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Eolo – ‘Over’
‘Over’ is the new offering from the Spanish company Eolo. This is a top end, very capable sports kite but with a budget price tag representing fantastic value for money.
The kite comes supplied with Dyneema flying lines and wrist straps and is easily assembled out of the bag. The ‘Over’ has a 2.37m wingspan and weighs in at 284g. The sail is made from 30g ventex with some mylar reinforced panels in key areas and is framed in a mix of Dynamic DT conical rods and 6mm carbon making for a very solid feel in the air.
There is a 3 point adjustable bridle fitted as standard, which is highly responsive and allows for a great repertoire of freestyle manoeuvres as well as accurate precision flying.
Design features include reinforced standoff covers to help prevent line snags, yo-yo stoppers on the leading edge to enable continued wrapped flying and multi yo-yo tricks, and 10g of adjustable ballast on the spine.
This is a great looking kite, very stable in flight and is capable of a huge array of flying styles and tricks straight out of the bag.
Very nice.
Bryan Beasley
‘Over’
Flyers supplement.
Within 5 minutes of the first flight, the glue holding the external ferule in place on the lower leading edge became unstuck and needed repair, then 2 minutes later the same on the other side. This is nothing terminal, and was quickly rectified, but was a touch disappointing.
Once in action, it soon became apparent how capable the design is, there’s isn’t too much that the kite isn’t capable of out of the bag. With a few tweaks here and there {bridle and weighting adjustments} various style preferences could be easily accommodated.
Straight line tracking is good, as are square cuts and carved turns, perhaps not quite as crisp as more expensively framed kites, but perfectly adequate. This is no relaxing ride, and some big inputs are required to get the best out it. I really enjoyed this, and a couple of novice flyers commented similarly so should not been seen as a failing.
Out of the bag, most current tricks are reasonably accessible. Axels, ½ axels, cascades, fountains and cometes are all there with some forceful coaxing. Once into a fade, backspins, flic-flacs and all manner of variations are very stable and easily dialled in to. The turtle position did require some tending to hit multi-lazies, but single rotations were nice. Some quick weighting adjustments altered the dynamics, but what you gain in the turtle, you lose in the fade so it’s a matter of preference really.
Yo-yo’s are straight forward, 1 and 2 pop, but this is where the biggest failing for me lies – no leading edge glides over the upper spreader fitting. I guess there is a budget issue, but to pay so much attention to standoff covers and reinforcement, but not cover the fitting s here seems odd, and doesn’t really make for consistent and stable wrapped moves.
That all said, for around 130 – 140 Euro this kite is fantastic value for money; Very capable indeed, and a pleasure to fly. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to fly top-end freestyle without spending a fortune. It looks good, the package out of the bag is great and I personally really liked the characteristics in the air.
It would be interesting to see a competition version made to a slighter higher spec.
Bryan Beasley
Kite Supplied by
The Highwaymen