Kite Attitude TOTEM VARIO AK2 Kite Bar

Kite Attitude Totem Vario AK2 Universal Kite Bar Details

The Totem Vario comes with the AKA 2 chicken loop.

This brand new Totem Vario is the latest evolution of the famous Totem control bar:
- adjusting the width of the back leader lines has never been so easy: just untight the connectors and slide them in or out!
- the foam bar ends will better protect you and your board in case you fall
- new high quality dyneema lines with very low stretching greatly improves the reactivity of the kite

The Totem Vario was designed by the best engineers in the kitesurf industry. The bar is produced in the same factory as the premium brands.

THE TOTEM VARIO: THE ALL PURPOSE, DO-IT-ALL CONTROL BAR!

The Totem Vario Universal Control Bar is perfectly suited for freeriding, wave riding or even hydrofoiling.

The bar can be adjusted to any kite size in a couple seconds. Controlling the width between the 2 steering lines is very important to master the rotating speed of your kite. The bigger the surface of the kite, the wider your bar should be. On the opposite, if you are flying a very small kite (4 or 5 m2), you don't want the kite to behave like a mosquito and turn too fast. You can slow it down by moving the back steering lines closer to the bar center. The Totem Vario is perfect for beginners too, because they will avoid oversteering in strong winds and smaller kites.

Totem Vario 55 cm

This bar allows you to change the spacing between the back leader lines from 43 to 55 cm. You can use this bar to fly kites from 3 m2 to 14 m2. Or the latest 15 m2 kites (that turn better than old kites).

Suggested settings:

43 cm : kites from 3 m2 to 5 m2
47 cm : from 6 m2 to 8 m2 (or even 9 m2)
51 cm : from 9 m2 to 11 m2
55 cm : from 11 m2 to 14 m2

The 43 cm setting is interesting for those who learn how to kite, to avoid over steering: this will slow down the kite.

Unsure about which bar you need? The Totem Vario 55 cm with 22 meter lines is very likely to be your ideal choice (if you don't fly big kites).

Kite Attitude Totem Vario AK2 Universal Kite Bar FAQs

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TOTEM VARIO

- are the bar ends strong enough?
Yes, they are really really strong (high end plastic with fiber glass at the bar ends)
- can the connector of the Totem Vario bar end move out of the notch and slide by itself?
No, the notches are deep enough and the connectors always keep some tension

WHICH KITE BRANDS IS THE TOTEM VARIO COMPATIBLE WITH?

The bar is "ready to ride" with a very large majority of kites on the market. Plug and ride! In fact, to this day, we don't know of a kite that would be not be compatible with the Totem Vario.

Below is a list of the major brands for which you can use the Totem Vario bar:
Advance, Airush, Best, Blade, B3, Bullkite, Cabrinha, Caution, Conceptair, Core, CrazyFly, Decathlon, DuoTone, Eclipse, Eleveight, Elf, Epic, F-One, Fluid, Flysurfer, Flymaax, Flysurfer, Gaastra, Genetrix, Gin, Gong, Griffin, Harlem, HB, HQ, Hyde, Kitech, Liquid Force, Naish, North, Ocean Rodeo, Ozone, Pansh, Peter Lynn, Powerkite, Reedin, RRD, Slingshot, Sroka, Starkite, Storm, Supair, SwitchKite, Takoon, Zeeko... (non-limiting list). All 4 or 5 line kites...

All the brands mentionned are registered trademarks.

If you are unsure about how compatible the Totem Vario is with your kite, such as 6 or 7 years old Best Kahoona, Slingshot RPMs, or kites prior to 2008, give us a call. In fact you can use the bar with any kite, but you can finetune the setting of the bar for some older kites such as the ones above-mentionned: you can untight some of the knots hidden inside the floaters to get the best possible settings for these old kites. See the Videos section of this website to learn how to optimize the length of the back leader lines for these kites.

SK75 DYNEEMA LINES: VIRTUALLY UNBREAKABLE!

We are now using new kite lines for the Totem Vario, with the lowest possible stretch. The lines are prestretched by the manufacturer and we stretch them again when we sew the loops. The dyneema is SK99 quality, which is currently the best.

Each line can sustain 425 kg. They are virtually unbreakable.

Since the kite lines have pretty much no elongation, your kite reacts instantly when you move the bar. This is one of the reason why people have a very very good feeling with the universal bars...

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