FLYSURFER | SUPERSONIC & SYNC Carbon Free Bar
Thu 13th Feb, 2025 @ 9:00 pm
The ultimate duo for maximum performance: The SUPERSONIC – FLYSURFER’s most radical foil kite for speed, touring, and hydrofoil freestyle – and the SYNC Carbon Free Bar, the lightest and most precise control bar they’ve ever built and engineered for riders ready to take their setup to the next level.
SUPERSONIC
Exceptional Lightwind Performance
The SUPERSONIC is designed for dedicated kitefoilers who demand peak performance in marginal winds. Created with a passion for foiling, this closed-cell kite is perfect for exploring coastlines, island hopping, and maximizing daily distances. The SUPERSONIC delivers thrilling speeds and exceptional handling, inspiring you to go faster, travel further, and discover the unknown. Rather than jumping, the SUPERSONIC excels in marginal winds thanks to its aerodynamic design, lightweight construction, and efficiency, ensuring you always make it back home.
Snowkiting: Although designed primarily for water, the SUPERSONIC performs exceptionally well in high altitudes and thin air. Kite across snow-covered landscapes and frozen lakes, experiencing a unique and exhilarating ride.
Proper care is essential to avoid damage from sharp objects like ice spikes or rocks.
The SUPERSONIC is engineered with a closed-cell construction that leverages its ultra-lightweight build to optimize performance and efficiency in minimal wind conditions. By reducing weight and incorporating advanced materials such as 10D and DLX+, the kite ensures superior stability and delivers crisp bar feedback.
The SUPERSONIC‘s specially optimized canopy combines exceptional efficiency with superior aerodynamics, offering effortless handling and dependable light-wind relaunch capabilities. Reflex-profile sections further enhance control and depower by providing stability at low angles of attack and managing power buildup.
By integrating the standout features of the SONIC4 and VMG3 product lines, the SUPERSONIC offers a unique bar feel akin to a freeride kite while delivering the forward drive and acceleration characteristic of a high-performance ram-air race kite. This seamless balance of control and speed makes it the ultimate choice for demanding foilers who value performance.
Technical Highlights:
- Ultra-Light Construction: Optimized for flying in extremely light winds, the SUPERSONIC combines proven technology with meticulous manufacturing. Its design is tested extensively on the Formula Kite race course, ensuring exceptional freeride performance.
- Hydro-Tech: Built with the most advanced soft-coated fabrics, including Skytex32 on the leading edge and 10D sailcloth. This material mix effectively absorbs moisture, ensuring uninterrupted airflow and superior performance in humid conditions. Hydro-Tech is fine-tuned for strength and minimal weight, enabling agile performance in light wind scenarios.
- Air Intake Line: Spanwise air intake lines stabilize the leading edge and prevent inlet deformation for quick inflation. This ensures faster inflation, quicker control, and enhanced stability across the wingspan during launches. When overpowered, the kite flies further to the wind window‘s edge, maintaining efficiency and delaying leading-edge dents.
- High-Tensile Strength Bridle: This bridle is equipped with Dyneema A-lines, Kevlar B, and C-lines, all coated with UV-resistant layers for enhanced durability. It ensures consistent length and strength, reducing wear and adjustments while maintaining stability and control.
- Integrated Performance Tuner: A knot ladder on the C-pulley line allows precise adjustments to the camber for power, steering forces, and depower— Fine-tune brake line tension to match wind conditions and personal preferences.
- Mixer with Splice Trim to Tune Camber: The aerodynamically advanced mixer with Splice Trim allows precise tuning of the camber profile. The design adjusts the depower, can avoid front stalls, and maintains stability at high speeds. The mixer is designed to avoid tangling with bridle lines, ensuring smoother operation.
- Compact and packable: As with all our freeride closed-cell kites, the SUPERSONIC is easy to transport and store, making it ideal for travel and on-the-go adventures.
The SYNC Carbon Control Bar
The SYNC Carbon Control Bar is designed for advanced and professional kiteboarders who demand the highest performance, precision, and safety standards. Its ultra-lightweight carbon bar stick, reinforced by a corrosion-resistant titanium centrepiece, delivers the perfect balance of durability and weight reduction. Whether chasing top speeds on the water or tackling challenging alpine adventures, the SYNC Carbon Control Bar ensures you always stay in complete control.
Features
- CARBON BAR STICK WITH TITANIUM CENTER: Designed with the utmost attention to detail. Our sleek, ultra-lightweight carbon stick features a corrosion-resistant titanium centrepiece. This provides the stick with structural integrity while minimizing weight, contributing to overall performance, strength, and durability.
- LINK Quick Release: The body of the LINK Quick Release is made of durable and lightweight materials known for their excellent wear, tear, and corrosion resistance. It features an integrated ball-bearing swivel system that allows unrestricted rotation, minimizing resistance and friction. The intuitive Click-In mechanism of the chicken loop increases user-friendliness. The ISO-certified push-away Quick Release is fully functional in warm, cold, sandy, and wet conditions.
- INFINITY BALL BEARING SWIVEL: Best freeride comfort thanks to the INFINITY system, which automatically untwists the front lines after rotations or downloops by powering up the control bar. This process is supported by a ceramic ball bearing integrated into the LINK Quick Release, ensuring smooth operation. The wear on the depower lines is minimized, increasing longevity.
- GLIDE TRIM SYSTEM: The GLIDE trim system offers secure flying line management, allowing fine and efficient adjustment of your kite’s trim settings. Whether you are fine-tuning your kite’s performance or prioritizing safety, this system delivers reliability and performance when needed.
- SINGLE FRONT-LINE SAFETY: The SYNC Carbon Bar supports all single front-line safety systems. After activating the COMPACT Quick Release, the bar slides up to the kite on a single front line, and the kite flags out completely.
- COMPATIBILITY: The SYNC Carbon Free Bar has 12m + 3m flying lines. 6m extension sets are included. Compatible with VMG, SUPERSONIC, SONIC, SOUL, HYBRID, PEAK, ERA, BOOST, STOKE and INDIE. The B-Safe System will be available as an add-on product.
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Photos by Nikola Bagarov
