NO BARRIERS 13, The UK event of the Year
Time and tickets are running out fast, do not miss this GREAT Land sailing event of the year….TICKETS NOW ARE LIMITED 25th – 27th May 2013 is the very first year for the land sailing event No Barriers. This event is run by members of Carmartheshire Land Sailing Club (CLSC) for the land sailing communities [...]
New 24hr Solo Distance WORLD RECORD
He’s done it again….. From 26th to 27th April 2013 Peter Foulkes aka Gannet aka Kitezone Muriwai 24hr Solo Distance Record; 704km / 437.44 Miles Kites; Ozone prototype race kites , sizes 2.3m , 3m, 4m. Witnesses and support team;Daniel Spiegel, Paul Crafar and Karen Conner Location; Mooseland, New Zealand Wind; W to WNW 15 to [...]
Windseeker Holidays
Looking for a Kiting Adventure Holiday, What about Iceland on the 10th May, so coming up pretty soon. There are 3 laces left to fill, this will bring the group to 15, so will be an ideal size group to hang out together on the glacier for the week. The price is £900 all inclusive of nigh stay in Reykjavik, [...]
New World Record – One Buggy, Two Pilots, Two Kites
News came through to me yesterday of a new kite buggy world record, some of you will have seen the side buggy before, it has been around a few years now, well a few days ago, they set a new top benchmark speed for this very unusual buggy, a one of a kind as far as [...]
Criteria For Guinness to Recognise a Kite Buggy World Record
If you wish to make an ‘OFFICIAL’ Kite Buggy World Record, this is the criteria you will need to follow, please download the criteria from Guinness World Records below Guinness – kite buggy – fastest speed World Record Evidence Required As we all know as a kiting community, Brian Holgate USA, holds the ‘unofficial’ world speed [...]
Brian Holgate Raises Kite Buggying Profile Again
Part of the article from http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/mar/19/kite-buggy-enthusiast-waiting-wind-redemption/ “My whole drive on all this is I want to have the record videotaped. I want to have it documented properly and be the first person to put it in the ‘Guinness Book of World Records,’” Holgate said. “That will kind of redeem myself, not so much for them, but [...]
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No Barriers 13 – The UK Event of the Year
Find out more details and registration form on FACEBOOK, but be quick, the tickets are selling fast
Popeyethewelder on Facebook
For those of you who would like to get more involved with this website there we have set up a few Pages and Groups on Facebook, and would love to see you get involved. PTW Buggies – Think Outside The Box This is a Page mainly promote my own buggies, things I am working [...]
Auto Quick Release setup
Thanks to Jeff, many buggiers now will have the peace of mind they will not be launched if things go wrong, check this video out. Thank you Jeff for sharing your idea
Polishing and More Polishing
This is the process, going from Mill finish (if your buggy is not polished or bead blasted, it will be mill finish) to mirror finish, yes its a long laborious task and yes a very dirty one too, but the rewards are there at the end smiling back at you. Find out the process [...]
Windy Season Is Here, Contemplating going for a World Record
Winter winds in Europe, and blasting winds are now starting to hit the dry lake beds in the US…..Record time is here again, equipment checked, kites finely tuned, bearings lubricated and safety gear scrutinised you are ready to go. For the pioneers of speed among us, the guys who go out when some of us [...]
Another record by the Sand Yeti
My 2012 Kite Buggy log shows I did 4337.2 kms in 71 sessions, which is better than my previous best year in 2008 of 4186 kms in 75 sessions I sat for the equivalent of nearly 8 days (24 hrs per day) actually moving and 16½ hours not moving at all during 2012. My most [...]
Kite Handles by Stephan van Bommel
If you are needing some new handles or are thinking about upgrading your existing handles, then the kite handles from Stephan van Bommel are well worth checking out. Designed by the man himself, you just know these are not going to fall to bits or let you down, and the best part……they do not cost a fortune Find [...]
Kites = Green Energy
Trial to test whether kites can generate green energy Green innovation news – by GreenWise staff 13th November 2012 Trials have begun in Germany to test whether kites can be used to generate renewable energy to power homes and businesses. Kites could in future compete with wind turbines as a form of renewable energy, according [...]
(Reports) The most advanced production buggy on the Planet
Feedback from trials at Speed Week, Sandy Point Australia from Clive and John Holgate UPDATE Reports sourced PowerKiteForum
The most advanced production buggy on the Planet
The Concept To design a full size buggy that could be assembled and disassembled within a matter of minutes without tools and eliminate the need for trailers or buggy racks on the back of your car’ and for this reason the rear axles were designed as they were and not as an integral part of [...]
Spinning Spreader Bar – Review
Never being one to accept what I am given, the ‘received wisdom’ so to speak, I have been trying a number of different ways to attach to my Kites. I’ve always flown ‘hooked in’ from day one – in fact I never knew there was any other way to be honest…… Fletties in depth review [...]
Is this the best Buggy location in the world…?
Take a ride across the Alvord Desert. uncut and stripped down, just you and the Playa! The Alvord Desert is around 84 square miles of dry lake bed. our trip across was across the width, I’m afraid the length would take all day to cross. our line was a slight c shape as we got [...]
popeyethewelder.com – The Story So far
This buggy resource is growing and growing, here are a few facts from this website As of 18th August 2012 This website first went live on 14th dec 2011, 38,209 people have visited this site in 248 days, averaging 154 vists per day from 134 countries around the world There are now 361 kite buggy [...]
Kite Buggy Questions & Answers
Get involved via popeyethewelder.com/facebook questions Contribute your knowledge and experience to buggiers starting out, some serious questions and some just for fun, you can find all the questions and answers stored on this site HERE
ENTRY LEVEL RACING -WESTON SUPER MARE
INVITATION WEEKEND – Buggy Racing 15/16 September 2012 SWATK would like to invite competent kite buggiers, who do not have a pilot’s license, to an introductory, amateur racing weekend on 15/16 September. We want to encourage buggiers into the racing scene and thought it would be good to have a virtually FREE weekend for anyone [...]
Landsegler Price Change
Around a 25% price drop……these wheels are the future When I say these are the future, what I am refering to is the shape size and weight of these wheels, the perfect intermediate between the full blown bigfoot and the thinner disc wheel….seen below here is the UL Beach wheel, light-alloy rim, double-walled, anodized, 16″- 100mm wide 36 [...]
360 backwards with kiteloop on upwind side
This video shows Randy Oldenbürger G1234 doing a 360 in a kitebuggy riding backwards and doing a loop on the upwind side
