Kite Buggying with Craig Sparkes and the XF Sportbrake
Well its nice for once that a big brand has got behind buggying! Heres a video I shot for Jaguar cars to promote kite buggying and attempt to jump their car! The wind was pretty sketchy BUT I did manage to jump it without a ramp (47 Seconds)! Enjoy Craig Source Facebook Well done […]
And thats how it all started
And that’s how it all started We’ve all had those Q & A sessions during a break or a lull in the winds when some curious on-looker asks, “How did you get into this stuff?”. For me, that’s the moment when I have to quickly assess the audience and decide just how much of the […]
New Record Broken, The Youngest Person to Break 50mph in a Kite Buggy
Wexler Muse held the record for the youngest person to break the 50mph barrier at just 16 years old in 2011, Wexler has since gone onto achieve 58.30mph – 93.82km/h. Now the record has been broken….the NEW age for the youngest person to break the 50mph barrier is 14 years and 12 days, set by Nicolas […]
Sand Yeti – Sand Storm
SAND STORM Last Friday’s forecast was for just 11 knots, therefore, I didn’t bother throwing my smallest kite in my car before heading to the ghaf tree, which as many of you would have guessed by now is about 30 minutes drive from my villa and is a lonely but magnificent tree in the Dubai […]
Deviating from the Norm
Deviating from the Norm If you were in attendance at NABX ’11, you may have taken note of a diabolically heavy, four wheeled monster truck of a buggy nick-named Chuckawalla Rock-It. Tipping the scales at roughly 300 pounds sans pilot, it had long travel, independent suspension comprised entirely of old golf cart and race car […]
Video of The Week
Spotted this in the news a few weeks back while I was at a meet, and forgot to post it on my return, great clip of Craig Sparkes promoting the sport on the BBC local news It’s fast and furious and fun – freestyle kite buggying can take your breath away – and the European […]
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 […]
Kite Line Loops
These line loops, believe it or not take less time to make than sleeving and knotting, or sleeving and sewing…..imagine all your kite lines are within 1mm. Watch the video at the top of this blog post for the simple instructions on how to make these spliced loops. PLEASE NOTE:- There is an upgrade to […]
Look what My Mexican Buggying Friends Sent Me
Wow….what a buggying shirt this is, this long sleeve shirt was sent to me from Alberto Soria Lopez & the Mexican Buggiers, in conjunction with https://www.papalotesandkites.com/, what a very thoughtful gesture and to cap it all they even put my name on there to……Thank You […]
The P.K.A Last Gasp 2013
Steve Warren has pulled out all the stops this year to record the end of season fun event that anyone can enter…. PKA Last Gasp, it was held at HoyLake UK. Hoylake is a seaside town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, on Merseyside, England. It is located at the north western corner of the […]
Bolton Le Sands Summer Meet 2013
The recent Bolton Le Sands meet was in my eyes, a complete success, Bolton le Sands, by the way is a large village and civil parish of the City of Lancaster in Lancashire, NW England, it also has one of the best unrestricted non bucket and spade beaches in the UK, it can also be a dangerous […]
The World 24hr Solo Disance Record Broken Yet Again….Amazing
This morning 5th Aug 2013, I have received news from Stefan Berkner from Germany, proclaiming to be the solo 24hr distance record holder…..to be honest, I am not going to lie, I thought this can’t be true, it will be a spoof or there will be World Record Criteria missing. Well, all the criteria is […]