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74.5km/h...

Some good winds between Christmas and New Year here in SEQ. Decided to dust the cobwebs off the buggy and get the bearings turning. Running Sysmic 2 Buggy with Midi XL tyres. Kite- Ozone Edge V8 with 24m lines. Location - Skirmish Point Bribie Island (Beach) Read Blog Entry: http://www.extremekites.com.au/blogs/entry/218-104kph-buggy-speed/

This was part of my stay over Easter this year (2016) in Yeppoon Queensland. I live in Esperance on the SE coast of Western Australia and head over each Easter to buggy on Farnborough Beach. Using my Sysmic S2 on Midi XL's, I made my top speed 93.1 kmh (with 8 runs over 90kmh) fairly early on in the day (Nice 19-23knot SE winds) and made my best "non stop distance" at the same time. Without stopping I covered 362.9 kilometres as you can see in my log the same day. My total distance that I covered in the buggy while in Yeppoon this year was 3,385kms in 24 days.

Amazing day, wind was blowing nicely with @nigel fully powered on a 10M Scorpion and my father on a 2.5M Star3. The beach had been quite eroded and rough due to cross-shore winds creating large half-meter troughs running from the dunes to half way down the beach so it limited the amount of room to use. However with a bit above 20 knots blowing @mezzararty assisted me in launching the Flysurfer Sonic-FR 9.0M, which I took for a run and achieved a bit over 80km/h. There was a stretch of beach about 2km long that I would consistently average over 80km/h, I found throughout the day the rest of the beach to be noticeably slower. However this stretch produced consistent top and average speeds. Overall for my first fly of the Sonic-FR 9M in considerable winds I was impressed with the result, I've now removed the chicken loop to bring the kite in closer and re-center my mass in the buggy.

34.9 km/h felt very fast in such a small park. Im sure this time can be beaten, so take up the challenge. Bit of Fun. Feel free to add me on Strava :- Karl Lapwood.

Good day on the beach, gave the fixed bridle a run until I beat my own record, wind was probably 25 knots with a tailwind to the point, that's about as fast as the 4m toxic will go, to much side pull to go much quicker, I have since bought a 3m toxic and a 2.7 m vapor, so there's quicker speeds to set yet.

Twas a tad windy and most people were out to get a good speed run. With only a quiver of Pansh fb kites I chose the 3m first. It had 2 replaced bridles and a hole in the sail courtesy of a friends neck. I was having so much fun i didnt stop making runs, just watching my speed increase with each gust. I wasn't the fastest that day but 61.6mph on a partially broken Pansh kite I was grinning from ear to ear.

Well I finally got around to taking the photo! I improved my top speed at Yeppoon also, now 58.4km/h. I was on my 4 Brooza II again in the home made bug.

I did this at Conway beach when I met up with Peter and the other Whitsunday guys (Cheers again for a great couple of days, Peter). 57.7k pretty poor really but ave no photo evidence of faster times.

With building winds and setting sun we all had a blast with the best winds for the Yeppoon Extreme Easter Weekend event.

I was at Sloping main. That is about 100km from Hobart. Beach had just the width needed to go for it. At that speed with the 2m I was sort of in control. Still having issues with power sliding the 2m's are there is not the same sort of pull that the 4m has. Was a few moments where I was just about in a situation to change the undies but was not to bad. The wind picked up even more once I did that so put the kite down, had a beer and went back to a mates family's shack. Wind is starting calm down again so we are thinking about a static fly somewhere... maybe even with the rev's.

Wind got up to 30k Flying a 5m 08 Waroo Flexifoil buggy, Wide rear axle + buggy bag full of sand 12 months to the DAY I have beaten my personal best ... from 76 kmh to 82 kmh ... Very Happy but there is always another side to a coin yeah .... 76 to 82 over 12 months .... that means only 1 kmh improvment every 2 months :sorry:bugger ..... It's going to take till March 2012 till I catch Nigel ..... hmmmm .... I am sure I will come up with something Im after you Nigey wigey Marty p.s. Peter .....

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