Een leuk artikel over de evolutie van de kitebar. Cory de man op het fotootje ergens in 97-98 met de tweelijns bar waarmee hij zijn kite opliet en vervolgens met de ronde schijf in het midden de lijnen van 2 meter naar 25 uit kon rollen.
Ok ok de bar can Cory heb ik zelf ook niet echt meegemaakt. Maar twee lijns barren met een vaste loop aan je harness. Ombouwkitjes om je tweelijnsbar om te bouwen naar een vierlijnsbar. Of een losse bar kopen zonder iets eraan en alle lijnen zelf kopen om alles in elkaar te knutselen was in den beginnen heel normaal.
Een kite besturen gaat nog steeds met een stokkie met wat lijntjes maar dan wel een hele klap comfortabeler en veiliger! Afin; check het artikel om alle stappen in de evolutie van de kitebar mee te krijgen 
Hieronder een stukje uit het artikel waar nog steeds vaak naar gevraagd wordt: kun je een kitebar op verschillende merk kites gebruiken:
Are kite control bars interchangeable?
In principle, the answer is yes, with some distinction for specific details. The good news in fact it is that most of the brands out there have reached somewhat of a standard nowadays. For example, Cabrinha, Liquid Force, and Slingshot seem to work pretty well which each other's bar/kites.
Some kitesurfing brands like Duotone or Core though tend to be more difficult to be interchangeable with other brands on the market.
What you need to look at when thinking to use different bar-kite brands are several elements:
1. The most obvious thing is 4-lines or 5-lines bars and kites: normally that influences the choice range, though several modern kites built to fly with 5 lines can be used with 4 lines. Here the biggest difference consists of the fact if the 5th line has a structural function and it is in tension all the time with the other front lines or if it only serves for safety and relaunch purposes. In the first case, the kite behavior can dramatically change, while in the second the change might have marginal effects.
2. The pigtail connections: some brands have pigtails on the front lines and some on the back lines, to overcome that you need to invert them or make use of universal adapters.
3. The high Y or low Y split: the height where the front lines separate creates a different distribution of forces on the kite and every manufacturer can choose a different configuration. This must be taken in account when flying a kite because its performance can be dependent on that. The rule is flying a kite with a bar that has the correct Y height.
4. The trim: as said most of the brands tend to unify the standard with the easiest trim procedure. Normally to make sure your kite will fly properly you have to check that when the bar is set in a full power position (meaning the depower trim is in its longest configuration and the bar is completely pulled down on the depower line) all the lines, front and back, stretched should have the same length.
This is, of course, a fast rule for the first setup and it might not be good on all kite-bar combinations, so, after setting the kite, a test flight to check the trim is a must.
5. Adjustability: related to the trimming of the kite is the possibility to adjust it: brands might offer different number knots on their lines or kites to fine-tune it. If the kite bar doesn’t have all the adjustments available, some extra adapter might be needed too.
6. Old bars on new kites: that is normally not a good idea (of course depending on how old the bar kite can be). Safety systems especially can turn out to be outdated and incompatible with modern kites. The previous example of the 2009 IDS system of Cabrinha is related to this: it is not a good idea to use those bars even with new kites of the same brand.
Last note: when using a kite control bar with a different brand kite, the response and the feeling might change, you might have a quicker, slower response from the kite, or the bar might feel lighter or the opposite, with more pressure.
