Okay, you're at work and asked what you did on the weekend and you say that you went Kite Buggying. How many times do you get a response like "oh yeah my friend has one of those. you sit in them and the've got a sail....."
It seems that 50% of the time people I talk to think it's a blokart,land yacht and I'm faced with giving an explanation of...Stainless steel,3 wheels, big Kite in the sky.
SO...my question is, what are your creative ways of describing what we do?

i go with blowkart powered by a kite, the smart ones then ask how you steer and the others are happy with blowkart powered by a kite because they dont really care.

this is a great question, i also have to explane it every time..

blow carts and kite buggys are the same thing exept with a kite buggy the wing/sail is not attached to the frame of the cart, it flys out on a set of lines.

for thoes who want to know more, this means that you actualy have to fly/pilot the sail as appose to reefing in/out as per a fixed sail.

for the inquisitive, this means you can fly the kite/sail low to the ground/center of gravity almost eliminating any heeling action caused by a fixed sail..

and for the intruiged, this means that the only limitation of power is eaqual to the amount of grip the tyres can hold..

this is the same for blowcarts, if you look at www.greenbird.co.uk/ you can see that the ballast they added is infact just another wing holding the thing down...as yet kitebuggys have not reached this amount of grip and have not gone as fast, altho the margin is getting smaller....

How's about...

"Sitting on a 3 wheeled cart with no brakes, that you steer with your feet, your arse 4" off the ground, and getting towed along by a kite that can really screw your day up if it all goes wrong"

Works for me.

your only going to attract mental cases to the sport then though, huh ?

4" for sand dunes and 2" or less for flat sand is a good rule

well jimmy, i think the world if full of mentle cases then because when i say " and at around 70kph everything gets all loose and starts sliding around" you should see their faces light up!!

besides, you dont think buggying is a recreational sport do you?

i always forget to mention theyv got no brakes, i need to start throwing that in after the , gets all loose at 70, bit..

Isn't the crazy bit part of the appeal? Just don't get my wife to describe it. She calls it the "Man Pram"
It's interesting the comments, some of us are scientists describing the performance and details down to the nano dimensions of performance. Where's the James Bonds of the Buggy world, you know, the sleek stainless steel lines fused with the power of wind, hot rubber wheels gripping the corners, halfway between sanity and chaos.......I quitely raise my Walter PPK take Aim and watch Plummet fall in my track, wheels blown from under him.......

it wont take a walter ppk to get plummet, just a small stock of driftwood will keep him at bay....
i have a nice chunky round stick/small log with his name on it for when he gets to close..

i think outr james "manpram" bond of the buggy world has just introduced himself, eh mrfy

shoo, would yyou liike ssom drift with yoor buggy sshir??

Just a minute did i read some trash talk in my direction? oh dear now i have to retaliate.

The response for when people ask you what a buggy is should be.

"Its a couch on wheels. I much prefer to sit down rather than stan up like a man!"

...... waits for retaliation!

Seriously i get the same questions. i tell them buggies are like blowkarts powered by kites not sails. then i inform them on the gayness of the blowkart and the glory of the buggy. way faster and you can add the third dimension! UP.

They have a similar problemwith people understanding landboarding. everyone i tell thinks i'm kite surfing. (which i also am just to confuse the matter) I have to explain i'm on a big skateboard with pneumatic wheels.

PS with your rectum only 4" from the ground i'd have have thought you guys would be the ones worried about drift wood. all you need in a sized 8" bit of drift wood poking in the wrong direction and you will be getting De-Flowered real fast!

doesnt everyone have kevlar under thier seat now ? might just be me then..

where did you score kevlar from? all i could find was bits of old shrub and an a rusty tin can....seriusly, who just has kevlar laying around??
photos please, and hows your new buggy coming along??

thats very cool, i want a kevlar bashguard...it would make my life complete.

plummet, i agree, most standing up things are manly, like angle grinding and peeing against trees..
but you cant stand up and go fast...all things that go fast are sit down things....kite landboarding is just not fast enuff to sit down...thats why you have to stand up, coz your going so slow.

haha! burn.... ok i'll try to step up the speed. then. going it 60's is too slow i need to break 70 then 80......

Ps at what speed do i need to go to be considered fast?

Geuss what? there's a good chance i will do more km at the moose than all the buggiers!

I can just imagine the camp fire fire conversation.

Buggier A) "so who did the most km at the moose this year?
Buggier "ahem it was that dude over there on the landboard"
Buggier C) "Awe thats just wrong"
Buggier D) "we better all give up and take up tiddly winks"

Oh Dear, we have fallen into the trashy talk again

and to set the Record straight

tiddly winks is a fine game

i recon that deck you built must be capable of some unholy speeds, i think you will get lucky oneday and the wind will be the perfect angle for you just to lean in and fly...

seriusly, i can only take the piss coz you actualy do fly on that thing, if you were actualy slow then id just be bieng rude!!

truely fast speeds are luck of the day, the wind that goes with it is just to elusive.. but i think that once youv done 80kph in a buggy you can be conciderd to have hauled ass, really i think 60kph on a deck is more of an achievment seeing as you are bodily part of the whole process..

yes yes, standing up at thoes speeds is indeed, very manly

PS...you wont et far if my sabotage stick has anything to do with it

I'm glad no one reads all this to find out what kite buggy and Landboarding are really like, or was that Kite buggyers and Landboarders are really like.

talking about kevlar I saw some at work in the scrap bin when I was getting some carbon for my new Kitebike mud guard, didn't think about using it for that thou.

Wish i had a scrap bin with carbon and kevlar in it!!!
Al you can buy kevlar. just be prepaired to slap your nose on the table and pay through it.

PS Al your right i am languishing on the speed stakes and have dipped to about 11th world wide. thats not good enough i need to push further. PS the 50mph/80kph barrier has been broken on a landboard. if i get and slight cross on of 25+knots at the moose my old pb will be slammed. apart from the 90 mile (which was the wrong wind angle) i haven't have any chance for attempting super high speeds. But i geuss dodging car tyres, rocks, drift wood, soft sand at 50kph is good practice for super fast on billiard table smooth hard sand.

i wish i had a scrap bin with carbon in it aswell, i did find a huge bearing from a motor in our scrap bin and used it to make a welding turntable, that was a pretty choice find...now the boys have turntable envy..
but its not as good as carbon

plummet, thoes guys have beaches were they can bend it downwind as they pick up speed, we only have 1 beach ( i think????anybody know of more) that lets us do that and the wind has to be perfect...we are playing against chanche....if we had these big open beaches we would all be seriusly haullin ass..

what kind off deamon board does the dudt thats hit 80kph use??

It seems that some people may associate Kite Buggies with Land yacht as on the web they are considered a Land Yacht Class. I see that we are classified under Land Yachts Class 8.

hey mrfy. sent you a pm