My Bugging Days are Over, For Now
It has been a while since I have written a personal log in this blog, and today I have chosen to formally let you know, that I have now officially finished with my kite buggying. I have also stopped completely building buggies. Let me explain the reasons behind these decisions, Firstly building buggies, as you […]
World Record Broken Again – Twice
Storms were predicted, 50kt winds…..this is history being made again, the World Kite Buggying record for Beach surface has been broken yet again Dennis Aalbers broke the existing record of 111km/h and clocked 112km/h – 69.60mph on a Libre Spirit 2.6 with GT Race buggy on bigfoot wheels, then Stephan van Bommell came back with the […]
New Kite Buggy Beach Speed Record, and Fastest LEI in a Buggy
2014 is ending with a bang, Stephan van Bommel, has raised his own shared World Beach Record by just 1km/h to 68.98mph – 111km/h , but that 1km/h puts him above everyone one on the planet, tremendously well done Stephan, he also at the same time broke the record for the fastest LEI in a […]
David Hobbs Front Mudguard = Quality
Once again I have been extremely honoured, this is the first David Hobbs Carbon Fibre Disk Fork Mudguard in Europe. When it first arrive from its long journey from Australia, I was very impressed with the quality and craftsmanship of the purpose made kite buggy front guard, and the best bit….it is made from carbon […]
Bobby Muse Continues to Climb
My good friend Bobby Muse continues his quest to rise in the Elite Buggiers Rankings, he has just upped his PB to 65.60mph Well, it’s been a fantastic April and May on Ivanpah. I’ve had 4 sessions with multiple runs breaking 60 mph, but no PB for me till today. Winds were forecast to be […]
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 […]
At Last…….
At last….I made it onto the beach for the first time since last October, The day was pretty perfect after a long winter session away from bugging. The group thats gathered for one of the first Easterly winds this year made it perfect. I managed over 40 miles with a top speed of 36.5mph. Sun […]
Replacing Landsegler Bearings
Bearings can gradually deteriate, sometimes without you even realising it, even though my wheels still spun quite freely for a long time, I had noticed when traveling to a buggy destination, with my buggy sat on the trailer behind me, the wheels that once would gradually turn in the wind had …..stopped turning. Now if […]
Photo of the Week
This is the power of photoshop, the original photo which is a great shot taken by Lauren Mcgavin at the No Barriers13 meet. I took 3-400 photos myself so was happy when I saw Laurens photo with me in it, she kindly sent it to me, and I could not resist playing around with photoshop […]
No Barriers 13…..Bravo
Wow…how awesome was that…the UK event of the year lived up to all expectations and more, with 150 plus guests, great weather an awesome beach, the No Barriers 13 event organised by Dai, Cheryl, Al, Caroline and all of the other people who made this event happen, including sponsors, you can all walk away from […]
Ivanpah ‘Club’ 2013
Great video from Bobby Muse, especially when he’s running alongside the PL Speed Buggy.
Five Hours of Polishing
I started work a few days ago on the last set of the Nike Tick style front fork plates I will ever use, and this set of forks when I have finished will cradle a Landesegler NABX/Wet UL wheel, and it will be in good company too. They are going to a good friend of mine, Mike Kenley […]
More photos from Mablethorpe 18.05.12
A few more photos from a great session in May 12, I took my youngest son Danny 22, he took most of these photos, and considering he had never used a DLSR camera, I believe he did a pretty good job. This was also his very first time in […]
Congratulations to Stephan van Bommel
He said he would…..with a 18 month rest from racing, Stephan van Bommel is back. I was literally blown away by the big mans kite buggy skills a NABX 11 and even more so at the event in 2012. When he said he was getting back into racing, I was excited a the prospect, I could not […]
Sand on my Wheels
Well, it been a while again, my last trip after traveling North West to Bolton Le Sands was a complete wash out, and a complete waste of £70 worth of diesel, I felt like I was chomping at the bit to get out again, it must be about 6 weeks since my wheels touched the […]
Landsegler Wheels, some science
WHERE EVERY GRAM DOES COUNT More reasons why Landsegler wheels and light years ahead of their rivals, to Landsegler this is not about just rushing in, copying or taking short cuts into supplying disc wheels to the masses. These are the formula 1 of kite buggy disc wheels, years of science and testing have gone […]
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 […]
Let’s go back to Bolton Le Sands
From a recent trip to Bolton Le Sands Let’s Go Back to Bolton Le Sands from popeyethewelder on Vimeo. Thanks to Steve Warren for the off board clips
Congratulations Landsegler
After years of continuous testing and using the best components out there, and setting the wheels to the best configuration for what we do, the success is begining to flow. Congratulations World Kite Buggy Championships, MONDIAL 2012 – Class 8 – Kite Buggy 6 sets of UL-wheels from Landsegler were used – at appropriate conditions – […]
GT-Race Full Option, Carbon edition
There’s no stopping Martin Faber, he continues to push the limits with the GT Race buggies While Stephan van Bommel still waiting for his buggy from NABX 2012, Martin has loaned his own GT-Race Full Option, Carbon edition buggy to use, together with the