Harlem Flow

The Flow is Harlem's wave kite: a three-strut design in six sizes from 5 to 10 square metres, positioned for wave and freeride and priced at the accessible end of the brand's range.

Harlem describes the outline as low-aspect but publishes no number for it, which is the shape you want when the kite has to sit still at the edge of the window while you ride a face and forget about it. The construction is the same vocabulary as the rest of the catalogue — a PRoWELD leading edge with laminated Mylar struts — and, as on the Thrive V2 and the Peak, Harlem names the process without naming the fabric, so this page does not put a material in its mouth.

Two things in the per-size table say more about the brief than any adjective. First, the line length never changes: 22 metres on every size, where every other Harlem kite steps up to 24 on its bigger sizes. A short line turns faster and reports back sooner, and this kite never gets big enough to need the leverage. Second, the range is capped at 10, because a wave kite that has to be depowered to be ridden is the wrong tool, and down-the-line riding is done on a small kite that turns when asked. Weight runs 1.86 kilograms in the 5 to 2.76 in the 10.

Harlem's wind chart starts the 5 at 22, the lowest bottom figure of any small kite in the range. As everywhere here it carries no unit, so the numbers are reproduced as printed.