If you have an old slingshot bar laying around like I did, you can retrofit the hollow swivel and the CSS line to the ozone bar so the front lines can swivel twist free. Plus you can hook to suicide while still being able to flag out if hooked in.
I could have retrofitted the Slingshot push away quick release but to be honest there is nothing wrong with the ozone QR.
Once done, I fit the Ozone gear onto to the slingshot bar so it is still a functional bar if I ever needed it.
Does anyone know biggest size and it's bottom end? Not just lightest wind it can fly in, but how well it flies and turning speed in 10-15 knots? Is bottom end better than it was on the 2010 C4's?
May be needing a new 15m as my regular kite and don't want to move away from C4's but if bottom end performance is not great may need to look at edge or other...
What do you weigh and what board do you have to use with a 15M C4? Yes the 2012 C4 was a big improvement in bottom end on the 2010.
Anyone put down a preorder yet? Hard to do when you know stuff all about the kite...
So much rage regarding the bar. i've been using the same chickenloop since 2008 when it came on my ozone manta snow kite.
They have always released when i needed them too. I enjoy the cheap elastasized replacable safety line. The pu coating on the main line is sweeet and never have problems with depower rope wear. The foam on the bar seems to last a long time.
I'll look foward to a more easily untwistanble center line arrangement. push away safety is no something i hunker for. i've never had a problem with the pull safety.
There.. a happy customer.
Also noticed that Kitepower now have them on their website with "on sale November 1st" ... mustn't be long now.
OK, the wingtips are significantly fatter and the aspect ratio looks a fraction lower overall. The arc is definitely changed - a bit flatter through the middle but curvier near the 2nd and 4th struts to bring the wingtips around more C-ishly.
These changes look more significant than the evolution from 2011 to 2012, which was basically some foil tweaks and a very slightly lower AR, so I'd say the complete redesign description is accurate.
I used to do R+D with windsurfing race sails and I can assure you that you can never just change one parameter of a 3D aerofoil, especially one that needs to twist like a kite does. Change one thing and everything else needs to be adapted along the way.
aerodynamics, it may look the same but minor changes can make a huge difference, spitfire pilots used to carry a pair of pliars and would tweek wingtips and rudders with them to fine tune the flying of it, it may look the same but if you havnt ridden it back to back you wouldnt know.
2013 info not up yet, but a quick comparison of the images that I've seen shows significant differences to which I've already alluded.
2011 to 2012 was fine-tuning (and very effective at that).
2012 to 2013 is redesign.
Hmmm they've taken it down. Well it has had pretty much a full redesign and it sounds as if construction has been beefed up too
point 1: why change a great kite, just cause its got some new feature don't make it fly any better or your skill level increase through magic.
point 2: if your unhooking there is no reason to complain about a feature you shouldn't even require (chicken loop release).
point 3: The bar is simple keep it that way!!
point 4: simply hook your leash onto the lines above the loop to prevent it twisting up. the one included in the loop is a joke
point 5: keeping everyone happy never works.
point 6: If u can't handle the current model go buy a cab
point 7: who gives a toss what year model its called
U people need to kite more and winge less. Then u wouldn't need all this safety and ease of use rubbish. Most good riders remove all the saftey buy a decent leash and hook on. You learn to deal with the consequences as u progress and realise most of the safety does nothing in the split secon **** hits the fan and u don't have time to pull or "push" it. raaaaaaaaaaaant over
ps... I didn't know so many pussys rode c4's
