myusernam said...

do you get spinout (like on a windsurfer?)

am thinking it would be harder to recover from kiting

You do - but it's not the same... It's kinda like getting a twintip back from a slide... You just take the weight off your feet for a sec and it tracks again...


Yea they are fragile... Depends how they're built though - I'm pretty sure the Underground has a Paulownia shell to protect from dings and harness bashes... A few of us have fallen pretty hard on it and it's ok...

On Maui I landed harness first on the nose of the Cab race board and it didn't even leave a scratch - I thought I'd gone through it for sure lol.

The fins are the things we worry about... $500 for the set... Stay away from the reef ey!

oops sorry people my bad

i just rang Airborne Kitesurfing and they are not selling the Sector that they have in the shop

They are selling the Monaro though and it is only $1050 not $2000
www.airush.com/2010/products/boards.html sick board if you like to go fast!!

just flicking through the rest of this thread (prob should have done that before my first post ay) and kinda spoted the answer to my own question as to why those other boards are so dam expensive....... $500 for fins!!..... hang on it still doesnt explain it??? cos $2000 take away $500 for fins (even tho no fin set is worth $500) is $1500 and that leaves the Monaro @ $500 cheaper

Havnt tried both but my money would be on the Monaro based on what i have seen of the other boards

Im going Fast!!

BrisKites said...

RickyBobby said...
..... hang on it still doesnt explain it??? cos $2000 take away $500 for fins (even tho no fin set is worth $500) is $1500 and that leaves the Monaro @ $500 cheaper

Havnt tried both but my money would be on the Monaro based on what i have seen of the other boards

Im going Fast!!

Thats because you haven't seen the boards I was referencing RickyBobby. They haven't been released yet.

Jas

so the boards are sooooo expensive because i have not seen them yet.....ok...I can live with that......will they be discounted after i do see them then??

RickyBobby said...

BrisKites said...

RickyBobby said...
..... hang on it still doesnt explain it??? cos $2000 take away $500 for fins (even tho no fin set is worth $500) is $1500 and that leaves the Monaro @ $500 cheaper

Havnt tried both but my money would be on the Monaro based on what i have seen of the other boards

Im going Fast!!

Thats because you haven't seen the boards I was referencing RickyBobby. They haven't been released yet.

Jas

so the boards are sooooo expensive because i have not seen them yet.....ok...I can live with that......will they be discounted after i do see them then??

I think what Jason is also saying, but not saying, so I will say it, is that the Monaro is actually an older design that is now superseeded and discounted.
Maybe it always was this price, however I think I remember it being at a higher price when it first came on the market nearly 12 months ago.

Course racing boards have undergone a lot of changes in the last 12 months, I don't know of any current model board that is only sporting 2 fins for example!

Anyway the Underground board is not 2 grand, nor are the cabrinha's, and the Underground is a race winning latest design with 4 tuttle box, CNC machined G10 epoxy fins, and with tough paulownia laminate layup.

my 2c worth