Manufacturer's website: Neo Suspender

The new NEO Suspender is a cocoon/pod harness with an innovative bucket seat design. It is light, stable, precise, and comfortable, in a modern shape. The Suspender is a high-end light cross-country harness. It features the next-generation NEO-KOROYD back protector, which is light, compact, and integrated seamlessly into the harness geometry. The Suspender’s structure is built around our engineered back protector.

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Specification
NAME: The Suspender
HARNESS: paragliding
TYPE: light XC harness
GEOMETRY: 2 buckles classic; Get-Up safety system
CONCEPT: new bucket seat concept, integrating the NEO-Koroyd back protection inside the geometry for more comfort, rigidity and turn carving
PROTECTION: NEO-Koroyd 1.0: 9 cm thickness, 480 g, LTF/CE certified
CERTIFICATION: EN1651 + LTF09 + CE
SIZES: XS – S – M – L
WEIGHT: 3,85 kg (M size)
RESCUE: under-seat container
BUCKLES: automatic AustriAlpin Cobra, manuals NEO 20mm Aluminium 2047
CARABINERS: automatic NEO AUSTRI ALPIN Rocket (64 g)
SUPPLIED ACCESSORIES: 3 step speed bars, the removable instrument holder
OPTIONS: cockpit raiser, Classic rucksack 110L.
MAIN MATERIALS: tissue Polyester / Polyamide Cordura, Dyneema, Mesh3D polyester, Sandwich stretch Lycra/Filet, Hypalon, Cuir
MATERIALS: Origine Europe
MANUFACTURING: France

 

Technical Specifications

Improvements over traditional XC pod harness

• ABS geometry integrated with a new NEO concept: the paragliding bucket seat. The result: comfort, stability, handling, and precision.
• Safety innovations: The NEO-Koroyd 1.0 back protector.
• Practical details and technical accessories, designed by pilots for XC flights.
• Craftsmanship and quality from our wholly-owned, on-sight production facility, using 100% European materials.

New geometry, new concept: The Bucket Seat
The focus of our design work was on the geometry and the seat area of the harness, creating a stable and ergonomic foundation with a very precise turn. To achieve this, we integrated a new EVA sandwich back protector into the harness. The result is that the Suspender is a new hybrid concept combining a bucket seat and a mix of seat-board and hammock characteristics, with a more streamlined and supportive protector that spans the full length of the harness.

The geometry design and trimming is centred around

• Harness CG.
• Carefully tuned ABS (Anti-Balance-System), to control the roll axis.
• Pitch attitude balance, to control the yaw axis.
• Additional upper ABS structure for additional stability in active air.
• Adjustable centre webbing (42-47cm) for precision and roll axis stability.
• Optimal balance between stability, glider feedback, and handling.

 

In flight, you can feel

• Structured thigh support maintains turn energy and creates a feeling similar to skiing: the carving effect.
• Precise handling
• The seat rigidity maintains the heading when you push the speed bar. The Suspender offers comfort and precision similar to a competition harness, for a much smaller weight.

Comfort

• The bucket seat is the most comfortable harness we have flown.
• Balanced support in the seat and the pod, allows the pilot to relax both the torso and legs.
• There is no need to tighten the shoulder straps: the seatback is very rigid, eliminating back pain during long flights.
• The sponge seat densities are optimal for long flights.
• Precise, simple trimming: side straps, seat depth/lumbar straps, front belt, shoulders straps, and chest strap.

Active safety
During more than 300 hours of flight testing, the active safety features of the Suspender have been proven.

• You can fly the Suspender in a seated position, with stability immediately after launch and while settling into the pod. There is no “swing set” sensation.
• The rescue handle is easy to find, located on the main carabiner axis.
• The under-seat rescue container easily deploys the rescue via a large opening.
• Easy pod entry and exit.

Revolutionary details in Passive safety

• Engineered paragliding back protection, NEO-Koroyd 1.0
• the most significant innovation in back protection in the last 20 years.
• Koroyd technology: http://koroyd.com
• Protects the entire vertebral spine.
• 9 cm thickness.
• 480 gr.
• Certifications and laboratory tests:
• EN /LTF09: load test, rescue handle, and inner container test, back protection impact test, by Air Turquoise swiss laboratory / Para-test.com
• CE: back protection test following the PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) European directive, by CRITT Laboratory (FR).
• Opening rescue test on G-Force simulator.
• 2 automatic buckles, and the Get-Up safety system linked with a Fidlock buckle system to prevent pod closure without locking your leg straps.
• The under seat rescue container is closed by 2 pins, with a large 2-zip opening. Two flaps open across the total width of the harness.
• Safety accessories
• Heli kit, NEO innovation: For the first time, a heli rescue kit is integrated in a paragliding harness. The heli kit is recommended by paragliding associations and rescue helicopter agencies.
• Hook-knife: emergency safety knife, to cut webbing and lines.
• The rescue parachute deployment bag is delivered with the Suspender, to adapt your rescue pack volume to the container size.
• Materials
• Made in Europe.
• New NEO Dyneema/PES 20mm webbing developed with Technisangles (FR).
• Automatic buckles AustriAlpin Cobra (A).
• Automatic carabiners NEO Rocket, specially designed for paragliding via a NEO/AustriAlpin (A) partnership.
• NEO 20mm Aluminum 2047 buckles produced in Haute-Savoie (FR).

Practical details

• Large back pocket closed by asymmetric zip for easy rucksack packing.
• Hydration pocket is located in the back pocket with tube access at the shoulder strap.
• External zip side pocket.
• Internal pocket for radio.
• Instrument cockpit with zip pocket.
• Straps + Velcro on shoulder straps for radio external mic. or solar vario.
• 4 aluminium easy trim buckles, for the pod.
• Aluminium / Stainless steel trim buckles.

Accessories

• 3 step speed bar on the sliding face (supplied).
• Removable instrument cockpit.
• Cockpit lift / extension (option).
• Ballast container 4L. (option).
• Ergonomic rucksack 110L. (option) designed for the Suspender and the ultra-thin 9cm NEO-Koroyd back protection. Fold your wing into 3 parts inside your Suspender harness and experience the ergonomics of a thinner and lower volume rucksack.