Looking to replace my 12m 2004 cabrinha co2 (70kgs was my low wind kite in Cape Town). Haven't kited much in last six years so no clue what I should get. slightly less choice last time I was in the market. Cruising, jumping and a few waves. Any suggestions?
To answer your question you could pretty much ride any new kite now days and be amazed by how well it performs over your 2004 model 
. But some kind of intermediate supported leading edge design (SLE, bridaled) would best suit your needs I think.
Kites are waaay more efficient these days. At 70kgs you'll be looking at a 9m kite for your every day ride.
North DICE
Cabrinha Switchblade
I love my Ocean Rodeo Razors
Funny thing is if you posted a picture of a 2005 co2 on here and claimed it was the new cabrinah "c" kite for 2016 people would start frothing !!!
New cab "c" kite for 2016
Looks pretty legit seeing everyone is bringing them back I say keep it
Select to expand quotesunrisebeach said...
Looking to replace my 12m 2004 cabrinha co2 (70kgs was my low wind kite in Cape Town). Haven't kited much in last six years so no clue what I should get. slightly less choice last time I was in the market. Cruising, jumping and a few waves. Any suggestions?
Slingy rally, cab switchblade, ozone catalyst, north rebel/Evo , lf envy, every brand does what you want
Select to expand quotehookworm said..
Funny thing is if you posted a picture of a 2005 co2 on here and claimed it was the new cabrinah "c" kite for 2016 people would start frothing !!!
Fully. Crazy how silly kite marketing and general beach conjecture is.
To be honest if you're at any decent level of Kiteboarding and your goal isn't hooked-in wavriding or racing/foil riding a C-kite offers unmatched performance and direct feel/handling characteristics. C-kites are for everyone. (Hell we learnt on them and worse! haha.).
Nah mate I wouldn't upgrade. It's all down hill from there. I learned on that thing and while it tried to kill me a few times back then it was so much more fun fighting with the kite rather than just riding. Flying this itself was the challenge, no tricks needed to make your day. Now you'll find the relaunch of all modern kites bloody boring (no need to even swim towards it to flip it on its back which keeps you fit), huge wind range so no need to pump up 3 kites in one hour (keeping you fit), pumping is a breeze as opposed to pumping that old beast (keeping you fit), kites last a saison or maximum two and not 12 years like yours, and depower makes it easy to edge and go upwind as well as ride out gusts while the essentially no depower CO2 requires proper technique i.e. edging like a mad man therefore kite slightly depowering by flying forward to the edge of the wind window (edging keeps you fit). With the modern kites you need to do a lot of flicky passy stuff to challenge yourself and not fall asleep. If you were like me being too old and lacking talent to really learn awesome tricks then you wish you were still fighting with that CO2 which was the best part of kiting in hindsight for me
The co2 was actually not hard to re-launch due to the way the rear lines would bunch in the trailing edge, enabling you to reverse out similar to bow/hybrid kites.
I used to have a few of them. The 14 was like driving a truck with great constant pull.
Select to expand quotebillykiter said..
The co2 was actually not hard to re-launch due to the way the rear lines would bunch in the trailing edge, enabling you to reverse out similar to bow/hybrid kites.
You're joking right? 
That system was a disaster.
