Building a Buggy

[commander]

has any1 built their own buggy?

if so do they have the plans and some oictures cause i am wanting to make 1 cause i aint rich enough to buy 1

[ollie]

i have built my own buggy and price wise if you haven't got access to material and tools don't even think about it. Work hard and save the money and buy one do a search on buggy plans of follow this link http://members.easyspace.com/fnijhuis/buggy/co_buggy.html i estemate you to build your own would cost you about £150 for parts and labour on top and do you trust you or someone else welding at 30mph good luck if you do make one post more question if you need any help and will try to help out

[Mark Rose]

Its a nice to trust your buggy at high speed so i suggest saving up and buying a well made one from a manufacturer.you can pick one up for about 200 quid and it costs almost as much to build one.

I dont know whats come over me today,i keep agreeing with people...lol.

[Sky-Blu]

the joints aint big so the weld would have to be top notch, not something you'll do in an afternoon so it'll cost you a bit (probably cheaper than hiring the gear though). unless you're skilled with metals and have got workshop access then you'll do a lot better to save away and buy one, £200 2nd hand......

[commander]

well it would be my dad that would build it and he has alot of tools and he has friends that work in a blacksmiths so could probably get something made up cheap also getting hold of the metal is maybe not so much of a problem cause they have off cuts at his work which are quite long and look strong enough.

 

thanks for your imput

 

also when buying wheel barrow wheels do they come with the bearings or do you have to buy and fit them?

[ollie]

ross handling have wheels for £37.95 not including bearing bearing are about £15 extra but you need to machine them to fit if you need the bearing number post what size bore you need and od and can let you know the bearing number

[FO Kite]

How's your french?

 

This site is hosted in conjunction with a guy called Daniel Gagnon, a French Canadian who created the "Foilmaker" software for designing and making your own foil.

 

http://members.tripod.com/paravents/le_x.htm

 

There are comprehensive plans with some nice CAD work.

I gave up and got Santa to bring me a Flexi Buggy.

 

F/O Kite

 

BTW if you go to the home pages there are some nice pics and plans for a series of homemade kites called "Vortex".

[FO Kite]

Somewhere on the net there is an article of a guy who built a buggy from plastic drainware!!

 

F/O Kite:D

[Rubáiyát]

Please dont go down the plastic drainware road, When that stuff shatters you might as well drag yourself over sharpened stakes.

Have a go at welding at least if it breaks at 30mph the most you'll probably get is the bad grass stains we all get

[sandrash]

Hi Commander ,yes homebuilts are possible,like everybody has said its not quite as easy as u may think.The stainless tubing is not that much,what costs is the wheels and tyres and seat.Still to give u some idea of what a home made buggy can look like HERES MINE

[Mark Rose]

Nice wheels! where do i get them rascals from?

[8015]

Consider a kit build if you aren't sure about welding and how to bend thick tubing (decent tube is too tough for regular pipe benders). Squaremetre supply their powermax buggy as a kit including everything except wheels and seat from £160 unpainted, and they have cheap 20mm wheels now too so for just over £200 + paint (extra for their system or use hammerite or something) + seat (cut some seatbelts out of scrapped cars and weave them?) you can kit build a buggy fairly well equivalent to a V-max. I actually spent quite a bit more to get a more custom buggy that will take bigfoots but the parts are great!

 

Talk to Darkwater and see the light!

 

JIM

[sandrash]

Hi markkiteboy,wheels on the back are off an old moped front is off a honda scooter.Another pic Hoylake race day mine in the front k750 ,a friends in background k723 also a homebuild.

[Mark Rose]

nice one sand rash,will you be at hoylake for the supercup?

[sandrash]

Did a couple of races at Hoylake last year and am hoping to do as many as i can this year,will deffinately be at Hoylake ,hope we get better winds to race with this year

[meatloaf]

Sandrash builds great buggys.

Look at the one he did 4 me

[nigmill]

lol i like that better than the one i made lol PS I GOT MY WHEELS OF EBAY FOR 50 QUID THERE RED WITH 20 MILL

[NealC]

I think you got them wheels off me nigmill, were they ok??

[sandrash]

That buggy was was built to order u said" i want something that will go like sh*t off a shovel".Unfortunately the" off a shovel" bit never came thru SANDRASH

[Tarvi]

I m building buggy for my son. Its in pre-welding condition, but it will be flexi-s little brother.

[Tarvi]

Now is it welded and will be powder painted.

 

Hi res pics are there.

http://community.webshots.com/user/trouk

[Simon Bailey]

Piccy of the first buggy I made. I still use this

 

PS. The guy in the pic, is my mate Andy, thinking "this is nothing to do with me!"

[alan creasey]

This is my creation soon to have a wider axel.

http://www.doublehard.plus.com/image/buggy.jpg

[da-kite-king]

there are usualy some wheels with bearings going on ebay,

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3171154064&category=2569

[Aussiewalrus1599968582]

dont believe the sceptics it is worth doing. My first buggy was made of an old climbing frame, and it worked ok. When I got to Oz I did it properly and came up with this:

 

http://www.amtss.f9.co.uk/Buggydesktop.JPG

 

I got most of the stainless as scrap (lucky me!) so the only cost was the wheels and seat. I have since put other rubbish on it like a back rest and speedo, but what you see in the pic cost me about 130 quid all up. The only not-in-your-average-shed tools I needed was a laythe and an arc welder

 

If you've got any qyestions the ask here or PM me

 

tom

 

edit: sorry for the huge pic i'll try and shrink it later