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Flexifoil Ion 5 2010
Just seen the new Flexifoil Ion5, (Pictures lower down) This is really going to appeal to those kitesurfers who want a good reliable performing kite who arr not to interested in handle passes etc, but still want to have a good performing kite. The kite seems like it has gone back and taken all the good things of the solid performing ion2 and the higher performance ion3, and then fused them together.Different sizes giving slightly different feel,the 14.5m giving great low end grunt, and still pretty tight turning, at the other end of the extreme the 7m being a fast but not silly , bee on steroids fast.The Ions keep there legendery solid feel with great manors, not trying to set the world a light but being a trusted friend in the sky.
The Ions now have reinforcements on every leading edge segment seam, those of us that do a lot of self launching will love this type of attention to detail, as is the dump valve on both wing tips.
The bar is very similar to last years but has a slightly longer throw on the depower line. Typical flexifoil easy on the eye colours and there you have the new Flexifoil Ion 5.