From the category archives:
Before I describe my buggy here is a potted history of the Trickbitz Tornado The T1 is the original 38mm siderail tubes single point fixing on fork crown most had tabs welded on the axle Advanced seat T2 – 50mm side rail tube bends as the T1 but rails 150mm longer – Swanny changed to [...]
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When I first started kite buggying, back in 1994, my buggy was a home-made affair – knocked together from scrap mild steel lying around the sculpture studio, with a plastic school chair perched on top serving duty as the seat! Power came from a stack of 6′ Flexi stackers: they generated plenty of it, but [...]
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Do you know the feeling you get when you’ve bought a really nice bit of kit?? Like a Nikon camera or Leica Binoculars? Something you spent more than you should have, but it doesn’t matter because every time you use/touch it you think “ahh, this is really nice…..” This is the same feeling I get [...]
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Like most people, i did not want to spend a lot on my first buggy, so decided to go for the radbuggy. looked at a lot of different reviews , and liked the fact that the back axle could be taken apart for easy storage and travel.Buggy arrived and set about building it. instuctions were [...]
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hi all and welcome to the review of my PTW COUGAR buggy.the buggy – awsome build quality, made from stainles steel featuring a swan neck, deep side rails and a 1500 rear axle.the swan neck is made from 60 by 40 box section finished with a wedge under the seat, all highly polished.the rear axle [...]
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The PTW COUGAR II Like waiting for your first born To do a buggy review I feel you do need to have ridden in a few before making an in formed comment. I started out borrowing a Flexifoil-didn’t like it. Then bought a Peter Lynn Competition- great beginners buggy, then got myself a Libre V [...]
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Flexifoil Jump Buggy. I have been jumping “badly” in my buggy for about a year and its starting to show as you can see in the pic the front wheel is skewed and the rear axle is bent slightly. I have decided to modify a second buggy in these areas in an attempt to stop [...]
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first off all: why did I bought the competition XR+ buggy?I had already flied the peter lynn kite of my friend (twister 4.1).Actually I didn’t think that it was a good kite ( it spinned when I let him in the air), my blade I 4.9 was older and he flies better but I think [...]
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Ok, I’m Belgian and it’s difficult to me to write in english but i try. I bought a peter lynn buggy because i searched a little buggy to enter in a small car.The materials are goods, all in stainless steal, the building is very fast.1 little problem for me is the bearing in the fork…it [...]
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Every time I log on I see this poor sad face looking at me saying that I haven’t written a review. Well It’s about time that I pulled my finger out and tried my hand at a review and hopefully that face might smile.Here goes.Price: Well, a friend of mine is mates with the boss [...]
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