What was your first buggy and first kite?

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2012

 

    • Carlos Fandango – My first kite was a 2.0m Firebee, I loved that kite and flew nothing other than that kite for two years, before I discovered buggies. I first made a buggy, before I even knew they existed, it was the grass cutter buggy as I called it, I never even used it, but the first buggy I paid for was a 2nd hand Peter Lynn XR on Kenda Scorpions, I thought it was the Mutz Nutz at the time
    • Frank Hasenbein – Virus / Beamer 3qm lol xxx. but the Buggy is still great. price / performance is okay. And the second is a Libre Super Truck.
    • David Olsen – Funny Carl the first quad foil I bought was also a Firebee. I guess it was priced right! But my first “Traction kite” was a used and abused Go Fly prototype I was given. My first buggy was and still is the “RAT BUGGY” home made from scrap I had in the yard.
    • Phil Derby – First buggy was a Peter Lynn comp. First kite (4-line foil) was the brand new at the time Flexifoil Skytiger. Happy days.
    • Ken Shaw – A GoFly 1.2m 2 line sport foil that I refit with brake lines so I wouldn’t have to do the “walk of shame”.  Chuckawalla Rock-It was my first buggy experience…   scary.
    • Carlos Fandango – Wow Ken the Chuckawalla Rock-It was your firs buggy….amazing and for those that don’t know what the Chuckawalla Rock-it buggy was, here is a photo of Stupid Dave riding it LINK
    • Martin Smith – First Traction kite Flexifoil Skytiger 26 First buggy SS Flexi on midi’s standard axle, still got it though nowadays it has the wide axle fitted use it for those times when the Cougar is too heavey to drag over Dunes to a beach
    • Chris Shubotham – First buggy was a PL XR+ and first kite was a Beamer II 3.6m. Still have the PL that I now use for towing, never really got on with the Beamer but still have it somewhere.
    • David Lees –  std PL buggy with 1.4m axle & BF’s – SkyTiger Hi60 LINK
    • Marcus Livermore – Flexifoil Buggy and a 5m Beamer !
    • Adrian Lavelle – Peter Lynn Comp and a Skytiger 26 and I still have both and the came in handy for the retro racing we had this year
    • Arend Geerlings – My first kite ever was a Speedwing. About 25 jears ago…..still bought lots of kites with sticks and nasa wings and a Peter lynn Rebble 3.5 was my first matras. The first buggy a PL Comp ST.
    • Simon Holley – First kite was a Flexi Big Buzz and boy did it make me catch the kiting bug. Buggy is a Flexi stainless steel.
    • Thomas Mulligan – Peter Lynn Race buggy and 4.9 Blade II.
    •  dean  jordan – Original Peter Lynn bug, with skinny tires.  Ted Dougherty Quadrafoil 25 and 50.  Here’s a picture of us at El Mirage Dry Lake:  LINK
    • Tommy Hastings – first kite 3m buster mk1 still got it buggy was a rs speed
    • Eric Schuch – First kite was a 3mtr blaze and first and only buggy is a rs
    • Jorge Cabrera – My 1st buggy..I made using a models from Carl…1st kite I use Ozone 3.5 IMP
    • Henning Guldborg Larsen – PL standard. Still got it. Junior is Using it to learn how to drive. First kite, 3m Radsail.
    • Neil Clark – First kite used 5m flow on turbo bar, first kite owned 3m flow on handles, only buggy used/owned PL original/sr (not sure which)
    • Olo To Piotrek – First kite was PL Twister 4.1m and first buggy Radsail (for very short time :P)
    • Robin Cook – First kite. Brand new Flexi Rage 2.5. Served me well to learn on last winter but sold it on for better kites.
      First buggy. Pl comp lasted 3 weeks before I had a go in a modded wide axle flexi and secured my own to mod.
    • Keith Haynes – Peter Lynn Comp ST buggy and a 2.6m Blade Mk1 🙂
    • Dimitri Melnik – PL Comp ST and a 2m Firebee 😀
    • Eugene Visser– ?’97 Homebuilt buggy with 300mm wheels LINK and a two line 5m foil called a Sputnik
    • Chris Wilson – Wide axle flexi on Kenda scorpions and a Beamer II 3.6 for me
    • John Jones – first kite was a 2.5m HQ Alpha and a radsail pro buggy
    • Brad Rex – A Libre Fullrace and JoJo 5m RM from Ebay $500 shipped, best deal ever about 8 yrs ago.
    • Joshua Walsh – Years ago, griffin 2 line stunt kite.  Got back into it with a 5m Ozone riot and a 2.5m pro foil (the little rib breaker.)  1st bug was a home build that I also never rode.  Took it to NABX ’09, came home and cut it all up.  Longer, heavier, wider.
    • Al Noblet – rombus firebe 2.3 and 4m…..hooked into my belt loops on me jeans….had a awsome time, then pulled the belt loops off and it all got intresting real fast when i bought a climbing harness
    • Gustav Nissen Søe – 17 years ago I bought a Qaudrofoil and a libre buggy. The kite was not RTF, so used a long time of trying to fly it 🙁 after a month or so, some freindly kiter helped me out 🙂
    • Giacomo Cafaggi – pl competition xr and a ozone flow 4 mt
    • Alasdair Macleod – PL comp xr & ozone cult 4.5m
    • Marco Elizondo – Pansh Ace 5.m + Flexifoil Buggy 🙂
    • Glenn Ford – HQ Rush 3.5 and PL Comp modified
    • Nick TheTog Horler – Elliot Echo 2.2 + PL Full Race
    • Kristof Meyssen – first buggy: PTW Cougar II, first serious kite: 4.9m FF Blade IV
    • Andrew AutoBuddy Jones – Peter Lynn comp.st. a ozone.cult and skytiger
    • Marc ten Brink – P.Lynn spokewheels Peel 3,6 and 50 m Shanti speedlines 🙂
    • Alp Yuecel – Peel and Lynn One
    • Condotti Jeanpierre – Peel 500 and buggy made in home !!
    • Matt Cook – flexifoil rage 3.5m in rasta cause its fasta,predator buggy
    • Jaap Tanis – Radbuggy en Radsails PRO 5.0.
    • Klaus Neergaard – Peter Lynn comp  HQ Beamer 3,6
    • Stephen Webb – Quadrafoil 4m and a Sidewinder
    • David Wyman – 7m Ozone Riot on the kite and Libre V-max
    • Mark Stiles – Radbuggy with Rage 3.5m
    • Carlos Urtiaga – Flexifoil buggy and 3.3m, 4.9m & 7.2m Blade Mk 1’s and full set of Predator kites!!!!
    • Mark Sherlock – Flexi and Blade III 4.9m :o)
    • John Trainor – PL comp and Preds
    • Stuart Mackay – flexi 1.8m rage and a flexi buggy
    • Nick Thompson – Flexi bug & 4’5 Pansh legend
    • Stephen Berry – ?5m pansh and a buggy from Germany, although i cannot remember the name of it.
    • Mike Kenley – first buggy? 🙂 PTW Playa! my first kite was a jakks 2.5… my first kite i buggyed with was a 2.6 viper s