Anyone know if yellow kites are the best colour kite for extended kite life? Mate told me yellow was colourfast and reflected UV. Any 2015 kites that are yellow?

Drying your kites in your garage before rolling and packing will make them last twice as long.
150 sessions then become normal and even 200 sessions.
Whereas packing an stowing away your wet kite will kill the cloth of the kite within 75 sessions.
In paragliding the measure the porosity of the cloth: the amount of air that passes through the cloth. It's the same material for paragliders and kites.
High porosity of a paraglider can kill the pilot.


So take care of your kites and your kite budget will be only half of what you are spending now.

Hmmm I was told Black is trully the best colour to allow heat to pass through the canopy and not have it deflected with say white coloured canopies. The less 'heat' the canopy absorbs the less chance the canopy builds up to being too crispy or brittle and then the rips and pin holes appear.

bowen said..
Anyone know if yellow kites are the best colour kite for extended kite life? Mate told me yellow was colourfast and reflected UV. Any 2015 kites that are yellow?

I guess you could argue one way or the other.
I have had black to white kites and all I can think is if you leave one kite inflated flapping in the hot sun while
you are out on your other ,this would affect its life.
I have had lighter colors stain from that brown foam stuff you see washed up on beaches after a storm and that stuff
doesnt come out of light material.
My core is yellow and one of my bandits is black and both have same life out of them though Bandit is lighter material and that is another whole
argument on life out of which kite.
just try and look after them and dont stress and think to much,its all about fun!!!

Déjà vu

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Kitesurfing/General/Black-canopies-last-longer-than-white-ones/?SearchTerms=plane

It's about the colours ability to absorb UV light, darker colours are better, yellow is the worst.

Just don't drop the kite. can u say yum yum yellow.

cauncy said...
There's a pom, a tiddlywink and a black fella, which one handles the heat best?

And which one sweats the most? Yeah right. Skin pigmentation has nothing to do with kite longevity. White reflects damaging uv where black absorbs it. I would go for the white kite or yellow.

Black looks better. What else could matter?

cauncy said..
There's a pom, a tiddlywink and a black fella, which one handles the heat best?

What the heck is a tiddlywink ?