Has anyone tried these fins on a kiteboard? Twin tip or wave riding board?

Tbaggn said..
Has anyone tried these fins on a kiteboard? Twin tip or wave riding board?

yes mate been riding them most of summer, solidly since Jan! Living them! Had a couple
good tows on them too- cyclone Marcus was one of them and they are super fast with heaps more hold than any regular fin.

I'd be interested to see how good they go in a board but for $230 a set that's a bit steep if you don't like them

Good luck to them, but I reckon they have shot themselves in the foot with their pricing.

Foghorn said..
They used to put those rails on windsurf fins in the 80s ,didn't take off.

And foiling was around in the late seventies as well and didn't pick up back then. Look at it now!

Good thing that there are some people challenging the status quo out there.

bjw said..
Good luck to them, but I reckon they have shot themselves in the foot with their pricing.

A premium FCS or Future set will set you back $160-180. $230 is not that far off if it is indeed a game changer.

Wow. The +ve vibes from this compared to Lee's BuzzKites debut into the market and in this forum, leaves me stunned. Bash one, pamper the other. Is it a WA thing this? Sucks really. Nepotism in kite surfing is rife.

Foghorn said..
They used to put those rails on windsurf fins in the 80s ,didn't take off.

They were straight fences, looks like the curve in these generates lift.

Ryland, my first thought was that kiters don't need the extra speed these apparently generate, and they are only applicable to surfing. If you've been using them I am interested....... making boards I'd be keen to make a board to suit the fins and see.....

For me being an average surfer I can hardly feel the difference between $50 and $120 fins. I'm guessing if it's pumping and round then the extra hold could be worth it but for kiting where it is generally slop, hard to justify. Plus one of my favourite things is trying to get the tail to slide, I'm not a fan of rails.

$230 isn't going to get people to trial them. Its a new price point. I don't think many crew will invest unless they know for sure they are light years above the rest. I don't know many crew happy to pay even $150 on fins yet.

Puetz said..
,,, fins can make a huge difference, and can totally change the character of your board so why not charge a price accordingly, having a good set of fins is worth a million dollars to me!

Ive got some great fins at home, sold!

Can you paypal the mill to my a/c and ill get them under way.

pleasure doing business with you

Ryland-


hello?

There's a secret to the success of some companies with totally outrageous price:
The purchaser is more embarrassed to admit to a failed expensive purchase than a failed budget purchase.

Rather like the kids story of the Emperor's new clothes.
"The Emperor's New Clothes" (Danish: Kejserens nye Kl?der) is a short tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, about two weavers who promise an emperor a new suit of clothes that they say is invisible to those who are unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent - while in reality, they make no clothes at all, making everyone believe the clothes are invisible to them. When the emperor parades before his subjects in his new "clothes", no one dares to say that they do not see any suit of clothes on him for fear that they will be seen as stupid. Finally, a child cries out, "But he isn't wearing anything at all!"

A lot of you will know Beau Pilgrim- bws pro rider, rips on a kite and surfing! Anyways he got a set of fcs quobbas last week! First surf he was so blown away and noticed instant performance from his first wave! He was that stoked on them he grabbed a set of futures aswell so that he had all his boards covered . I rang him after a couple days after he had had another surf on them - still so stoked on them! Beau said he doesn't want to surf on any other fins now and this is all he will ride! ??

^^^^^Bahhhaha haaah haaa, Markie complaining about people not sticking to the foruming rules. Funny as

whole lotta bashing going on here. Either bored people or folks that dont like to see research and innovation going into a sport. Im sure your all happy to pay extra for the North sticker on your knockoff TOMO and update your mobile phones every new model. Somehow you think that its ok to bash a startup thats just put years of research and money into a product not backed by a major brand. Probably out of their own back pockets. Give it a chance ya. Fair enough, if you dont like the 230.00 pricetag, just wait and see how user reviews go. If you still dont like the price tag, then relax and keep riding what you have. You will find that start ups dont tend to put a price on something inorder to get rich. they do it because it's worth it and its what they need to survive.