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The flexifoil rage was designed by flexifoil to replace the old bullet, the kite was designed as being their traction kite with low lift (remember low lift doesn't mean no lift). The rage comes in the sizes 1.8m,2.5m,3.5m,4.7m and 6m.
The rage is no exception to the rest of the flexifoil kites with its excellent build quality. The material being of the best possible and all of the bridle attachments being reinforced. The rage comes in quite a surprisingly small bag but fits in perfect, unlike alot of other kite manufacturer’s flexifoil have taken the time to design a proper rucksack that you could use for every day use. It’s very well made with a robust material that would have no problem with being thrown around. Also with the bag being this size you can quite easily fly with it on your back and no have to worries about it.
Flexifoil have done an excellent job on designing their latest range of kites, the design is the same on both sides of the kite with Flexifoil written across the back of the kite. There have been a few different colour schemes for the rage the current ones being rasta, petrol, acid and samba (check out our samba offer). flexi have also continued the same colour scheme throughout their latest range of kites so you can even match you rage to your blade. With a simple ready to fly package you should receive the kite along with a strap that allows you to keep it folded up in a bigger bag with other kites, and a backpack if you want to store it separately. You should also receive a set of flexi handles and a set of 4 lines. To help aid you with setting up the kite and getting the best out of it for your needs it also comes complete with a very detailed instruction manual with full step by step guides including pictures.
Now down to the important stuff, how does the kite fly? First of all it’s down to setting the kite up, with the help of the instruction manual this didn’t take long at all. A couple of nice touches that I found with the kite are that when the kite is folded away there are 2 croc grips on the trailing edge of the kite that you can Velcro the bridles into to stop them becoming tangled between flying sessions. The kite lines are also colour coded wit the power lines being red and blue (red for left) and the two brake lines being grey. Once all the lines were connected to the kite and it was staked down I found that it sat on the floor very well, not bouncing around or trying to take off.
So for the launch, a little tug on the handles and the kite was up no problems at all. The kite flew straight up to the top of the wind window and sat there nice and stable until I moved it. Before trying some serious flying I thought I would see how the kite would perform at different areas of the window, it was no shock to find that the kite was more than happy to sit at either edge of the wind or the top without deflating or loosing control. So after flying the kite a few minutes I started to play around with it and have abit more fun. Diving the kite down through the wind window and straight across I was more than impressed with how smooth the power was, and there was plenty of it. Having owned one of the Flexifoil bullets before I would say that the rage was a little bit less on the overall power side than the bullet but it more than makes up for this with the stability and smooth flying. When it became time to land the kite there was no trouble at all in bringing the kite down, I just simply pulled on both break lines and down the kite came. This method is explained in the instruction manual.
Now Flexifoil market this kite as having reduced lift, this in no way means that the kite has no lift because I can tell you different. I was having no trouble doing a few jumps with the kite and was having a right ball, just be careful jumping with the kite as the float isn’t as great as a blade which is designed as more of a lift machine.
Packing up the kite is always the worst bit about kite flying if you ask me but it has to be done, again with the croc grips this is made alot easier as it is very easy to keep the bridles inside the kite while folding it to fit into the bag. The bag does appear to be quite small but the kite does fold down very small so no issues here.
Over all I was very impressed with the flying of the rage, I've tried a few different sizes in varying wind speeds and all of the range seem to fly the same. The main points of the kite that I would say that flexi have done an extra good job with would be obviously the build quality and how smooth and stable the kite is.
The kite comes in to options either with a bar or with handles, the most popular is normally handles but it’s all down to your own flying style really. The Flexifoil rage is available in sizes 1.8m, 2.5m, 3.5m, 4.7m and 6m with starting price of £150.00 delivered.
