't find it! I even tried the direct Kitelife.com and I get a 404 not found page

Thanks [emoji41]🤙🏻

 

 

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[RaginCajun]

Have you tried YouTube under Watty's videos? 

[RaginCajun]

 

[Joe Eyman]

Thanks ...new bridle needs installed....


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[RaginCajun]

Doesn't take long and the video makes it easier. 

[oapbillf]

This should help Joe !  on the Rev Forum !

Bill

http://www.revkites.net/forum/topic/6173-bridle-images/?tab=comments#comment-94433

[Reef Runner]

It's really no big deal.  Lay the new bridle out on your kite.  Remove one attachment point of the old bridle at a time, and replace it immediately, but with the new bridle.  Just do it exactly as you took off the old one.  Repeat at each attachment point, and before you know it, done and done.....

Oh, do the top center first, as you need to pass the entire bridle through the loop, to make that attachment.

[John Barresi]

Watty's tutorial is spot on, that's what I always refer folks to.

[makatakam]

It's an Oh, my God, before you start and a That Was Easy once you do it.

[Joe Eyman]

Got it done [emoji736]
Spot on and I love it
Thanks
Joe


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[Reef Runner]

Hang in there.  All kinds of good help here at Kitelife.....

[Joe Eyman]

All done! [emoji41]🤙🏻


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[makatakam]

Not that hard, huh? Once you've tied in the upright to the horizontal a couple of times you realize how simple it really is! Double check for symmetry, and you're on your way.

[Joe Eyman]

Not that hard, huh? Once you've tied in the upright to the horizontal a couple of times you realize how simple it really is! Double check for symmetry, and you're on your way.

Actually very quick n easy when I finally saw how! [emoji41]🤙🏻


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[Joe Eyman]

By the way makatakam is the chart that shows the kite wind range anywhere else? It shows partially in the left side here very clearly


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[makatakam]

Which one? The Beaufort Scale or the one that I typed?

[Joe Eyman]

The typed I'm guessing , I found the Beaufort scale online, thank you!
I know it's subjective but here winds change so fast , direction and speed , I try to grab a kite out of the bag that's close to the high end of the winds predicted range, thanks [emoji41]🤙🏻


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[Joe Eyman]

The typed I'm guessing , I found the Beaufort scale online, thank you!
I know it's subjective but here winds change so fast , direction and speed , I try to grab a kite out of the bag that's close to the high end of the winds predicted range, thanks [emoji41]🤙🏻


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It looks like my full sails are ok till 20ish mph.....and then my full vent......till more wind than I want to stand in....I have flow my full vent at around ten mph wind and I am amazed how much it just floats...[emoji41]🤙🏻


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[Wayne Dowler]

20 mph?? Ain't no way I want to be flying a std in those winds!! By 20 mph, I'm on an X/V!

[RaginCajun]

Lol, back when I only had an exp it didn't have a wind rating.. I've flown it in 30 before. 

[Joe Eyman]

I've had gusts [emoji100] that last a few... over thirty , I just go off to the side and try to land.... cartwheel 🤸‍♂️ for a few......sometimes a slide and set er down....


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[makatakam]

General rule of thumb, assuming the wind is not gusting to more than 10mph more than its average, is to plan for the lulls, especially in team flying and competition. In other words, if the wind is blowing at roughly 10mph and gusting to 19mph, you want to fly the kite that you can keep airborne at 10mph so you can keep it up in the air. At 19mph I would normally fly an extra vent, but when the wind drops back to 10mph after the gust, the extra vent would be difficult to fly without doing a lot of backpedaling, so in this case I would start with a mid vent with a 3-wrap or green race frame, and maximum brake.

No, there's not a chart that will give you this info. It is something you will just know instinctively once you've been flying for a couple or three years, and how you want the kite to behave will have a lot to do with your selection of kite and frame. In other words, you will know which best matches your flying style.

[makatakam]

4 hours ago, Joe Eyman said:

The typed I'm guessing , I found the Beaufort scale online, thank you!

The typed one is a screen shot of a pdf file. Try opening it with Paint.