some of you in kiwiland haven't seen the latest from Ozone
this is the kite jimmy dreams about

This is the 5m

and do i see a 3.6 reactor in the background? hello Al!.....whats with the white clothes? gotr your paper overalls on?

That's Mark ( Al's friend from UK)in my fibre buggy and Al's kite, I got a new helmet, the black one took to many hits, I don't think I lost to many brain cells, well not as many as when I was a teen
The white shirt, just trying to get a Dirty pic for the forum,didn't work,
the sticks and shells don't leave marks as good as beach slime

its gannets version of the white Stig. summer cant come fast enough

yes the stig. gannet is more or less the kiwi buggy stig.

ps. get some better pics of that kite.

getting close up photos, is harder than you think , Nigel no mates is no good on the camera

white stig,

anyone know were I can buy some white leather pants

i can get better pics but then i dont get to buggy, hmm

here you go gannet.
www.trademe.co.nz/Clothing/Menswear/Cost...uction-301794223.htm

its not white but its super slippery.

hehehe....

Nice
why does the zip go all the way to the tailbone

plummet, I know you have a tutu
so why do you want me in PVC,
I'm getting cool feet on the idea of going 24hrs with you

Oh, well, you only live once, He does Layby as well,
Do you think Xtra Large will fit me

alas the tutu does not fit with the seat harness on. maybe i need to don the full latex for aerodynamics on speed runs. but not for the 24hr yikes. that would be far to sweaty and chafing.

hehe need to find a suit thats dimpled like a golf ball to create a low pressure zone around my body so i slide through the air an rediculous speeds.

Weiss lederhosen? For Muriwai? This is all getting way too ‘brokeback mountain’. No wonder Jimmy22 is locking himself in his vehicle at night.

hehehe.... don't worry guster there wont be any "broke back mountain" far to read blooded for that sort of action.

just thinking of ways for extra speed. maybe one of those aero helmets.shaved like a road cyclist... nah. i'll just go with more wind and bigger kite.

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Hey , look it's a Westie Bogan flying a

nice. highish aspect sorta looks like a mini manta profile from that angle.

a bogan westie with a ozone method

dont you think the kite makes my jeans look good

must say, after flying that kite for a while im very impressed, truth be told i think it makes you lazy, its so easy to fly...the word would be smoothe and progressive.

every input you give it makes it do what ever your telling it in a very well manard and progressive way... its impossibly hard to stall nomater what you do to it, as soon as your off the breaks its gone burger.
and the faster it goes, the more the pull comes on but not agressive, so you either like that or you dont...i like it but prefer more snap...its personal.
the speed if the kite is very impressive, dont forget the wind was dead to 7/10 knots, i think gannet has a good video somewhere to show how fast this kite goes even in winds speeds of poo.
it dosnt luff or fold wingtips, infact it holds air so well that when i made a paticularly bad goof at apec it mostly held its shape and wafted down like a huge red leaf where im fully convinced anybody with a few hours of kiting could have caught the kite and been off again without it ever hitting the ground.no bowtie or wingtip stuck...awsome.
slow handling is very nice, the air stays in and it will sit on its wingtip (pictured above) on the edge of the window with only minimal input and very little pull (baring in mind poo windspeed) and will flick into an up-turn from the edge without coaxing it up.
the most facinating thing about the kite is its rediculus lack of bridal and amazing stability, i would like to know how they did it....
in theory because of the lack of bridal the topspeed of the kite should be awsome.

cant wait to test it against the pl-vapour and the n-gens

[video size=200 width=300 height=200]http://www.youtube.com/user/GerbilMaster27#p/u/0/vNiaHGkKQMI[/video]

live in the west side of town you may do northernal , but gannet, that does not qualify one as a westie bogan

I know I've been keeping a low profile, but I ain't dead

see ya'll at the moose

oh yeah,..... brutal, the reeal bogan westie buggie will see you there too

Wayne had the 3m Method out last weekend at the Kite festival and was flying around in < 5knots!
He even let me play with it for a while - pretty peppy compared to the 14m inflatable I had out the night before

cheers Michelle i like you post a lot better

p.s. you don't have a wind tunnel where you work do you ?

LOL - I thought I could help out with my nerdy embedding video side

Earthquake simulators I have - but no wind tunnels I'm afraid.

Michelle wrote:


Earthquake simulators!!!! Can I have a job?


... no seriously I'm looking for a geology job!

Disclaimer: the Methods look fast in this video BUT Video editing had to take place to make them look like this , they had to be slowed down so cameras could see them.