This is as warning and request for your feedback.
2weeks ago my almost new bar named appropriately Sick fell apart 30min into a sesh during moderate conditions!
The catastrophic failure of the control bar happened at the height of 5.5m into 8-9m jump. The Woo registered 2.8sec time of fall.
The result of the free fall 4ribs smashed in 7 places!
The reaction of CrazyFly so far:
1. No apologies for their control bar failure.
2. No offer of compensation for pain&suffering, destroyed wetsuit/other gear/loss of earnings etc.
3. No explanation how such catastrophic failure could take place at all!
4. No request for more detailed photos or indeed the bar itself to examine this crucial part of our gear in
regard to the safety of the users!
5. No reaction to the fact the chicken loop line is MISSING on the photos!! Or perhaps it's not supposed to be there ????
6. The Australian C/F dealer refunded the cost of the bar and that's all, for CF the matter is now CLOSED!
In conclusion I quote the timely words of:
Juraj Bukovcak from CrazyFly in 2018 interview was asked:
"What's the most challenging part of designing a bar?
To be honest, the bar is definitely the most difficult product we make. I will repeat myself, but the most challenging part is safety. On the bar, nothing can break as this puts riders at high risk. All parts of the bar are very carefully designed to be extremely strong and durable"
I guess no comment here is necessary!
The relevant reports are now made to ACCC in Australia
and equivalent in the USA, the matter is also in the hands of my Lawyer.
If you can contribute in any way it will be appreciated.

If anyone has interest on this subject there is a relevant discussion on kiteforum.com

I was one lucky guy that day there was no one around that day except just one guy who happened to be right behind me ,and it was him who towed me to the beach, not far but there was not a chance I would make it myself!
Didnt even got his name though,let alone thanking him for perhaps saving my life, hope he understands why ..

I understand the bar shouldnt have left factory without the grey chord thats imperitive to the structual nature of the design

But

If you knew how to ride unhooked then you would have not nearly died.

This isnt directed at you OP and more just the state kitesurfing as a sport is in australia.
If you cant ride unhooked you need to quit kitesurfing and buy a wingding or a sailboat leave the extreme sports to people with a bit of power to weight ratio like children, women or athletes not big old boombaboombas who cross theyre arms on theyre belly and talk about nonsense theyre just regurgitateing at the beach

Simply being able to touch your toes after a couple midstrengths have loosened you up doesnt make you fit to kitesurf. You should be able to ride unhooked at a minimum.

Actually I can ride unhooked now :)Nobody else but the Crazy helped me to learn 5.5m above water surface!
Great work CrazyFly but I don't want any more lessons from you, sorry clowns ??

Show us a picture of your smashed ribs

one clever guy on kiteforum.com came up with these options:
1. Internal power line has been forgotten in assembly process (probality not very high but not unpossible)
2. Internal power line torn, leftovers got "somehow" lost --> why are there no leftovers?
3. And this is my vavourite one: Somebody (I really don?t know who) has replaced the depower rope with the wrong (short) version. Some people would say thats stupid but **** but it happens and there seems to be absolutely NO spare part documentation available in relation to this bar !!!!!!

Unfortunately the CrazyF or should I say Cover Up Artists won't help us to find why their Sick(****) Bar fell apart midair we have to continue ourselves!

Thanks Mate, yes nr2 cos nr 1 or 3 are simply unthinkable! Right? but as the guy rightly said we can not exclude them.
I did try to unhook the PU tube to check what's left but could not get past removing the stoper ball,
No way to remove that tube from the depower cleat, I don't want to cut it yet since the matter is now in the hands of VJD and perhaps they will order the examination of the failed bar, we will see

The caveat you mentioned is fine that's the main reason we do it !But the manufacturers can't try to kill you with the bar that was used for 10-15hrs! It's simply no go, weather someone likes it or not.

Whats even worse when they refuse to take any steps whatsoever to find out what and why it happened and what to do not to repeat it, then you become emotionally charged??

For 2 weeks they did nothing except instructing the Dealer to refund the cost and apologise on their behalf. Later they issued 2statements on kiteforum.com:
1. No inspection of the bar required cos the power line is clearly missing on my photos! Are they Crazy or think everyone else is !?
2. No refund for my destroyed wetsuits warranted!

Smashed ribs photo, cmon it adds go the drama

vodka said..

Deefer said..

vodka said..
I understand the bar shouldnt have left factory without the grey chord thats imperitive to the structual nature of the design

But

If you knew how to ride unhooked then you would have not nearly died.

This isnt directed at you OP and more just the state kitesurfing as a sport is in australia.
If you cant ride unhooked you need to quit kitesurfing and buy a wingding or a sailboat leave the extreme sports to people with a bit of power to weight ratio like children, women or athletes not big old boombaboombas who cross theyre arms on theyre belly and talk about nonsense theyre just regurgitateing at the beach

Simply being able to touch your toes after a couple midstrengths have loosened you up doesnt make you fit to kitesurf. You should be able to ride unhooked at a minimum.

