Damo,

Flexifoil will be debuting the Ion2 in Australia at Kitestock, make sure you come along to be the first to try it!

www.kitestock.com

Keep an eye on Kiteboarder magazine due out in a week or two. It has some info on the Ion 2 in product news.

Hoping to have it available for sale before Kitestock!

Pics and review material I've seen of it look impressive and think it is going to be a smart choice to get hold of one.

Give me a call if you are interested in making sure you secure the first to arrive as I expect there is likely to be delays initially due to demand

Damo, do Flexi do boards, if so will there be any to demo?

I will be bringing three pre-production Flexifoil boards to kitestock, along with 8,5 and 10.5 Ion2s and 9, 12 & 15 Atoms and hopefully a Fusion 2 if I can squeeze it in.

Hope to see you all there.

Cheers

Matt

whats the difference ion2 v atom??

i'm interested in wave riding, hooked in
no dingly-dangly stuff

Kitepower will have some of the first Ion2's soon, and we will have a 10.5 and 8.5 on demo, as soon as they land.

Cya and

Goodwinds

Steve

thx caution
forecast aint looking good thou

really trying to find out if there was any difference
eg waroo v pro, switchblade v xbow

but ion v atom

sorted that out

Steve,

Have you had time to take it out for a test ride yet? Would be interested to hear a review and comparison with the other kites you have in your stable....

Is this the most expensive kite ever?


16.5m $2449

Tried the Ion2 10.5m in both 4 and 5 line mode at Kitestock. Unfortunately I got pretty variable winds and managed to stand on a pesky little cobbler so I would have liked more time on the water, but...

The bar is awesome. The grip is a little hard on the hands but it hangs on no matter what! Apparently it gets softer with a bit of use, but I loved it. The bar is clean, simple, easy to use. No bullsh1t hanging off it, easy to use safety and so clean. Simpler than an SS bar, even the good old 04/05 SS bar.

Bar pressure was good, lighter than my 06 Vegas, but not too light. I liked it.

The kite was super smooth, very responsive and felt quick. I would have loved to have tried it in 25 instead of the variable 18 knots I got. It is incredibly well built with reinforcing everywhere you need it and none of it was excessive or seemed heavy. Flexi thought of great things like simple to remove bladders if you do damage one, little rigid bits of webbing over the trailing edge wing tip to stop line catching, simple instructions printed on the bag for the 4 to 5 line swap over, velcro to put the bridle safely away when packing up or on the beach to avoid catching on the kite, wear protection everywhere including light weight dacron in the canopy about an inch either side of each strut! Has to be the best built kite yet - looked tougher and more durable than the bench mark Slingy. They also have one way valves, one for filling and one for dumping, one pump system with strut isolation valves all covered up and out of the way.

4 line the jumps were big and floaty. It still ripped you off the water like a C but felt way more floaty, and more hang time. The depower loop throw was a little long for my stumpy arms, but can be adjusted by re-tieing the bowlines.

Still unsure about the amount of throw at the bar. The kite was tuned so that the bar was at the optimum position mid way on the rope, meaning you could over sheet it if you pulled in fully. But the wind was light, so the over-sheeting and stalling the kite may have been exaggerated. And to reduce this all you had to do was pull in on the depower and move the point of over sheeting further down towards the chicken loop.

5 line play time was cut short by the cobbler, but it felt good. Hopefully I'll get to play on an Ion2 again soon!

I loved it! Now to sell my kites...

What did everyone else think?

The Ion2 bar has the new bigger v-core hole (similar to the fusion2) which has pretty much solved that problem. I hope to have some of these bars available soon to offer as an upgrade for the atoms too.

I believe you Kite Boy....I also like the 10.5m...now where is that kite?

Karve, is it still in Marg. River? I could take it back to Perth via Esperance....oh please tell me where that kite is.

Our deom 10.5 has been taken over to Dolls by Col, for the demo day, I'll be there shortly with some other kites and boards.
let us know what you think SCI, another local rider who has an 8.5 is raving about his new Ion2

Cya and

Goodwinds

Steve

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Originally posted by sci

I just bought a 10.5 rasta ion2 soo excited about getting it on the water...full review to com.

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I know what you mean Brooksy!!!!

I was on a 16.5m Ion2 yesterday in 13 - 25 knts and didn't even have to pull any depower on.
With my 130 kg wet and on a 145x40 or 130x40 board i was lit. I thought it turned a bit slow then I realised when i got back to the car that I had the short bar from the 10.5m with me. I can't wait to get it going on the right bar.