Half Price Kites In Asda

Brockyman

Asda in Lancaster has quite a lot of KITES at half price. They are fairly decent looking made from ripstop nylon with fibreglass poles. There is a huge FUN kite (single line) at £5 reduced from £11, a large STUNT kite (two line, obviously) £5 reduced from £10 and a large PARAFOIL kite (no poles) at £5 reduced from £10.
I bought the stunt kite but haven't tried it yet. I already have a parafoil kite and they have the advantage of being very compact and easy to store and look really cool when flying but the lines get tangled easily as there are so many of them.
Don't know if other branches have these but Lancaster had a load in stock.
Ian.

jackieb

At our local Asda there were ones reduced from £8 to £2.

5thElement_2

Definately got the weather for flying them anyway, its blowing a gale here lol

ednotdave

Brockyman wrote:

Asda in Lancaster has quite a lot of KITES at half price. They are fairly decent looking made from ripstop nylon with fibreglass poles. There is a huge FUN kite (single line) at £5 reduced from £11, a large STUNT kite (two line, obviously) £5 reduced from £10 and a large PARAFOIL kite (no poles) at £5 reduced from £10.
I bought the stunt kite but haven't tried it yet. I already have a parafoil kite and they have the advantage of being very compact and easy to store and look really cool when flying but the lines get tangled easily as there are so many of them.
Don't know if other branches have these but Lancaster had a load in stock.
Ian.

Sounds good...

Are these things easy to fly - which would be best for a kiddy to use?

Cheers

hir0

I would avoid the 'stunt' kites. In my experience these cheap two-liners are ultimately poorly constructed from very low quality materials and rarely fly very well. They will almost certainly prove to be a very frustrating experience.

The single-liners should be pretty good though.

IClaudius

Kites from Asda...:eek:

Brings back memories. We bought two last October from Asda and took them to Le Touquet beach in France.

They were an absolute mightmare, couldn't get either of the things to stay up. Our friend had bought one from Tesco and it was fantastic.


Almost tongue in cheek my husband took them back for a refund and said that he knew she'd say it was our kite skills but...
Anyway the woman on CS said they'd had loads back, all complaining that the damn things wouldn't fly.

Maybe that's why they're selling them off.:rolleyes:

ednotdave

:eek: :eek: :eek:

Idiophreak

I would stear clear of the stunt kites - cheap stunt kites don't have the strongest spars in and may snap in half the first time they hit the deck.

The parafoil might work, I've always found 2 lines easier to keep up than a single line (4 lines is easiest, but they cost a fair bit..) - you can keep momentum up even in low wind.

If your kiddies are really young though, you stand a better chance of getting them to hold onto a string than you do teaching them how to turn etc

hir0

IClaudius wrote:

Kites from Asda...:eek:

Brings back memories. We bought two last October from Asda and took them to Le Touquet beach in France.

There's a great kite shop at Stella Plage, just south of Le Touquet:

http://perso.orange.fr/cerfvolantservice/

Dominique is a great guy and they speak good English there.

Brockyman

ednotdave wrote:

Sounds good...

Are these things easy to fly - which would be best for a kiddy to use?

Cheers

Probably none of them are "Kiddies" kites as they are all pretty big. The Fun kite would be the easiest to fly but it was probably four or five foot across so would require a fair effort to fly it. They are probably best thought of as big boys toys. Get a parafoil kite for yourself, they're great fun and look great too.
Ian.

Lorian

IClaudius wrote:

They were an absolute mightmare, couldn't get either of the things to stay up. Our friend had bought one from Tesco and it was fantastic.

I used to make and fly kites a lot when I was a kid. Once you get the hang of finding the correct bridle point to adjust the angle of attack then most purchased kites will fly somewhat. Having said that I've seen some really heavy "carbon look" kites with very small surface area that suck.

I still have my Peter Powell stunt kite from 1976. I don't remeber where he sold them, but I remember travelling a long way to get it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1976/toysclip.shtml

Very strong, but you really need a clear range when flying it!

I also still have two or three of the single line "eagle" kites glimpsed in the video. We used to tie extra rolls of string together on these, I recall we got as high as four full rolls.

I god, sorry I'm waffling about kites. I must be getting old :think: