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Owner: SimonG
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30th April 2007
Kite buggying - boarding: Sandwich Bay
Wind Direction: NNE
Wind Stength: 20-30mph
Surf / Sea State:
Air Temperature: 20
Sea Temperature:
Weather: Sunny
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I got a long time before high tide which gave me a chance to fiddle with the new buggy. Hit the beach with the Iguana on its slick discs and a 2.2m kite, the beach was soft nearer the top so had to stcik to the hard flat wet bit so I didnt sink in with my narrow wheels.

Wind was NNE’ly so a bit too much cross shore and quite gusty, it was pretty windy though, had a good blat on the 2.2m, I very quickly realised that the disks have the potential for some serious speeds, the grip on the hard wet sand was awesome but also that my mudguard wasn’t up to the job and had a very unpleasant face full of wet sand on the upwind leg, had a very fast downwind run back though but hadn’t turned the GPS on, headed back to the dry sand about a mile down and was playing doing some skids and got a puncture in the front wheel so had to do a mile long walk of shame. The inner tube was a slime filled one as well so shouldn’t have gone completely flat like that, will have a good look at it this week and try and work out how I can prevent it happening, my theory was that when doing the skids I was putting too high lateral loads on the tyres and it may have slipped on the rim and that may have caused the puncture, I was running at 60psi so it should have been fine. I also learnt that I need a box trailer, took the buggy down there lashed to my boat trailer and it worked well.

There were a couple of local buggiers though who also commented that conditions weren’t much cop, the kitesurfers and windsurfers seemed to be lapping it up though.

Hit some ripples at one stage, very shaky as all the tyres were pumped up to 60psi!

Looking forward to using the new buggy again when I have ironed out the teething probems with it.

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