Grass Buggying, Fastest
World Best Jay Taylor with 62.10mph on GRASS !
I’d done some fast runs that morning, while riding with Steve Mcquillan and Keith Large – just out having a bit of fun and an inevitable bit of friendly rivalry! I happened across what turned out to be a really good line running across the curvature of the hill and as it came flat the kite really loaded up. With this good line in mind, I lined up for another run. With a big grin on my face, I edged past Keith fairly quickly. Just to see what would happen, I put in a couple of loops and just kept pumping the bar. With each pump, there was a a further burst of speed. It was about this point that I looked at my front wheel and noticed that the tyre was folding over, my swan neck was cranked over and my back wheel was starting to lift; as Keith said after, I looked like a oversize lawn mower from the grass I was throwing up! Everything got a bit blurry as I came to the flat; the kite really loaded up. I went with it for a bit and that’s when I had to start thinking of slowing down or, better yet, stopping! I slowly sent the kite to the zenith, released the bar pressure and started to slow down. As I started scrubbing off speed I put the kite into a down loop and turned in to the kite to slow down more before power sliding to a stop. I checked my GPS and that’s when I saw the 62mph on the screen! I was stoked – I took a slow ride back to the other side of the field were I started, downed the kite and had a moment as that was really scary. I’ve never been quite so scared but that was fun!!
The best bit was riding with some great mates – what a weekend at Wallop Reloaded!
Jay Taylor
10m Speed 1
Libre buggy
“Information sourced from Vligarforum, Kitecrowd, Power Kite Forum, Racekites, Kite Force Hungary and directly submitted data.”
| kmh | mph | name | country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99.94 | 62.10 | Jay Taylor | England |
| 86.00 | 53.44 | Karesz | Hungary |
| 84.17 | 52.30 | David Ursell | England |
| 83.36 | 51.80 | Kieron Jansch | England |
| 74.67 | 46.40 | Rocky | England |
| 74.40 | 46.42 | RedSkyHorizon | England |
| 74.19 | 46.10 | robocourier | England |
| 73.38 | 45.60 | Markch78 | Hungary |
| 71.60 | 44.49 | Gyuri | Hungary |
| 66.30 | 41.20 | nocando | Australia |
| 64.21 | 39.90 | Timmy | England |
| 63.08 | 39.20 | popeyethewelder | England |
| 58.90 | 36.60 | Batz | England |
| 51.82 | 32.20 | MatJ | England |
| 51.34 | 31.90 | Chrisp | England |
| 49.89 | 31.00 | Simon Jeffery | England |
| 43.45 | 27.00 | Dom Cheshire | England |
| 41.84 | 26.00 | Martin_R | England |
| 39.75 | 24.70 | Donny AKA Donaldgould | USA |
| 36.05 | 22.40 | Neil Clarke | England |