home built kitebuggies

Hi Mick,
I am a blokarter but I have seen a few home built kite buggies. If you have an Arc Welder and a some mechanical skill, it will be a breeze for you.

If you don't have either of those, find somebody who does and he will probably jump at the chance of doing it for you.

If you have the mechanical skill but not the welder, I highly recommend you go to your local BOC Gas and Gear Store and buy a "Smootharc MMA 130" inverter welder for about $325. I have one myself and believe they are the best value for money home workshop welder available.

However before doing any of the above, I suggest you have a ride in a blokart!

It might just blo your mind. It did to a couple of our local kiteboarders.

G'day Mick91

Cheers to Laurie for making the new section for landkiters!
You can sace a fair bit depends on how resourceful you are and your fabrication skills. I made my first buggies with a friend and to do it properly we spent a fait bit of time on the project and probaly only saved $200-300, more like $200, because we had to buy materials in quantitys larger than we needed for two buggies.
We had to buy a sewing machine too, took a while to find one that would sew webbing, old metal Singer or Husky machines are good.
We sell the wheels, tyres, tubes, bearings now, back then (15 years ago) they were harder to source, my mate had to machine a lot of parts, lucky he was good with a lathe and had one at home.
We based our design on the overall measurements of the PL Classic and just made the seats deeper and more comfy, headstock on the PL's back them was woeful, we modded that bit too.
Have fun, maybe consider just buying the bits that are harder to make, PL headstocks are very strong now, and the race seat would be hard to make at home. The rest shoudl be easy enough to make yourself.

Where are you based?

Do not cross to the dark side of the force and even look at a blokart! :-)

Cya and

Goodwinds

Steve

We use wheelbarrow wheels too, but we replace the bearings with better quality ones ($13ea). We've found them to be good for 80-100kph+ although you need to balance them to maintain that sort of speed.

Sorry to compete here steve but a friend of mine has a used bug for sale. Let me know if you are interested and i will give you his contact details. It is a Peter Lynn XR in 'as new' condition. He is after $400.

mike

No worries Schmik, drop a plug for your mate!
Thats a pretty fair price Mick, you could not build it for that money.

Cya and

Goodwinds

Steve

www.libre.de/english/f_index.htm

Its the Protask buggy, but I just checked I have ordered a dragster, not a protask.
I will get one though, just want to try the dragster first.

Cya and

Goodwinds

Steve

What sort of money do you have to spend on a land yacht?
Blokart?

The Libre range can be ordered through Kitepower.
The complete buggy range will soon be up on the website.

Cya and

Goodwinds

Steve

Crikey kitepower , last year you asked me why anybody would want to build a hybrid buggy/landyacht, now yuve ordered one. I feel like the emporer when he recruited Skywalker. . whatch out when sailing it as a landyacht as the rig and bodyweight are way to far forward for any kind of speed. this little baby will pitchpole so fast you wont know what happened!.
Maybe I should get the Chicken wing experiment out of the Shed after Easter?
Shhhhhh Dont tell Promogirl Ive been posting over here in the kiting universe.