Kazan said...

I have stock pumps with all my kites, but I once borrowed a friends pump from his Slingshot kite. It was a blue/white logo'd pump and it looked actually smaller than mine (the normal yellow pumps). Boy this little pump really pumped! I pumped my Cab 14mtr in like 40 pumps, yet my yellow pump took like nearly twice that!

Is there a really good pump out there that can pump up kites fast!?

Yes, It's called a "when it is new pump"

North pumps suck...

bought a Peter Lynn pump... MUCH better!

Akwa said...
North pumps suck...

bought a Peter Lynn pump... MUCH better!

joke about foil kites requiring less inflation?

sir ROWDY said...
Ozone pump seems to be good and I haven't broken one yet. Bit bigger than the SS pump as well so it's slightly better on the back.

Yep totally agree

Yeh used ozone pumps way before I rode ozone kites...I rate them.

Funny hey we still haven't come up with a very simple, reasonable, sensible method of pumping a kite up, if forced to do it in-situ on the beach.

There are options of course but they all kind of have some drawbacks etc..

Well nothing has jumped out at me and said yeh that's easier and better than a normal pump. Thought the ozito would be great, but alas it's crapola.

Yeh agreed that's what I meant. I've seen some strange bloody contraptions out there. Probably easiest is the car compressor, but not all of us can pump our kites up next to the car!

Legs are stronge than arms and shoulders. Just need the capacity levered so the downstroke activates a plunger inside a suitable sealed cavity. Come on engineers !

eppo said...
Or even a double peddled one like a double kick drum. Look hell kooky but we are a weird bunch of wind driven addicts anyway.

Or one hooked up to an exercise bike

still pumping my 2013 kites with a 2009 ozone pump, give them a wipe clean in the drum then a spray of silicone spray every couple of months, the liquid force inflation looks the go if you want quick inflation, ive seen a guy inflate a 10 mtr in just over 10 seconds,

sir ROWDY said...
Ozone pump seems to be good and I haven't broken one yet. Bit bigger than the SS pump as well so it's slightly better on the back.

seriously dude? pumps?

cauncy said...
still pumping my 2013 kites with a 2009 ozone pump, give them a wipe clean in the drum then a spray of silicone spray every couple of months, the liquid force inflation looks the go if you want quick inflation, ive seen a guy inflate a 10 mtr in just over 10 seconds,

Good advice cauncy gonna do mine Tomoz. All pumps need this makes sense.

[b]cauncy said...[/]
the liquid force inflation looks the go if you want quick inflation, ive seen a guy inflate a 10 mtr in just over 10 seconds,

You reckon??? Go buy one and then get back to us... Most useless kite gimmick in a while I would say, up there with the "fast track" in boards.