Fractured Axel

Airbow Selecta · Mon Jul 12, 2004 10:51 am

Ok so a lot of you guys and gals had a chance to fly the Dot Fury Prototyppe at Brighton
Basically what where your thoughts?
Joe
p.s It was the one Hezz from Aeolian was flying

Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:03 am

I flew Carl's at the end of the day.. It's a little bigger at 85% and felt very nice. It's close to the Nirvana in size and feels similar in many (but not all) respects. I had trouble with the Fractured Axel, as I do with the full size Fury... in fact any fade-related stuff comes hard for me on it.. flic flacs, french toast, etc... I realise it's a technique thing though, not particularly a shortcoming of the kite.

In short, very nice. I could be tempted, but I'd have to see a price tag first.

Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:16 am

Andy wrote:
In short, very nice. I could be tempted, but I'd have to see a price tag first.

The price difference between the Dot Matrix and the Std Matrix is 10 quid, so if the Dot Fury went into general production I'd expect the same price differential.

aphelps · Mon Jul 12, 2004 6:30 pm

Yup. Expect it to be pricey. But it is a mighty competent kite. Wind range from 4mph (sunday most of the day) through to 25+mph(saturday), and doing most of the same stuff on both days. Having seen it in action, I think I would recommend it over the std any day. I did not click with it when I flew it, but then I did not really click with my flying at all over the weekend.

Carl said that they are going to be in production shortly. I think that there might be a queue.

Martin · Mon Jul 12, 2004 8:37 pm

Carl told me that they were looking at pitching this one at £175-180

fishface · Mon Jul 12, 2004 10:08 pm

£160 at the Auction at Washington was a good buy then :cry:

I should have kept my hand-up,but then again it was only the red prototype.

Peter

aphelps · Mon Jul 12, 2004 10:10 pm

Carl told me that they were looking at pitching this one at £175-180

That would make it the same price as a big Fury. Carl is shrewd though. He'll sell it for the same price because he knows that people will buy them anyway.

jo · Mon Jul 12, 2004 10:13 pm

Seems to be a standard price bracket for performance kites

Eddie Green · Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:14 pm

aphelps wrote:
That would make it the same price as a big Fury. Carl is shrewd though. He'll sell it for the same price because he knows that people will buy them anyway.

Fair to say that as much work will go into the small Fury as the full sized, and the material cost difference is minimal compared to labour.

Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:16 pm

kHiTe wrote:
aphelps wrote:
That would make it the same price as a big Fury. Carl is shrewd though. He'll sell it for the same price because he knows that people will buy them anyway.

Fair to say that as much work will go into the small Fury as the full sized, and the material cost difference is minimal compared to labour.

I'd really not thought of it that way, but it makes complete sense. You might argue that the smaller kite is actually more labour intensive as sewing and fitting is fiddlier and needs to be even more precise.

mobius · Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:18 pm

also the spars aren't std length with is more additional labour.. perhaps it should be £250? :lol:

jo · Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:20 pm

And we are at the markets whim maybe £300 is better :lol:

jrharrold · Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:21 pm

Is there going to be an aerostuff model ](*,)

Jason · Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:40 pm

Andy wrote:
I'd really not thought of it that way, but it makes complete sense. You might argue that the smaller kite is actually more labour intensive as sewing and fitting is fiddlier and needs to be even more precise.

Makes me wonder how they get away with it with power kites. The prices have evened out a bit recently but it wasn't long ago that an 8M sq kite was four times the price of a 2M sq kite, and a lot of them had the same number of cells on every size kite.

Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:43 pm

Jason wrote:
Makes me wonder how they get away with it with power kites.

Because they're selling them to power kiters.

:twisted:

Fractured Axel

Dot Fury Prototype

Dot Fury Prototype