the long way home handling compact stradale

High end kite made of ultralight Icarex, medium size, wing-design.

Charakteristic: Very light, slow, agile, responsive. An extremely efficient zerowind kite.

Wing span: 1.64 m
Weight: 31 g
Tube: ø 50 x 840 mm

Thomas Horvath with kite downtown by night in Vitoria Gasteiz.

The medium size ultralight kite downtown by night in Vitoria Gasteiz, Basque.

The white zero wind kite is gliding upwards.

One ounce gliding upwards on thermals. Only our performant synergetic kites are able to do this.

Static flight of the zerowind kite in Singapore in light wind.

The kite downtown in Singapore, a static flight in moderate wind. © Benjamin Poon

A white kite with a lot of lift in a rising flatspin.

One wing side with a lot of lift in this rising flatspin. The UL-kite in Icarex white.

A white zero wind kite in a neutral straight gliding sequence.

A neutral straight gliding sequence: the long way home hcs on Susten, Swiss Alps.

Kite in the sunset in front of a cloudy sky, Frankfurt.

On a calm evening in the suburbs of Frankfurt. © Hans Brenkman

The kite is rising, dynamically shaped by air.

View from behind: the kite is rising, dynamically shaped by the supporting air. © Gregor Peikert

The black Tube of the kite.

The kite in the 870 mm long Tube, as always the labels may differ from the picture.

Kite fabric Icarex: the color palette for zero-wind-kites in 2023.

Agile floating, slow glides, responsive to subtle inputs of the pilot and reactive to the slightest motion of air.

With precise inputs, you will be able to make the kite float upwards in flatspins.

slow motion …

You may adjust the structure by fine tuning the setup to fit your style or just your mood: Fly infinite, stable and slow glides or lively, but still laid-back moves.

The wingtips are telescopically inserted, made of extra thin and flexible carbon-rods.

Also available as Hyperlight Edition in Dyneema Composite.


Choose your lines for the highly performant kite: a short Zero.5 or Zero.4 on Microwinder in the Tube for urban zero wind flights. And a long Zero.4 for high or very high flights in a breath of wind.


Btw. On some occasions you would like to transport two kites together. In the Tube of the lwh hcs there's some spare place enough for e.g. an i'll be back. Just roll the 2 kites concentrically, one around the other.

Facts

Product

Synergetic zero wind kite, wing shape

Manufacturer

Kite-Lab™ Thomas Horvath, Swiss made

Sail

icarex pc31 – dacron, kevlar, dyneema

Frame

Carbon tubes, carbon wingtips, polished cuts

Accessories

Tube ø 50 mm, rubber nose cap

Colors

Specials like pink, petrol-blue, mint etc. please ask

Taxes

Prices are exclusive vat, please see below

Production

7 business days

Shipping

Tube form, Minipac priority, insured, Swiss Post