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Worst Wipeout Award 2003
Member#: 72 Location: Registered: 28-10-2002 Diary Entries: 184
Mood: needing time out
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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 Max Speed: Distance Covered:
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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