F-One Bandit V17 TEC Kite

After two years of research and development, F-ONE is proud to present the brand-new edition of the BANDIT, our legendary kite, filled with innovations and offering ever more sensations and performances. Thanks to F-One’s new CODE-TEC fabric, this BANDIT TEC is now lighter and more responsive than ever, and benefits from new advances in design.

• Brand new CODE-TEC fabric on leading edge and struts for lightness, responsiveness and stability
• Exceptional and precise handling
• Performance guaranteed in the entire wind range
• Constant forward traction for greater comfort
• Effortless upwind abilities
• Optimized jumps and kite loops
• New one-pump system for faster inflation and easier deflation

F-One’s CODE-TEC fabric offers an exceptional combination of lightness and strength. With less elongation and higher tear resistance, the CODE-TEC provides greater structural stiffness, minimizing deformation under load. This leads to a more precise and sharper feel, as well as a more reactive handling, all while ensuring your kite maintains its shape in any conditions.

This material has been central to the new BANDIT TEC’s design, marking the entry into a new era of this emblematic F-ONE kite. Sporting renewed graphic design as well, the BANDIT TEC is once again more versatile than ever, adapting perfectly to all disciplines: strapless, foil, Big Air, freeride, wave, etc.

Responsive and precise, this BANDIT TEC boasts exceptional handling, with enough support through the bar to let you feel every movement of the kite without forcing.

In strong winds, the kite positions itself at the edge of the wind window, maintaining a constant forward traction with no side pull. The result is remarkable upwind performance, without the need for too much edging, saving energy and freeing up your board.

In the low end, the BANDIT TEC offers you maximal support, distributed evenly over the harness and back, taking the strain off your arms. You can ride effortlessly and steadily, enjoying a light bar feel at all times, making every session super satisfying.

Jumps are a real pleasure with this BANDIT TEC. The stable support through the harness, combined with its maneuverability and responsiveness, makes it easy to nail the perfect takeoff. The boost is powerful and vertical, giving you impressive amplitude and height. Kite loops are also made easier thanks to the kite’s responsiveness. Traction is perfectly balanced, allowing you to land smoothly whatever the wind strength.

Combining performance, lightness, maneuverability and responsiveness, the BANDIT TEC excels in all disciplines, anywhere, anytime, in every condition, and no matter your level. A real pleasure to ride with, this new kite highlights once again our ongoing commitment to innovation, quality and accessibility.

Technology

DELTA C-SHAPE

DELTA C-SHAPE technology design offers unmatched stability and steering response when fully de-powered, with the possibility of connecting the front lines higher on the leading edge of the kite.

DELTA C-SHAPE is a patented design used by F-ONE on all kites for the past 15 years.

This shape was the result of a design research towards maximum optimization of the aerodynamic performances of the kite and of its depower. It gives the possibility to fit more canopy area in the middle sections to create more projected area while the C Shape makes sure the kite remains responsive and fluid.

CODE TEC

Introducing Code-Tec, the groundbreaking new material set to redefine performance on the latest F-ONE kites.

Featuring a double-beam matrix ripstop pattern, Code-Tec uses high-tenacity fibers and proprietary immersion coating chemistry to create a high-performance yet durable fabric that boasts low stretch, high tear strength, and UV resistance.

Providing an exceptional combination of lightness and strength, this cutting-edge material is used throughout the entire inflatable structure of the kite, significantly reducing its overall weight and allowing for smoother relaunching and faster turning.

Code-Tec enhances structural stiffness, minimizing deformation under load. This results in a more precise, crisper feel and more reactive handling in flight, especially during kiteloops, while ensuring your kite maintains its shape in all conditions.

TECHNOFORCE

TEIJIN’s TECHNOFORCE™ is the most reliable high density polyester fabric. Its tear-stopping structure using thin and high tension yarn makes the fabric ultra-durable. It has a great proven track record of lightness and durability.

AUTO RELAUNCH

F-ONE’s auto relaunch is quick and easy and releases the kite from the water with the perfect amount of traction.

Once the kite is sitting with the leading edge flat on the water, its C-Shape associated with the Delta Pivot allows the kite to automatically roll over onto one wing tip.

The kite will then glide towards the edge of the window, ready for quick and easy water relaunch.

REACTOR VALVE

The reactor inflation valve offers a high flow connection that twist locks the pump hose to the kite for an easy and super-fast inflation and deflation at the push of a button.

It provides a high air flow rate between the struts and leading edge.

STAGGERED SEAMS

This brand-new F-ONE’s design innovation offers an amazingly sleeked profile for more efficiency and sharper performances.

Original staggered seams have been implemented on critical parts of the kites. The seam’s tension line is broken offering a perfectly leveled canopy profile when the kite is fully powered.

The fabric is orientated towards tension. The perfectly even canopy profile brings a sensational stability without feeling disturbances in the bar.

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