When the bar has self destructed in midair and you've landed and broken your ribs I'd say that being able to ride unhooked is the last thing on your mind.
Breathing with broken ribs is painful enough, I reckon having a harness digging in would make that worse and having it ride up even a little whilst you're body dragging your arse back to shore because of product failure would only top it off.

U don't ride CF by any chance?

Chicken loop failed
not the bar.
He could have just stayed holding onto the bar but his arms too.weak cause now the loop wasnt takeing the load into the harness

If the bar snapped in half like ive seen happen to hadlows flexifoils back in the day then yeah rideing unhooked even helped then cause it just became 2 handles.

Point is fellas if i can jump that high with no harness or chicken loop and not only survive but thrive and your actually concerned about this injury then i suggest you learn to wakeboard and then start unhooking on your kites.

They call them "cable arms" at the wake parks for a reason.

While your all rideing hooked in all the time its like claiming your lance armstrong but your on an electric bike with no pedals

Eat ya spinach boomers

Usually people who plan to unhook will have the kite trimmed for this, whereas an accidental/ unplanned disconnection results in sudden over-sheeting of the kite for max power and a sudden jerk. Reckon your "cable arms" are up for that?

vodka said..
Is this even a serious question or what?
I campus routes
And loop unhooked

Dont try make this about me. Its about you lot pretending your extreme sports athletes when hardly any of you can even rock climb as well as a small child. Go to a gym go to a cable park when you can do a muscle up or one armed pull up then you can have a cry about gear brakeing.

This bar breaking the way it did wouldnt have affected any wakestyle kiteboarder they would of just held onto the bar and lofted down body dragged in taken some photos got refund and more inportantly never purchased crazy fly gear in the first place. Causw they actually put time and effort into theyre sport rather then just let there wallet do all the work like you fattyfattyboombas do.


You ahouldnt kite further then you can swim and you shouldnt jump higher then your prepared to fall. This is all solved by being unhooked. If you think otherwise your just ignorant and im not surprised in the least.

Just had to re-read this whole thread looking for evidence of all these "extreme sports athletes" wannabe's, but could only find one ??.
I don't understand your need to want to exclude anyone who's not able to boost unhooked (old, overweight, injured, female, newbies, whatever) from participating in other aspects of this great sport?
And, again, I'd really love to see how this "wakestyle legend" would deal with such an unexpected and sudden powering-up of the kite?

Cezar said..
Just want to add that the CrazyF Crapbar fell apart before redirecting at about 2 o'clock at 5.5m on the way up to about 9m jump.
The jerk was massive and so my surprise
I can't imagine how I was supposed to do what vodka said:
"He could have just stayed holding onto the bar but his arms too.weak"

Yeah, you'd think a kite-surfer should fully understand that. Wakeboarder legends. maybe not. Best not take clueless clowns seriously.

Learn to read. I clearly stated girls and children can unhook. Its about power to weight ratio. But you misquoted to try win some lame **** on the internet. you need to get on down to the sailing club and pop yourself on a little hobie cat and sail off into the sunset with ya beer bellys and enjoy those twilight years if you cant unhook.

Or you know dont jump higher then you can fall. It use to clearly say in the manuals that kiteboarding was a dangerous sport and you shouldnt jump. Now all you old butter cup milk cows want to turn around and sue people cause your heart rate got elevated or or you cant hang onto a bar and fall in the water.

This isnt directed at OP but just a state of the scene as a whole. Yet heres the major manufacturers and the competition industry pandering to a bunch of dairys who cant produce any milk. Removeing freestyle and wakestyle not just from the competition scene but from that actual production lines themselves. And then doubleing down on **** kites with pullys and bridals and **** all meat in theyre wingtips so theyre loops are **** (but they float down so you dont hurt yourself )

Then rather then correct it and focus the r n d onto highend comp gear to let it trickle down they just dump it on theyre cashcow range.

Were going to see more and more people with ****all fitness getting themselves into situations when a competition is so heavily dependant on equipment and weather conditions instead of being on skill its inevitable the majority thats been pandered to will try and copy.

Anyways i look forward to all the injurys to come if you dont want it to happen to you go for a run and maybe a pullup or 2 wont hurt

Windwings are the way of the future no injurys amd unhooked all the time

vodka said..
Go to a gym go to a cable park when you can do a muscle up or one armed pull up then you can have a cry about gear brakeing.

Can you do a one arm pull up? To be strong enough to even start to attempt learning one you need to be able to do pull ups with an extra 70% of your bodyweight. That's why the one arm pull up is a remarkable feat of strength. Plus that's a lot of extra weight for the average kitesurfer to have lying around your house to train with.

Also I see most of the wing surfers are starting to hook in to a harness so not sure that's the sport to encourage

Well i agree with all you said in last post cezar

And yeah one arm pull ups are easy not sure why any of you have any disbelief in this?!? Go to a bouldering gym sometime and have a look around at everyone..... then go to your kite beach and look at everyone....

As for the manufacturer thing its pretty damn wild if that power line wasnt in there due to a lapse in quality control checking it... im interested to see why they dont just remove the powerline from a existing brand new bar ad then see if they can have a session or 2 without it. If it instantly fails then atleast they know you must of at some point had the powerline in your bar as you did get a couple sessions on it before it vanished from this realm.