how do you shorten the depower line on the North 2014 five line bar. can't reach while riding and need to depower to unhook. Any help would be awesome. Thanks

Hmm just put the rope out off the stopper, pull it to you until it close enough, then pull it through the chicken loop to get both side equal again.

Make sure your waist harness isn't riding up so bar ends up further away than should be.
I use seat harness which i love,some don't .

Yea mate I have the same bar and kite (as your avatar pic) where the depower line comes out that black plastic bit has cleat on its backside, if you pull the line up or down through that, it shortens or lengthens the "reach" you need to the depower line, I had to play with this because the neo has so much grunt that I am reaching for the depower all the time.
Aswell im not sure if lengthens is a real word but you know what I mean (second language english)

Yeah I think I've done it right then. So when you pull it through. There a knot where the clet is. So I knotted it further down to make it shorter, right

Mmm nope... The side with the knot should not move. Pull the other side and then let the rope move around the pulley above and through the chicken loop. This depower line is like a loop around this pulley and the chicken loop, with a trimmer in the middle, you know what I mean ? So if you allow that loop to move, the trimmer can be more or less close to you... Make sens ?

Ja turns out I was right "lengthen" is a real word, aswell what ^^^ maxfr said. If you are still stuck tomorrow morning ill put up a photo of how its done (I quit my job today and there is no wind up here so will be entertaining myself on SB for the next couple of days)

edit: I mean entertain myself by writing posts etc, just wanted to clear that up because when I read it I thought I sound/look a bit awkward, anyway I'm having another glass o wine.

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awkward customer said..
Ja turns out I was right "lengthen" is a real word, aswell what ^^^ maxfr said. If you are still stuck tomorrow morning ill put up a photo of how its done (I quit my job today and there is no wind up here so will be entertaining myself on SB for the next couple of days)

edit: I mean entertain myself by writing posts etc, just wanted to clear that up because when I read it I thought I sound/look a bit awkward, anyway I'm having another glass o wine.

Lol I thought it wasn't really clear, but I swear, in my head, it is.

Anyway, here we go:

Mm mm I see. I was doing that initially but it seemed like I was just pulling it through but the length wasn't changing. So I had shortened it my way by re knowing then cutting the spare but off. This was just an after thought to ask on this forum. Could I have ****ed by bar up?? Worried my son was flying it the other day and I thought maybe the leading edge may have been pulling a bit it the centre

Jussus I don't want to alarm you Nis but cutting off bits of your centre lines is probable not always a good idea, if I was you at this stage I would probable swing past the kiteshop and have them check it out, it may be a case of you get lucky and can readjust by changing pigtail lengths on the bar to get everything back to normal and then just change the reach again at the vario cleat as per maxfr's clip (I'm not brave or careless enough to tell you to do anything else incase I have misundersood you and then on my advice your boy gets hurt and then I am the paria of the West) Aswell good luck I hope it works out.

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awkward customer said..
Jussus I don't want to alarm you Nis but cutting off bits of your centre lines is probable not always a good idea, if I was you at this stage I would probable swing past the kiteshop and have them check it out, it may be a case of you get lucky and can readjust by changing pigtail lengths on the bar to get everything back to normal and then just change the reach again at the vario cleat as per maxfr's clip (I'm not brave or careless enough to tell you to do anything else incase I have misundersood you and then on my advice your boy gets hurt and then I am the paria of the West) Aswell good luck I hope it works out.

Well it still flew ok but yeah might wait till I go up town and get it checked out. My partner is getting rid of all his gear so might just steal his bar and do it properly. I think I will need to buy a new depower line and swap it over. Thought it was a bit dodgy cutting stuff off but brought it closer. Live and learn I guess. on the plus side no kids were hurt in this experiment.

Nissey, get your bar in front of you.

start at the iron heart (thingymajor you can rotate to unspin the front (middle ones) lines.

Watch it it go through the hole in the bar, up through the stopper then through the underside of the cleat. (You will see a small rope attached here by the way as shown in the vid, that's where the alteration occurs).

The depower line then comes out the underside of the cleat, up and around a pulley, then back down and through the topside of the cleat...where the teeth grooves are and finishes with the black material thingy you use to engage or disengage the depower line through the teeth.

Now look at the knot you took cut off and shortened. Follow that back down through the stopper, through the bar then through the iron heart again where it comes out where you started this whole exercise.

By adjusting as shown whatever you give up below the cleat (shorten the depower) then lies above the cleat, between it and the pulley.

Theoretically you could adjust and have the cleat sitting on top of your bar with no throw and therefore have all the depower line above the cleat to the pulley.

If you have taken the knot off and cut the depower rope here, and put a decent knot back on the cleat, then all should be well. But you needn't have done that.

My message is understand the mechanisms behind all your gear.

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eppo said..
Nissey, get your bar in front of you.

start at the iron heart (thingymajor you can rotate to unspin the front (middle ones) lines.

Watch it it go through the hole in the bar, up through the stopper then through the underside of the cleat. (You will see a small rope attached here by the way as shown in the vid, that's where the alteration occurs).

The depower line then comes out the underside of the cleat, up and around a pulley, then back down and through the topside of the cleat...where the teeth grooves are and finishes with the black material thingy you use to engage or disengage the depower line through the teeth.

Now look at the knot you took cut off and shortened. Follow that back down through the stopper, through the bar then through the iron heart again where it comes out where you started this whole exercise.

By adjusting as shown whatever you give up below the cleat (shorten the depower) then lies above the cleat, between it and the pulley.

Theoretically you could adjust and have the cleat sitting on top of your bar with no throw and therefore have all the depower line above the cleat to the pulley.

If you have taken the knot off and cut the depower rope here, and put a decent knot back on the cleat, then all should be well. But you needn't have done that.

My message is understand the mechanisms behind all your gear.

I have a decent knot. So you think that is ok. I've adjusted another bar the right way. So will fly both styles as we have a few kites. Also ordered a new depower line to fix it up and do it the right way. Thanks

Hope this helps.




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