13 Years of Popeyethewelder.com
Welcome to Popeyethewelder.com – Your Ultimate Kite Buggying Bible! It’s 2024, and we’re thrilled to celebrate 13 Years of Popeyethewelder.com – A Kite Buggying Community Milestone! Can you believe it? Thirteen years have flown by since we first set sail into the digital winds of Popeyethewelder.com! Since 2011, we’ve proudly served the kite buggying community, […]
Video of the Week
Tutorial on the implementation of a manual or auto-width jumper for the pilots of sand yachting (Buggy). This system developed by Rico (the inventor) remains artisanal. It consists of several elements sold separately but whose subtle assembly ensures its own safety
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Kind and generous donation made this week by John Eaton towards the running costs of this site for another year
The Women’s World Speed Record Broken- Again
The Women are pushing hard in 2016, only a few days ago Karen Cutbush UK, broke the womens Kite Buggy Speed Record with a fantastic 55.50mph on the sand, now the bar has been raised yet again, by another speed demon, this time from the USA, on the dry lake bed of Ivanpah, at the […]
Congratulations to Sean Venes
Congratulations to the newest member of the 100km/h club Sean Venes rolled in today covered in playa dust even before the party had started at the IBX 2016 with a 64.20mph or 103.31km/h. Sean Venes – Monday was just another day, except we all saw the wind forecast! 50+ mph winds. I didn’t go out […]
Another NEW 100km/h Club Member – Chris Wilson
Chris Wilson K854 Epic session at Hoylake today new pb of 63.8 mph ?? Big thanks to my sponsors Bart Bristow for the harness and rob Rob Davies for the GPS ? Had snapped my spreader bar earlier in the day. Move me up the list plz Wind speed high 20s gusting to high 30s […]
Kite Bike Record Has Been Broken Again – 95.60km/h- 59.41mph
The BREAKING NEWS on Facebook this morning is…..Peter Foulkes aka Gannet or Kitezone Muriwai has done it again YEAH, Ozone R1 6m and 30+ knots NW = 95 kmh on a Kitebike ? Location, Mooseland NZ Kite, Ozone R1, 6m Witnesses, Rob Walton I’ll do a write up this week, as so much happened in […]
Ivanpah Buggy eXpo 2015
IBX 2015 Prologue: For the Good of the Order and at least one broken soul I had been unsettled, out of sorts, “bumpy” since my return from Buggy Nirvana some two weeks afore. I struggled to get out of bed in the morning and my keenly honed routine turned to a quagmire of fitful starts […]
Oooops I Did It Again….Kite Bike Record Raised
Oooops he just did it again, serial record holder Peter Foulkes aka Gannet from New Zealand, just raised the bar on his own World Kite Biking Record to an outstanding 54.75mph or 88.10km/h, congratulations again Peter for continuing to push the sports boundaries. Hi Carl Moose land trip after work, pays off Kitebike speed […]
New World Record – Furthest Distance Travelled in the Dunes 12hrs
Sand Yeti aka David Lees held this record for a number of year at 182km, but yesterday that record was blown away by Peter Foulkes NZ aka Kitezone Muriwai at the Moose Weekend Hi Carl We just had a mini Moose weekend in the Dunes, I did the Furthest distance traveled in the Dunes within 12hrs […]
Stephan Pops the Question, then Makes Dust on the Playa
Brian Holgate has made a great video of Stephan van Bommels recent visit to Ivanpah dry lake Primm, Nevada. Stephan also used his trip there wisely and popped the question to his girlfriend Fon Custers, congratulations to you both from all the buggying community. Brian captured some great footage of Stephan and Bobby Muse creating dust […]
The H-Bomb
You may remember David Hobbs, and his previous buggy, the advanced and most expensive production buggy in the world in 2012. Well, David took all the critique from various people around the world and went back to the drawing board. In 2014 David has now introduce from the Hobbs – McConaghy team The “H Bomb” THE […]
Free Dominator Plans
Please feel free to download the PDF plans of the Dominator Buggy, these are completely free of charge, however if you feel you would like to make a small donation towards the running costs of this website, it, no matter how small will be gratefully received THE FREE DOMINATOR PDF PLANS
Rolling With The Wind
How can a person using a wheelchair have fun and be active at the beach? Watch the full version HERE Tel: (+0049) 15122382518 Email: info@rollingelephants.net Website: www.rollingelephants.net Very well done with this….great concept
Ivanpah Buggy Blast 2014
Ladies and Gentlemen – Start your engines 31.01.2014 Words from Brian Holgate this morning Well, we have our documents filed and the bank account is set up. The website still needs a little time but just now the wheels are turning. Shirts are also in pre production. Once we put the final touches […]
Britta Berg G2296 Worlds Fastest Female Buggier Breaks 50mph
Only a week has gone by when Britta became the worlds fastest female kite buggier with a 80.10km/h, now she has raised the bar again to 81.50km/h or 50.64mph Britta Berg G2296 The First Woman to Break 50mph in the World 81.50km/h – 50.64mph
Britta Berg G2296 – Fastest Woman on the Planet
Karen Cutbush’s 4 year top female kite buggying speed 77.57kmh / 48.20mph, has after a long reign been broken by Britta Berg G2296. Last Sunday we where Kite buggying in Ouddorp / Netherlands. The Wind was perfect, about 6 BFT from North-East, so I was able to achieve 80.10 km/h for the first Time with my […]
Site Facts
This buggy resource continues to grow, here are a few facts from this website As of 18th Oct 2013 This website first went live on 14th dec 2011, 107,552 people have visited this site in 674 days, averaging 160 visits per day from 169 countries around the world There are now 384 kite buggy related pages and 364 Blog entries on […]