Hi, any experience about RRD V4 bar with Naish Fly or Blade Fat Lady 2013? Does someone know about the compatibility?
Thank you

This topic comes up often and I am a little confused.

At full power on the bar (with depower strap fully open), the bar should have the front line and back line at the same length.
That is the same to my knowledge with all brands.

So there should not be any difference between using any bar (so long as it is not a 5 line bar for a 4 line kite).

Let me know if I am wrong here but I have personally kited my Reo on the RRD bar, the star kite with the Reo bar and basically pick up a random bar without any concern.

Could it be that the manufacturer want you to believe that you need a specific bar for a specific kite as it gives them the opportunity to sale more over priced bars????

Or maybe I am full of $%^t.

Either way, don't take my word for it and make sure to not do a self launch if you swap bars so you can at least have a feel for the set up with your mate holding the kite.

I won't take the responsibility for anyone wasting themselves but I truly believe that all bars are perfectly compatible to any kite.
Let me know.

Depends on the safety system, Naish fly is designed to go to one line, so any bar that has a mini 5th to one top line will work.

sebol said..

This topic comes up often and I am a little confused.

At full power on the bar (with depower strap fully open), the bar should have the front line and back line at the same length.
That is the same to my knowledge with all brands.

So there should not be any difference between using any bar (so long as it is not a 5 line bar for a 4 line kite).


I won't take the responsibility for anyone wasting themselves but I truly believe that all bars are perfectly compatible to any kite.
Let me know.

No problems with line lengths, if they are even, but If the front lines split further up, it will fly differently. May need to add pigtails if the larks heads are different...... I have a fat lady and blade bar....any 4 line bar 45cm+ with single front line flagging should work with centres line split coming right down to depower. Eg ozone. The blade bar was hyped but has a couple of things that could be improved.