No Barriers 16 – The Final Chapter – Video of the Week
From 2013 – 2016 Dai Cheryl and Nudge created a superb event for all land sailers across the UK, No Barriers, and Pembrey, South Wales, one of the best beaches around for an event like this, and around 200 people every year went and had the most amazing experience, massively wide flat beach easily big enough […]
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 […]
One of the Greatest Buggy Records – Remembered
This record has been logged in this website for Kite Buggying Records since it first went live, it was all logged in the accounts of some of the greatest speeds ever achieved in a kite buggy…..the speed in question is 103km/h or 64mph. Now that speed in a full blown race buggy, with a state […]
NOBARRIERS-14
Steve Warren captures this event with this great video The No Barriers Event help on Pembrey beach South Wales was again a great success, with 200 flyers and over 6 miles of the widest hardest flattest beach to play with, it could not have been anything less. Perfectly organised again, and with a host of […]
From a Beach Cruiser to PKA Open winner in 12 months.
James Martin K31 I stepped into my first race buggy on my birthday weekend in august 2012, I was invited over to Les Hemmes France by some of the members from SEKA, “South East Kiting Association” some of which turned out to be masters & open pilots who raced in the PKA National series. I […]
Peter Lynn, the Legend is in the News
Ashburton kitemaker Peter Lynn was ecstatic to hear that the sport of kiteboarding would feature at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. “It’s just incredible, I’m over the moon. I never thought it would happen in my lifetime,” he said from his home yesterday. For Mr Lynn, a pioneer of the kite buggy, the […]
Peter Lynn – Speed Buggy Continued
I am striving to collect the whole story about this remarkable buggy, and so decided to add another page, and update the page as and when some more interesting facts become known. Peter Lynn Speed Buggy Continued
Peter Lynn – Speed Buggy
A quite remarkable piece of buggy engineering, and now holder of the Kite Buggy World Speed Record at 84.10mph. See more of the construction, testing and first runs at Ivanpah……HERE
Ladies and Gentlemen…..and the NEW WORLD KITE BUGGY SPEED RECORD…
135.34km/h – 84.10mph It gives me great pleasure to announce the WORLD KITE BUGGY SPEED RECORD has been broken on the 6th March 2012, by the Peter Lynn Freestyle rider from the USA, Mr Brian Holgate, he was using the PL Speed Buggy, and a 2.7m PL Vapor kite. Everthing HAS been checked and confirmed […]
Our Buggy Engines
There are hundreds of styles and sizes to choose from, and many reputable manufactures to purchase your power kite from, some of the top names in this sport are HQ, Peter Lynn, Flexifoil, Ozone, and PKD to name a few, they can range in price from around £100.00 to over £2000 for some of the […]
A 100 Miles
Well a 104 (167 kms) miles actually is what I did yesterday, sat for 6½ hours running the dunes & sabkhas during good winds. This ride included what we call the Fence run because it runs over 40 kms from the ghaf tree through the desert before arriving at a camel fence were there is […]
Going Captive
Taking the step from kiting and buggying, just using your arms, to a harness is a big one. Many people are apprehensive of being physically attached to the kite….or hooked in. Once the decision has been made though, its a choice of which harness to choose from, there are hundreds out there, and dont just […]