2019 Airush Lithium 10m (used-red) with 2019 Ultra Bar

Description

The Lithium has earned its stripes as the longest standing model for Airrush, and rightfully so. The Lithium has been built to take you from your first laps through to your first tricks. Being a versatile kite it is an appealing choice for most riders across all genres.
For the market of more progressive riders, we have a selection of kites that are more purpose driven in design. The Union is our high performance 4-line offering, and is the natural step up from the Lithium. With a direct steering response and a higher aspect ratio, the Union has amazing unhooked response and boosting abilities which are here to help you through the freeride to freestyle crossover.
The Ultra was originally developed as high performance kite for light wind freeride and foil riding. Due to the super light weight of this kite, it has proven to have amazing ‘stay in the sky’ drifting abilities making the smaller sizes especially good for park-and-go wave riding. The Ultra has become accessible for riders on all levels and across all genres of freeride. The improvements on the Ultra v2 are mainly on the bigger sizes where we managed to reduce the drag even more by reducing the leading edge segments which increases the skin tension in each panel. This makes the kites feel faster and more crisp.
The improvements of the Union v4 are more about seeing what we could do with a fixed bridle to give the kite a more locked-in feel. The feeling is quite unique compared to the rest of the Airush range—it offers a direct response and uses less bar input for immediate steering; this crisp feeling results in improved kite looping.
The Ultra Bar is a classic result of the Airush design team chasing the dual goals of making gear as simple and light as possible. The more mainstream Airush control systems feature 40 to 50cm of bar throw combined with 15cm of trim. The Ultra Bar simply takes the trim length and adds it to the bar throw, effectively giving the rider the same total range as the other bars, but without the clutter and weight of the trim system. To make use of this increased range we also reduced the size of the chicken loop to somewhat compensate for the longer reach needed to use the complete range of bar throw.
Advanced hooked in freeriders, freeride foilers and strapless wave riders are all potential users of the Ultra Bar. However it is not the bar for everyone and does not replace any of the more mainstream bars in the Airush range. The rider will need to be aware of the kite trim and may need to adjust the bar or kite often to match their style and the wind conditions.