Hello all,
I have a gen 1 ozone samurai and the control bar comes with a big old clunky chicken loop (or harness loop really both ends of the loop are attached to the bar). This is annoying especially when I am watching all those people out there who can untangle their lines with the spin of their bar. My friend has a gen 2 samurai and his bar came with a swiveling chicken loop other wise the control and lines are all the same. I am wondering if their is a manufacturer out there that has a swiveling chicken loop available that is fixed not sheetable that I could simply larks head onto my bar. The other option would be to covert to a sheetable control system however my question on that is can any kite ie my samurai be converted into a sheetable kite?
Upgrading to a swiveling chicken loop or sheetable controls
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Re: Upgrading to a swiveling chicken loop or sheetable controls
I've got a samauri also What I did was get a Wichard Quick release that swivels I connect that to a carbiner that attaches to my harness. This way using any bar setup I can spin it to unwrap lines. I also have a couple kites I fly on handles and a strop I have a good sailing pulley on my strop line and I just hook the pulley into the Wichard and Im all set to fly that kite. Hope this helped ya if I confused you just ask and Ill send some pics.
Mark L

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Re: Upgrading to a swiveling chicken loop or sheetable controls
Wow,
I've finally found the product I'm looking for and it is actually put out by Ozone. The only problem is its only available in Europe. I will probably end up ordering it from there but why the heck isn't it available here in the US, anybody know? Perhaps b/c ozone is a european country[img]javascript:void%20window.open('http://www.etikkite.be/components/com_v ... ocation=no');[/img]
the swivel shown above is what ozone uses to put in side the neoprene sleeve. You can buy a control bar featureing the swiveling chicken loop as well. http://www.flyozone.com/landkites/en/pr ... -line-bar/ I mean I know that everyone just has depowerable control systems these days but a few of us still have to kick it the old way so a product like this would be nice.
I've finally found the product I'm looking for and it is actually put out by Ozone. The only problem is its only available in Europe. I will probably end up ordering it from there but why the heck isn't it available here in the US, anybody know? Perhaps b/c ozone is a european country[img]javascript:void%20window.open('http://www.etikkite.be/components/com_v ... ocation=no');[/img]
the swivel shown above is what ozone uses to put in side the neoprene sleeve. You can buy a control bar featureing the swiveling chicken loop as well. http://www.flyozone.com/landkites/en/pr ... -line-bar/ I mean I know that everyone just has depowerable control systems these days but a few of us still have to kick it the old way so a product like this would be nice.
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Re: Upgrading to a swiveling chicken loop or sheetable controls

sorry here is that swivel