I have always had a kite kicking about but now have the disposable to buy some more interesting stuff. Just got a new Cody 30 for my birthday (33, Sunday just gone) and greatly enjoyed giving it it's first outing Monday evening. Anyone else like to relax this way?

As a footnote, I found out tonight (I'd never bothered to check before) that there is an absolute limit of 60 metres (200ft) on kite flying in the UK, with a limit of 30 metres if you live 3 miles from an airfield, because the Civil Aviation Authority class kites as aircraft!
Eek emoticon is there 'cos I got wifey to order me 200 metres of line with the kite, I attached it all and let it all out during the first flight. As I have a glider club on me doorstep I'd better limit how high I go in future. And also living under one of the many flightlines to R.A.F. Wittering it'd probably be a good idea to keep the altitude down as I don't want to end up at 1000ft and 500 knots bobbing along behind a Brylcreem boy in a Harrier on final approach!

it's the first time i hear that kites fall under regulations(other than the obvious "near airport rules".
Dont worry about those Harrier guys though cause when he hit a kite line he will be in more deep s"#t than the guy holding that line

hi,

I fly a blade 3 5.9 and yes it is scary as hell. to be more acurate it flys me first time I did a big jump I needed some clean underware

Blake

have always fancied a go with one and if i enjoyed it i would sefinately get myself a smallish starter sized one secondhand and progress from there. Was in Scotland a few weeks back and there were about 10 of them on off road skate boards razzing up and down the beach/seafront, looke like great fun.

you wernt newr st andrews where you if so thay do day coures ther on the beach to have a bash and see what you think. also ther are lots of pepol flying evry wekend and if you pic a windy day look out for the kite sufers that is inpresive to watch. I would recomend buying the kite second hand cos thay can be a bit steap other wise

yep i have been known to play around with a few kites, dam good fun.

my mate has a 10` and 8` flexfoil kite which we stack to make one powerfull beast!! will pull my 13st of arse down a beach face first!!! yes that is the voice of experiance!!!!

maybe we should organise a kite / locost spin out to west kirby!!??

bob

I've not got anything like that, just a couple of little kites like you use on the beach but I still like to fly them, it's just fun. I like the wing kite as it just goes up and stays there. I watch these on winamp livestream tv and they have a load of video on their website.

http://www.radicool.net/videos/

Love flying Kites but don't have anything fancy as SWMBO says I never fly the ones I have!

You guys may be interested to know that there's a big (as far as I know) kite festival in Bristol coming up (04+05 September).

Kingr

I started with a small delta many years ago, progressed to a 6' flexifoil and now have a 3m2 Blade II. Great fun when i get the chance to fly it - which is not very often at all. I've also got a homemade buggy I bought off one of the guys in the machine shop at work but i've only ever tried it a couple of times when i've been down to devon. Have also ben meaning to have a go at kite surfing but not got round to it yet.

I've flown a Blade II 4.0, a Blade III 4.0 and a Blade 7.2. V scary, all of them. Pulled my and 2 friends across a whole field

I'm more into the fun flying type, though I'd like a powerful quad liner at some point. I like the idea of a train of Codys' and me in a basket travelling up the suspended line

yep!

Yup I was into kites in a big way a few years ago.
My favs were power kites. my biggest was a 7mtr. God did I get into some trouble with that.
Used to go kite buggying down on Camber sands.
I still fly my trick kites and Flexies.
Helps me relax if I've had a bad day..


David

Yep, got some Flexifoils (3.3 and 4.9 blades) sitting at home.

Great fun

I can't remember the mak/model of my quad line because it's been in the attic ever since it dragged me all the way across the field near me (it's a big field, and I'm not small!)...

Amazing thing and had loads of hours flying/jumping, but gonna sell it when I get the balls to bring it down!

A good starting kite if you want to land board is a beamer 2.5 this is pretty cheap but will be able to pull you along easily.

This is what I learnt on and still have. When i was at uni me and 2 of my house mates clubbed together to buy a beamer 9m (or maybe 7m?) The biggest one anyway. That was a mistake as it wasn't very good.

After the Beamer its best to move onto better kites, my housemates brought Blades but I brought a second hand S Arc 11.2 which was great fun. I also brought a 16m F-Arc which was mad!

Unfortunataly I got really skint in my third year at uni so had to sell it all

On the plus side I sold it for what I paid for more in some cases. (I brought most of my stuff second hand as its very expensive)

All i have is the beamer 2.5 which i keep meaning to take out but never get round to it. My land board is also still around but looking sorry for itself

i cant fly kites, they give me vertigo

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Originally posted by cd.thomson
i cant fly kites, they give me vertigo

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Funny enough i have just bought a kite from morrisons while shopping tonight. Its only one of those stupid ones for a few quid but hey, got to get started somewhere......

The very best kite

Cheers

Chris

So why aren't we on the front page now?

If you are in to kites. Try the Berck-sur-mere kite festival some time.

One of the most amazine things I have ever seen.