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ak47
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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 Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 4:40 pm Post subject: whare can i buy icarex or chickara? |
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I have been looking all the net and i have found 3 very poor sites
that from them i can order online i wnated to ask if there is more online shopse?
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KiteSquid
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Joined: 29 Aug 2003
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Location: USA Virginia King George
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| Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 8:11 am Post subject: |
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I don't like to post links to Steve's competiton.
Steve, the man who is kind enough to provide these fine fourms does not sell Icarex PC-31 but he sometimes has some of the older Icarex.
He does not sell Chicara but he does sell a lot of other rip stop nylon fabrics.
Look at the top of all the pages here at Kitebuilder fourms for a link to Kite Studio and you may find some products that will fit your needs.
Sorry I did not answer your question...
Maybe Steve will start carring those products if he sees enough intrest in them...
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ak47
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 5:33 am Post subject: this is my point |
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he may be a nice guy but he doesnt have the needed fabric
its his fault that he doesnt bring new fabric . |
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wdrwilson
Joined: 24 Oct 2003
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Location: Canada, Nova Scotia, Halifax
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| Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 8:43 am Post subject: |
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Hmm.. I am not sure the word is "Fault"...
I have spoken to Steve about this before. One of the problems is that there is no distributor for either fabric in the US or Canada. I know of a place in Canada that sells Chikkara and it's about 17.00 CDN /yard.. THey bring it in from the UK. Icarex will be the same problem, it would have to be brought in from Europe and the cost would be too great.
IMHO,
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Stan
Joined: 18 Nov 2003
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Location: San Diego
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| Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Half-ounce North Cloth is very similar to Chikara. |
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CJQ
Master Kite Builder
Joined: 27 Dec 2003
Posts: 674
Location: Coopersburg, PA - USA
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| Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 5:41 pm Post subject: Chickara |
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Hello AK47, welcome to the forum hope you enjoy our kite family . As you probably have taken notice we all try to help one another. We have some fun and we all take kite building and kite flying seriously. Some of us are new to kite building and others are expirenced . But we all share our knowledge. I saw your post a short while ago and did not hear of the chickara fabric before . Could you tell me about it. Is it a nylon or poly kind of material, what thickness's does it come in, is it superior to nylon or other fabrics that we use. How do you know of it . Is it a fabric popular in your country. Lots of questions that I hope you can answer.
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Dorsal
Kite Builder II
Joined: 05 Oct 2003
Posts: 392
Location: USA California Tracy - 50 miles to the right of San Francisco
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| Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Stan wrote: | | Half-ounce North Cloth is very similar to Chikara. |
It's so similar, it's very tough to tell the difference.  |
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Fool
Joined: 22 Oct 2004
Posts: 181
Location: Dayton, OH
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| Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 8:59 am Post subject: Re: Chickara |
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| CJQ wrote: | Hello AK47, welcome to the forum hope you enjoy our kite family . As you probably have taken notice we all try to help one another. We have some fun and we all take kite building and kite flying seriously. Some of us are new to kite building and others are expirenced . But we all share our knowledge. I saw your post a short while ago and did not hear of the chickara fabric before . Could you tell me about it. Is it a nylon or poly kind of material, what thickness's does it come in, is it superior to nylon or other fabrics that we use. How do you know of it . Is it a fabric popular in your country. Lots of questions that I hope you can answer.
REGARDS
CLIFF |
From other reviews I've heard about chikara it fades really fast compared to other nylons. It's a .7 oz Ripstop nylon usually used by flexifoil. It was on all of the strangers and psychos unless they were the ul's which used icarex. imo the stuff steve sells is higher quality than chikara. I flew a stranger for about a years time every time i got a chance and it was faded pretty heavily in no time compared to a few other kites i owned back in the late 90's.
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CJQ
Master Kite Builder
Joined: 27 Dec 2003
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Location: Coopersburg, PA - USA
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| Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 1:26 pm Post subject: Chickara |
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Hi Guys , thanks for the info . Sounds like Stevef's nylon 10 , Chickara 0, So why spend extra bucks with no performance improvement.
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Stan
Joined: 18 Nov 2003
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Location: San Diego
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| Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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Chikara is most popular for traction kites such as the C Quads and others that are routinely dragged through water and put away wet. The fabric has great water repellency becuse of the coating. I find the North Cloth to be almost as good in this regard. North Cloth is designed for spinnakers, so the requirements are similar to a kiteboarder's needs.
Most of my stunt kites are made of NC, and it does fade a bit more than Icarex, and in damp weather will sag veryslightly until it dries, then it's tight again. My traction kites don't seem to have any problems besides my crude bridling.  |
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