Posted by Eppo in "The 4 kite review" thread... thanks for kicking off some 2014 season review discussion.
My school maths teacher couldn't spell or use punctuation (as Eppo can), but he was a sticker for order (I became an accountant). Hence why this post has been split into its 4 component parts:
"Just an awesome winter day, starting at 13 to 15 steadily increasing to 17 to 19 and at times a little above. Not a huge swell but enough to see what drift capabilities are there. Rode a total of 5 kites today, but 4 of them were newies. Only be brief as none of them are my focus this year, but it may serve to give a little info to those who are. I will do it in order of riding them. All of them were on my cruiser Pro.
Rally...2012 I think 9m
Been watching moons for a while now fly this kite, looks weird to me, got its own unique shape hey. So I thought stuff it lets have a go. Well this is such a good all round fun kite, that drifts, jumps and is bloody quick. Was throwing some back roll back loops as such and it just got around so fast I had to re-adjust. Slight hesitation on the turn but only slight and bang and yet really easy to control the power delivery. Got a bit of spunk this kite, will take you upwind and develop a bit of grunt/apparent wind...well I keep comparing to the edge so not really...but you know what I mean.
Direct connection (already liked it), (was the BWS direct can't remember damn), I just had a bloody good time on it. Really steady, forgiving yet powerful enough to crank it up. I have to say I was surprised, so there you go. Not sure they did a good job with the 2013, maybe they need to look back at their 2012 model. I could be wrong and I generally am.
Any spelling errors I just can't be bothered fixing..."
It's not just the spelling that you're careless with. I had trouble drawing any conclusions from what you've said. I'm not even sure what year model you rode, but it's a bit late to be reviewing a 2012 model.
Please try harder in future, or maybe just give it a miss.
Sorry man someone else had taken this from a quick 4 kite review I did (which was probably a good idea) and in the review it did say 2012.
Was only a quicky as that's all I had to say hey. Good fun all round kite. Would work for a lot of riders. But not my first choice.
Yeh probably a little late but it might spur someone on to investigate the 2014 don't you think?
2014 Rallys will be visiting an area near you soon or if your ever in Newcastle come and see us and a demo may be able to be lined up
Steady on Col... Eppo and my intentions are good!
This thread is getting ready for the 2014 review that is coming really soon. Eppo laid down in a thread his first impressions of a dated Rally, now we all want to hear what he and others have to say about the latest 2014 edition that Carl Bevo is going to get out to the punters any day now.
Col, I hope you get to do a review after you demo the kite in Newcastle. I always rely heavily on surf orientated riders that live outside of Sydney.
Carl, please put some pressure on those that demo the kite to share with us what they thought.
Cheers 
