The wildest part was nobody saw it happen. I was so far down the beach, I finally called for the truck to come swap out to a 4.4 Reactor which still
got me going 25 mph.
Man Down...just popped into my head. I had to lift the buggy off of me and roll out.
The sand....oh the sand. everywhere. I stopped for dinner on the way back to Dallas and looked at the mirror and there was sand all in my eyebrows
and hair. And I ate lunch and got gas and nobody...not even my son said anything.
Ha....you might be doing 70 mph. I'll be flying a hankerchief if the winds are that high. 30 is all I care to do. Besides, the playa doesnt sound
as friendly as the sand.
Originally posted by bigkid
Well Mike, I know the buggy spent a week at NABX doing the better part of 70mph, so..... maybe the tires were a bit low. HaHaHa
glad your OK.
i was headed for a bailout as i've done all day and it lost traction before the soft stuff. i go into more detail on the video but cut all that out
due to lenghth. its about 10 minutes of me describing what happened and walking to the beach and trying to wash the sand off me...and calling for
someone to bring me a smaller kite.
looks like you were bearing off downwind, got into softer sand, turned the front wheel a bit and the buggy just bit into the soft sand and over you
went. You might want to carry a secondary kite or smaller rescue kite on the back of your buggy in a saddle bag or just strapped/bungeed to the frame.
That way you can always go down a size if wind picks up or your have a problem with the larger kite.
I was expecting to see an impression like making sand cookies
Mark Groshens
WindSpeed kites & design - Canada
Peter Lynn: Charger2 18, Scorp 16, Charger2 15, Phantom II 12, Scorp 10, Phantom II 9, Phantom 9, Charger2 8, Syn 8, Charger 6, F 1200, 840
Ocean Rodeo: Flite 17.5, Rise 13, 10, 7 Razor 6
Foils: Full set of PL Lynx, Airea Raptors, PL Reactor IIs, PL Cores, Libre Spirits, Ozone Flow
buggies: PL XR+, Cameleon Pagona, custom bigfoot, PL Bigfoot, custom ice buggy
Boards: 2 custom directionals, O.R Surf series 5-11, Mako Skinny, Mako 140 Wide, Mako 150 Wide, Mako King, Brunotti
lots of old school skis, snowboard
YES, MG Croozer...nicknamed the Flipster. I've flipped XR+ buggies before, but never dreamed of this axle going over. Plus I'm a pretty big
anchor to keep it grounded.
Fun stuff. At least you came out okay. When I need to scrub speed, I quite often do something similiar, though bearing up wind and putting the kite up
high also seems to work well.
Glad you were not hurt. Thanks for sharing the video.
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