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North Kite Vegas (incl. bag & repair kit) 2012

Facts:

• Direct Steering
• Optional modes: Wakestyle/New School - Freeride Setting
• C-kite Kite

Information:

The 2012 Vegas reinforces its legacy as an incredibly versatile C-shape kite, integrating uncompromised new-school/wake attributes with free-ride comfort. The key to the Vegas’ versatility lies in a simple adjustment on the kite’s wingtip, offering three varied settings with the quick switch of a knot. These settings have been tuned to offer three very distinct modes to suit your preferred riding style. The standard free-ride setting offers everything you would expect from a free-ride kite like loads of depower,responsive steering and predictable handling. The second setting is ideal for taking your first steps into freestyle, offering noticeably harder bar pressure providing more accurate kite feedback and making steering slightly less responsive to practice unhooked tricks. The third option converts the Vegas into a fullblooded new-school/wake machine that sits deeper in the wind window and delivers consistent pull with a very limited de-power stroke. This is the preferred setting of our core freestyle team and allows you to do the most powerful kite-loops and offers the mostexplosive pop for powered new-school and wake tricks.

Vegas Technology:

 Front -/ Backline Power Distribution: Riding fully powered in freestyle mode, the power is distributedon the lines 60% to the front and 40% at the back. You need a lower steering impulse to make the kite turn fast. Riding fully powered in Newschool mode, the power is distributed on the lines 75% to the front and just 25% to the back. The backlines are less sensitive and smoother when doing unhooked maneuvers. To achieve the same turning, you need more impulse in Newschool mode than in Freestyle mode.      

Vegas Development 2011-2012:

• loads of redefined details
• modified profile for less pressure after unhooked mooves
• modified canopy tensions for optimized handling abilities
• all sizes offer the same feel
• additional sizes 6 and 8qm, to fulfill all needs and preferences

The Vegas is probably the most sold C-kite on the kite market ever. The unique fan community is curious and thankful for continuity in development. If major changes would be done, it could happen that some tricks would have to be nearly learned again. So there’s a small and gentle way of optimizing the Vegas. Which of course means, you’ll get a better kite in any case summa sumarum. There are loads of parameters, which can be changed in different positive directions.This year, it’s especially the profile and the canopy tension which could be redefined. Both in combination are responsible for the subjectivehandling, hard or soft bar pressure and steering forces and linear or progressive steering impulses. A major point was to further develop the Vegas for all team riders all over the world, not losing the focus on the Vegas fan community. The result is a perfect kite for all new school tricks, which fascinating potential for all other disciplines. But especially the sizes 5 to 8qm are perfectly suited to the needs of freestyle rockers. This time, the difference between the setting new school and freeride is as different as two kites could be. Even under hardest conditions, especially the smallest sizes are super stable, precise and predictable, especially with the new school setting, ideal to push the limits in all conditions. Possible became these refinementsthrough different profiles and tension of the canopy material and a completely new positioning of the adjustment points. Maybe the greatest strength of the Vegas is these days it’s versatility. Due to the separation of Freeride and Newschool, the Vegas shows two completely different faces, without being too extreme in one or the other direction. Grown up over the years, the name Vegas implants already a special myth in the brain of the rider, still surprises every year with new gimmicks and performance advancements.